Famous People with Name Yun

Yun Qu            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yun Qu: is a former Butterfly stroke swimmer in People's Republic of China from Hangzhou

Qu Yun            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Qu Yun: a former butterfly stroke swimmer from China. In 1993, she broke the Asian Record in women's 200m buttfly at 2:08.53 in Chinese National Games which ranked number 1 in the world in 1993. She also won silver in 100m butterfly at 59.27 which ranked number 2 in the world. She competed in 1994 World Aquatics Championships and won Silver medals in women's 100 m (59.69) and 200 m butterfly (2:07.40). She finished behind her compatriot, Liu Limin in both race. The time in 200m butterfly was her career best. In October, 1994, she set career best in women's 100m butterfly (58.70) in Asian Games to win silver medal behind Liu Limin. In 1996,

Ch'eng Mao-yün            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Ch'eng Mao-yün: was a Chinese composer and a professor at National Central University and Hangzhou Societal University (??????). He composed the "National Anthem of the Republic of China."his submission of the melody of "Three Principles of the People" was chosen. In 1947, he travelled to Taiwan for the first time, where Hsiao Er-hua (??? Xiao Érhuà), head of the College of Music in the Taiwan Provincial Normal University, offered Ch'eng Mao-yün a position, but he refused. He never returned to Taiwan again. He had a stroke in 1951 in Xi'an, and he died of second stroke July 31, 1957.[1]

Yang Yun            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yang Yun: is a Chinese gymnast. She won the bronze medal on the uneven bars. She was also a member of the bronze medal winning Chinese team at the 2000 Summer Olympics, but the medal was stripped by the IOC in 2010 after one of the Chinese team members was found to be underage during the competition.

Ling Yun            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Ling Yun: is a former politician of the People's Republic of China, the first PRC Minister of State Security.He joined the Chinese Communist Party in April 1938. After a period of political activism in Shanxi province, he arrived in the central party base in Yan’an, Shaanxi, in 1939. Here he joined and advanced in the ranks of the Central Department of Social Affairs, led, at the time, by Kang Sheng. After the founding of the People’s Republic of China and dissolution of the Social Affairs Department, he served in the public security sector, first in Ji’nan, Shandong, and beginning in 1952 in the Ministry of Public Security, where he eventually advanced to the post of vice-minister. Ling Yun was Minister of State Security from June 1983 to September 1985.

Long (Lung) Yun            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Long (Lung) Yun: was governor and warlord of the Chinese province of Yunnan from 1927 to near the end of the Chinese Civil War, when he was overthrown in a coup by Du Yuming under the order of Chiang Kai-shek in October, 1945.For four days the excitement continued. Soldiers of Chiang Kai-shek's army were all over the place. Only a few companies of Lung's troops did any shooting, and the Dragon never had a chance. On the fourth day Premier T. V. Soong flew down from Chungking. He and the Chinese commander in chief, General Ho Ying-chin, had a morning conference with General Lung, that afternoon escorted the amiable old scoundrel by air to Chungking. General Lu Han, Lung's former aide, took over the Yunnan government for the Generalissimo.