Famous People with Name Hong

Hong Ren            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Hong Ren: was from Anhui and a member of the Anhui or Xin'an school of painting. His original name was Jiang Fang. He is noted for painting Mount Huangshan. After the fall of the Ming dynasty he became a monk. This makes him also linked to the "Four monk painters" along with Zhu Da, Shitao, and Kun Can. These were four men who protested the fall of the Ming by becoming monks.

Hong Ying            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Hong Ying: is a modern Chinese author. She studied at the Lu Xun writer's academy and at Fudan University. In 1991 she moved to London, England where she now lives. She is married to Henry Zhao, a lecturer at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London.

Hong Zicheng            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Hong Zicheng: was a Chinese philosopher who lived during the end of Ming Dynasty. He is often quoted in the contexts of chess and vegetarianism. He wrote Vegetable Roots Discourse: Wisdom From Ming China on Life and Living: Caigentan.

Hong Yi            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Hong Yi: was a Chinese Buddhist monk, artist and art teacher. He also went by Wen Tao, Guang Hou, and Shu Tong, but was most commonly known by his Buddhist name, Hong Yi. He was a master painter, musician, dramatist, calligrapher, seal cutter, poet, and Buddhist monk. He was born in Tianjin to a banking family originated in Hongdong County, Shanxi, that immigrated to Tianjin in Ming Dynasty though her mother was from Pinghu, Zhejiang province.

Hong Yuanshuo            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Hong Yuanshuo: is a former football player and current manager of China Super League club Beijing Guoan. At the early 70s, Hong Yuanshuo joined Beijing football team. He played for winger and became the team captain. In 1973, Hong selected by head coach Nian Weisi into the China national football team. After he retired he was worked in the youth team of Beijing from 1980. In that years he scouts many important player of Beijing Guoan and national team, including Gao Feng, Cao Xiandong, Deng Lejun, Tao Wei and Huang Bowen.

Gao Hong            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Gao Hong: is a composer and performer of the Chinese pipa (pear-shaped lute).Gao has lived in the United States since 1994. She performs traditional and modern Chinese music, with her groups Spirit of Nature and Beijing Trio (a different group from the Beijing Trio which includes Max Roach, Jon Jang, and Jiebing Chen). She has also participated in cross-cultural musical collaborations, performing with jazz musicians and musicians from other cultures, including James Newton and Shubhendra Rao.

Xu Hong            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Xu Hong: is a retired Chinese football player and current football manager. He had most recently been the manager of Chinese Super League team Dalian Shide F.C.. Hong rose to prominence in the 1994 league season with Dalian Wanda when they won the first professional Chinese Jia-A League title. After he retired he began managing the newly formed Chinese team Dalian Sidelong in the third tier. He quickly managed to get them immediately promoted to the second tier in 2002 and was able to take Dalian Sidelong second in the league.

Fung Kai Hong            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Fung Kai Hong: is an footballer from Hong Kong who currently plays for Citizen AA in the Hong Kong First Division League. He plays as a Defender.

Hei Zhi Hong            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Hei Zhi Hong: is a Hong Kong wushu athlete. He won a silver medal during the 2006 Asian Games in the taijiquan competition.

Yuan Hong            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yuan Hong: was an emperor of the Chinese/Xianbei dynasty Northern Wei from September 20, 471 to April 26, 499. Emperor Xiaowen implemented a drastic policy of sinicization, intending to centralize the government and make the multi-ethnic state more easy to govern. These policies included changing artistic styles to reflect Chinese preferences and forcing the population to speak the language and to wear Chinese clothes. He compelled his own Xianbei people and others to adopt Chinese surnames, and changed his own family surname from Tuoba to Yuan. He also encouraged intermarriage between Xianbei and Han. One of Xiaowen's enduring legacies was the establishment of the equal-field system in China, a system of government-allotted land that would last until the An Shi Rebellion in the mid Tang Dynasty (618-907).