Famous People with Name Yang

Yang Borun            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yang Borun: was a well-known Chinese poet, calligrapher, and painter of the Shanghai school.

Yang Changpeng            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yang Changpeng: is a Chinese footballer, currently playing for Wuhan Guanggu. On October 2006, Bolton Wanderers have taken Yang Changpeng dubbed 'China's Peter Crouch' on a one-month trial.

Yang Chao            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yang Chao: is a Chinese figure skater. He placed 5th at the 2006 Chinese Figure Skating Championships and 10th at the 2006 World Junior Figure Skating Championships

Yang Chen            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yang Chen: is a professional football player.While playing for Frankfurt, Yang became the first Chinese player to score in any one of the five major European football leagues. In his first year at Frankfurt, Yang scored 8 goals in the Bundesliga and helped the team to avoid relegation to 2. Bundesliga. However, in the second year, manager Felix Magath gave Chen little playing time.

Yang Chengfu            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yang Chengfu: is historically considered the best known teacher of the soft style martial art of Tai Chi Chuan (Taijiquan).

Tan Yang            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Tan Yang: is a Chinese international footballer currently playing for Hangzhou Greentown F.C. as a striker. Tan Yang began his professional football career with Hangzhou Greentown F.C. in 2008 when he made his debut against Qingdao Jonoon on April 5 in a league game, which Hangzhou lost 2-0. A young and physically imposing player Tan Yang was he included in Gao Hongbo's squad for a friendly against Palestine on the 18th of July 2009 in a 3-1 win coming on as a substitute for Qu Bo.

He Yang            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

He Yang: is a Chinese international footballer who currently plays for Tianjin Teda as a defender in the China Super League. While He Yang graduated from the Tianjin Teda youth team during the 2002 league season he struggled to break into the first team and would take several seasons to establish himself within the senior team before he even made his league debut on May 30, 2004 against Shenyang Ginde in a 1-0 defeat. He Yang would make his international debut in a friendly against Iran in a 1-0 win on the 1st of June 2009 where he played the game as a right-back

Sir Ti-liang Yang            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Sir Ti-liang Yang: also known as Sir TL, is a retired senior judge in Hong Kong. He was Chief Justice of Hong Kong from 1988 to 1996 and was the only ethnic Chinese to hold this office during British colonial rule.He became a candidate in Hong Kong Chief Executive election, 1996, where he lost to his opponent Tung Chee Hwa. After the transfer of the sovereignty of Hong Kong, he was appointed as non-official member of the Executive Council by Tung and retired in 2002. In retirement, Sir TL now mainly focuses on writing and teaching English. In September 2003, he became the host of a RTHK radio programme called Yang Ti-liang Mail Box , teaching English grammar to the audiences.

Timothy Chin-tien Yang            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Timothy Chin-tien Yang: is a Taiwanese diplomat, and the current Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China serving under President Ma Ying-Jeou.

Bo Yang            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Bo Yang: was a Chinese language writer based in Taiwan. His pen name is found in most sources as "Bo Yang" or "Bai Yang", but there is an argument that as Bo Yang was a pen name, it should be written as "Boyang" insead. According to his own memoir, the exact date of his birthday was unknown even to himself. He later adopted the date of his imprisonment in 1968 (7 March) as his birthday. Aside of his Golden Triangle novel Yiyu, ( 1961), Bo Yang is best known for his non-fiction works on Chinese history (collated from ancient materials in the prison library Green Island) and The Ugly Chinaman ( Choulòu de Zhongguórén, 1985; English translation, with the subtitle ... and the Crisis of Chinese Culture, 1992).