Maya Lin

 Maya Lin was born at Athens in Ohio. Her parents immigrated from China to the United States, her father in 1948, and her mother in 1949, and moved to Ohio prior to when Lin was born. Henry Huan Lin, her father was born in Fuzhou (Fuzhou), Fujian. He was a ceramicist, and the dean of Ohio University College of Fine Arts. Julia Chang Lin, a poet and former professor of literature at Ohio University, is her mother. She is the "half" niece of Lin Huiyin who was an American-educated poet and artist, and said to have been the first female architect of the modern age of China. Lin Juemin, Lin Yin Ming and Lin Yin Ming were both her grandparents' cousins. Lin Chang-min was a Hanlin from the Qing Dynasty, and was the teacher of the Emperor. Lin Huiyin was born to Lin Chang-Min's mom, Maya Lin, with Henry Huan Lin as Lin Chang-Min’s illegitimate child with his concubine. Lin says she did not realize that she was Chinese until later in the course of her life. The father of Maya Lin's mother Henry Huan Lin was Lin Chang-Min's unlegitimate son along and his concubine. Lin Lin says that she was at home a lot and enjoyed studying. In high school, she was enrolled in classes at Ohio University where she learned to cast bronze in the foundry of the university. After finishing her studies at Athens High School, The Plains, Ohio in 1977 She then went to Yale University, where she received a Bachelor's degree in 1981 and a Master's Degree in Architecture in 1986.