Famous People with Name Yang

Yang Jinghui            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yang Jinghui: is a male Chinese diver who competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics.

Yang Jun            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yang Jun: is a Chinese football player who currently plays for Tianjin Teda. He played during Asian Cup for China in 2007, against Uzbekistan.

Yang Lian            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yang Lian: is a Chinese weightlifter.

Yang Lin            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yang Lin: is a Chinese footballer. He currently plays for Henan Jianye.

Yang Liu            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yang Liu: is a Chinese classical violinist. He studied under Yao-Ji Lin at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. He also studied with Dorothy DeLay and Kurt Sassmannshaus at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. He was a medalist at the 2002 International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. He currently teaches at Roosevelt University and performs regularly at the Aspen Music Festival. The "Lady Tennant" Stradivarius violin has been permanently loaned to him.

Ruby Yang            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Ruby Yang: is an Academy Award-winning Chinese American filmmaker.Originally from Hong Kong, Yang has worked on a range of feature and documentary films exploring Chinese themes as director and editor. She was both associate producer and editor for Joan Chen’s debut feature Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl, series editor for Bill Moyer’s PBS series Becoming American: The Chinese Experience, and editor for Chen's first Hollywood feature, Autumn in New York

Sang Yang            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Sang Yang: is a male badminton player from the People's Republic of China.

Shang Yang            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Shang Yang: was an important statesman of Qin in the Warring States Period of ancient China. With the support of Duke Xiao of Qin, Shang enacted numerous reforms (in accordance with his legalist philosophy recorded in The Book of Lord Shang) in the state of Qin that changed Qin from a peripheral, backwards state into a militarily powerful and strongly centralized state, changing the administration by emphasizing meritocracy and devolving power from the nobility.

Shen Yang            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Shen Yang: is a Chinese Woman Grand Master chess player. In 2001, she won the U-12 Girls section of the World Youth Chess Championship in Spain. In February 2006 she gained her second IM norm in Moscow at the Aeroflot Open. In the May-June 2006 37th Chess Olympiad in Turin she was part of the Chinese team that came third in the Women's section. In October 2006, she won the Girls World Junior Championship in Yerevan, Armenia.[2] In May 2007, she was part of the Chinese team that won the First World Women's Team Chess Championship in Yekaterinburg, Russia.[3]

Song Yang            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Song Yang: is a Chinese footballer who plays for Bolton Wanderers in the English Premier League.