Famous People with Name Cheng

Cheng Fei            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Cheng Fei: She is China's most decorated female gymnast. She is the 2006 World Champion on both the vault and the floor-exercise. She is also the 2005 World Champion on the vault.

Cheng Hui            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Cheng Hui: is a female Chinese field hockey player who competed in the 2000 Summer Olympics and in the 2004 Summer Olympics.

Cheng Lai Hin Michael            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Cheng Lai Hin Michael: is a Hong Kong footballer who plays as a striker on loan for Hong Kong FC from Kitchee.

Cheng Man-ch'ing            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Cheng Man-ch'ing: Cheng taught poetry and art in several leading colleges in Beijing and Shanghai and was a successful artist. At the age of nineteen, he was a professor of poetry at an esteemed art school in Beijing. Later in Shanghai, he became acquainted with influential figures including Wu Changshi, Cai Yuanpei, Zheng Xiaoxu, Xu Beihong, and Zhang Daqian.

Cheng Shifa            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Cheng Shifa: was a Chinese calligrapher, painter and cartoonist.He originally studied medicine before deciding to focus on art. He graduated from Shanghai Art College in 1941.[1] Cheng staged his first art show in 1942.[1]

Olivia Cheng            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Olivia Cheng: is a Hong Kong based former actress. She won the 1979 Miss Hong Kong Pageant and was also elected "Miss Photogenic." She represented Hong Kong in Miss Universe 1979 in Perth, Western Australia, where she went unplaced but ranked a very respectable 21st place in the preliminary swimsuit competition. Olivia created a controversy when she joined ATV (the arch-rival of TVB, the organiser of the Miss Hong Kong pageant) immediately after crowning her successor in 1980. This incident embarrassed TVB so much that in 1981, TVB decided to sign 1.5-year contracts with all Miss Hong Kong winners so that they had to stay with TVB for at least 6 months after their reign was over.

Jiaxin Cheng            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Jiaxin Cheng: is a Chinese cellist. Since 2007 Jiaxin has been living in London where she has given several recitals. Her performance in April 2008 at Her Majesty’s Theatre with both Andrew and Julian Lloyd Webber was described as “the emotional highlight of the evening”. She appeared as a soloist at the Royal Festival Hall in April 2011 and on BBC Radio 3 in October 2011. Jiaxin's first recording with the cellist Julian Lloyd Webber, released in March 2011, is Menotti's Arioso for 2 cellos and strings, featured on the album The Art of Julian Lloyd Webber.

Gu Cheng            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Gu Cheng: was a famous Chinese modern poet, essayist, and novelist. He was a prominent member of the "Misty Poets", a group of Chinese modernist poets. In the late 1970s, Cheng became associated with the journal "Today" (Jintian) which began a movement in poetry known as "menglong" meaning "hazy, "obscure". He became an international celebrity and travelled around the world accompanied by his wife, Xie Ye. The two settled in Rocky Bay, a small village on Waiheke Island, Auckland, New Zealand in 1987. Cheng taught Chinese at the University of Auckland in the City of Auckland. In October 1993, Gu Cheng attacked his wife before hanging himself. She died later in a hospital. The story of his death was widely covered in the Chinese media.

M. T. Cheng            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

M. T. Cheng: was a notable Chinese mathematician. Cheng was the main founder of Peking University Mathematical Research Institute, and longtime head of the Department of Mathematics of Peking University. In 1947, Cheng went to USA to continue his study at Princeton University. His doctoral advisor was Salomon Bochner. Cheng earned his PhD in 1949, and did his postdoctoral research at Princeton till Jan 1950. Cheng went back to China. From Jan 1951 to 1952, Cheng was an associate professor and later professor at the Department of Mathematics of Tsinghua University. Since 1952, Cheng was a professor at the Department of Mathematics of Peking University. From 1978 to 1988, Cheng was the Director of the Mathematical Research Institute of Peking University. Cheng was elected into Chinese Academy of Sciences as an academician in 1980. From 1982 to 1988, Cheng was the President of Beijing Mathematical Society. From 1983 to 1988, Cheng was a Vice-president of Chinese Mathematical Society.

Piao Cheng            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Piao Cheng: is a Korean-Chinese football player who currently plays for Beijing Guoan. Piao was promoted to Yanbian FC's first team squad in 2007 and scored his first senior goal on 18 August 2007, three days before his 18th birthday. He scored the winning goal in 67th minute, which ensured Yanbian beat Shanghai Stars 2-1.