Famous People with Name Yang

Yang Rong            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yang Rong: a Chinese financier. He was born in Anhui.

Yang Yuanqing            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yang Yuanqing: the current CEO of Lenovo Group Limited and was chairman of the board from 2004-2008. Before the acquisition of IBM PC division by Lenovo in 2004, he was the President and CEO of the company. One of his major achievements has been making Lenovo the best-selling PC brand in China since 1997. In 2001, Business Week named him as one of the rising stars in Asia.

Yang Huiyan            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yang Huiyan: the majority shareholder of Country Garden Holdings and is currently considered the wealthiest person in Mainland China, with an estimated net worth of $7.4 billion USD as of March 2009.[2][3] She is the daughter of Yang Guoqiang, who started his company Biguiyuan in 1997 [1] and transferred 70% of Country Garden's shares to her before its IPO in 2007.[4] The wealthiest mainland Chinese in the previous year, 2006, was Wong Kwong Yu. [2] Country Garden's initial offering raised about $1.6 billion, or as much as Google raised in 2004 in the United States. [3] Yang's net worth was estimated at $16.2 billion USD in October 2007.[5]

Yang Zhichao            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yang Zhichao: is a Chinese revolutionary and extreme performance artist living and working in Shanghai.After graduating from the Northern Manchuria Art University, Northwest Normal University in 1986, he started as a painter but became embroiled in the Marxist and Maoist politics of the multiracial prefect of East Guangzhou in which he lives. He attempts to raise social issues through his performances and has achieved notoriety through extreme actions such as branding his ID number on his body, planting grass on his back, and surgically implanting objects in his leg and stomach. His work is concerned with the body, and how, in an age of science and technology, our bodies no longer belong to ourselves but to society and the state. He has exhibited both in China and abroad, including the famous "Fuck off" show at the Eastlink Gallery, Shanghai, the Guangdong Museum of Art Contemporary Art, Guangzhou, 2003, the Dadao Live Art Festival, Beijing, 2004 and a tour of eight major institutions in the UK organised by Beijing-based curator Shu Yang in 2006.

Yang Jin            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yang Jin: was a Chinese painter during the Qing Dynasty (1644–1912).Yang was born in Changshu in the Jiangsu province[1] . His style name was 'Zi He' and his sobriquet was 'Xi Ting'. Yang's paintings were meticulous and exquisite, in the style of Wang Hui.

He Yang            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

He Yang: is a Chinese international footballer who currently plays for Tianjin Teda as a defender in the China Super League. While He Yang graduated from the Tianjin Teda youth team during the 2002 league season he struggled to break into the first team and would take several seasons to establish himself within the senior team before he even made his league debut on May 30, 2004 against Shenyang Ginde in a 1-0 defeat. He Yang would make his international debut in a friendly against Iran in a 1-0 win on the 1st of June 2009 where he played the game as a right-back

Sir Ti-liang Yang            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Sir Ti-liang Yang: also known as Sir TL, is a retired senior judge in Hong Kong. He was Chief Justice of Hong Kong from 1988 to 1996 and was the only ethnic Chinese to hold this office during British colonial rule.He became a candidate in Hong Kong Chief Executive election, 1996, where he lost to his opponent Tung Chee Hwa. After the transfer of the sovereignty of Hong Kong, he was appointed as non-official member of the Executive Council by Tung and retired in 2002. In retirement, Sir TL now mainly focuses on writing and teaching English. In September 2003, he became the host of a RTHK radio programme called Yang Ti-liang Mail Box , teaching English grammar to the audiences.

Timothy Chin-tien Yang            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Timothy Chin-tien Yang: is a Taiwanese diplomat, and the current Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China serving under President Ma Ying-Jeou.

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.