1. Whilst we welcome any recommendations for adding new people to the list,
we will only include people for whom this is irrefutable documented evidence that they influenced, worked, taught or lived with Bruce Lee.
2. We will not include people who merely had a brief encounter with Bruce Lee. Likewise, we will not include people who merely trained with Bruce Lee for a very short period of time.
3. The list is not complete. Although it is our intention to continually improve and develop the list, there is reasonable a chance that it may never be complete.
4. As you will notice, there are some gaps on this page due to a scarcity of available information.
If you can help us to fill in some of the gaps, then your efforts would be most appreciated!
5. The list in alphabetical order NOT order of importance.
6. We have included some original Bruce Lee students in our list and we will welcome recommendations for adding more original students.  However, we will only include students where there is irrefutable proof that they trained with Bruce Lee for a significant period of time.

Although Bustillo, who was Black Belt’s 1989 Co-Instructor of the Year, can trace his martial beginnings back to a nondescript Hawaii judo club he joined when he was 10, he has also trained in boxing, kajukenbo, kali, Thai boxing, wrestling, jujutsu, silat and most recently tai chi chuan.

Richard Bustillo is a member of the Jun Fan Jeet Kune Do Nucleus and in more recently he has been involved in The Bruce Lee Educational Foundation.

(More information would be appreciated)

Linda (Emery) first met Bruce in 1963. The first time she ever met Bruce Lee, he was he guest lecturing in a Chinese philosophy class at Garfield High School in Seattle. Shortly afterwards she became a student at Bruce Lee's Jun Fan Gung fu school. Linda and Bruce were married in 1964 and the couple lived together happily until Bruce Lee's death in 1973. Linda is the mother of Bruce Lee's children, Brandon and Shannon. She is an author and a respected member of the Jun Fan Jeet Kune Do Nucleus.

Since the death of Bruce Lee, much of Linda's time has been spent fighting to preserve and protect the authentic teachings of Bruce Lee.

More recently, Linda has been playing an active role as chief advisor of The Bruce Lee Educational Foundation- a non profit organisation dedicated to the preservation of Bruce Lee's teachings in the fields of philosophy, sociology, art and physical fitness .

Today, Linda lives in Idaho and is happily married to Bruce Cadwell.

Although Jesse Glover insists, "I am not a JKD guy", he is without doubt one of the the world's most powerful authorities on Bruce Lee's martial arts training.

Jesse Glover is one of the few living people for whom there is an irrefutable mountain of evidence that he trained with Bruce Lee for a considerable length of time. He was Bruce Lee's first ever student and was also his assistant instructor during the "Seattle period". Jesse trained with Bruce Lee for over five years, often several times a day. This, remember, was in the early days when Bruce had recently arrived in America and did not have the heavy demands of a film career diverting his attention away from his martial arts schools.

During his time with Bruce Lee, Jesse excelled in many areas, particularly "sticking hands" (one of Bruce Lee's favourite fighting techniques) and to this day he is considered by many as being the world's leading authority on this particular aspect of the martial arts.

Over the years, Jesse has tried hard to steer clear of the politics of Jeet Kune Do. Today, Jesse continues to live in Seattle where he currently teaches what he simply calls "non-classical gung fu".

After spending seven years with Ed Parker, Steve recalls that he did not think that anyone could hit him "if they told me ahead of time what technique they were going to throw." Then one day he visited James Lee's house with Ed Parker. Bruce Lee was there and told Steve to stand five feet in front of him and to "try to stop me from hitting you in the face with my right hand" which Bruce proceeded to do - repeatedly. Steve worked with Bruce whenever he could and joined the Chinatown school in 1967. He was also a member of the group who trained at Bruce's home.

For over 25 years, Steve Golden has been teaching a small group of students in Oregon and Washington and doing national and international seminars.

