Famous People with Name Shih

Shih-Siang Shawn Liao            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Shih-Siang Shawn Liao: is a former basketball player from the People's Republic of China best known for being one of the first Asian basketball athletes to ever compete in NCAA Division I basketball for Long Island University (from 1993 to 1996). He is 1.70 m (5'7") tall and weighs 70 kilograms (155 pounds). Liao later transferred to Columbia University (1996-1999) but did not play collegiate basketball for the school. He majored in chemical engineering and economics.[1]

Shih Chih-wei            Origin/Culture/Country: Asia

Shih Chih-wei: is a Taiwanese baseball player for the La New Bears. He played for the amateur Taiwan Cooperative Bank baseball team before being drafted by the La New Bears of the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL).

Shih Chin-tien            Origin/Culture/Country: Asia

Shih Chin-tien: is a Taiwanese baseball player who currently plays for Uni-President Lions of Chinese Professional Baseball League. He currently plays as third baseman for the Lions

Chiaho Shih            Origin/Culture/Country: Asia

Chiaho Shih: is a Distinguished Research Fellow in the Division of Infectious Disease & Immunology at Academia Sinica in Taiwan. His research is in the area of Molecular virology, Viral hepatitis and Hepatoma, and Cancer. He is best known for his discovery of the first human oncogene Ras in 1982 while as a graduate student in the lab of Robert Weinberg at MIT, which is partially documented in Natalie Angiers book, Natural Obsessions, about her year spent in Weinberg's lab.