Famous People with Name Chow

Chow Tsz Ki            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Chow Tsz Ki: is a fencer from Hong Kong,

Chow Yun-Fat            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Chow Yun-Fat: is a Chinese actor. He is one of the most famous actors in Asia and a major actor in the Hong Kong film industry, who is famous for his collaboration with filmmaker John Woo in heroic bloodshed genre films like A Better Tomorrow, The Killer, and Hard-Boiled. He mainly plays in dramatic films. He won Hong Kong's "best actor" award three times and Taiwan's twice.

Chow Kwen Lim            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Chow Kwen Lim: the founder and the chairman of Chow Sang Sang Jewellry Company, one of the most popular gold and jewellry accessories retailers in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macau. He was a member of Sham Shui Po District Council and the director of Po Leung Kuk.[1]

Chow Ho-Wan            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Chow Ho-Wan: is a racing rider. He has competed in the 250cc and 125cc World Championships, the Asian Road Racing Championship and the Chinese Superbike Championship. He is also the 2008 China Superbike Championship 600cc champion. Chow Ho-Wan was a regular competitor in the now defunct ACMC Trophy motorcycle race, for 125cc motorbikes, part of the Macau Grand Prix. In 2000, Chow Ho-Wan qualified 5th on a Honda RS125 and finished 4th. In 2001, Chow Ho-Wan qualified 12th on a Yamaha TZ125 but failed to finish the race. In 2002, Chow Ho-Wan qualified fourth and finished third. In 2003, the last time the race was held, he qualified third and finished second on a Honda RS125, behind fellow Hong Kong rider Cheung Wai-On.

Yu So Chow            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yu So Chow: is a Chinese actress born in Beijing on July 9, 1930 to a Peking opera family. She is the daughter of late Master Yu Jim Yuen who ran the China Drama Academy, a Peking Opera School in Hong Kong, and teacher of many well-known actors. She started her acting career in 1948 and made over 240 films in the wuxia, kung fu, action, detective and Cantonese opera genres. Her films were successful at the box-office and she was one of the most popular superstars of the 1960 in Asia and Hong Kong. Her golden age of filming was between 1963 and 1966 ,when she made at least thirty movies in a year. Despite her fame and her leading position, she did take part in movies as a villainous woman, a role usually rejected by other actresses who were afraid of damaging their image. However, Yu proved that her talent in acting was not limited to action films. Her surprise roles in The big revenge part 1 and 2 (???????) (1963) and Heaven, Hell and Crystal Palace (???????) (1965) did not destroy her popularity nor upset her fans; instead they won the hearts of the audience.

Valerie Chow            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Valerie Chow: is a Hong Kong actress. She has starred in numerous films and several television series, most memorably in Wong Kar-wai's internationally acclaimed 1994 feature, Chungking Express, which earned her a nomination for Best Supporting Actress at the 14th Hong Kong Film Awards. A former Miss Hong Kong runner-up (1991), she is also the first Chinese model to be signed by US cosmetics company Revlon in 1998.

Liang Chow            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Liang Chow: is a former gymnast and the personal coach of the 2008 Olympic gold medalist, Shawn Johnson.Chow was on China's national gymnastics team for more than a decade, winning international and national medals. He came to the United States in 1990. He accepted an English scholarship and a coaching position at the University of Iowa.