Famous People with Name Yang

Yang Cho-Cheng            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yang Cho-Cheng: ) was an internationally renowned Chinese architect based in Taiwan. His professional career spanned over 60 years. Even though he was best known for his expertise in the Chinese style architecture, he was also a leading expert in manufacturing, high tech, finance, performing arts, and commercial/residential architecture

Yang Fang            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yang Fang: is a Chinese ice dancer. She competes with Gao Chongbo. They are they 2001 & 2003-2005 Chinese national champions. Their highest placement at an ISU championship was 6th at the 2004 Four Continents Championships.

Yang Hao            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yang Hao: is a Chinese volleyball player.

Yang Hui            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yang Hui: was a Chinese mathematician from Qiantang (modern Hangzhou), Zhejiang province during the late Song Dynasty (960-1279 AD). Yang worked on magic squares, magic circles and binomial theorem, and is best known for his contribution of presenting 'Yang Hui's Triangle'. This triangle was the same as Pascal's Triangle, discovered by Yang's predecessor Jia Xian (??). Yang was also a contemporary to the other famous mathematician Qin Jiushao.

Yang Jianli            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yang Jianli: is a Chinese dissident with U.S. residency.Yang, a Tiananmen Square activist in 1989, came to the United States, earned two Ph.D.s (Ph.D., Political Economy, Harvard University and Ph.D. Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley), and then founded the Foundation for China in the 21st Century. Given his political activism, he was blacklisted by the government of the People's Republic of China, who also refused to renew his passport.

Yu Yang            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yu Yang: is a female badminton player from the People's Republic of China. A doubles specialist, Yu and her regular partner Du Jing have steadily emerged as one of the world's elite women's doubles teams since 2004. They confirmed this status by winning the gold medal at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing over Korea's Lee Kyung-won and Lee Hyo-jung. Their other titles have included the Polish Open (2004): the China Masters (2005); the Asian Championships and Swiss Open in 2006; the Russian, Hong Kong, and Indonesia Opens in 2007; and the French, Korea, and Singapore Opens in 2008. Yu and Du were bronze medalists at the World Championships in 2006, but were unable to play in the tourney's 2007 edition. They were runners-up at the prestigious All-England Championships in 2008, but avenged that loss by beating their All-England conquerors in the Olympic final.

Wu Yang            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Wu Yang: is a female table tennis player from China. She won the gold medal in the team events in the Asian Table Tennis Championships in 2009. She won singles title at the 2009 World Junior Table Tennis Championships. Her style is chopping defender.

Men Yang            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Men Yang: is a Chinese football player who currently plays for Guangzhou R&F.

Jin Yang            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Jin Yang: is a Chinese male pair skater. With partner Yu Xiaoyu, he is the 2012 Junior World silver medalist , 2010–2011 Junior Grand Prix Final bronze medalist, 2010 JGP Cup of Austria champion and 2010 Chinese national silver medalist.

Chen Yang            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Chen Yang: is a Chinese gymnast who represented China at the 2005 Trampoline World Championships