Kris Wu

Wu Yifan (Chinese: 吴亦凡; pinyin: Wú Yìfán), best known by his stage name, Kris (Korean: 크리스) (born November 6, 1990), is a Canadian-Chinese actor and singer-songwriter currently active in China. He immigrated to Canada at the age of 11 and holds Canadian citizenship; he is fluent in Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese, English, as well as Korean.

Early life

Wu's birth name was Li Jiaheng but he had changed it for personal and unknown purposes. Kevin Li was his English name before becoming the member of EXO (Chinese: 李嘉恒; pinyin: Lǐ Jiāhéng). Wu was born and raised in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.

He immigrated to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada at the age of 10 with his mother. In 2005, at the age of 15, he returned to China and attended Guangzhou No. 7 Middle School for a short period. In Guangzhou, he served as the captain of the school basketball team. The team had won 1st place in China Junior NBA tournament-South China Region that year. After that, he went back to Vancouver. Then he attended Point Grey Secondary School and Sir Winston Churchill Secondary School. He was also the captain of the basketball teams when he studied in these two schools.

Hou Yifan

Hou Yifan (Chinese: 侯逸凡; pinyin: Hóu Yìfán  pronunciation ) (born 27 February 1994, Xinghua, Jiangsu, China) is a Chinese chess grandmaster and former chess prodigy. She is a former two time Women's World Chess Champion, the youngest ever to win the title, as well as the youngest female player ever to qualify for the title of Grandmaster.

At the age of 12, Hou became the youngest player ever to participate in the FIDE Women's World Championship (Yekaterinburg 2006) and the Chess Olympiad (Torino 2006). In June 2007, she became China's youngest National Women's Champion ever. She achieved the titles of Woman FIDE Master in January 2004, Woman Grandmaster in January 2007, and Grandmaster in August 2008. In 2010, she became the youngest Women's World Chess Champion in history by winning the Women's World Championship in Hatay, Turkey at age 16. In the Women's World Chess Championship 2012 she was eliminated early, but she regained the title in 2013, defeating Anna Ushenina. She then lost the world title by not playing in the 2015 Championship for scheduling reasons. She qualified to challenge world champion Mariya Muzychuk to a ten-game World Championship match in 2016.