1893 - 1972
Ip Man (Chinese: 葉問; born Ip Kai-man; Chinese: 葉繼問; 1 October 1893 – 2 December 1972), also known as Yip Man, was born in Foshan, Guangdong. Ip Man was a martial artist and a grandmaster of the martial art of Wing Chun when he was 20. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ip Man has received more than 10,347,523 page views. His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). Ip Man is the 2nd most popular martial arts (down from 1st in 2019), the 22nd most popular biography from China (down from 17th in 2019) and the most popular Chinese Martial Arts.
Ip Man is most famous for being the first martial arts instructor to teach the Chinese martial art of Wing Chun to Westerners.
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Among martial arts, Ip Man ranks 2 out of 118. Before him are Kanō Jigorō. After him are Gichin Funakoshi, Morihei Ueshiba, Mas Oyama, Wong Fei-hung, Huo Yuanjia, Linda Lee Cadwell, Choi Hong Hi, Conor McGregor, Ankō Itosu, and Masatoshi Nakayama.
1860 - 1938
HPI: 76.68
Rank: 1
1893 - 1972
HPI: 75.56
Rank: 2
1868 - 1957
HPI: 69.40
Rank: 3
1883 - 1969
HPI: 68.74
Rank: 4
1923 - 1994
HPI: 66.73
Rank: 5
1925 - 1925
HPI: 64.98
Rank: 6
1868 - 1910
HPI: 64.14
Rank: 7
1945 - Present
HPI: 60.34
Rank: 8
1918 - 2002
HPI: 56.95
Rank: 9
1988 - Present
HPI: 56.18
Rank: 10
1831 - 1915
HPI: 55.47
Rank: 11
1913 - 1987
HPI: 55.44
Rank: 12
Among people born in 1893, Ip Man ranks 5. Before him are Mao Zedong, Hermann Göring, Joan Miró, and Joachim von Ribbentrop. After him are Alfred Rosenberg, Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Walter Ulbricht, Carol II of Romania, Alexander of Greece, and Soong Ching-ling. Among people deceased in 1972, Ip Man ranks 2. Before him is Harry S. Truman. After him are Edward VIII, M. C. Escher, Yasunari Kawabata, Frederick IX of Denmark, J. Edgar Hoover, Maria Goeppert Mayer, Ezra Pound, Igor Sikorsky, Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi, and Franz Halder.
1893 - 1976
HPI: 85.88
Rank: 1
1893 - 1946
HPI: 80.86
Rank: 2
1893 - 1983
HPI: 77.81
Rank: 3
1893 - 1946
HPI: 76.27
Rank: 4
1893 - 1972
HPI: 75.56
Rank: 5
1893 - 1946
HPI: 73.86
Rank: 6
1893 - 1937
HPI: 71.09
Rank: 7
1893 - 1930
HPI: 71.07
Rank: 8
1893 - 1973
HPI: 70.66
Rank: 9
1893 - 1953
HPI: 70.51
Rank: 10
1893 - 1920
HPI: 67.70
Rank: 11
1893 - 1981
HPI: 67.32
Rank: 12
1884 - 1972
HPI: 79.36
Rank: 1
1893 - 1972
HPI: 75.56
Rank: 2
1894 - 1972
HPI: 75.18
Rank: 3
1898 - 1972
HPI: 74.69
Rank: 4
1899 - 1972
HPI: 72.38
Rank: 5
1899 - 1972
HPI: 72.23
Rank: 6
1895 - 1972
HPI: 70.52
Rank: 7
1906 - 1972
HPI: 70.09
Rank: 8
1885 - 1972
HPI: 69.29
Rank: 9
1889 - 1972
HPI: 68.60
Rank: 10
1894 - 1972
HPI: 68.52
Rank: 11
1884 - 1972
HPI: 68.00
Rank: 12
Among people born in China, Ip Man ranks 22 out of 1,392. Before him are Empress Dowager Cixi (1835), Chiang Kai-shek (1887), Du Fu (712), Cao Cao (155), Wu Zetian (624), and Qianlong Emperor (1711). After him are Xuanzang (602), Cai Lun (48), Lü Bu (161), Guan Yu (162), Kangxi Emperor (1654), and Liu Bei (161).
1835 - 1908
HPI: 76.89
Rank: 16
1887 - 1975
HPI: 76.83
Rank: 17
712 - 770
HPI: 76.16
Rank: 18
155 - 220
HPI: 76.13
Rank: 19
624 - 705
HPI: 75.86
Rank: 20
1711 - 1799
HPI: 75.64
Rank: 21
1893 - 1972
HPI: 75.56
Rank: 22
602 - 664
HPI: 75.05
Rank: 23
48 - 121
HPI: 74.90
Rank: 24
161 - 199
HPI: 74.85
Rank: 25
162 - 220
HPI: 74.64
Rank: 26
1654 - 1722
HPI: 74.62
Rank: 27
161 - 223
HPI: 74.52
Rank: 28
Among martial arts born in China, Ip Man ranks 1. After him are Wong Fei-hung (1925), Huo Yuanjia (1868), Zhang Weili (1989), Chen Zhong (1982), and Cheng Xunzhao (1991).
1893 - 1972
HPI: 75.56
Rank: 1
1925 - 1925
HPI: 64.98
Rank: 2
1868 - 1910
HPI: 64.14
Rank: 3
1989 - Present
HPI: 33.97
Rank: 4
1982 - Present
HPI: 26.63
Rank: 5
1991 - Present
HPI: 25.24
Rank: 6