Yang Yang (simplified Chinese: ??; traditional Chinese: ??; born December 8, 1963 in Nanjing, Jiangsu) is a former Chinese badminton player.
He is one of the four badminton players in the world to have won two World Badminton Championships men's singles titles consecutively (1987, 1989), the others being Lin Dan, Chen Long and Kento Momota.
He also won the men's singles gold medal when badminton was a demonstration sport at the 1988 Summer Olympics.
He possessed great agility, quick footwork, accurate power, and coolness under pressure, and is widely regarded as one of the finest singles players in the history of the sport.