Yáo Yú 姚虞 (b. 1507, zì Zéshān 澤山), native of Pútián 莆田 in Fújiàn, was a Míng jìnshì of Jiājìng 11 (1532). Career: monitoring censor (jiānchá yùshǐ 監察御史), then touring censor (xún’àn yùshǐ 巡按御史) of Guǎngdōng — in which capacity he composed the Lǐnghǎi yútú 嶺海輿圖 (1542; KR2k0032). He rose to the rank of prefect (zhīfǔ 知府) of Huái’ān 淮安 in the lower Yangtze. His extant work is the Lǐnghǎi yútú; the rest of his writings have largely been lost. His exact death date is not transmitted in CBDB or in the Pútián xiànzhì. He was reportedly “as if a god in detecting concealed wrongdoing” (發奸摘伏如神), a reputation Zhàn Ruòshuǐ 湛若水 affirms in his preface to the Lǐnghǎi yútú. CBDB c_personid 202743 (a second, undated entry under c_personid 310503 likely refers to a homonym).