Famous People with Name Shen

Shen Kua            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Shen Kua: was a polymathic Chinese scientist and statesman of the Song Dynasty (960–1279). Excelling in many fields of study and statecraft, he was a mathematician, astronomer, meteorologist, geologist, zoologist, botanist, pharmacologist, agronomist, archaeologist, ethnographer, cartographer, encyclopedist, general, diplomat, hydraulic engineer, inventor, academy chancellor, finance minister, governmental state inspector, poet, and musician. He was the head official for the Bureau of Astronomy in the Song court, as well as an Assistant Minister of Imperial Hospitality.[2] At court his political allegiance was to the Reformist faction known as the New Policies Group, headed by Chancellor Wang Anshi (1021–1086).

Shen Kuo            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Shen Kuo: was a polymathic Chinese scientist and statesman of the Song Dynasty (960–1279). Excelling in many fields of study and statecraft, he was a mathematician, astronomer, meteorologist, geologist, zoologist, botanist, pharmacologist, agronomist, archaeologist, ethnographer, cartographer, encyclopedist, general, diplomat, hydraulic engineer, inventor, academy chancellor, finance minister, governmental state inspector, poet, and musician. He was the head official for the Bureau of Astronomy in the Song court, as well as an Assistant Minister of Imperial Hospitality.

Shen Qiong            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Shen Qiong: is a male Chinese volleyball player. He was part of the silver medal winning team at the 2006 Asian Games.He competed for Team China at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.

Shen Quán            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Shen Quán: was a Chinese painter during the Qing Dynasty (1644–1912).Shen was born in Deqing in the Zhejiang province[1] . His style name was 'Nanping' and his sobriquet was 'Hengzai'. Shen specialized in bird-and-flower painting, and was influenced by Bian Jingzhao and Lu Ji. His works were painted in a very realistic style, and he had many students and patrons.

Shen Si            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Shen Si: is a retired Chinese football player. He played as the left midfielder and was famous for his good techniques. Shen Si had a reputation for his free kick skills. He was the runner up of the 2004 Free Kick Masters. He spent most of his career as a football player in Shanghai Shenhua and Shanghai Zhongyuan and was the skipper of the former in 2001. He had also won several caps for Chinese National Team. He became the care-taker manager of Pudong Zobon during the 2009 season and later was offered the position on a permanent basis. Under his stewardship, the team ranked 9th in the China League One at the end of season.

Huang Shen            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Huang Shen: was a painter born in Fujian, China to a poor family.In the earliest part of his career he excelled at cursive calligraphy and favored a meticulous style modelled after Ni Zan. He became better know as an artistic innovator who was one of the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou. When it came to paintings of people he favored images of religious, historic, and common people

Shi Shen            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Shi Shen: was a Chinese astronomer and contemporary of Gan De born in the State of Wei, also known as the Master Shi Shen (Shi Shenfu) [1].

Chan Shen            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Chan Shen: was a Taiwanese born Hong Kong film actor. He is best known for his roles as gangsters or villains in Hong Kong action cinema in the 1970s. Already an established film actor in Taiwan, he entered the Hong Kong film industri in 1971. He was a particularly prolific actor and would often appear in as many as ten films a year. In his fourteen year film career in Hong Kong, he appeared in 160 action films.

Zhao Shen            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Zhao Shen: was the eleventh emperor of the Song Dynasty of China, and the second emperor of the Southern Song. His personal name was Zhao Shen. He reigned from 1162 to 1189. His temple name means "Filial Ancestor". Xiaozong was the 7th generation descendant of Emperor Taizu, the founder of the Song Dynasty. He was found after Emperor Gaozong lost his only child and heir and thus ordered the administration to look for all the descendants of the imperial family all across southern China (all the close relatives of Gaozong had been captured by the Jurchen invaders when they entered the capital Kaifeng during their conquest of northern China in 1127).

Hsi-Jui Shen            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Hsi-Jui Shen: was the former head of the central bank of China, and chief manager for the banking conglomerate HSBC (appointed in 1964). Shen was also among the first students of Chinese descent at Dartmouth College (class of 1927) and Tuck School of Business (class of 1928).