Famous People with Name Yuan

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.

Yuan Weishi            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yuan Weishi: is a professor of philosophy at Zhongshan University in Guangzhou, China. He was born in Xingning, Guangdong.In the January 2006 issue of Bingdian ,professor Yuan published an essay titled Modernisation and History Textbooks, criticizing the official theme of government issued middle schools history textbooks,claiming that they contain numbers of distortions of the historical accounts.[1] Professor Yuan said:"The public,especially the students, have the right to find out the true historical facts." .[2]". [1][3],

Yuan Muzhi            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yuan Muzhi: was an actor and director from the Republic of China and later of the People's Republic of China.As an actor, Yuan became extremely popular and took on the nickname "man with a thousand faces." Yuan gained prominence in a series of films for the leftist Diantong Film Company. These included the film Plunder of Peach and Plum (1935) (which Yuan also wrote) and the movie Sons and Daughters in a Time of Storm (1935) where he was one of the two original singers (along with Gu Menghe) of the movie's theme song, The March of the Volunteers, which later became the national anthem of China.

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.