Famous People with Name Yuan

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.

Yuan Weiwei            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yuan Weiwei: is a Chinese football defender, who plays for Shandong Luneng in the Chinese Super League. He was also part of the squad that played for the Chinese Under-23 football team that took part in the 2008 Summer Olympics. He started his professional career in 2003 playing as understudy to Wang Chao for the left-back position making numerous appearances off the bench as his replacement. He made his senior debut for the national team in a friendly against the Jordan national football team in 2007, which China won 2-0.

Yuan Lin            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yuan Lin: is a Chinese football player who currently plays as a defender for Shenzhen Ruby in the Chinese Super League. Yuan Lin started his career at Guangzhou Apollo youth team at the age of 12, however he was unable to graduate into the senior team at the end of the 1996 league season.

Yuan Zhi            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yuan Zhi: is a male Chinese volleyball player. He was part of the silver medal winning team at the 2006 Asian Games. He competed for Team China at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.

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.

Nie Yuan            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Nie Yuan: is a Chinese actor. Nie first started acting when he was still in the Shanghai Theatre Academy. He was a "highly productive" actor, as he described in his own words, "In times when I was playing with my life, I could finish filming one episode in two days. I tried completing filming a 140 episodes television drama and one movie in a year. This can be taken as a record." In 2004, Nie was named by the Chinese media as one of the "Mainland's New Four Young Actors", along with Huang Xiaoming, Tong Dawei and Yin Xiaotian. That year, producer Zhang Jizhong was searching for someone to play the lead role of Yang Guo in his wuxia television series The Return of the Condor Heroes.

Zhou Yuan            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Zhou Yuan: is Chinese Volleyball player, now plays for Guangdong Evergrande.

Zhang, Yuan            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Zhang, Yuan: is a Chinese football player who currently plays for Guangzhou R&F F.C. as either a midfielder or striker in the Chinese Super League. After being scouted by Liu Chunming he would include him in his squad that part in the 2008 AFC U-19 Championship where he would play three games and score one goal against Tajikistan in a tournament that saw China get knocked out in the quarter-finals. He would go on to be premoted to the Chinese U-23 and take part in the Football at the 2010 Asian Games where he was used in defense by the manager Sun Wei, nevertheless he would go on to play in all four games for China where they were knocked out in the last sixteen.