Famous People with Name Bai

Bai He            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Bai He: is a Chinese football player who is now playing in Hong Kong First Division League club South China. He joined the team in 2006.

Bai Juyi            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Bai Juyi: was a Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty. His poems are not cheerful, and were themed around his responsibilities as a governor of several small provinces to sympathise with his people. He is renowned in Japan as well, where he is called Haku Rakuten.

Bai Ling            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Bai Ling: is a Chinese-born American actress.Bai was born in Chengdu, People's Republic of China; "Bai", her family name, literally means "white". Ling, a common Chinese given name, means clever. Her father, Bai Yuxiang (???), was a musician in the People's Liberation Army, and later a music teacher. Her mother, Chen Binbin (???), was a dancer, stage actress, and a literature teacher in Sichuan University; Bai's maternal grandfather was a military officer of Kuomintang's army, and thus was persecuted during the Cultural Revolution. In early 1980s, Bai Ling's parents divorced, and later remarried. Her mother remarried to the writer Xu Chi (??), renowned for his report titled Goldbach's Conjecture, about Chinese mathematician Chen Jingrun. Bai Ling has one older sister Bai Jie (??), who works for the Chinese tax bureau, and a younger brother Bai Chen (??), who emigrated to Japan and works for an American company.

Bai Renfu            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Bai Renfu: is considered one of the top four playwrights of the Yuan Dynasty.

Bai Shouyi            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Bai Shouyi: was a prominent Chinese Muslim historian, thinker, social activist and ethnologist who revolutionized recent Chinese historiography and pioneered in relying heavily on scientific excavations and reports. A Marxist philosophically, his studies thus take a very class-centric view and reasoning. Born a son of a Hui merchant in Kaifeng, he became literate in Arabic from his mother and aunt.

Li Bai Or Li Po            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Li Bai Or Li Po: was a Chinese poet. He was part of the group of Chinese scholars called the "Eight Immortals of the Wine Cup" in a poem by fellow poet Du Fu. Li Bai is often regarded, along with Du Fu, as one of the two greatest poets in China's literary history. Approximately 1,100 of his poems remain today. The first translations in a Western language were published in 1862 by Marquis d'Hervey de Saint-Denys in his Poésies de l'Époque des Thang.[1] The English-speaking world was introduced to Li Bai's works by a Herbert Allen Giles publication History of Chinese Literature (1901) and through the liberal, but poetically influential, translations of Japanese versions of his poems made by Ezra Pound.[2]