Famous People with Name Yang

Yang Ying            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yang Ying: is a Chinese table tennis player,She played right-handed Chinese penhold style. Her main techniques used were forehand and backhand speed drives.

Yang Yongjian            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yang Yongjian: is a male Chinese race walker.

Yang Yu            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yang Yu: is a female Olympic medal-winning swimmer from the People's Republic of China. She became part of the Chinese national swimming team in 1999.

Yang Zhi            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yang Zhi: is a Chinese football player who currently plays for Beijing Guoan. He represented the Chinese National Team participating in Malaysia's Asian Cup in 2007.

Yang Zhixue            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yang Zhixue: is a Chinese figure skater. He competed for one season on the Junior Grand Prix circuit and placed 19th at the 2004 World Junior Figure Skating Championships.

Bo Yang            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Bo Yang: was a Chinese language writer based in Taiwan. His pen name is found in most sources as "Bo Yang" or "Bai Yang", but there is an argument that as Bo Yang was a pen name, it should be written as "Boyang" insead. According to his own memoir, the exact date of his birthday was unknown even to himself. He later adopted the date of his imprisonment in 1968 (7 March) as his birthday. Aside of his Golden Triangle novel Yiyu, ( 1961), Bo Yang is best known for his non-fiction works on Chinese history (collated from ancient materials in the prison library Green Island) and The Ugly Chinaman ( Choulòu de Zhongguórén, 1985; English translation, with the subtitle ... and the Crisis of Chinese Culture, 1992).

Shi Yang            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Shi Yang: was a lawyer by trade, as well as a member of the Chinese Communist Party, and was one of the early leaders of the workers' rights movement in China. In June 1922, Yang was introduced to the Chinese Communist Party by Xu Baihao and Xiang Ying and became a member. Two months later in August, he participated in the founding of the Wuhan Workers Union the earliest regional union in all of China (the group replaced the "Wuhan" in its name with "Hubei Province" in October of that year). Yang served as legal counsel for the union. Yang used his status as a lawyer to support strikers by factory workers and rickshaw drivers, and participated in many different workers' movements in Wuhan, often as a leader. On February 1, 1923, the Beijing-Wuhan Railroad Workers' Association held a large formal conference in Zhengzhou. As Yang was the Association's legal counsel, he played a large part in the conference's activities. The conference met with obstruction from the Zhengzhou Police authorities, and there were several serious clashes between conference attendees and the police. That evening, a secret meeting of the conference was held, demanding that the government meet all of the workers' demands - dismissal of the Zhengzhou Police Chief, reimbursement of workers' lost property, etc. - within two days, otherwise the association would implement a full strike of workers along the entire Jinghan railway. Shi Yang and Lin Xiangqian were chosen as leaders of the strike in the Jiang'an area, and they returned to Wuhan by train after the meeting.

Ziheng Yang            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Ziheng Yang: is a Chinese biologist, and R A Fisher Chair of Statistical Genetics, at University College London, and Professor since 2001. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2006.

Yu Yang            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yu Yang: is a female badminton player from the People's Republic of China. A doubles specialist, Yu and her regular partner Du Jing have steadily emerged as one of the world's elite women's doubles teams since 2004. They confirmed this status by winning the gold medal at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing over Korea's Lee Kyung-won and Lee Hyo-jung. Their other titles have included the Polish Open (2004): the China Masters (2005); the Asian Championships and Swiss Open in 2006; the Russian, Hong Kong, and Indonesia Opens in 2007; and the French, Korea, and Singapore Opens in 2008. Yu and Du were bronze medalists at the World Championships in 2006, but were unable to play in the tourney's 2007 edition. They were runners-up at the prestigious All-England Championships in 2008, but avenged that loss by beating their All-England conquerors in the Olympic final.

Wu Yang            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Wu Yang: is a female table tennis player from China. She won the gold medal in the team events in the Asian Table Tennis Championships in 2009. She won singles title at the 2009 World Junior Table Tennis Championships. Her style is chopping defender.