# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wei-boyang
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:40:13.938Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wei-boyang"
name: "Wei Boyang"
slug: "wei-boyang"
description: "Wei Boyang was a Chinese writer and Taoist alchemist of the Eastern Han dynasty. He is the author of The Kinship of the Three, and is noted as the first person to have documented something like the chemical composition of gunpowder in 142 AD. As someone or him, only mixed the chemical compound of Sulphur and Saltpetre."
tagline: "Chinese writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/%E4%BB%99%E4%BD%9B%E5%A5%87%E8%B9%A4_%E5%8D%B7%E4%B8%89_%E9%AD%8F%E4%BC%AF%E9%99%BD.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "190"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
  popularity:           45.44
  momentum:             0.1664145234493192
  historical:           11.35752533333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "魏伯阳"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "وي بويانغ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wei_Boyang"
    title: "Wei Boyang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wei_Boyang"
    title: "Wei Boyang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wei_Boyang"
    title: "Wei Boyang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wei_Boyang"
    title: "Wei Boyang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wei_Boyang"
    title: "Wei Boyang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wei_Boyang"
    title: "Wei Boyang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wei_Boyang"
    title: "Wei Boyang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D1%8D%D0%B9_%D0%91%D0%BE%D1%8F%D0%BD"
    title: "Вэй Боян"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wei_Boyang"
    title: "Wei Boyang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wei_Boyang"
    title: "Wei Boyang"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://wuu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%AD%8F%E4%BC%AF%E9%98%B3"
    title: "魏伯阳"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q911053"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump