53 Notable alumni of
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
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Hong Kong Polytechnic University is 507th in the world, 100th in Asia, and 9th in China by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 53 notable alumni from Hong Kong Polytechnic University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Wong Kar-wai
- Occupations
- screenwriterfilm directorfilm producer
- Biography
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Wong Kar-wai BBS is a Hong Kong film director, screenwriter, and producer. His films are characterised by nonlinear narratives, atmospheric music, and vivid cinematography involving bold, saturated colours. A pivotal figure of Hong Kong cinema, Wong is considered a contemporary auteur, and ranks third on Sight & Sound's 2002 poll of the greatest filmmakers of the previous 25 years. His films frequently appear on best-of lists domestically and internationally.
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Li Qiang
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Li Qiang is a Chinese politician who has been the eighth and current premier of China since March 2023. He has been elevated to the second-ranking member on the Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party in October 2022. From 2017 to 2022, Li was the party secretary for Shanghai, where he pursued pro-business policies and handled the response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Tony Leung Ka-fai
- Occupations
- film actoractortelevision actor
- Biography
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Tony Leung Ka-fai is a Hong Kong actor who is a four-time winner of the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actor.
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CY Leung
- Enrolled in Hong Kong Polytechnic University
- 1971-1974 studied surveying
- Occupations
- chartered surveyorpolitician
- Biography
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Leung Chun-ying GBM GBS JP KCM, also known as CY Leung, is a Hong Kong politician and chartered surveyor who has served as vice-chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference since March 2017. He was previously the third Chief Executive of Hong Kong between 2012 and 2017.
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Gigi Leung
- Occupations
- recording artistactorsingersongwritermodel
- Biography
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Gigi Leung Wing-kei is a Hong Kong singer and actress.
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Gigi Yim
- Occupations
- studentactorsinger
- Biography
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Gigi Wang Lung-hay, commonly known as her stage name Gigi Yim Ming-hay (Chinese: 炎明熹, [jim˩ mɪŋ˩ hej˥]), is a Hong Kong singer and actress, and a member of the Hong Kong girl group After Class. She is noted for winning TVB's reality talent competition Stars Academy in 2021. Yim made her solo debut in September 2021 with the single "Noble Truth" (真話的清高).
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Hubert Wu
- Occupations
- recording artistsinger-songwritersinger
- Biography
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Hubert Wu is a Hong Kong singer-songwriter and actor.
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Stephanie Ho
- Occupations
- singer
- Biography
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Stephanie Ho is a Hong Kong singer, actress, host, and former professional golfer.
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Paul Wong
- Occupations
- record producersingerguitaristsongwritertelevision actor
- Biography
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Paul Wong Koon-chung, known professionally as Paul Wong, is a Hong Kong musician, singer, songwriter and record producer. He achieved fame in Asia as the lead guitarist of the rock band Beyond until the band disbanded in 2005. After lead vocalist Wong Ka Kui's death, Wong became the lead vocalist and main songwriter for Beyond. He also earned the award "The Best Rock Singer" of the Hit Awards in 2012.
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Cecilia So
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Cecilia So Lai-shan is a Hong Kong actress. She made her acting debut as Gigi in the romance film She Remembers, He Forgets (2015), for which she received nominations for Best New Performer in the 52nd Golden Horse Awards and 35th Hong Kong Film Awards. She then landed leading roles in the films Never Too Late (2017), Napping Kid (2018), Hell Bank Presents: Running Ghost (2020), and Far Far Away (2021).
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Cheng Chung-tai
- Enrolled in Hong Kong Polytechnic University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- politicianradio personalitylecturer
- Biography
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Cheng Chung-tai is a Hong Kong academic, social activist, and politician. After winning a seat in the New Territories West constituency in the 2016 legislative election, he took over from Wong Yeung-tat as chairman of Civic Passion until the dissolution in 2021.
