List of Famous people with last name Youyou

Tu Youyou

First Name Tu

Last Name Youyou

Born on December 30, 1930 (age 95)

Tu Youyou is a Chinese pharmaceutical chemist and malariologist. She discovered artemisinin and dihydroartemisinin, used to treat malaria, a breakthrough in twentieth-century tropical medicine, saving millions of lives in South China, Southeast Asia, Africa, and South America.

Know him/her

Don't know him/her

    index: 1x 0.012930870056152s
fmsppl-page-output: 1x 0.009199857711792s
t_/pages/list-of-people: 1x 0.0091648101806641s
t_/common/header: 1x 0.0048031806945801s
router_page: 1x 0.0031158924102783s
list-of-people-content: 1x 0.0025110244750977s
t_/blocks/list-of-people: 1x 0.0022768974304199s
t_/blocks/person-card: 1x 0.0022449493408203s
headline: 2x 0.0020089149475098s
t_/common/footer: 1x 0.00022506713867188s
t_/common/head: 1x 0.0001990795135498s
qids: 2x 0.00018906593322754s
head-facts: 1x 0.00018095970153809s
t_/blocks/switcher: 1x 1.8119812011719E-5s
related: 1x 2.8610229492188E-6s
using-qids-cache: 1x 0s
----- END OF DUMP (2026-07-19 09:23:07)  -----