Famous People with Name Yuen

Yuen Ren Chao            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yuen Ren Chao: was a Chinese American linguist and amateur composer. He made important contributions to the modern study of Chinese phonology and grammar.Besides helping to shape the Gwoyeu Romatzyh, a Chinese romanization scheme, Chao is also credited with inventing a notation for transcribing tonal pitch variation in spoken languages.Already in college, his interests had turned to music and languages. He spoke German and French fluently and some Japanese, and he had a reading knowledge of ancient Greek and Latin. He served as Bertrand Russell's interpreter when the renowned British philosopher visited China in 1920. In his My Linguistic Autobiography, he wrote of his ability to pick up a Chinese dialect quickly, without much effort.

Yuen Poovarawan            Origin/Culture/Country: Thai

Yuen Poovarawan: a Thai computer scientist. He currently holds the positions of associate professor in the Department of Computer Engineering and Vice President for Information Technology at Kasetsart University in Bangkok, Thailand. Among his noted contributions are the development of natural language processing for the Thai language, and the advancement of information technology services in Thailand, particularly the implementation of networking infrastructure at Kasetsart.

Benjamin Yuen            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Benjamin Yuen: he became the winner of Hong Kong's Mr. Hong Kong beauty contest in 2007. Benjamin is the first winner from Hong Kong as the previous two winners, Matthew Ko and Francois Huynh came from Toronto, Canada and France respectively. Benjamin entered the contest as a local candidate. He was a big favorite in the competition due to his past background in commercials and films. During the preliminary and secondary interviews, he bought along a guitar to play, in which eventually made him to choose the guitar as his talent in the finals. After he was selected as #7 in the contest, there were rumors everywhere from newspapers to reporters circulating that he was a playboy and liked to play at night. Benjamin openly admitted to the deeds but said that the word playboy should not be used to describe the deeds. He explained that he liked to form bands and play with his friends. There were new rules in the contest this year. One of them was the renaming of the groups. In 2005 and 2006, the contestants were grouped as Style and Fitness. However this year, the contestants who were 22 or younger were listed in the Young group and 23 or older were in the Mature group. Due to his age, he was in the Mature group formerly known as the fitness group.

Chan Siu Yuen            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Chan Siu Yuen: is a Hong Kong professional football player playing for Hong Kong First Division League team Biu Chun Rangers. His position is Central-back or Defensive midfielder.

Kathy Tong-Ka-yee Yuen            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Kathy Tong-Ka-yee Yuen: is a female artist from Hong Kong. She is signed under the Emperor Entertainment Group label. She attend to be a Beauty Cook is discovered to make a contract to become an artist.

Corey Yuen            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Corey Yuen: is a Hong Kong actor, film director, producer and action choreographer. He was a member of the Peking Opera Schools and one of the Seven Little Fortunes. Yuen is perhaps best known as Rubber Legs’ student in 1979 kung fu comedy film Dance of the Drunk Mantis.

Kitty Yuen            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Kitty Yuen: is a Hong Kong radio dj and actress. At 143 cm tall, she is one of the shortest actresses in the industry. She studied at the Sacred Heart Canossian College and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University Design Department. She assisted in radio work with the director performed Sunday evening comedy show "Nonsense Novels" was appreciated after participating. In 2009 she competed in Beautiful Cooking