# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yung-wing
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:14:41.812Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yung-wing"
name: "Yung Wing"
slug: "yung-wing"
description: "Yung Wing was a Chinese-American diplomat and businessman. In 1854, he became the first Chinese student to graduate from an American university, Yale College. He was known for bringing students from China to study in the United States on the Chinese Educational Mission. He became a naturalized American citizen, but his status was later revoked under the Chinese Exclusion Act."
tagline: "Chinese-American diplomat and businessman (1828–1912)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Yung_Wing_Frontispiece_My_Life_in_China_and_America_1909_FRD_4814.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1828-11-17"
deathDate: "1912-04-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.02
  momentum:             0.2219091229306094
  historical:           7.504472
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%AE%B9%E9%97%B3"
    title: "容闳"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yung_Wing"
    title: "Yung Wing"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yung_Wing"
    title: "Yung Wing"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yung_Wing"
    title: "Yung Wing"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%AE%B9%E9%96%8E"
    title: "容閎"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yung_Wing"
    title: "Yung Wing"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yung_Wing"
    title: "Yung Wing"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AE%D0%BD_%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BD"
    title: "Юн Вин"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1353934"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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