Famous People with Name Yang

Yang Zi-jun            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yang Zi-jun: is a Hongkonger tennis player. She is currently ranked 24 in the world in juniors, Her career high ranking is 22. She has reached the latter stages of many junior tournaments; she won the 2007 Girls Under 18 Toyota Open in Bangkok, Thailand, beating Khunp

Yang Xia            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yang Xia: is a female Chinese weightlifter. She currently studies journalism at Hunan Normal University.

Yang Xianzhen            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yang Xianzhen: was a Chinese Communist politician who was the tenth president of the Party School of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the highest training center for party workers and leaders. Yang served as president from 1955 to 1961.Yang became surrounded by the One Divides Into Two controversy in 1964 when his Two Unite into One philosophical concept was interpreted as supporting capitalist restoration.

Yang Shangkun            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yang Shangkun: was President of the People's Republic of China from 1988 to 1993, and was a powerful Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission. He was married to Li Bozhao in 1929, one of the few women to participate in the Long March, as did Yang.

Yang Jiang            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yang Jiang: is a Chinese playwright, author, and translator. She has written several successful comedies, and was the first Chinese person to produce a complete Chinese version of Don Quixote from the Spanish original.Yang Jiang was graduated from The University Of Suzhou Dongwu in 1932, and then she enrolled in the graduate school of Qinghua University where she met her husband Qian Zhongshu. During 1935~1938, they went to Oxford and University of London for further study. At that time, they got their daughter Qian Yuan . They went back in 1938. Both Yang and Qian went to academics and made important contribuions to the development of Chinese culture.

Shang Yang            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Shang Yang: was an important statesman of Qin in the Warring States Period of ancient China. With the support of Duke Xiao of Qin, Shang enacted numerous reforms (in accordance with his legalist philosophy recorded in The Book of Lord Shang) in the state of Qin that changed Qin from a peripheral, backwards state into a militarily powerful and strongly centralized state, changing the administration by emphasizing meritocracy and devolving power from the nobility.

Shen Yang            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Shen Yang: is a Chinese Woman Grand Master chess player. In 2001, she won the U-12 Girls section of the World Youth Chess Championship in Spain. In February 2006 she gained her second IM norm in Moscow at the Aeroflot Open. In the May-June 2006 37th Chess Olympiad in Turin she was part of the Chinese team that came third in the Women's section. In October 2006, she won the Girls World Junior Championship in Yerevan, Armenia.[2] In May 2007, she was part of the Chinese team that won the First World Women's Team Chess Championship in Yekaterinburg, Russia.[3]

Song Yang            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Song Yang: is a Chinese footballer who plays for Bolton Wanderers in the English Premier League.

Wen Yang            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Wen Yang: is a Chinese chess player, who holds the GM title. He qualified for and competed in the Chess World Cup 2007 where he reached Round One, where he was defeated 0.5-1.5 by Zoltan Almasi. In this tournament he achieved a performance rating of 2498.

Xuefei Yang            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Xuefei Yang: Yang began playing the guitar at the age of seven, and started to receive formal instruction when she was ten, studying under the famous guitarist Chen Zhi, later Chairman of the China Classical Guitar Society. Her public debut came at the First China International Guitar Festival, where she met with immediate acclaim. At the same time, Yang was presented with her first foreign guitar (a "Pepe" children's guitar from Aria), by the celebrated Japanese guitar maker Masaru Kohno. She went on to take second prize at the Beijing Senior Guitar competition, being the only child competitor, aged eleven.