Famous People with Name Yang

Yang Shuo            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yang Shuo: was a Chinese lyricist and essayist born in Penglai, Shandong, who produced over a hundred works. He committed suicide during the Cultural Revolution by overdose on sedatives.

Yang Siju            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yang Siju: is a Chinese long-distance runner who specialized in the 10,000 metres.

Yang Wei            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yang Wei: is a male gymnast from China.

Yang Wenjun            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yang Wenjun: is a Chinese flatwater canoer. He won the Canadian canoe C-2 500m gold medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics with partner Meng Guanliang - China's first-ever Olympic medal in the sport.

Yang Wenqin            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yang Wenqin: is a retired Chinese high jumper.

Shi Yang            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Shi Yang: was a lawyer by trade, as well as a member of the Chinese Communist Party, and was one of the early leaders of the workers' rights movement in China. In June 1922, Yang was introduced to the Chinese Communist Party by Xu Baihao and Xiang Ying and became a member. Two months later in August, he participated in the founding of the Wuhan Workers Union the earliest regional union in all of China (the group replaced the "Wuhan" in its name with "Hubei Province" in October of that year). Yang served as legal counsel for the union. Yang used his status as a lawyer to support strikers by factory workers and rickshaw drivers, and participated in many different workers' movements in Wuhan, often as a leader. On February 1, 1923, the Beijing-Wuhan Railroad Workers' Association held a large formal conference in Zhengzhou. As Yang was the Association's legal counsel, he played a large part in the conference's activities. The conference met with obstruction from the Zhengzhou Police authorities, and there were several serious clashes between conference attendees and the police. That evening, a secret meeting of the conference was held, demanding that the government meet all of the workers' demands - dismissal of the Zhengzhou Police Chief, reimbursement of workers' lost property, etc. - within two days, otherwise the association would implement a full strike of workers along the entire Jinghan railway. Shi Yang and Lin Xiangqian were chosen as leaders of the strike in the Jiang'an area, and they returned to Wuhan by train after the meeting.

Ziheng Yang            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Ziheng Yang: is a Chinese biologist, and R A Fisher Chair of Statistical Genetics, at University College London, and Professor since 2001. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2006.

Yu Yang            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yu Yang: is a female badminton player from the People's Republic of China. A doubles specialist, Yu and her regular partner Du Jing have steadily emerged as one of the world's elite women's doubles teams since 2004. They confirmed this status by winning the gold medal at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing over Korea's Lee Kyung-won and Lee Hyo-jung. Their other titles have included the Polish Open (2004): the China Masters (2005); the Asian Championships and Swiss Open in 2006; the Russian, Hong Kong, and Indonesia Opens in 2007; and the French, Korea, and Singapore Opens in 2008. Yu and Du were bronze medalists at the World Championships in 2006, but were unable to play in the tourney's 2007 edition. They were runners-up at the prestigious All-England Championships in 2008, but avenged that loss by beating their All-England conquerors in the Olympic final.

Wu Yang            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Wu Yang: is a female table tennis player from China. She won the gold medal in the team events in the Asian Table Tennis Championships in 2009. She won singles title at the 2009 World Junior Table Tennis Championships. Her style is chopping defender.

Men Yang            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Men Yang: is a Chinese football player who currently plays for Guangzhou R&F.