Famous People with Name Yang

Yang Huiyan            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yang Huiyan: the majority shareholder of Country Garden Holdings and is currently considered the wealthiest person in Mainland China, with an estimated net worth of $7.4 billion USD as of March 2009.[2][3] She is the daughter of Yang Guoqiang, who started his company Biguiyuan in 1997 [1] and transferred 70% of Country Garden's shares to her before its IPO in 2007.[4] The wealthiest mainland Chinese in the previous year, 2006, was Wong Kwong Yu. [2] Country Garden's initial offering raised about $1.6 billion, or as much as Google raised in 2004 in the United States. [3] Yang's net worth was estimated at $16.2 billion USD in October 2007.[5]

Yang Zhichao            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yang Zhichao: is a Chinese revolutionary and extreme performance artist living and working in Shanghai.After graduating from the Northern Manchuria Art University, Northwest Normal University in 1986, he started as a painter but became embroiled in the Marxist and Maoist politics of the multiracial prefect of East Guangzhou in which he lives. He attempts to raise social issues through his performances and has achieved notoriety through extreme actions such as branding his ID number on his body, planting grass on his back, and surgically implanting objects in his leg and stomach. His work is concerned with the body, and how, in an age of science and technology, our bodies no longer belong to ourselves but to society and the state. He has exhibited both in China and abroad, including the famous "Fuck off" show at the Eastlink Gallery, Shanghai, the Guangdong Museum of Art Contemporary Art, Guangzhou, 2003, the Dadao Live Art Festival, Beijing, 2004 and a tour of eight major institutions in the UK organised by Beijing-based curator Shu Yang in 2006.

Yang Jin            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yang Jin: was a Chinese painter during the Qing Dynasty (1644–1912).Yang was born in Changshu in the Jiangsu province[1] . His style name was 'Zi He' and his sobriquet was 'Xi Ting'. Yang's paintings were meticulous and exquisite, in the style of Wang Hui.

Yáng Wéizhen            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yáng Wéizhen: was a Chinese painter and calligrapher during the Yuan Dynasty (1271–1368).Yang was born in the Zhejiang province[1] . His style name was 'Lianfu' and his sobriquet was 'Tieya'. Yang's reputation for calligraphy was well known, incorporating a purity and strength into his works.

Yang Xiangzhong            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yang Xiangzhong: is a retired male boxer from PR China, who twice competed for his native Asian country at the Summer Olympics: 1996 and 2000. At his Olympic debut in Atlanta, Georgia he was defeated in the second round of the men's light flyweight division (– 48 kg) by Morocco's Hamid Berhili.

Shang Yang            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Shang Yang: was an important statesman of Qin in the Warring States Period of ancient China. With the support of Duke Xiao of Qin, Shang enacted numerous reforms (in accordance with his legalist philosophy recorded in The Book of Lord Shang) in the state of Qin that changed Qin from a peripheral, backwards state into a militarily powerful and strongly centralized state, changing the administration by emphasizing meritocracy and devolving power from the nobility.

Shen Yang            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Shen Yang: is a Chinese Woman Grand Master chess player. In 2001, she won the U-12 Girls section of the World Youth Chess Championship in Spain. In February 2006 she gained her second IM norm in Moscow at the Aeroflot Open. In the May-June 2006 37th Chess Olympiad in Turin she was part of the Chinese team that came third in the Women's section. In October 2006, she won the Girls World Junior Championship in Yerevan, Armenia.[2] In May 2007, she was part of the Chinese team that won the First World Women's Team Chess Championship in Yekaterinburg, Russia.[3]

Song Yang            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Song Yang: is a Chinese footballer who plays for Bolton Wanderers in the English Premier League.

Wen Yang            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Wen Yang: is a Chinese chess player, who holds the GM title. He qualified for and competed in the Chess World Cup 2007 where he reached Round One, where he was defeated 0.5-1.5 by Zoltan Almasi. In this tournament he achieved a performance rating of 2498.

Xuefei Yang            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Xuefei Yang: Yang began playing the guitar at the age of seven, and started to receive formal instruction when she was ten, studying under the famous guitarist Chen Zhi, later Chairman of the China Classical Guitar Society. Her public debut came at the First China International Guitar Festival, where she met with immediate acclaim. At the same time, Yang was presented with her first foreign guitar (a "Pepe" children's guitar from Aria), by the celebrated Japanese guitar maker Masaru Kohno. She went on to take second prize at the Beijing Senior Guitar competition, being the only child competitor, aged eleven.