Famous People with Name Yang

Yang Zhi            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yang Zhi: is a Chinese football player who currently plays for Beijing Guoan. He represented the Chinese National Team participating in Malaysia's Asian Cup in 2007.

Yang Zhixue            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yang Zhixue: is a Chinese figure skater. He competed for one season on the Junior Grand Prix circuit and placed 19th at the 2004 World Junior Figure Skating Championships.

Yang Sze            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yang Sze: , better known as Bolo Yeung, is a former competitive bodybuilder and a martial arts film actor. Primarily cast as the villain in the movies he stars in, he is best known for his performances as Bolo in Enter the Dragon and as Chong Li in Bloodsport, and also for his many appearances in martial arts B-movies.

Yáng Lìwei            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yáng Lìwei: is a Chinese major general and military pilot and a CNSA astronaut. He was the first man sent into space by the space program of China, and his mission, Shenzhou 5, made the PRC the third country to independently send people into space.

Yang Bin            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yang Bin: a Chinese-Dutch businessman who was formerly listed as the second richest man in China by Forbes for 2001. He once held assets in the horticulture and real estate industries, owning stakes in the Euro-Asia Agricultural Holdings and Holland Village, China. His fall from grace came in 2002, when he was arrested on charges of tax evasion. He was later sentenced to 18 years in prison.

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.

Jin Yang            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Jin Yang: is a Chinese male pair skater. With partner Yu Xiaoyu, he is the 2012 Junior World silver medalist , 2010–2011 Junior Grand Prix Final bronze medalist, 2010 JGP Cup of Austria champion and 2010 Chinese national silver medalist.

Chen Yang            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Chen Yang: is a Chinese gymnast who represented China at the 2005 Trampoline World Championships