Dan Inosanto is one of the few people who Bruce Lee ever gave the authority to teach Jeet Kune Do. He is an expert in many different martial arts styles and is particularly respected in the fields of Filipino martial arts. Dan Inosanto headed most of the classes at Bruce Lee's Chinatown school in L.A., but was ordered by Bruce Lee to close the school in December 1969. Afterwards, Bruce Lee gave Inosanto permission to continue teaching Jeet Kune Do, but only if the numbers were kept to a bare minium. (source- an interview with Dan Inosanto for Black Belt Magazine at http://www.alphalink.com.au/~bundles/DanInosanto1.htm)

Since the death of Bruce Lee, Dan Inosanto has trained literally thousands of Jeet Kune Do students. He has also authorized the awarding of more Jeet Kune Do instructor certificates that any single person, alive or dead.

At one time Dan Inosanto was a member of the Jun Fan Jeet Kune Do Nucleus. However, for reasons which remain unclear, he decided to leave the organisation and go his own way.

As a young girl Shannon learned the basic forms of martial arts from her father. Not only has she been a loyal student of her father's martial arts teachings but, like her father, she has also made several sucessful film appearances. Her first film role was in Cage: 2 as Lou (The Incredible Hulk) Ferrigno's girlfriend. Her second film was High Voltage, which was followed by her first big hit, Enter The Eagles.

Shannon has also worked as a dancer and a singer. Most notably, she sang "California Dreaming" on the soundtrack for Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story which starred Jason Scott Lee.

Like her mother, Shannon has worked tirelessly over the years to safeguard against exploitation of her father's name and his teachings. In more recent years, Shannon has been appointed as a senior advisor of The Bruce Lee Educational Foundation and is respected as a leading authority on Bruce Lee's teachings in the fields of philosophy sociology, art and physical fitness.

She is happily married to Ian Keasler and both are respected Jeet Kune Do practitioners under the guidance of Ted Wong.

Taky Kimura is a senior member of the Jeet Kune Do family and was one of Bruce Lee's closest friends. Bruce took him under his wing and made him assistant instructor at the Jun Fan Gung Fu Institute in Seattle. In addition to being Bruce Lee's assistant instructor, he was also the "best man" at Bruce Lee's wedding. There is information suggesting that Taky was one of only three students who was certified by Bruce Lee to teach Jeet Kune Do.

During the years following Bruce Lee's death, Taky Kimura decided to remain silent about his training and relationship with the founder of Jeet Kune Do. He does not advertise his services as an instructor and teaches to a small but elite group.

In more recent years Taky has became a respected speaker and advisor for The Bruce Lee Educational Foundation.

Black Belt magazine selected Brandon as their Man of the Year for 1993. At the time of his death, Brandon had a multi-picture deal with Carolco and a three-picture agreement with 20th Century Fox. He was only 28 years old had a bright future ahead of him.

Professor Daniel Lee (not blood related to Bruce) was born in Shanghai, China. He started his martial arts classes at the age of 10 and his first few years of training were in fields of Shao-lin and Ch'I Kung kung fu. He began his training in western boxing training at the age of 13 and won the Chinese national welterweight boxing championship in 1948. In 1964 Daniel met Bruce Lee at the Karate Internationals at Long Beach and was very impressed with Bruce's skill and his knowledge. A few years later, Dan became the first student to join Bruce Lee's Chinatown school in Los Angeles.

Daniel is an extremely well educated and intellectual person. He holds a masters degree in electronical engineering and was once a rocket scientist (no joke!) at the California Institute of Jet Propulsion.

Over the years, he has aquired a reputation as being a spiritual, kind and peace-loving man. He is particularly respected for his knowledge of the philosophical aspects of the martial arts and is also one of the world's leading authorities on Tai Ch'i Chu'an. As well as all of the above, Daniel is also certified in Chinese medicine and acupuncture.

James Lee (not blood relation to Bruce) was an extremely talented martial arts practitioner. Like Bruce Lee, James was trained in the Wing Chun style of Kung Fu. Long before James had ever met Bruce, he used to amaze audiences with public demonstrations of his astounding martial arts abilities. He was particularly well known for his "iron hand" training and would routinely perform his specialty at public demonstrations- breaking ten bricks with his bare hands.

When Bruce Lee met James Lee, a strong friendship developed almost instantly and the two would meet up as much as they could to share ideas and train together. When James Lee's wife, Katherine, died Bruce and Linda moved to Oakland to support James and his children. Shortly afterwards, James helped Bruce to publish his first ever book, "Chinese Gung-Fu: The Philosophical Art of Self-Defense." Eventually the pair went on to open the Oakland Gung Fu Institute where Bruce and James would regularly take turns at conducting the classes. He goes down in history as an exceptional martial artist in his own right and it is little surprize that he earned Bruce Lee's complete trust and respect.

Robert is Bruce Lee's younger brother. Although the two brothers were extremely close, their careers have followed radically different paths. Robert was the youngest member of the Lee family and had a reputation as being "the quiet one". However, when Bruce eventually left Hong Kong and moved to America, suddenly Robert (to everyone's surprize) began to receive major recognition, not as a martial artist, but as a musician! In his lifetime, he has composed and recorded several sucessful albums and in his own words, "music is my Jeet Kune Do".

Recently, there have been strong hints that Robert is on the verge of making an Earth-shattering announcement on behalf of the Lee family. ln a recent interview, when asked about Bruce Lee's death, Robert is quoted as saying, "the Lee side of the Family have their beliefs, and our beliefs are valid". In that same interview Robert later then went on to say, "The Lee family does believe there was foul play. In the future the Lee family will be coming out with projects that support our beliefs. There is much to say, and much did happen. When the time is right, all will see the truth." (take from www.cityonfire.com/unknown/interviews/robert/)

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Wing Shun Leung was a member of Yip Man's Wing Chun school of kung fu in Hong Kong. During the 50's and 60's he fought and won literally hundreds of full contact matches between himself and members from rival kung fu schools. According to several reliable accounts, Wing Shun Leung never lost a single fight. His long reign as an undefeated Kung fu champion earned him a reputation, among Hong Kong martial arts circles, as being the greatest Kung fu fighter in the world.

Wong Shun Leung was six years older than Bruce Lee and had been a member of Yip Man's school long before Bruce had even showed any interest in taking up martial arts training. Althoung both Bruce and Wong Shun were techincally students of Yip Man, Wong Shun Leung (with the approval of Yip Man) also ran his own so-called "backyard school" and much of his time there was spent teaching Bruce Lee in private.

When Bruce left Hong Kong to live in America, he stayed in touch with Wong Shun Leung by faithfully sending him a steady stream of letters over a number of years. In one of these letters, Bruce is recorded as saying, "Even though I am a student of Yip Man, in reality, I learned my Kung-fu from you."

The pair had a chance to meet up again shortly before Bruce Lee's death. During that time, they shared ideas and allegedly had a sparring match to compare their skills.

Bruce accepted the challenge without hesitation and the fight was carried out under the watchful eyes of the Chinese elders and some of Bruce Lee's own students. There are conflicting accounts of how the fight went. There is however, one thing which is certain- Bruce Lee won.

Today, Wong Jack Man is still heavily involved with his organisation- The Jing Mo Athletic Association. They remain based in San Francsico where they continue to teach traditional Chinese Kung fu as well as traditional Chinese Lion Dancing.

Yip Man, was born Yip Gei-Man (Ye Jiwen) to a wealthy merchant family in Foshan in 1893. He began learning Wing Chun Kung fu sometime between 1906 and 1911 under Chan Wah-Shun who was said to have been teaching out of the Yip Family Ancestral Temple at the time.

Yip Man was a respected Hong Kong Master of Wing Chun Kung Fu. However, despite his notoriety as a teacher, Yip Man took on very few students. In 1953 a young Bruce Lee was severely beaten by a group of street thugs. Shortly afterwards, Bruce Lee approached Yip Man and (after a little persistence) was eventually accepted into Yip Man's Kung Fu school.

Yip Man is credited as being the person who trained Bruce Lee in the classical martial art style of Wing Chun Kung Fu.

Bruce Lee first met Chuck Norris at the 1964 Ed Parker International Karate Championships. The two went on to become not only good friends, but also world famous martial arts superstars. Chuck Norris was a highly established Karate Champion. Between 1964 and 1968 he won numerous titles including the Professional World Middleweight Karate Champion. In 1969 he was named "Fighter of the Year" by Black Belt magazine.

Bruce Lee had an immense amount of respect for Chuck Norris. During the early 70's they spent a great deal of time training together and sharing ideas. In 1972 Bruce invited Chuck Norris to play the part of the leading bad guy in The Way of the Dragon. Chuck accepted and the two went on to produce what is arguably the greatest martial arts fight scene in cinema history.

Since the death of Bruce Lee, Chuck Norris has further established himself as a martial arts film superstar. He has received many awards for not only his acting, but also his work as a film stuntman. In 1990 Chuck Norris founded the Kick Drugs out of America organisation and since then he has spent a great deal of his time battling against drugs and violence in schools.

Betty Ting-pei is the Taiwanese actress who was to play the female role in the Bruce Lee film, Game of Death.

On 20th July 1973, Bruce Lee was at Betty Ting-pei's flat discussing the script for their upcoming film, Game of Death. During the course of the afternoon, Bruce developed a severe headache. Betty gave him a tablet of Equagestic- a strong asprin-based drug prescribed to her by her doctor. At around 7:30PM Bruce Lee went and lay down in a bedroom. At 9PM Raymond Chow telephoned to find out why Bruce Lee had not turned up for a meeting. Betty said she could not wake Bruce. Betty Ting-pei goes down in history as being the last person who ever saw Bruce Lee alive.

Since the death of Bruce Lee, Betty Ting-pei has appeared in several Hong Kong films.

(More information would be appreciated)

Lo Wei was the director of the Bruce Lee films, The Big Boss (1972) and also Fist of Fury (1972). For Fist of Fury Lo Wei was not only the director, but he also made an appearance, playing the role of the police inspector.

By typical Hollywood standards, Lo Wei was an extremely unorthadox director. He insisted on using no scripts and would often tune into live horse racing (on the radio) while he was on-set directing.

After the death of Bruce Lee, Lo Wei began a frantic search for "the next Bruce Lee". This led to a string of films by new Hong Kong film stars such as Jackie Chan and Jet Li.

Rumours of Triad involement (and also an incident where he threatened Bruce Lee with a knife) have been strongly refuted by Lo Wei's widow.

Ted Wong is credited as being Bruce Lee's last student and is regarded by many as being one of the few remaining authentic Jeet Kune Do instructors. Ted Wong appears photographed alongside Bruce in several of the Bruce Lee Fighting Method books. As well as being a training partner, there is also evidence to suggest that Ted Wong and Bruce Lee were close friends.

In the years immediately after Bruce Lee's death, Ted Wong kept quiet about his unique background and would only teach to small groups in private. However, after many years of silence, Ted eventually grew frustrated at the mass exploitation of Bruce Lee and the miss-use of the term "Jeet Kune Do". He has since gone on to become a highly respected member of the Jun Fan Jeet Kune Do Nucleus (now known as The Bruce Lee Educational Foundation).

Today, he lives an extremely busy life and often does Jeet Kune Do seminars all over the world. According to a realible source, Linda Lee has described Ted's teachings as "perhaps the purest strain" of Bruce Lee's art. As well as all of this, he also has a reputation in Jeet Kune Do circles as being one of the best kickers in the business!

When Bruce came to the U.S. in 1959 he knew about sixty percent of the Wooden dummy, the first form and parts of the second and third form, but his Wing Chun training didn't end there.

Fook Young, a friend of Bruce Lee's father continued Bruce's instruction in Wing Chun. Fook Young was a Chinese opera star from the time that he was ten. Each time that he joined a new opera he had to learn the Gung Fu style that Gung Fu master favoured. Fook Young learned many many styles and he taught parts of them to Bruce. One of the style that he taught Bruce was Red Boat Wing Chun. The areas where Bruce excelled were sticking hands, closing, chasing and punching. (taken from www.alphalink.com.au/~bundles/JesseGlover.htm)

Fook Young is rumoured to be the person who taught Bruce Lee the art of stage fighting, but little else is documented about this mysterious and elusive individual.
(More information would be appreciated)