Famous People with Name Xue

Xue Jinghua            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Xue Jinghua: is a Chinese ballerina who was cast in the now internationally well-known Red Detachment of Women of the National Ballet of China as Wu Qinghua, the heroine of the ballet for which she became a big-time prima ballerina

Xue Ruipeng            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Xue Ruipeng: a Chinese swimmer, who will compete for Team China at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Xue Ming            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Xue Ming: is a female Chinese volleyball player. She was part of the gold medal winning team at the 2005 Asian Championship.

Xue Bing            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Xue Bing: is a Chinese sprint canoer who competed in the late 1980s. At the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, he was eliminated in the repechages of the K-2 500 m event and the semifinals of the K-2 1000 m.

Xue Hanqin            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Xue Hanqin: is a judge at the International Court of Justice. On 29 June 2010, she was elected to fill the vacancy created by Shi Jiuyong's resignation on 28 May 2010. She is one of three female judges serving on the ICJ and one of only four women elected as members of the Court to date. Xue is the fifth Chinese judge at the ICJ, and the third representing the People's Republic of China (see Judges of the International Court of Justice). From 1980 to 2003, Xue served in the Department of Treaty and Law of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, eventually rising to the position of Director-General. She returned to Columbia Law School in 1991 obtaining a J.S.D. degree in 1995. Xue was appointed as the Chinese ambassador to the Netherlands in 2003 and served until 2008. In December 2008, she became the first Chinese ambassador to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.

Shen Xue            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Shen Xue: is a pair skater from China. Along with her partner Zhao Hongbo, they became the first World Champion pairs team from China, and also the first to win an Olympic medal. Shen and Zhao were the first Chinese pair to be competitive on the senior international level. They are three time World Champions and five time Grand Prix Final Champions.

Tan Xue            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Tan Xue: is a female Chinese fencer who won the silver medal in Sabre Individual at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Xinran Xue            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Xinran Xue: is a British-Chinese journalist and broadcaster, born in Beijing (Beping) in 1958. Xue often uses her first name, Xinran, to identify herself as the author of work.In the late 1980s, she began working for Chinese radio and went on to become one of China's most successful journalists. In 1997 she moved to London, where she initially worked as cleaner. In London, she began work on her seminal book about Chinese women's lives The Good Women of China, a memoir relating many of the stories she heard while hosting her radio show ("Words on the Night Breeze") in China. The book is a candid revelation of many Chinese women's thoughts and experiences that took place both during and after the Cultural Revolution when Chairman Mao and Communism ruled the land. The book was published in 2002 and has been translated into numerous languages. Her second book Sky Burial was a fictionalized account of a true story involving a newlywed who spent 30 years looking for her lost husband in Tibet.

Zhao Xue            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Zhao Xue: is a Chinese chess player who holds the WGM title. Her greatest success so far in an individual event was tying for first in the 2002 Under-20 World Junior Girls Chess Championship with Humpy Koneru, but being adjudged second on tie-break.

Bai Xue            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Bai Xue: is a female Chinese long-distance runner who specializes in the 10,000 metres. Bai won both the 5000 and the 10,000 metres at the 2005 Asian Championships, and finished fourth in 10,000 m at the 2006 World Junior Championships. She finished twenty-first in the 10,000 metres at the Olympic Games. She won the Beijing Marathon in 2008.