Famous People with Name Yuan

Yuan Zhen            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yuan Zhen: was an important Chinese writer and poet in the middle Tang Dynasty known for his work Yingying's Biography.

Yuan Guiren            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yuan Guiren: is a Chinese academic and current Minister of Education in the People's Republic of China.Yuan is a native of Guzhen County in Anhui. He has a master's degree from Beijing Normal University. He is also currently a member of the 17th CPC Central Committee of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection.

Yuan Weishi            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yuan Weishi: is a professor of philosophy at Zhongshan University in Guangzhou, China. He was born in Xingning, Guangdong.In the January 2006 issue of Bingdian ,professor Yuan published an essay titled Modernisation and History Textbooks, criticizing the official theme of government issued middle schools history textbooks,claiming that they contain numbers of distortions of the historical accounts.[1] Professor Yuan said:"The public,especially the students, have the right to find out the true historical facts." .[2]". [1][3],

Yuan Muzhi            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yuan Muzhi: was an actor and director from the Republic of China and later of the People's Republic of China.As an actor, Yuan became extremely popular and took on the nickname "man with a thousand faces." Yuan gained prominence in a series of films for the leftist Diantong Film Company. These included the film Plunder of Peach and Plum (1935) (which Yuan also wrote) and the movie Sons and Daughters in a Time of Storm (1935) where he was one of the two original singers (along with Gu Menghe) of the movie's theme song, The March of the Volunteers, which later became the national anthem of China.

Yuan Fan            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yuan Fan: is a female Chinese football player who competed for the national team in the 2008 Summer Olympics. Her position is that of defender.

Liu Yuan            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Liu Yuan: is a male amateur boxer from PR China. He qualified to compete at the 2004 Summer Olympics in the bantamweight division (– 54 kg) where he lost in the first round to Cuba's eventual gold medalist Guillermo Rigondeaux.Liu qualified for the 2004 Athens Games as a bantamweight by ending up in second place at the 1st AIBA Asian 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Guangzhou, PR China. In the final he lost to Pakistan's Mehrullah Lassi.

Xu Yuan            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Xu Yuan: is a female Chinese football (soccer) player who competed in the 2008 Summer Olympics. Xu plays in the forward position. She was expected to be the next Sun Wen.

Zhang Yuan            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Zhang Yuan: is a Chinese football player who currently plays for Chengdu Blades as a defender.

Tian Yuan            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Tian Yuan: is a Chinese weightlifter.

Chieh Yuan            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Chieh Yuan: was an actor and martial artist. He was an actor for Shaw Brothers and in 1972, he was cast in Bruce Lee's The Game of Death. Chieh died in 1977 from cerebral edema, the same cause to Bruce Lee's death, and at age 32, the same age at which Bruce Lee had died.