Dong as First Name

Dong Huibo            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese
Dong Huibo: is a Chinese pair skater. With partner Wu Yiming, she is the 2008 World Junior bronze medalist. She previously competed as a single skater on the national level.

Dong Jiong            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese
Dong Jiong: is a Chinese male badminton player.

Dong Qichang            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese
Dong Qichang: was a Chinese painter, scholar, calligrapher, and art theorist of the later period of the Ming Dynasty.His work favored expression over formal likeness. He also avoided anything he deemed to be slick or sentimental. This led him to create landscapes with intentionally distorted spatial features. Still his work was in no way abstract as it took elements from earlier Yuan masters. His views on expression had importance to later "individualist" painters.

Dong Yanmei            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese
Dong Yanmei: is a Chinese long-distance runner who specialized in the 5000 metres. She has not competed on the top level since 2002.

Dong Yuán            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese
Dong Yuán: was a Chinese painter.He was known for both figure and landscape paintings, and exemplified the elegant style which would become the standard for brush painting in China for the next nine centuries. He and his pupil Ju Ran were the founders of the southern school of landscape painting, and with Jing Hao and Guan Tong of the northern school they constituted the four seminal painters of that time.

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Dong as Last Name

Chen Dong            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese
Chen Dong: is a Chinese football player who currently plays keeper for Dalian Shide.

Liu Dong            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese
Liu Dong: is a retired Chinese middle distance runner. She holds the current Asian record over 800 metres with 1:55.54 minutes. Her personal best over 1500 metres was 3:56.31 minutes.

Wang Dong            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese
Wang Dong: is a Chinese football player who currently plays for Changchun Yatai. He was born in Qingdao, Shandong Province, China. He recently scored two of China's five goals in a 5-1 victory over Malaysia.