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Jimmy Sham
- Occupations
- social activistpolitician
- Biography
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Jimmy Sham Tsz-kit is a Hong Kong pro-democracy and LGBT rights activist. He served as a convener for the pro-democracy organisation Civil Human Rights Front (CHRF) until October 2020 and serves as a secretary for the LGBT rights organisation Rainbow of Hong Kong. He is a longtime member of the League of Social Democrats. In 2019 he was elected to the Sha Tin District Council by residents of Lek Yuen constituency, but he resigned from this position in July 2021 amidst a government crackdown on pro-democracy councillors.
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Hanna Chan
- Years
- 1993-.. (age 32)
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Hanna Chan Hon-na, is a Hong Kong fashion model and actress. She earned a nomination for the Best New Performer in Paradox at 37th Hong Kong Film Awards in 2018.
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Kitty Yuen
- Occupations
- radio DJactorvoice actor
- Biography
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Kitty Yuen is a Hong Kong radio DJ, television host and actress. At 148 cm tall, she is one of the most petite entertainers in the Hong Kong entertainment industry.
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Andy Chan
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Andy Chan Ho-tin is a Hong Kong pro-independence political activist. He is a founding member and the convenor of the Hong Kong National Party, the first party to advocate for Hong Kong independence.
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Canny Leung
- Occupations
- businesspersonsongwritermodelwriterlyricist
- Biography
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Canny Leung Chi-Shan is a Hong Kong songwriter and author.
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Lam Tai-fai
- Occupations
- charitable organization
- Biography
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Lam Tai-fai, SBS, BBS, JP is a Hong Kong politician. He serves as Chairman of the Council of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Chairman of the Hong Kong Sports Institute (HKSI). He was a member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong for the Industrial Functional Constituency from 2008 to 2016. In 2008 he began service as a committee member on the 11th, 12th and 13th National Committees of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and as a standing member of the 11th and in 2009 joined 12th Henan Provincial Committees of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
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Adrian Wong
- Years
- 1991-.. (age 34)
- Occupations
- model
- Biography
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Adrian Wong Tsz-ching is a Hong Kong actress. She is best known as the daughter of Felix Wong, one of the Five Tiger Generals of TVB.
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Tik Chi-yuen
- Occupations
- justice of the peacesocial worker
- Biography
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Tik Chi-yuen SBS JP is a member of the Hong Kong Legislative Council and of North District Council. He is a registered social worker and chairman of the small centrist Third Side party, which he co-founded in 2015, after quitting the Democratic Party, of which he was also a co-founder.
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Derek Kwok
- Occupations
- film directorscreenwriter
- Biography
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Derek Kwok Chi-kin is a Hong Kong film director and screenwriter. He won the 28th Hong Kong Film Awards for Best New Director with his film The Moss.
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Raphael Wong
- Occupations
- activist
- Biography
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Raphael Wong Ho-ming, also known by his nickname "Village Head", is a Hong Kong social activist and politician. He is formerly the chairman of the League of Social Democrats (LSD) and was one of the leaders in the 2014 Hong Kong protests.
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Raman Hui
- Occupations
- animatorfilm director
- Biography
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Raman Hui Shing-Ngai is a Hong Kong animator, film director, and film producer. He is best known for directing the films Monster Hunt and Monster Hunt 2.
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Kenneth Leung
- Occupations
- tax advisorpoliticianbusinessperson
- Biography
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Kenneth Leung Kai-cheong is a democratic Hong Kong politician formerly serving as a member of the Legislative Council for the Accountancy functional constituency. Professionally, he is a tax adviser and accountant. On 11 November 2020, he was disqualified from the Legislative Council, along with three other lawmakers of the pan-democratic camp, by the central government in Beijing on request of the Hong Kong government. A mass resignation of pan-democrats the same day left the Legislative Council without a substantial opposition.
