Famous People with Name Tao

Tao Luna            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Tao Luna: is a female Chinese sports shooter who competed in the 2000 Summer Olympics and in the 2004 Summer Olympics.

Tao Qian            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Tao Qian: also known as Tao Yuanming (???), born in modern Jiujiang, Jiangxi, was one of the most influential pre-Tang Dynasty Chinese poets.He came from a notable family which had descended into poverty; when young, he was torn between ambition and a desire to retreat into solitude. His great-grandfather was the famous Eastern Jin general and governor, Tao Kan. He served in a series of minor posts, but his sister's death, as well as disgust at the corruption and infighting of the Jin Court prompted his resignation, convincing him that life was too short to compromise on his principles; as he put it himself, he would not "bow like a servant in return for five bushels of grain" ("??????" has entered common usage to mean "swallowing one's pride in exchange for a meagre existence". 'Five bushels of grain' refers to the salary of a low-ranking official). He lived in retirement for his last 22 years.

Tao Wei            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Tao Wei: is a Chinese football player who currently plays for Beijing Guoan.

Tao Li            Origin/Culture/Country: Asia

Tao Li: a China-born Singaporean competitive swimmer specializing in the backstroke and butterfly stroke.A Singapore Sports School student, Tao has represented Singapore at the Southeast Asian Games (SEA Games) and Asian Games and holds several national records. She won four gold medals and a bronze at the 2005 SEA Games in the Philippines, and reached the finals of the women's 50 metres, 100 metres and 200 metres butterfly events at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne though she did not gain any medals. In December 2006, Tao took a gold medal at the 50 metres butterfly in Doha's 2006 Asian Games, beating China's multi-gold medallist Xu Yanwei and breaking her own national record in the process

Tao Yang            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Tao Yang: is a computer scientist. He attended Tongji University, where he received his Bachelor's degree in 1990 and his Master's degree in 1993. He has invented fuzzy cellular neural networks (FCNN) in 1995, computational verb in 1997, chaotic digital CDMA (with L.O. Chua) in 1997, computational verb theory in 2001, physical linguistics in 2002, and the theory of the Unicogse in 2004.

Xue Tao            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Xue Tao: was one of the three famous female Chinese poet from the Tang Dynasty.Some 450 poems by Xue were gathered in The Brocade River Collection that survived until the 1300s. About 100 poems of her are known nowadays, which is more than of any other Tang dynasty woman.

Yu Tao            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yu Tao: is a Chinese football player who currently plays for Shanghai Shenhua.

Zhan Tao            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Zhan Tao: is a Chinese mathematician and president of Shandong University, beginning in July of 2000.

Guo Tao            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Guo Tao: is a Chinese actor. Guo was born in Beijing. He graduated from Central Academy of Drama in 1992.

Shi Tao            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Shi Tao: is a mainland Chinese journalist, writer and poet, who in 2005 was sentenced to imprisonment for 10 years for releasing a document of the Communist Party to an overseas Chinese democracy site after Yahoo! China provided his personal details to the Chinese government. On August 28, 2007, the World Organization for Human Rights USA sued Yahoo! for allegedly providing information (email and IP address) to the Chinese government that caused the arrests of writers and dissidents. The lawsuit was filed in San Francisco for journalists Shi Tao and Wang Xiaoning.