Guo Lanying (Chinese: 郭兰英; born December 1929 in Pingyao, Shanxi) is a noted Chinese operatic soprano best known for singing patriotic songs such as "My Motherland" (1956) and "Nanniwan" (1943). She was born into a poor family in Pingyao, central Shanxi, and began studying , a form of local opera, at the age of six. She performed with the local theatrical troupe in Taiyuan, the provincial capital, at the age of 11. In the 1940s, she majored in opera at (华北联合大学), and performing with that university's Song and Dance Troupe. With that troupe, she performed many dance dramas.