Famous People with Name Yang

Yang Lin            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yang Lin: is a Chinese footballer. He currently plays for Henan Jianye.

Yang Liu            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yang Liu: is a Chinese classical violinist. He studied under Yao-Ji Lin at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. He also studied with Dorothy DeLay and Kurt Sassmannshaus at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. He was a medalist at the 2002 International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. He currently teaches at Roosevelt University and performs regularly at the Aspen Music Festival. The "Lady Tennant" Stradivarius violin has been permanently loaned to him.

Yang Pu            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yang Pu: is a Chinese football player.He plays for China national football team and was a participant at the 2002 FIFA World Cup.

Yang Rongguo            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yang Rongguo: was a Chinese academic and philosopher who was involved in the Criticize Lin, Criticize Confucius campaign of the Cultural Revolution.

Yang Shuo            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yang Shuo: was a Chinese lyricist and essayist born in Penglai, Shandong, who produced over a hundred works. He committed suicide during the Cultural Revolution by overdose on sedatives.

Zhang Yang            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Zhang Yang: is a Chinese film director, screenwriter, and occasional actor. He is the son of Zhang Huaxun, who is also a Chinese film director.Zhang grew up in Beijing, studied until 1988 at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangdong, from which he graduated with a degree in Chinese literature, and then went to the Central Academy of Drama (??????), graduating in 1992.[1]Zhang Yang uses a realistic style, and achieved great recognition for his 1999 independent production Xizao (??; English translation: Shower), which was successful at Chinese box offices as well as international film festivals. This was followed in 2001 by Zuotian ("Quitting" in its American release). The actors in this unusual story about a real actor, Jia Hongsheng, and his struggle with drug addiction are Jia himself, Jia's parents, fellow inmates in a mental institution, the director, Zhang, and others playing themselves. The relationship between parents and their grown children is as central to this film as it was in Shower.

Tan Yang            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Tan Yang: is a Chinese international footballer currently playing for Hangzhou Greentown F.C. as a striker. Tan Yang began his professional football career with Hangzhou Greentown F.C. in 2008 when he made his debut against Qingdao Jonoon on April 5 in a league game, which Hangzhou lost 2-0. A young and physically imposing player Tan Yang was he included in Gao Hongbo's squad for a friendly against Palestine on the 18th of July 2009 in a 3-1 win coming on as a substitute for Qu Bo.

He Yang            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

He Yang: is a Chinese international footballer who currently plays for Tianjin Teda as a defender in the China Super League. While He Yang graduated from the Tianjin Teda youth team during the 2002 league season he struggled to break into the first team and would take several seasons to establish himself within the senior team before he even made his league debut on May 30, 2004 against Shenyang Ginde in a 1-0 defeat. He Yang would make his international debut in a friendly against Iran in a 1-0 win on the 1st of June 2009 where he played the game as a right-back

Sir Ti-liang Yang            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Sir Ti-liang Yang: also known as Sir TL, is a retired senior judge in Hong Kong. He was Chief Justice of Hong Kong from 1988 to 1996 and was the only ethnic Chinese to hold this office during British colonial rule.He became a candidate in Hong Kong Chief Executive election, 1996, where he lost to his opponent Tung Chee Hwa. After the transfer of the sovereignty of Hong Kong, he was appointed as non-official member of the Executive Council by Tung and retired in 2002. In retirement, Sir TL now mainly focuses on writing and teaching English. In September 2003, he became the host of a RTHK radio programme called Yang Ti-liang Mail Box , teaching English grammar to the audiences.

Timothy Chin-tien Yang            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Timothy Chin-tien Yang: is a Taiwanese diplomat, and the current Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China serving under President Ma Ying-Jeou.