Famous People with Name Chiu

Chiu Wing Yin Rebecca            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Chiu Wing Yin Rebecca: is a professional squash player from Hong Kong. Her highest world ranking is 14 (June 2007).

Chiu Chun Kit            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Chiu Chun Kit: is a Hong Kong footballer who plays as a defender for Citizen in Hong Kong First Division League.

Chiung Yao            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Chiung Yao: is the penname of a popular Taiwan romance novelist. Many of her works have been made and remade into movies and TV series. Films based on her books have been made in the Republic of China (Taiwan) since the 1970s, and were very popular during their time. They often featured Brigitte Lin, Lin Feng-jiao, Charlie Chin and/or Chin Han, who were then collectively known as the "Two Lins and Two Chins". Both her father and mother received a good education. She was born in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province. In 1949, along with her family, she moved to Taiwan, where she attended and Taipei Municipal Zhong Shan Girls High School . At the age of 16, she published her first novel. During high school she had published over 200 articles. After graduation from high school and failure to enter college, she got married and became a housewife, and at the same time started her writing career. Her first novel, still often read today, is Chuangwai ("Outside the Window").

Chiura Obata            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Chiura Obata: was a well-known Japanese-American artist. He came to the United States in 1903, at age 18. After initially working as an illustrator and commercial decorator, he had a successful career as a painter, following a 1927 summer spent in the Sierra Nevada, and was a faculty member in the Art Department at the University of California at Berkeley from 1932 to 1953, interrupted by World War II, when he spent over a year in internment camps. After his retirement, he continued to paint and to lead group tours to Japan to see gardens and art.

Samson Chiu            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Samson Chiu: is a Hong Kong-based film director, film writer and newspaper columnist. His movies include:

Liang Shih-chiu            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Liang Shih-chiu: a renowned educator, writer, translator, literary theorist and lexicographer.In 1949, to escape the civil war, Liang fled to Taiwan where he taught at Taiwan Normal University until his retirement in 1966. During this period, he established himself as a lexicographer by bringing out a series of English-Chinese and Chinese-English dictionaries. His translation works included George Orwell's Animal Farm and Marcus Aurelius' Meditations.

David Chiu            Origin/Culture/Country: American

David Chiu: is a Chinese American professional poker player, based in Rowland Heights, California, who has won four World Series of Poker bracelets. He is also the winner of the 2008 World Poker Tour's WPT World Championship, and the first winner of the Tournament of Champions of Poker.

Ng Wai Chiu            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Ng Wai Chiu: is a Hong Kong professional football player cuurently playing for Hong Kong First Division League club TSW Pegasus. He has been capped for Hong Kong at various youth levels, including the Olympic U-23 team and is now a regular in senior 'A' internationals.

Angie Chiu            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Angie Chiu: is an actress, and was the third runner up in the 1973 Miss Hong Kong pageant. She is most noted for her leading role in The Bund, opposite Chow Yun-fat and Lui Leung-Wai. She's a well known actress in both Hong Kong and Mainland China.