Famous People with Name Fu

Fu Baorong            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Fu Baorong: is a female Chinese field hockey player who competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics.

Fu Baoshi            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Fu Baoshi: was a Chinese painter from Xinyu, Jiangxi Province. He studied Oriental Art History in Japan in his early years and also practiced handicrafts and carving. He was the Director of the Jiangsu Province Chinese Painting School and a Vice-Chairman of the Federation of Chinese Artists. He also taught in the Art Department of Central University (now Nanjing University). His works of landscape painting employed skillful use of dots and inking methods, creating a new technique encompassing many varieties within traditional rules. He was able to create an old, elegant style through his integration of poetic atmosphere and painting techniques. He has held many personal exhibitions in China and has won favourable comments.

Fu Haifeng            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Fu Haifeng: is a Chinese badminton player from the People's Republic of China.Badminton champion Fu Haifeng has also set the official world smash record June 3, 2005. The actual bird speed was measured at 332 km/h (approximately 206 mph), making badminton the fastest racquet sport in the world.[1]

Fu Mingxia            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Fu Mingxia: She is a top female diver, multiple Olympic gold medalist and world champion. She is about 1.58m tall (5'2"). At an early age, Fu Mingxia learned to swim at a nearby river under the instruction of her father, Fu Yijun.[citation needed] She started gymnastics at age 5, soon switching to diving. Fu Mingxia left home at age 9 to train in Beijing.

Fu Hon Cheung            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Fu Hon Cheung: the Director and General Manager of Tarmac Heavy Building Materials (Shanghai) Co. Ltd.Fu is responsible for directing Tarmac's asphalt business efforts for China operations, overseeing the business, strategies and directions in all lines-of-business including asphalt manufacturing, surfacing, M&A, etc. When Fu joined Tarmac, he has been instrumental in helping Tarmac China both asphalt and aggregate business for business restructure and achieve substantial growth in the sophisticated Chinese market. With Fu's management leadership, Tarmac Heavy Building Materials has successfully concluded new agreements with Pudong International Airport and several important road contracts in Shanghai.

Du Fu            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Du Fu: was a prominent Chinese poet of the Tang Dynasty. Along with Li Bai (Li Po), he is frequently called the greatest of the Chinese poets.[1] His own greatest ambition was to help his country by becoming a successful civil servant, but he proved unable to make the necessary accommodations. His life, like the whole country, was devastated by the An Lushan Rebellion of 755, and the last 15 years of his life were a time of almost constant unrest.

Mi Fu            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Mi Fu: also known as Mi Fei (??), was a Chinese painter, poet, and calligrapher born in Taiyuan, Shanxi during the Song Dynasty. In painting he gained renown for his style of painting misty landscapes. This style would be deemed the "Mi Fu" style and involved the use of large wet dots of ink applied with a flat brush. His poetry followed the style of Li Bai and his calligraphy that of Wang Xizhi. His uninhibited style made him disliked at the Song court.

Theresa Fu            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Theresa Fu: is a Cantopop artist in Hong Kong. She was introduced by Talent Bang model agency in order to become a pop star. She was one of the members of Cookies who have since disbanded in 2005.

Yan Fu            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yan Fu: was a Chinese scholar and translator, most famous for introducing Western thoughts, including Darwin's idea of "natural selection," into China during the late 19th century.

Wang Fu            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Wang Fu: was a Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher , and poet during the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644).Wang was born in Wuxi in the Jiangsu province.[1] His style name was 'Mengduan' (??)and his pseudonyms were 'Youshi (??), Jiulong shanren (????), and Aosou' (??).[2] Wang's painting followed the style of Wang Meng and Ni Zan. Wang also painted ink bamboo works in a free and uninhibited style.