The Most Famous
MODELS from China
This page contains a list of the greatest Chinese Models. The pantheon dataset contains 249 Models, 1 of which were born in China. This makes China the birth place of the 45th most number of Models behind New Zealand and Cayman Islands.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Chinese Models of all time. This list of famous Chinese Models is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Liu Wen (1988 - )
With an HPI of 33.65, Liu Wen is the most famous Chinese Model. Her biography has been translated into 24 different languages on wikipedia.
Liu Wen (simplified Chinese: 刘雯; traditional Chinese: 劉雯; pinyin: Liú Wén; born 27 January 1988) is a mainland Chinese model. She is widely regarded as China's first supermodel. She was the first Chinese model to walk the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, the first East Asian spokesmodel for Estée Lauder cosmetics, and the first Asian model to ever make Forbes magazine's annual highest-paid models list. In 2017, Liu became the second Chinese model to ever appear on the cover of American Vogue, and the first to be featured on the front cover rather than foldout. She landed on the cover a second time in American Vogue's April 2020 issue and a third in May 2023, becoming the first person of Chinese descent to appear three times. In 2024, she became the first model of Asian descent to be featured solo on the cover of French Vogue. She is currently represented by The Society Management and is based in New York City.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as models born between 1988 and 1988. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living models include Liu Wen.
