Famous People with Name Shi

Shi Jun            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Shi Jun: is a Chinese footballer who currently plays for Chengdu Blades in the Chinese Super League.Shi started playing football at the age of 5. He was able to join Dalian Wanda's reserve team at an early age but was not able to hold down a place on the team. When he was 16, Shi joined Changchun Yatai and started playing as a forward.

Shi Kefa            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Shi Kefa: was a Ming general and calligrapher, who in the last days of the Ming Dynasty gave his life resisting the advancing Qing armies. The victorious Qing subsequently raised a memorial to him in recognition of his courage.

Shi Meng            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Shi Meng: is an athlete from the People's Republic of China. She competes in triathlon.Shi competed at the first Olympic triathlon at the 2000 Summer Olympics. She took fortieth place with a total time of 2:16:40.73. This was the slowest time of any athlete that finished the competition, though still placed Shi higher than the eight athletes that dropped out of the race.

Shi Naian            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Shi Naian: was a classical Chinese author attributed as the first compiler of Water Margin from Suzhou.

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].

Hu Shi            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Hu Shi: was a Chinese philosopher and essayist. His courtesy name was Shizhi (??). Hu is widely recognized today as a key contributor to Chinese liberalism and language reform in his advocacy for the use of vernacular Chinese. He was also an influential Redology scholar.

Hui Shi            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Hui Shi: was a Chinese philosopher during the Warring States Period. He was a representative of the School of Names (Sophists or Dialecticians), and is famous for ten paradoxes about the relativity of time and space, for instance, "I set off for Yue (southernmost China) today and came there yesterday.

Su Shi            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Su Shi: was a writer, poet, artist, calligrapher, pharmacologist, and statesman of the Song Dynasty, and one of the major poets of the Song era. His courtesy name was Zizhan (??) and his pseudonym was Dongpo Jushi (???? “Resident of Dongpo”), and he is often referred to as Su Dongpo (???). Besides his renowned poetry, his other existent writings are of great value in the understanding of 11th century Chinese travel literature as well as details of the 11th century Chinese iron industry.

Xi Shi            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Xi Shi: was one of the renowned Four Beauties of ancient China. She was said to have lived during the end of Spring and Autumn Period in Zhuji, the capital of the ancient State of Yue.

Ye Shi            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Ye Shi: , was a Chinese neo-Confucian of the Song dynasty.A native of Wenzhou, Zhejiang, he was the most famous figure of the Yongjia School, a neo-Confucianism School composed mostly of philosophers from Wenzhou Prefecture in Zhejiang province. In contrast to other neo-Confucianists in the same period like Zhu Xi and Lu Jiuyuan, he stressed practical learning and applying Confucian doctrine to real world problems. This school had important influence on later thinkers from Zhejiang province, including Wang Shouren and Huang Zongxi, who were the most important philosophers in the Ming and Qing periods.