Famous People with Name Bai

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.

Bai Chongguang            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Bai Chongguang: is a retired boxer from PR China, who competed for his native country at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. There he was defeated in the first round of the Men's Light-Heavyweight (– 81 kg) division by South Korea's Ko Yo-Da (4:18). He won a gold medal at the 1990 Asian Games.

Bai Jie            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Bai Jie: is a Chinese footballer who made 139 appearances for the China women's national football team and was part their second-place performance at the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup. Bai initially played left back and was dubbed "Lady Roberto Carlos" for her similar style of play but was later moved into an attacking role on the national team.

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]