Famous People with Name Wang

Wang Gungwu            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Wang Gungwu: s an academic who has studied and written about the Chinese diaspora

Carl E. Wang            Origin/Culture/Country: Norwegian

Carl E. Wang: is a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party. Wang, who belonged to Østfold, was never elected directly to the Norwegian Parliament but served as a deputy representative in the periods 1969–1973 and 1973–1977. During the first term he was brought in as a replacement representative for Svenn Thorkild Stray, who became appointed to the Cabinet in 1970. Wang sat as a regular representative until March 1971, when the cabinet of which Stray was a part was dissolved, allowing him to return to his seat in Parliament. On the local level Wang was mayor of Moss between 1959 and 1960, where he coached the local football team Moss FK, and a member of Våler municipality council during the terms 1971–1975, 1975–1979 and 1979–1983. During the term 1979–1983 he was also mayor of Østfold county council.

Jue Wang            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Jue Wang: is a Chinese pianist. Entirely trained in his homeland, Wang has met much success in the Spanish piano competitions, being awarded 1st prizes both in Barcelona's 51st Maria Canals and Santander' 16th Paloma O'Shea competitions.

Yuja Wang            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yuja Wang: is a Chinese classical pianist. She was born in Beijing, began studying piano there at age six, and went on to study at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. In 1998, Wang won 3rd Prize in the Ettlingen International Competition for Young Pianists, in Ettlingen, Germany. In 2001, she won Third Prize and Special Jury Prize (awarded to an especially superior finalist of less than 20 years in age, prize money of 500,000 Japanese Yen) in the Piano Section at the First Sendai International Music Competition in Sendai, Japan.

Jin-Shan Wang            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Jin-Shan Wang: is a Chinese organic chemist. Wang is the current Zhi Yuan Chair Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Chemical Engineering. In 1989, Wang went to study in Belgium with Prof. Ph. Teyssie and obtained his doctorate degree with highest possible rank (avec la plus grande distinction et les felicitations du jury) from the University of Liège, Belgium, in 1993. Wang published more than 20 papers, mostly in Macromolecules, and obtained 12 issued US and European patents in the area of living polymerization from his four-years doctoral research work. Months before his departure to the United States to continue his research at the Carnegie Mellon University with Krzysztof Matyjaszewski in 1994, he started conceptualizing free-radical catalyzed living radical polymerization, after studying a series of published papers on free-anion catalyzed living anionic polymerization (also called group-transfer polymerization) of methacrylate and transition-metal / free-radical catalyzed atom (group)-transfer radical addition (ATRA). Shortly after arriving in Prof. Matyjaszewski's laboratories in 1994, Wang started to implement his ideas of applying the principle of atom (group)-transfer radical addition to living radical polymerization in the lab with self-made air- and oxygen-free mini-reactors. Wang did seminal work on Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization (ATRP) during that period of time. With Prof. Matyjaszewki, Wang published three original papers on ATRP and reverse ATRP. Wang is one of the major contributors to the birth and mechanism of ATRP. He is the first Chinese polymer chemist to discover a polymerization chemistry.

Meng Li Wang            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Meng Li Wang: is a female Chinese table tennis player. She has played for Fenerbahçe TT since 2009 and also played for Lu Neng China in China.