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Vivienne Tam
- Occupations
- grand couturierfashion designer
- Biography
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Vivienne Tam is a fashion designer based in New York City. She was born in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, and moved to Hong Kong at the age of three. She attended the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
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Nelson Wong
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Nelson Wong Sing-chi is a Hong Kong politician and social worker. He had been member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong between 2000–04 and 2008–12. He was the founding member of the Democratic Party before he was expelled in 2015 for his support in the government's constitutional reform proposals. He was also briefly a founding member of the Third Side, a centrist political party.
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Heiward Mak
- Occupations
- film directorscreenwriter
- Biography
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Heiward Mak Hei-yan is a Hong Kong film director, writer and producer. Her work has been featured at various international film festivals including Singapore, Bratislava and Fribourg. In 2011, she won a Hong Kong Film Award for Best Screenplay for her writing on Love in a Puff.
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Mark Tan
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Mark Tan Chun Lok is a Hong Kong professional footballer who currently plays as a midfielder for Hong Kong Premier League club Kitchee and the Hong Kong national team.
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James Ha
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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James Stephen Gee Ha, nicknamed Bullet, is a former professional footballer who played as a striker.
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Ma Fung-kwok
- Occupations
- justice of the peacepolitician
- Biography
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Ma Fung-kwok is a member of the Provisional Legislative Council and Legislative Council of Hong Kong from for Election Committee constituency and Sports, Performing Arts, Culture and Publication from 1997 to 2000 and 2012 to present. He has also been the leader of New Century Forum. He supported Leung Chun-ying in the 2012 Chief Executive race and is seen as an ally of CY Leung in the Legislative Council.
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Kwok Wai-keung
- Occupations
- social workerpolitician
- Biography
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Aron Kwok Wai-keung is a current member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, representing the Labour, which he was elected to in the 2012 LegCo election and 2021 LegCo election. Kwok is a member of the Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions, the largest pro-Beijing labour union in the territory. He previously held the Hong Kong Island constituency, which he won in the 2016 LegCo election.
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Xu Qin
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Xu Qin is a Chinese politician, and the current Chinese Communist Party Committee Secretary of Heilongjiang. Previously he had served as governor of Hebei, and before that, mayor, then party chief of Shenzhen, China's most prominent special economic zone.
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Kellyjackie
- Occupations
- singer
- Biography
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Jackie Chan Hiu-ki, also known as Kellyjackie, is a Hong Kong pop singer and a former member of a band called the Royals. Her artist name, Kellyjackie, is an amalgam of the name of her childhood idol, Kelly Chen, and her own name "Jackie".
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Tsang Kin-chiu
- Occupations
- social workerpolitician
- Biography
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Ken Tsang Kin-chiu is a Hong Kong activist and social worker. He is most known for his beating incident during the 2014 Hong Kong protests.
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Huang Yang
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Huang Yang is a former Chinese-born Hong Kong professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder.
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Tony Tse
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Tony Tse Wai-chuen, BBS is a Hong Kong surveyor and politician. He is a member of the Legislative Council for Architectural, Surveying, Planning and Landscape (formerly Architectural, Surveying and Planning) from 2012 to 2016 and again from 2018.
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Ken Chow Wing-kan
- Years
- 1966-.. (age 59)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Chow Wing Kan, was a member of the Hong Kong Progressive Alliance and the Liberal Party, and is a political figure of the Hong Kong Pro-Beijing camp. He has worked in the district of Tin Shui Wai, Yuen Long District for many years. He served as a member of the Yuen Long District Council from October 1994, being re-elected five times until he failed in 2019, amid a sweeping Pan-democrat victory.
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Chan Yuen-han
- Occupations
- trade unionistpolitician
- Biography
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Chan Yuen-han, SBS, JP is a former member of Hong Kong Legislative Council and a noted Hong Kong female trade unionist. She is the vice-chairperson of the Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions, and was one of the 52 founding members of the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong.
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Chui Chi Kin
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Andy Chui Chi-kin is a member of the Eastern District Council, representing Yue Wan constituency in Hong Kong.
