Famous People with Name Gong

Gong Baoren            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Gong Baoren: is a Chinese swimmer who competed in the Sydney 2000 paralympic men's 100m breaststroke SB7 event, finishing 0.03 second behind the finalist. He was distinguished from the other competitors in that he had no arms.

Gong Lijiao            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Gong Lijiao: is a Chinese shot putter.She finished seventh at the 2007 World Championships, her international debut.

Gong Qianyun            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Gong Qianyun: is a Chinese chess player who holds the WIM title.Gong played fourth board on a slightly weaker Chinese women's team - the only women's team present - at the World Team Chess Championship held in Beersheba, Israel in 2005.[3][4][5][6]

Gong Ruina            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Gong Ruina: is a female badminton player from the People's Republic of China.

Gong Xian            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Gong Xian: was a Chinese painter, the most important of the Eight Masters of Nanjing and the leading painter of the Nanjing school.

Lue Gim Gong            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Lue Gim Gong: was an immigrant from China and a horticulturalist. Known as "The Citrus Wizard," he is remembered for his contribution to the orange-growing industry in Florida.

Zeng Gong            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Zeng Gong: was a Chinese scholar and historian of the Song Dynasty in China. He was one of the supporters of the New Classical Prose Movement (?????) and is regarded as founder of one of the Eight Great Schools of Thought of the Tang and Song dynasties (?????).

Prince Gong            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Prince Gong: was a prince and statesman of the Qing Dynasty. He was the sixth son of the Daoguang Emperor and a half brother of Daoguang's successor, the Xianfeng Emperor. He served as regent during the reign of Xianfeng's son and successor, the Tongzhi Emperor. Having established the Zongli Yamen (a government body in charge of foreign affairs) in 1861, Yixin is best remembered as an proponent of maintenance of friendly relations between the Qing government and the foreign powers, as well as for his attempts to modernise China in the late 19th century. Commonly referred to as the "Sixth Prince" in his time, Yixin was nicknamed "Devil Number Six" by conservatives in the Qing imperial court, in reference to his frequent contacts with westerners (gweilo; literally "foreign devils", a colloquialism for westerners).

Peng-Peng Gong            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Peng-Peng Gong: is a virtuoso classical pianist and professional composer born on July 3, 1992. Described by The Washington Post as an artist “with the confidence of a weathered veteran and a welcome unbridled quality to his playing”, he has established himself as one of the most gifted young artists of his generation. At 18, he has became an internationally active concert pianist and a six-time American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers National Award-winning composer in consecutive years since 2006. He was among the youngest pianists to be officially signed to the artist roster of the renowned Opus 3 Artists (formerly ICM Artists) in 2007 at age 14, and the youngest composer to be signed by the [Lauren Keiser Music Publishing] in 2009 at age 16. Since 2005, he concertized and toured intensely in the North America, South America, Europe, and China, appearing in over a hundred solo and orchestral engagements. He was invited twice, on personal request, by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to perform for the United States Congress.