Famous People with Name Ma

Ma Jun            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Ma Jun: was a Chinese mechanical engineer and government official during the Three Kingdoms era of China. His most notable invention was that of the South Pointing Chariot, a directional compass vehicle which actually had no magnetic function, but was operated by use of differential gears (which applies equal amount of torque to driving wheels rotating at different speeds).[1] It is because of this revolutionary device (and other achievements) that Ma Jun is known as one of the most brilliant mechanical engineers and inventors of his day (alongside Zhang Heng of the earlier Eastern Han Dynasty). The device was re-invented by many after Ma Jun, including the astronomer and mathematician Zu Chongzhi (429-500 AD). In the later medieval dynastic periods, Ma Jun's South Pointing Chariot was combined in a single device with the distance-measuring odometer.

Ma Lin            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Ma Lin: is a male table tennis player born in the Shenyang, Liaoning Province of China. He is the world's number two ranked player as of December 5, 2007 in the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF).

Ma Mingyu            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Ma Mingyu: is a retired Chinese football player.He played for China national football team and was captain for Chinese national team during 2002 FIFA World Cup

Ma Ning            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Ma Ning: is a Chinese javelin thrower.At the 2004 Summer Olympics she was eliminated in the first round of the javelin throw competition.

Ma Rong            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Ma Rong: was a commentaror of the Han Dynasty. He was born in modern Xianyang, Shaanxi in former Fufeng (??) county. He was known for his commentaries on the books on the Five Classics, and the first scholar known to have done this. He also developed the double column commentary while doing it. His main students were Lu Zhi and Zheng Xuan.

Jack Ma            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Jack Ma: Ma graduated from Hangzhou Normal University in 1988 (he initially failed the entrance exam twice) and became a lecturer in English and International Trade in the same university.Ma first started building websites for Chinese companies with the help of friends in the US. Ma has commented that "The day we got connected to the Web, I invited friends and TV people over to my house," and on a very slow dial-up connection, "we waited three and a half hours and got half a page.... We drank, watched TV and played cards, waiting. But I was so proud. I proved the Internet existed."[original research?]

Wu Ma            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Wu Ma: is a Chinese actor, director, producer and writer. Wu Ma made his screen debut in 1963, and with over 180 appearances to his name (plus 38 directorial credits within a twenty-five year period), Wu Ma is one of the most familiar faces in the history of Hong Kong Cinema. He is best known as the Taoist ghosthunter in A Chinese Ghost Story.Wu mainly concentrated on directing in the 1970s, directing several movies - such as Young Tiger (1973) and Wits To Wits (1974). Wits To Wits has been noted as one of the precursors of the knockabout comedy kung fu genre that was later made famous by Sammo Hung and Jackie Chan. Another movie Wu directed, Manchu Boxer (1974), featured Sammo Hung, then a young choreographer and later one of the trend-setters of Hong Kong cinema. This marked the beginning of a strong working relationship between the two, which would become prominent towards the 1980s. He also co-directed with his former mentor Chang in several movies - The Water Margin (1972), The Pirate (1973), All Men Are Brothers (1975) and Naval Commando (1976).

Christine Chow Ma            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Christine Chow Ma: is the current First Lady of the Republic of China. She is the wife of Ma Ying-Jeou, the current President of the Republic of China (commonly known as Taiwan).

Jie Ma            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Jie Ma: is a traditional Chinese musician, a pipa player.

Suo Ma            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Suo Ma: is a Chinese volleyball player, and now plays for Guangdong Evergrande.