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Timmy Yip
- Occupations
- production designervideographercostume designerscenographer
- Biography
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Timothy Yip Kam-tim is a Hong Kong art director and designer for fiction films. He is best known for his work on the 2000 martial arts film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Art Direction. Yip also won a BAFTA award for the film's costume design. He has been alternatively credited as Tim Yip Kam-tim, Kam Tim Yip, Kam-tim Yip, and Tim Yip.
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Rebecca Lee
- Occupations
- explorer
- Biography
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Rebecca Lee Lok-sze MH is a Hong Kong explorer. She is the first Hongkonger and the first woman to have visited the North Pole, the South Pole, and Mount Everest. Lee has also visited the Yarlung Tsangpo Canyon (the deepest canyon in China) and the Taklamakan (the hottest desert in China).
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Chan Kam-lam
- Occupations
- justice of the peacepolitician
- Biography
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Chan Kam-lam, GBS, JP is a former member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong representing the Kowloon East constituency. He is also a core member of the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB), the largest pro-Beijing party in Hong Kong.
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Alfred Sit
- Occupations
- engineer
- Biography
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Alfred Sit Wing-hang, GBS, JP is a Hong Kong government official. Since 2020, he served as Secretary for Innovation and Technology from 2020 to 2022.
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Ramon YUEN Hoi-man
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Ramon Yuen Hoi-man is a Hong Kong politician. He is the Treasurer of the Democratic Party and member of the Sham Shui Po District Council for Lai Chi Kok Central.
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Samson Tam
- Occupations
- justice of the peace
- Biography
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Samson Tam Wai-ho, JP was an elected member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong (Functional constituency, Information Technology) from 2008 to 2012. He is the chairman and one of the founders of Group Sense (International) Limited, the manufacturer of "Instant-Dict" (Chinese: 快譯通) Chinese-English electronic dictionary. He graduated from Chinese University of Hong Kong with a BSc degree. Afterwards he was awarded a PhD by Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He received "The Young Industrialist Award of Hong Kong" in 1992 and was named one of the “Ten Outstanding Young Persons” in 1997. He is also the president of Kitchee SC.
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Suzanne Wu
- Occupations
- trade unionistpolitician
- Biography
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Suzanne Wu Sui-shan is a Hong Kong politician. She is the former chairwoman of the pro-democratic Labour Party and project coordinator of the Association for the Advancement of Feminism. After leaving Labour in 2017, she co-founded Community March.
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Angel Hiu Ying Wong
- Occupations
- artistic gymnast
- Biography
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Angel Wong Hiu Ying is a Hong Kong gymnast. She competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
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Frankie Yick
- Occupations
- businesspersonpolitician
- Biography
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Frankie Yick Chi-ming, SBS is an engineer, businessman and member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong for the Transport functional constituency. He was awarded the Silver Bauhinia Star by the Hong Kong SAR Government in 2017.
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Annie Au
- Occupations
- squash player
- Biography
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Annie Au Wing Chi MH, known as Annie Au, is a former professional squash player who represented Hong Kong.
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Fong Pak Lun
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Fong Pak Lun is a former Hong Kong professional footballer who played as a left back.
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Ip Chung Long
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Ip Chung Long is a former Hong Kong professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He is now a police and also an amateur player for Hong Kong First Division club South China.
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Tat Cheng
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Cheng Tat-hung, also known as Tat Cheng, is a Hong Kong politician, formerly affiliated with the Civic Party. He was a member of Eastern District Council for Tanner from 2016 to 2021.
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Ip Wai-ming
- Occupations
- trade unionistpolitician
- Biography
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Ip Wai-ming, MH is the member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong in functional constituency (Labour) (2008–2012). He is the labour representative of the Labour Advisory Board of the Hong Kong Federation of Trade Unions.
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Li Ling Fung
- Occupations
- association football playerassociation football manager
- Biography
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Li Ling Fung is a former Hong Kong professional footballer who played as a striker or an attacking midfielder.
