# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sister-ping
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:22:05.803Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sister-ping"
name: "Sister Ping"
slug: "sister-ping"
description: "Cheng Chui Ping, also known as Sister Ping, was a Chinese woman who ran a human smuggling operation bringing people from China into the United States between 1984 and 2000. Operating from Chinatown, Manhattan, Ping oversaw a snakehead smuggling ring which brought as many as 3,000 Chinese into the United States, earning her more than $40 million. The United States Department of Justice called Ping \"one of the first, and ultimately most successful, alien smugglers of all time.\""
tagline: "Chinese human smuggler"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sister_Ping.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "China"
  isoCode: "CN"
birthDate: "1949-01-09"
deathDate: "2014-04-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.65
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.404114666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%94%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%B5%D6%80_%D5%93%D5%AB%D5%B6%D5%A3"
    title: "Քույր Փինգ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheng_Chui_Ping"
    title: "Cheng Chui Ping"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sister_Ping"
    title: "Sister Ping"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%83%91%E7%BF%A0%E8%90%8D"
    title: "郑翠萍"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheng_Chui_Ping"
    title: "Cheng Chui Ping"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%9A%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8B%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%B0%E0%AE%BF_%E0%AE%AA%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%99%E0%AF%8D"
    title: "சகோதரி பிங்"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7531177"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump