姚萍（Yao Ping，7月13日出生），原名姚尚樸，籍貫廣東省，客家人，身高5呎7吋（1.7公呎），體重170磅（77公斤），南洋馬來亞檳城華僑，返中華民國前，曾經喺暹羅宋卡府同馬來亞柔佛州做教師，廣州市暨南大學畢業，歌手同電影演員。20世紀30年代初期已經喺上海參演國語電影，為馬徐維邦導演嘅《夜半歌聲》（1937年）作幕後代唱，因而聲名大噪。同年轉去香港轉拍粵語片，香港粵語片處男作係《自梳女》（1937年12月），拍片200幾部。1953年去新加坡，加入「香港歌藝團」，四圍巡迴演出，亦參予廈語片嘅工作。1970年返港後，簽3年合約加盟邵氏兄弟公司，住喺清水灣道宿舍。1971年為「震遠唱片公司」喺九龍觀塘物華街35號二樓，訓練歌唱人材，同編寫一部新風格歌舞片劇本同撰曲。
Yao Ping (Yao Ping, born on July 13), formerly known as Yao Shangpu, is a native of Guangdong Province, Hakka, 5 feet 7 inches (1.7 feet) tall, 170 pounds (77 kg), Nanyang Malaya Penang overseas Chinese, before returning to the Republic of China, he worked as a teacher in Siam Songka and Johor, Malaya, graduated from Jinan University in Guangzhou, singer and film actor. In the early 30s of the 20th century, he participated in Chinese films in Shanghai, and sang behind the scenes for Ma Xu Weibang's "Singing in the Night" (1937), so he became famous. In the same year, he transferred to Hong Kong to make Cantonese films, and his debut in Hong Kong Cantonese films was "Self-Combing Girl" (December 1937), which made more than 200 films. In 1953, he went to Singapore and joined the "Hong Kong Singing Troupe", toured for four weeks, and also participated in the work of Xiamen language films. After returning to Hong Kong in 1970, he signed a three-year contract to join Shaw Brothers and lived in the Clearwater Bay Road dormitory. In 1971, he trained singers for the "Zhenyuan Records" on the second floor of No. 35 Wuhua Street, Kwun Tong, Kowloon, and wrote a script and music for a new style of song and dance film.