Famous People with Name Chuan

Chuan Leekpai            Origin/Culture/Country: Thai

Chuan Leekpai: was the Prime Minister of Thailand from September 20, 1992 to May 19, 1995 and again from November 9, 1997 to February 9, 2001. A third-generation Thai Chinese[1][2], Chuan was born in Trang province in a grass-roofed house. The walls of his family's house were woven from strips of betel-nut wood. The floor was the soil. His father's name was Niyom Leekpai and his mother's name was Tuan Leekpai. They were half-Chinese parents like most Trang locals. His father was a teacher and he earned modest wages. Tuan Leekpai sold Thai desserts and worked in a para rubber garden. Chuan Leekpai has 9 siblings and is the third child in the family. Because of his big family,

Chuang Wei-lun            Origin/Culture/Country: Asia

Chuang Wei-lun: is a Taiwanese football player who currently plays for Tatung F.C. and the Chinese Taipei national football team. He is fit either as a striker or as a midfielder. When he played for Tatung F.C., he was voted the best right winger in the Chinese Taipei Na

Chuang Chia-jung            Origin/Culture/Country: Asia

Chuang Chia-jung: is a Taiwanese professional female tennis player. In the Australian Open 2007, she entered the final of women's doubles with her partner Chan Yung-jan, but lost in three sets to Cara Black and Liezel Huber.

Lu Chuan            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Lu Chuan: is a Chinese filmmaker and screenwriter. Lu is the son of the Chinese novelist, Lu Tianming.[1]Hailed as a major new voice in Chinese cinema,[2] Lu's first two films were small-budget productions which garnered both Chinese and international acclaim: 2002's The Missing Gun and 2004's Kekexili: Mountain Patrol. Kekexili won both a Golden Rooster and a Golden Horse best picture award.Lu's most recent film, the war drama City of Life and Death, was released in April 2009 to both critical and commercial success. At the same time, however, the film's sympathetic portrayal of a Japanese soldier has aroused controversy. Lu Chuan won Achievement in Directing for the film at the 2009 Asia Pacific Screen Awards.

Margaret Tu Chuan            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Margaret Tu Chuan: was a Hong Kong actress. She made her first film, The Magic Touch, in 1958. The film was directed by Li Han Hsiang who discovered her at age seventeen. She starred in movies such as When The Peach Blossoms Bloom (1959), The Kingdom And The Beauty (1959) and Madam White Snake (1957) with Betty Loh and Lin Dai before her death in 1969. Diary Of A Lady-Killer (1969) was the last role she starred in before committing suicide with a female lover after a failed marriage.