Famous People with Name Zheng

Zheng Junli            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Zheng Junli: was a Chinese actor and director born in Shanghai and who rose to prominence in the golden age of Chinese Cinema.Zheng was born into an impoverished family, often harassed by creditors. At early ages, he showed great interest in reading and art performing. He left junior high at second grade and entered "Nanguo Art School" led by Tian Han and studied play acting.

Zheng He            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Zheng He: was a Hui Chinese mariner, explorer, diplomat and fleet admiral, who made the voyages collectively referred to as the travels of "Eunuch Sanbao to the Western Ocean" (Chinese: ???????) or "Zheng He to the Western Ocean", from 1405 to 143According to the History of Ming, he was originally named Ma Sanbao (???) and his home was Kunyang (??), present day Jinning (??). He belonged to the Semu social caste. He was a sixth-generation descendant of Sayyid Ajjal Shams al-Din Omar, a famous Khwarezmian Yuan governor of Yunnan Province, originally from Bukhara in modern day Uzbekistan. The family name "Ma" came from Shams al-Din's fifth son Masuh (Mansour). Both his father, Mir Tekin, and grandfather, Charameddin, had made the pilgrimage to Mecca, and their travels contributed to the young boy's education.[citation needed]

Zheng Bo            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Zheng Bo: is a male badminton player from Hunan, People's Republic of China.A doubles specialist, Zheng won men's doubles at the 2003 Indonesia Open with Sang Yang. Zheng and Sang also secured the winning point against Denmark in the final of the 2004 Thomas Cup, to clinch China's first men's world team title since 1990. Most of his international titles, however, have come in mixed doubles.

Zheng Zhihua            Origin/Culture/Country: Asia

Zheng Zhihua: is a Taiwanese singer. When he was two, he contracted polio and became permanetly paralyzed from the waist down. He started his career in the late 80s and enjoyed great success and popularity during the early 1990s in both Taiwan and mainland China. He announced his retirement in January 1999, but in 2005 he reemerged.

Zheng Guogu            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Zheng Guogu: is an artist based in Yangjiang in the Guangdong province of China.Zheng was born in Yangjiang. He makes work in different media including photography, installation, painting and sculpture.[1] His photographic work questions the post-Cultural Revolution generation’s attitudes to the world around them and has used of contact sheets to make storyboard-like images.[2]

Wei Zheng            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Wei Zheng: was a Chinese politician and the lead editor of the Book of Sui, composed in 636. He served as a chancellor of Tang Dynasty for about 13 years, during the reign of Emperor Taizong.

Liu Wen Zheng Or Steven Liu            Origin/Culture/Country: Asia

Liu Wen Zheng Or Steven Liu: is a Taiwanese singer who came into prominence in the 70s and the 80s as a pop-singing sensation. He has been using the moniker The White Prince (???? Baima Wángzi) throughout his singing career. Liu is known for the many nostalgic songs he sang and his handsome looks that are comparable to that of Alain Delon.

Bao Zheng            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Bao Zheng: was a much-praised official who served during the reign of Emperor Renzong of Song China. Bao is so well-respected and legendary in Chinese history and culture, and is today invoked as the symbol of justice in China.After passing the imperial examination in 1027, Bao deferred embarking on his official career for a decade in order to care for his elderly parents and faithfully observe proper mourning rites after their deaths. From 1037 until his death in 1062, Bao successively held several offices at court and in provincial locations. In his lifetime

Chen Shi-Zheng            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Chen Shi-Zheng: is a New York-based theater director.Having earned a BA from the Hunan Art School in Traditional Opera, he received his MA from the Tisch School of Art at New York University. In 2000, Chen was awarded the title Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture.Chen's directorial debut film, Dark Matter, was released in 2007, starring Liu Ye and Meryl Streep. This film won the Alfred P. Sloan Prize at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. He also directed Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett's operatic stage adaptation of Monkey: Journey to the West at the Manchester International Festival in June–July 2007. In 2008 he directed the premiere production of Stewart Wallace's opera The Bonesetter's Daughter at the San Francisco Opera

Xu Zheng            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Xu Zheng: is a member of Team China at the 2008 Summer Olympics.