Famous People with Name Chien

Chien-Ming Wang            Origin/Culture/Country: Asia

Chien-Ming Wang: is a Taiwanese starting pitcher for the New York Yankees in Major League Baseball. He was initially signed as an amateur free-agent for the 2000 season, playing for the Staten Island Yankees. He has come to be known as the Yankees ace pitcher over the 2006 and 2007 seasons.

Chien-Shiung Wu            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Chien-Shiung Wu: was a Chinese born American physicist with an expertise in radioactivity. She worked on the Manhattan Project (to enrich the uranium fuel) and disproved the conservation of parity. Her nicknames to many scientists are “First Lady of Physics”, “Madame Curie of China” and also “Madame Wu”. She was killed by her second stroke, at noon on February 16, 1997.

Chien Yu-Hsiu            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Chien Yu-Hsiu: is a male badminton player from the Republic of China.Chien (representing the Republic of China as Chinese Taipei) played badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in men's singles, losing in the round of 32 to Peter Gade of Denmark.

Chien Yu Chin            Origin/Culture/Country: Asia

Chien Yu Chin: is a female badminton player from Taiwan.Chien competed for Taiwan as Chinese Taipei in badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in women's doubles with partner Cheng Wen-Hsing. They defeated Helen Nichol and Charmaine Reid of Canada in the first round but were defeated by Lee Hyo-jung and Hwang Yu-mi of Korea in the round of 16.

Chien Wei-zang            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Chien Wei-zang: is a Chinese physicist and applied mathematician, as well as academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.Chien, a scientist and educator, is the President of Shanghai University. He was born in Wuxi County, Jiangsu Province, China, on October 9, 1913. After graduating from Tsinghua University in 1935, he entered the Graduate School of Tsinghua University and became an intern researcher at the National Central Research Institute under the guidance of Prof. Wu Youxun. He obtained a Ph.D. degree at the University of Toronto under the supervision of Prof. J.L. Synge in 1942, and then worked as a research associate in the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of Caltech.

Chang Dai-chien            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Chang Dai-chien: was one of the best-known Chinese artists of the twentieth century. He is also regarded by many art experts as one of the most gifted master forgers of the twentieth century. Born in a family of artists in Sichuan, China, he studied textile dyeing techniques in Kyoto, Japan and returned to establish a successful career selling his paintings in Shanghai. A staunch supporter of the Guomingtang, he left China in 1948 and moved to Mogi das Cruzes, Brazil, and then to Carmel, California, before finally settling in Taipei, Taiwan

Lea Salonga-Chien            Origin/Culture/Country: Philippines

Lea Salonga-Chien: is a Filipina singer and actress best known for her musical role in Miss Saigon,[2] for which she won the Olivier, Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics and Theatre World Awards, the first to win various international awards for a single role.[2][3]She was the first Asian to play Eponine as well as the first Asian to play Fantine in the musical Les Misérables on Broadway[4] and was the singing voice of Princess Jasmine from Aladdin (1992) and Mulan for Mulan (1998) and Mulan II (2004).[5][6]

Eugene You-hsin Chien            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Eugene You-hsin Chien: is a politician and diplomat of the Republic of China on Taiwan.Dr. Eugene Chien was appointed as the first Minister of the Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) under Chiang Ching-kuo’s presidency. In 1991, during Lee Teng-hui’s presidency, he was appointed as the Minister of Transportation and Communications and Representative of Taipei Representative Office in the United Kingdom (Ambassador), and Senior Advisor of National Security Council.