Yung Wing
A native of Hsiang-shan, Canton, Wong studied at Morrison Education Society School, in Macao. In 1847, he and two others, Wong Shing and Yung Wing, became the first three Chinese students to the study in the United States. After graduating in 1850 with a degree in literature from Monson Academy in Massachusetts, Wong Fun went to the University of Edinburgh in Scotland in 1850 through the financial support of the Edinburgh Medical Missionary Society and completed his studies in medicine in 1855.