Famous People with Name Wang

Wang Yinhang            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Wang Yinhang: is a male Chinese race walker.

Wang Yu            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Wang Yu: is a Chinese chess player who holds the IM and the WGM title. In 1996, she won the World U14 Girls Championship and in 1998, won the World U16 Girls Championship. In 1999, she was runner-up at the World Under-18 Girls Championship. In 2005 she won the Chinese Chess Championship.

Wang Yuanqi            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Wang Yuanqi: was a Chinese painter of the Qing dynasty

Wang Yuanyuan            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Wang Yuanyuan: is a male Chinese freestyle wrestler who competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics.He finished sixth in the 96 kg freestyle competition.

Wang Yue            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Wang Yue: is a Chinese chess player.He is competing in the FIDE Grand Prix 2008-2009, which is part of the current World Chess Championship cycle.[2] His next Grand Prix tournament is in Sochi, Russia from 30 July to 15 August 2008.[3]

Wayne Wang            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Wayne Wang: is a Chinese American film director.Born in Hong Kong, he studied film and television at California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland. Chan Is Missing (1982) and Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart (1985) established his reputation. He is best known for the independent features Smoke (1995) and Anywhere but Here (1999). At the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival, Wang premiered two feature films, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers and The Princess of Nebraska, as well as appearing in the Arthur Dong documentary film Hollywood Chinese.

An Wang            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

An Wang: was a Chinese American computer engineer and inventor, and co-founder of computer company Wang Laboratories.A native of Kunshan County in Suzhou Prefecture, he was born in Shanghai, China, and graduated from Jiaotong University with a degree in electrical engineering in 1940. He emigrated to the United States in June 1945 to attend Harvard University for graduate school, earning a PhD in applied physics in 1948. After graduation, he worked at Harvard with Dr Howard Aiken on the design of the Mark IV, Aiken's first fully electronic computer. Wang co-invented the pulse transfer controlling device with Way-Dong Woo, a schoolmate from China who fell ill before their patent was issued. The new device implemented write-after-read which made magnetic core memory possible. Harvard reduced its commitment to computer research in 1951, prompting Wang's departure.

Dr. Elizabeth Wang            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Dr. Elizabeth Wang: commonly known as Liza Wang is an accomplished diva, actress and MC in Hong Kong. She is a well-respected, influential and iconic personality amongst the Chinese-speaking communities.

Kan-Chang Wang            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Kan-Chang Wang: was a nuclear physicist from China. He was one of the initiators of China's researches in nuclear physics, cosmic rays and particle physics. Wang Ganchang figured among the top leaders, pioneers and scientists of the Chinese nuclear deterrent program. Member of the Chinese Academy of Science, and member of the Chinese Communist party.In 1930, Wang first proposed to use a cloud chamber to study a new type of high-energy rays induced by the bombardment of beryllium with a particle, experiment conducted one year later by the English physicist James Chadwick, thus discovering a new type of particle, the neutron, allowing him to win the 1935 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Zhen-yi Wang            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Zhen-yi Wang: is a Chinese pathophysiologist and the Professor of Medicine and Pathophysiology at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SSMU) in Shanghai, China. A full professor at Shanghai Second Medical University before its amalgamation, from 1987 to 1996 he was Director of the Hematology Institute at Rai-Jin Hospital in Shanghai. His research has led to the improved survival of patients with acute promyelocytic leukemia (APML).