Famous People with Name Bing

Bing Crosby            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Bing Crosby: was an American popular singer and Academy Award-winning actor whose career lasted from 1926 until his death in 1977 One of the first multimedia stars, from 1934 to 1954 Bing Crosby held a nearly unrivaled command of record sales, radio ratings, and motio

Bing Lee            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Bing Lee: an Australian retailing company, a chain of superstores specialising in consumer electronics, computer and telecommunication goods. Bing Lee is the largest privately-held electrical retail business in New South Wales with 35 stores and a turnover of about $400 million. [1]The business began when Bing Lee (Chinese: ???? [2] [3], Pinyin: bìng lì diàn qì) purchased an electrical repair business in Fairfield, New South Wales in 1957. Bing turned the repair business into an electrical product retail and repair/installation business, with his Chinese-born son Ken. Initial growth came from the surge in demand for televisions, as well as a host of other household items like washing machines, cooking equipment, heaters and audio equipment. Bing Lee opened new stores in other Sydney suburbs and across New South Wales.

Bing Xin            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Bing Xin: was one of the most prolific and esteemed Chinese writers of the 20th Century. Many of her works were written for young readers. She was the chairperson of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles.

Wang Bing            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Wang Bing: is a canoer from the People's Republic of China.He placed fourth in his initial heat of the 500 metre with a time of 1:51.920, qualifying for the semifinals. In the semifinal, he finished third to advance to the final. His time was 1:51.649. Wang placed ninth in the final with a time of 1:49.903.

David Bing            Origin/Culture/Country: American

David Bing: is a retired American professional basketball player in the NBA, primarily for the Detroit Pistons from 1966 to 1975. An All-Star, he went on to spend two years with the Washington Bullets and one with the Boston Celtics before retiring at the conclusion of the 1977-78 season.

Sir Rudolf Bing            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Sir Rudolf Bing: was an Austrian-born opera impresario. Bing was General Manager of the Metropolitan Opera in New York from 1950 to 1972. He was knighted in 1971.Born Rudolph Franz Joseph Bing in Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire to a well-to-do Jewish family (his father was an industrialist) Bing studied at the University of Vienna and as a young man worked in theatrical and concert agencies. In 1927 he went to Berlin, Germany and subsequently served as general manager of opera houses in that city and in Darmstadt.

Anine Irmelin Bing            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Anine Irmelin Bing: is a glamour/commercial model.she later moved to Sweden with her family, and claims Danish nationality. She has brown hair and eyes, is 5' 7 1/2 tall, and has 34½-24½-35 measurements. She models for the Place Model Management agency in Hamburg, Stockholm, and graced the cover of Cafe Magazine in January 2004.

Xu Bing            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Xu Bing: is a Chinese-born artist, resident in the United States since 1990.In 1990-91, Xu had his first exhibition in the United States at the University of Wisconsin–Madison's Elvehjem Museum of Art (now Chazen Museum of Art) including his installations Book from the Sky and Ghosts Pounding the Wall. In Book from the Sky, the artist invented 4000 characters and hand-carved them into wood blocks, then used them as movable type to print volumes and scrolls, which are displayed laid out on the floor and hung from the ceiling. The vast planes of text seem to convey ancient wisdom, but are in fact unintelligible. The Glassy Surface of a Lake, a site-specific installation for the Elvehjem, was on view in 2004-05. In this work, a net of cast aluminum letters forming a passage from Henry David Thoreau's Walden stretches across the museum's atrium and pours down into an illegible pile of letters on the floor below.