Famous People with Name Wan

Wan Gu-Chan            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Wan Gu-Chan: was born in Nanjing, China. He was one of the Wan brothers who pioneered the Chinese animations industry.Through out his career he would be the closest to Wan Laiming in assisting him in all major projects. In 1958 he would be credited as the innovator of a new paper-cut method. The technique was demonstrated in the animation Pigsy Eats Watermelon.

Wan Lai-Ming            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Wan Lai-Ming: was born in Nanjing, China. He was one of the Wan brothers who pioneered the Chinese animation industry, and became China's first animator. As the director of the Shanghai Animation Film Studio, he would raise the standard to International level before other historical events affected the industry.In 1922 they made the first cartoon short Shuzhendong Chinese Typewriter which was a commercial used for the Commercial Press. At the time one of their first technological challenge was to make the background expose. Their technique caused grease that prevented them from seeing anything but simple lines in the background.

Wan Chao-Chan            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Wan Chao-Chan: was born in Nanjing, China. He was one of the Wan brothers who pioneered the Chinese animations industry.

Wan Houliang            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Wan Houliang: is a Chinese football defender, who plays for Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors in K-League. Wan Houliang used to play for FK CSK Pivara in Serbian League Vojvodina. Wan Was selected in the China national under-23 football team that took part in the 2008 Summer Olympics where he played in two group games.

Wan Cheng            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Wan Cheng: is a Chinese football player who currently plays for Shandong Luneng. Wan Cheng started his professional football career at Shandong Luneng after he joined them from Tianjin Locomotive's youth team. He would make his senior league debut in October 27, 2002 in a league match between Shandong Luneng and Shanxi Guoli as a promising 16 year old.

Gok Wan            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Gok Wan: is a British fashion consultant, author and television presenter of Anglo-Chinese heritage.After receiving a diploma in performing arts at the Charles Keene College of Further Education, Leicester, Wan enrolled at the Central School of Speech and Drama to study Drama and Education, although he did not complete the course. Following that, he began working as a session hair and make-up artist and soon after moved into fashion styling. He was 21 stone (133 kg) in his teenage years he confessed, "I was really fat".[3] It was not until his late teens that he started slimming.

Ng Hin Wan            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Ng Hin Wan: is a Hong Kong sprint canoer who competed from the mid 1970s to the mid 1980s. At the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, he was eliminated in the repechages of both the K-2 500 m and the K-2 1000 m events.

Tang Pik Wan            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Tang Pik Wan: was a talented Cantonese opera and television actress. Tang, after she went to Hong Kong, became a movie actress playing various roles in movies since the 1950s, winning acclaim for many of her performances. She and seven great opera actresses later became sworn sisters who went by the nickname "Eight Peonies". Tang was the Blue Peony and until 1967, she has acted in more than 250 movies. By 1968, Tang decided to go as a TV Actress, performing in Rediffusion, ATV and in TVB. As age caught up with her, she became the typical actress for the role as the mother, especially in the 1977 hit A House Is Not a Home and also the 1980s hit The Seasons in which she played the matriarch of the family (hence gaining her the nickname "Ma-Da" (Cantonese pronunciation of mother) "Ma-Da" propelled her to fame and when she continued to take movies and advertisements, she would portray the "Ma-Da" role.