# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wan-laiming
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:45:23.180Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wan-laiming"
name: "Wan Laiming"
slug: "wan-laiming"
description: "Wan Laiming was a Chinese animator. He was one of the Wan brothers who pioneered the Chinese animation industry, and is commonly considered as China's first animator. As the director of the Shanghai Animation Film Studio, he would raise the standard to International level before other historical events affected the industry."
tagline: "Chinese animator"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/10/WanLaiming.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "China"
  isoCode: "CN"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1900-01-18"
deathDate: "1997-10-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.62
  momentum:             0.7336956521739131
  historical:           6.161773333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0481812/"
    handle:    "nm0481812"
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%87%E7%B1%81%E9%B8%A3"
    title: "万籁鸣"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%AC"
    title: "وان لايمينج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wan_Laiming"
    title: "Wan Laiming"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%84%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%86%DA%AF"
    title: "وان لایمینگ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wan_Laiming"
    title: "Wan Laiming"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%8C_%D0%9B%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BC%D0%B8%D0%BD"
    title: "Вань Лаймин"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10865150"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/139355"
    title: "Wan Laiming"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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