Famous People with Name Hong

Hong Liangji            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Hong Liangji: was a Chinese scholar, statesman, political theorist, and philosopher. He was most famous for his critical essay to the Jiaqing Emperor, which resulted in his banishment to Yili in Xinjiang.

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.

Qiao Hong            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Qiao Hong: is a former female Chinese table tennis player, now coach of women's national table tennis team and a member of Chinese Olympic Committee.

Quincy Tan Jin Hong            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Quincy Tan Jin Hong: is a popular Malaysian singer-songwriter who won Best New Comers in the 8th Asia New-Singer Singing Competition in Shanghai, China in 2005. In March 2006, he released his first debut EP titled Quincy ??? EP2006.[1][2] He is a Taoist.[3]

Xiao Hong            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Xiao Hong: also spelled Hsiao Hung, was a Chinese writer. Her real name was Zhang Naiying (???); she also used the pen name Qiao Yin.

Yan Hong            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yan Hong: is a retired Chinese race walker.

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.