| Ye Li 叶莉 | |
| Birth Date: | 20 November 1981 |
| Birth Place: | Shanghai, China |
| Occupation: | Basketball player |
| Height: | 190 cm |
| Children: | 1 |
Ye Li (; 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]
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]