Boyi and Shuqi (伯夷 and 叔齊), brothers who were said to have lived in China at the time of the Shang Dynasty and Zhou Dynasty transition
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Boyi Bhimanna (బోయి భీమన్న), also transliterated as Bheemanna, Bheemana and other ways, a famous Telugu language poet
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Feng Boyi (馮博一), an art critic born in 1960 in Beijing, China
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Guo Yi, a minister of Cao Wei during the Three Kingdoms period of Chinese history whose Chinese style name was Boyi (伯益)
In the Records of the Grand Historian, Sima Qian's account of the origins of the House of Ying state that Feichang was the great-great-grandson of Ruomu, one of the sons of Fei the Great (also known as Boyi).
During the Shang Dynasty, Boyi's descendant Zhongjue (中潏) was in charge of Xichui (西垂, also called Quanqiu, in present-day Li County, Gansu) in the midst of the Rong tribes.
Lady Hua, the wife of Ye the Great and mother of Fei the Great (also known as Boyi), was said to be either his daughter or descendant.