Famous People with Name Hu

Hu Shi            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Hu Shi: was a Chinese philosopher and essayist. His courtesy name was Shizhi (??). Hu is widely recognized today as a key contributor to Chinese liberalism and language reform in his advocacy for the use of vernacular Chinese. He was also an influential Redology scholar.

Hu Weidong            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Hu Weidong: is a Chinese basketball player. He is 6 ft. 6 in. (1.98 cm), and wore number 8.

Hu Zaobin            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Hu Zaobin: was an early 20th century Chinese painter, famous for painting tigers.

Hu Zhaojun            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Hu Zhaojun: is a Chinese football player who currently plays for Dalian Shide and China national football team.

Hu Na            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Hu Na: is a former professional tennis player best known for defecting from the People's Republic of China to the United States in 1982, thereby sparking a Cold War-era diplomatic incident. Diplomatic relations between the two countries had been established in 1979, and the Hu Na incident was among the first major tests of those newly-established relations.

Kelly Ann Hu            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Kelly Ann Hu: is an American actress and former fashion model who held the Miss Teen USA 1985 title.

King Hu            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

King Hu: was a Hong Kong and Taiwan-based Chinese film director whose Wuxia films brought Chinese cinema to new technical and artistic heights. It was his films Come Drink With Me (???, 1966) and Dragon Gate Inn (????, 1967) which inaugurated a new generation of wuxia films in the late 1960s. He is also a noted scriptwriter and set designer.

Guan Hu            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Guan Hu: is a sixth generation Chinese film director.[1]A graduate of the class of 1991 of the prestigious Beijing Film Academy, Guan became the youngest director in the Beijing Film Studio. In the 1990s, Guan directed a handful of films making a name as an important voice of the sixth generation, most notably with his debut, 1994's Dirt. A portrayal of Beijing's rock music scene, Dirt was filmed on a shoestring budget and was funded primarily by lead actress, Kong Lin.[2] Dirt is often compared with another major sixth generation film about the Beijing rock scene, Zhang Yuan's Beijing Bastards. Unlike that film, Guan Hu paid nearly US$2000 for state studio affiliation, allowing the film to be distributed in China and screened abroad with approval from state regulators.[2]

Paisley Hu            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Paisley Hu: is a Chinese singer and popular TV personality. She was first discovered by Tats Lau of the legendary Tat Ming Pair, and has released 3 albums and 1 EP since the start of her career in the mid-90s. In recent years, she has focused her attention mainly on TV work, becoming a regular TV host on music programmes for TVB.

Jenny Hu            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Jenny Hu: is a Hong Kong actress of Chinese and German origin best known for her leads in Shaw Brothers productions throughout the 1960s and early 1970s. Hu made her debut in Till the End of Time (?????) (1966) and continued acting until her retirement at the age of 30. She came out of retirement after a nearly three-decade hiatus to appear in Yesterday Once More (2004), by Hong Kong filmmaker Johnnie To.