Famous People with Name Xun

Xun Zi            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Xun Zi: was a Chinese Confucian philosopher who lived during the Warring States Period and contributed to one of the Hundred Schools of Thought. Xún Zi believed man is innately bad or corrupt, counter to Mencius, and that ethical norms had been invented to rectify mankind.

Ouyang Xun            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Ouyang Xun: was a Confucian scholar and calligrapher of the early Tang Dynasty. He was born in Hunan, Changsha, to a family of government officials; and died in modern Anhui province.

Zheng Xun            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Zheng Xun: is a Chinese ice dancer. He competes with Huang Xintong. They are the 2007 Chinese national champions.

Rèn Xun            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Rèn Xun: was a Chinese painter during the Qing Dynasty (1644–1912).Ren came from a family of artists, his brother was Ren Xiong. His paintings were primarily of human figures, done in the style of Chen Hongshou.

Zhou Xun            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Zhou Xun: is a Chinese actress and singer. She is regarded as one of the "Four Young Dan actresses" in China in the early 2000s, along with Zhang Ziyi, Xu Jinglei and Zhao Wei.

Zhang Xun            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Zhang Xun: was a Qing-loyalist general who attempted to restore the abdicated emperor Puyi in 1917. He supported Yuan Shikai during his time as president. Zhang served as a military escort for Empress Dowager Cixi during the Boxer Uprising. He fought for the Qing at Nanjing in 1911, then seized Nanjing from the KMT in 1913. Despite allowing his troops to savagely loot the city, Zhang was named a field marshal by Yuan. In 1917 Zhang entered Beijing to restore Puyi along with Kang Youwei but was thwarted by other generals. Zhang then took refuge in the Dutch legation and did not participate in politics again.