List of Famous people named Wu

Wu Shun (武顺) was the Lady of Han (韩国夫人) during the Tang Dynasty and the older sister of Wu Zetian. The Lady of Han was an honorable title for relatives of the Emperor and Empress. Wu Shun was allegedly the mother of Li Xian, the crown prince, and the rumors eventually led to his demise. In all likelihood, her bloodthirsty and power-hungry sister Empress Wu, who had become a full-fledged power behind the throne after January 665, ordered her poisoning.

Wu Gang is a Chinese actor. He is known for his roles in Red Firecracker, Green Firecracker (1994), and Iron Man (2009) for which he won both Golden Rooster Award for Best Actor and Shanghai Film Critics Award for Best Actor.

Wu Ti-jung is a Taiwanese badminton player. Teamed-up with Lee Chia-hsin, she won the 2013 Polish International tournament. Her big achievement is to win the women's doubles title at the 2014 U.S. Open Grand Prix partnered with Hsieh Pei-chen.

Wu Siu Hong is a ten-pin bowling player from Hong Kong who won the 2015 QubicaAMF Bowling World Cup.

Wu Tsung-tsong is a Taiwanese politician.

Wu Gan is a Chinese blogger and human rights activist from Fuqing, Fujian who uses the internet name "Super Vulgar Butcher" or "Butcher Wu Gan", and is known for his provocative signs and banners in support of his protests. He was sentenced to eight years in prison in December 2017 for subversion of state power, and is currently incarcerated in Qingliu Prison in Fujian.

Wu Jin was a Taiwanese educator and politician who served as Minister for Education between 1996 and 1998 under president Lee Teng-hui.

Wu Tse-yuan was a Taiwanese politician, known for his involvement in black gold politics, and ties to gangs.

Wu Yili, also known as Elaine Yi-Li Wu, was a Chinese-Singaporean classical pianist. A member of the first generation of Chinese pianists, she served as the first solo pianist of the China National Symphony Orchestra and arranged the piano accompaniment for the Butterfly Lovers' Violin Concerto. After suffering persecution during the Cultural Revolution, she moved to the United States before settling in Singapore. Following the release of two acclaimed albums in her old age, she was rediscovered by Chinese music lovers and became a social media sensation in her 80s.

Wu Ningkun was Professor Emeritus of English at the University of International Relations in Beijing, where he had taught since 1956. During the 1980s, he held Visiting Fellowships at Cambridge University, Northwestern University and the University of California. In 1990, he was awarded a Doctor of Humane Letters from Manchester University, Indiana. In 1992, he was Mansfield Visiting Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Montana. He has frequently lectured at Cambridge, Columbia, Stanford, Harvard and other universities. His publications include the memoir, A Single Tear - A Family's Persecution, Love, and Endurance in Communist China, written in collaboration with his wife, Li Yikai (李怡楷); scholarly essays in English and Chinese; and translations from English into Chinese and vice versa, among them a translation of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. He was a member of the Independent Chinese PEN Center, but resigned in 2006.