Famous People with Name Sun

Sun Ye            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Sun Ye: a female Chinese swimmer, who competed for Team China at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Sun Yuan            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Sun Yuan: are artists living and working collaboratively in Beijing.As their contribution to the 2005 Venice Biennale, the duo invited Chinese farmer Du Wenda to present his home-made UFO at the Chinese Pavilion.[1] They won the Contemporary Chinese Art Award in 2001.[3]

Sun Kèhóng            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Sun Kèhóng: was a Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher, and poet during the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644).His style name was 'Yunzhi' and his sobriquet was 'Xueju'. Sun's painting followed the style of Shen Zhou and Lu Zhi. Sun used colorful and minute techniques in his earlier works, then later used a more terse and free style. In addition to landscapes Sun painted flower and bird and bamboo and stone works.

Sun Daolin            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Sun Daolin: was a Chinese actor and film director.His career had spanned much of recent PRC history. One of his earliest roles was in director Zheng Junli’s Crows and Sparrows, a polemic on the corruption of the Nationalist Government just prior to their defeat in the Chinese Civil War. After 1949, Sun continued to act, notably as the eldest brother in an adaptation of Ba Jin’s novel, Family.Sun Daolin is one of the most famous actors for the 1950-70's movie goer generations in China. Some four decades ago, to many Chinese, he was an idol and perfect Mr. Right for all unmarried women at his time

Sun Yu            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Sun Yu: was a major leftist film director active in the 1930s in Shanghai. One of the core directors of the Lianhua Film Company, Sun Yu made a name for himself with a series of socially conscious dramas in the early to mid 1930s. With the war, Sun Yu made his way to the interior of the country, where he continued to make films glorifying the war effort against the Japanese.His career took a turn for the worse upon his return to Shanghai in the late 1940s. In The Life of Wu Xun, Sun Yu's big-budget biographical picture of the titular Qing Dynasty educator, Sun attracted the wrath of Mao Zedong himself, who personally criticized the film in an essay. Though Sun never fully recovered from the episode, today, Sun Yu has emerged as one of the foremost filmmakers of China's golden age.

Anna Xiao Dong Sun            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Anna Xiao Dong Sun: is a writer, critic and sociologist.

Stefanie Sun            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Stefanie Sun: and also known in Teochew as Sng Yì-che or Sng Ee Tze (her official name), is a Singaporean singer-songwriter. She has sold over 10 million copies of her albums during the span of her career thus far.

Mei-Ting Sun            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Mei-Ting Sun: is a classical pianist. Sun was the first prize winner of the 7th National Chopin Piano Competition of the U.S in 2005 and the first International Piano-e-Competition in 2002. Named one of the Musicians of the Year 1996 by the Village Voice at age 15, the now 30-year-old pianist has performed in many of New York's concert halls, including Alice Tully Hall, where his performance of Ravel's Concerto in G was praised by The New York Times as a "stunningly fluid reading."

Weiguo Sun            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Weiguo Sun: is the president of Xihua University in Chengdu, Sichuan, People's Republic of China. He earned his bachelor's degree in chemistry in 1977 from Xihua Normal University in Chengdu, and his masters degree in 1981 from Jilin University. He taught physical chemistry courses as a lecturer at Sichuan University from 1982 to 1986. He traveled to the U.S.A. in 1986 and studied with Prof. C. William McCurdy in physical chemistry at Ohio State University, earning his Ph. D. degree in February, 1992. He worked as a “participating guest” and postdoctoral researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and at the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Oklahoma from 1991 to 1994. In October, 1994, he was appointed professor of physics at Sichuan University in China, and served as a vice president of the university from 2000 to 2009. He was in charge of undergraduate education, continuing education, and distance education. As one of the members of the university leader team, he and his colleagues changed the traditional university education system into a credit system, reformed the education assessment and supervision system, and developed distance education and vocational education. His research interests in science are electron-molecule scattering, atomic and molecular photoionization, molecular vibrational and rovibrational spectra, molecular potentials.

Jihai Sun            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Jihai Sun: is a Chinese association football player. He is currently playing for Chinese side Inter Xi'an and for the China national football team as a defender or a midfielder. Sun's main strengths are his speed, physical strength, crossing and attacking forays down the wings. He is a highly versatile player, having played as a central defender, a holding midfielder, and on both wings. Sun is one of the most important players in the Chinese football history.