Famous People with Name Yang

Yang Yilin            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yang Yilin: is a Chinese gymnast. She is the 2008 Olympic all-around bronze medalist and a member of the gold medal winning Chinese Olympics gymnastics team.

Yang Yun            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yang Yun: is a Chinese gymnast. She won the bronze medal on the uneven bars. She was also a member of the bronze medal winning Chinese team at the 2000 Summer Olympics, but the medal was stripped by the IOC in 2010 after one of the Chinese team members was found to be underage during the competition.

Yang Yihu            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yang Yihu: is a Chinese football player who currently plays for Guangzhou F.C.. Yang was promoted to Guangzhou FC's first team squad in 2009 but didn't have a chance to appear in the league game.He made his debut for Guangzhou on 3 April 2010,in a 3-1 win to Beijing BIT ,and was described by Guangzhou FC manager Lee Jang-Soo as being a hot prospect for the future. Yang was called up into China U-20's squad by Su Maozhen in June 2009.He scored 7 goals in 5 matches in 2010 AFC U-19 Championship qualification.

Yang Shanping            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yang Shanping: is a professional Chinese football player who currently plays as a defender for Liaoning FC.. Yang Shanping broke into the senior side of Liaoning FC on May 15, 2005 in a league game against Shenzhen Jianlibao in a 3-1 victory.

Yang Xu            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yang Xu: is a Chinese international football player who currently plays for Liaoning FC as a striker in the Chinese Super League. Yang Xu would make his first senior appearance for Liaoning FC on April 16, 2005 in a league match against Shanghai Shenhua, which they lost 0-1. After an impressive start to the 2009 league season with Liaoning FC Yang Xu was called up to the senior national team despite playing for a team in the second tier. He would be tried out in friendlies before he was given his chance to play in a competitive game for qualification into the Asian Cup in a game against Vietnam on January 17, 2009 where he also scored his debut goal.

Sang Yang            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Sang Yang: is a male badminton player from the People's Republic of China.

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.