Famous People with Name Yang

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.

Yang Siju            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yang Siju: is a Chinese long-distance runner who specialized in the 10,000 metres.

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.

Yang Yang            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yang Yang: is an Olympic short track speed skater. She is currently a member of the Chinese national short track team

Youxin Yang            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Youxin Yang: M.D., Ph.D. is an award-winning scientist, award-winning filmmaker, and award-winning painter.