Famous People with Name Xue

Xue Jucheng            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Xue Jucheng: was a Chinese historian and scholar who served under the Song Dynasty, as well as four of the Five Dynasties that preceded the Song. Xue is best known for compiling the Five Dynasties History which was put together in the 960s and 970s.

Xue Tao            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Xue Tao: was one of the three famous female Chinese poet from the Tang Dynasty.Some 450 poems by Xue were gathered in The Brocade River Collection that survived until the 1300s. About 100 poems of her are known nowadays, which is more than of any other Tang dynasty woman.

Xue Yuyang            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Xue Yuyang: is a Chinese basketball player. In 2003 he entered the U.S. National Basketball Association draft without official permission and the Chinese authorities refused to let him play in the U.S. He was selected 57th overall by the Denver Nuggets, who had acquired the 57th pick from the Dallas Mavericks.

Xue Zongzheng            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Xue Zongzheng: is a renowned Chinese historian, a director of Ancient History at the Institute of History in Xinjiang Academy of Social Sciences, and a professor of History at the Xinjiang Normal University. Born in Jinan, Shandong, he was graduated in history from the Peking University in 1958, specialized in the fronter policy of ancient China and the history of Central Asia. He published several books in the Chinese language.

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

Sang Xue            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Sang Xue: is a female Chinese diver who won the gold medal in the Synchronized 10m Platform competition at the 2000 Summer Olympics. She was paired with Li Na and they beat the Canadian team by 33 points.

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.