Famous People with Name Pei

Pei Encai            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Pei Encai: is a former football player and manager most recently with Henan Jianye.

Pei-Yuan Wei            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Pei-Yuan Wei: created ViolaWWW, one of the first graphical web browsers.

Pei Wenzhong            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Pei Wenzhong: was a Chinese paleontologist, archaeologist and anthropologist. Professor Pei is considered the founding father of Chinese anthropology. He graduated from the Peking University in 1928 and went to work for the Cenozoic Research Laboratory of the Geological Survey of China joining the excavations of Peking Man Site in Zhoukoudian, where he was named the field director of the excavations in the following year. The work at Zhoukoudian was done in rough conditions: for example, the scientists had to ride to there on mules. The first skullcap was dug out by Pei "working in a 40-meter crevasse in frigid weather with a hammer in one hand and a candle in the other.",[2] on December 2, 1929, at 4 pm. From 1933 to 1934, he supervised the excavation of the Upper Cave site and was director of Zhoukoudian Office of the Cenozoic Research Laboratory of the Geological Survey of China. He left the excavation in 1935 to get a degree from the University of Paris and was succeeded by Professor Jia Lanpo). He returned to the excavation in 1937 shortly before they ceased. Since Zhoukoudian, Professor Pei worked at many other sites, for example Djalainor or Kansu. In 1955 he was elected to the Chinese Academy of Sciences, became the first Chairman of Chinese Association of Natural Science Museums, and the second director of Beijing Museum of Natural History. Until his death, he worked at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He also wrote several books, including the first on Chinese prehistory written in Chinese.

Pei Shuai            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Pei Shuai: is a Chinese football player who currently plays for Changchun Yatai. Pei joined Changchun Yatai at the age of 14 in 2007. He was promoted to Changchun Yatai's first team squad by Shen Xiangfu in 2011. His impressive performance in the reserve team league earned him a chance to play for the first team. Pei made his debut for Changchun on 11 May 2011, in a Chinese FA Cup against Tianjin Runyulong. He assisted a goal in this match. He made his CSL debut as a substitute in a 1 - 0 away defeat against Jiangsu Sainty 4 days later. On 18 September 2011, he scored his first senior goal for Changchun in a 2 - 1 home victory over Guangzhou Evergrande. He scored the winning goal of the match in 84th minute, which ended Guangzhou's 44-league-match unbeaten run.

Peirson Mitchell Hall            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Peirson Mitchell Hall: was a Los Angeles city councilman and later a United States federal judge.On February 17, 1942, Hall was nominated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to a seat on the United States District Court for the Southern District of California vacated by George C

Ieoh Ming Pei            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Ieoh Ming Pei: commonly known by his initials I. M. Pei, is a Pritzker Prize-winning Chinese-born American architect, known as the last master of high modernist architecture. He works with the abstract form, using stone, concrete, glass, and steel. Pei is perhaps one of the most successful Asian architects of the 20th century, with his works built all over the world.

Betty Ting Pei            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Betty Ting Pei: is a Taiwanese actress who joined Shaw Brothers in 1967. Despite acting in more than 30 movies, nowadays she is known because of the mysterious and controversial death of Bruce Lee in her apartment. Although Betty had acted in dramas, comedies, musicals and martial arts films, she is better known in Asia for her mistress roles and her many bedroom scenes. She was a regular of director Inoue Umetsugu, for whom she performed in the musicals, The Millionaire Chase, The Yellow Muffler, and The Brain Stealers.

Hsin Pei            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Hsin Pei: is the seventh and current abbot and director of the Fo Guang Shan Buddhist Order. The youngest abbot ever elected to the order, Hsin Pei was elected by the members of Fo Guang Shan worldwide in 2004 and succeeded retiring abbot Hsin Ting in 2005. As abbot of the Order, Hsin Pei is the second highest monastic in the order, and is second in line to the position of head teacher. After his preceptor, Venerable Master Hsing Yun who is a forty eighth generation lineage holder of the Linji Chan School, Hsin Pei and his predecessor Hsin Ting are the forty ninth generation lineage holders.