Vera Wang

Wang in 2010, photo by kathclick/Bigstock.com

Birth Name: Vera Ellen Wang

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, U.S.

Date of Birth: June 27, 1949

Ethnicity: Chinese

Vera Wang is an American fashion designer.

Her parents, Florence Wu (Wu Chifang) and Cheng Ching Wang (Wang Chengqing), were Chinese. Her father owned a medicine company. Her mother was a U.N. translator. She has two daughters, who are adopted, with her husband, investor and real estate developer Arthur P. Becker.

Vera’s maternal grandfather was Fengtian clique warlord Wu Junsheng. Junsheng was killed by the Empire of Japan, in the Huanggutun incident in 1928.