Famous People with Name Yuan

Yuan Shikai            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yuan Shikai: was a Chinese military official and politician during the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China.

Yuan Shu Chi            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yuan Shu Chi: is an athlete from the Republic of China. She competes in archery.Yuan represented the Republic of China (as Chinese Taipei) at the 2004 Summer Olympics. She placed 6th in the women's individual ranking round with a 72-arrow score of 658. In the first round of elimination, she faced 59th-ranked Kateryna Palekha of Ukraine. Yuan defeated Palekha 162-158 in the 18-arrow match to advance to the round of 32. In that round, she faced 27th-ranked Polish archer Malgorzata Sobieraj, defeating her 158-149. Yuan then defeated 43rd-ranked Reena Kumari of India 166-148, advancing to the quarterfinals.

Yuan Ye            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yuan Ye: is a Chinese short track speed skater.

Yuan Zhen            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yuan Zhen: was an important Chinese writer and poet in the middle Tang Dynasty known for his work Yingying's Biography.

Yuan Guiren            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yuan Guiren: is a Chinese academic and current Minister of Education in the People's Republic of China.Yuan is a native of Guzhen County in Anhui. He has a master's degree from Beijing Normal University. He is also currently a member of the 17th CPC Central Committee of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection.

Tian Yuan            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Tian Yuan: is a Chinese weightlifter.

Chieh Yuan            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Chieh Yuan: was an actor and martial artist. He was an actor for Shaw Brothers and in 1972, he was cast in Bruce Lee's The Game of Death. Chieh died in 1977 from cerebral edema, the same cause to Bruce Lee's death, and at age 32, the same age at which Bruce Lee had died.

Nie Yuan            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Nie Yuan: is a Chinese actor. Nie first started acting when he was still in the Shanghai Theatre Academy. He was a "highly productive" actor, as he described in his own words, "In times when I was playing with my life, I could finish filming one episode in two days. I tried completing filming a 140 episodes television drama and one movie in a year. This can be taken as a record." In 2004, Nie was named by the Chinese media as one of the "Mainland's New Four Young Actors", along with Huang Xiaoming, Tong Dawei and Yin Xiaotian. That year, producer Zhang Jizhong was searching for someone to play the lead role of Yang Guo in his wuxia television series The Return of the Condor Heroes.

Zhou Yuan            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Zhou Yuan: is Chinese Volleyball player, now plays for Guangdong Evergrande.

Zhang, Yuan            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Zhang, Yuan: is a Chinese football player who currently plays for Guangzhou R&F F.C. as either a midfielder or striker in the Chinese Super League. After being scouted by Liu Chunming he would include him in his squad that part in the 2008 AFC U-19 Championship where he would play three games and score one goal against Tajikistan in a tournament that saw China get knocked out in the quarter-finals. He would go on to be premoted to the Chinese U-23 and take part in the Football at the 2010 Asian Games where he was used in defense by the manager Sun Wei, nevertheless he would go on to play in all four games for China where they were knocked out in the last sixteen.