Ye Li

Not to be confused with Li Ye.

In this Chinese name, the family name is Ye.

Ye Li (simplified Chinese: 叶莉; traditional Chinese: 葉莉; pinyin: Yè Lì; born November 20, 1981) is a Chinese professional basketball player who played for the Shanghai Octopus of the Women's Chinese Basketball Association and the China women's national basketball team at the 2004 Summer Olympics.^[1] She also won a gold medal as part of the Chinese women's basketball team at the 2003 Summer Universiade.

Ye Li
叶莉
Born	(1981-11-20) November 20, 1981 (age 44) Shanghai, China
Occupation	Basketball player
Height	190 cm (6 ft 3 in)
Spouse	Yao Ming ​ (m. 2007)​
Children	1

Born in Shanghai, Ye Li attended the University of Houston,^[2] where she met Chinese basketball player Yao Ming at the age of seventeen in 1998.^[3] They married on August 6, 2007.^[4] Ye gave birth to their daughter Yao Qinlei (whose English name is Amy) in Houston, Texas on May 21, 2010.^[5]