Famous People with Name Kun

Kun Cán            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Kun Cán: was a painter from Hunan who spent most of his life in Nanjing. He became a Chan Buddhism monk at an early age and in Nanjing was abbot of a monastery on Niushou Shan. His style of landscape painting was influenced by Wang Meng and he is one of the Four Monk Masters in the early Qing Dynasty. The others being Zhu Da, Hong Ren, and Shitao. As he was also known as Shi Xi he was at times said to be one of the "Two Shi". Few of Kun Cán's works survive.

Jiang Kun            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Jiang Kun: is a Chinese football player who currently plays for Shanghai Shenhua.

Li Kun            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Li Kun: is a Chinese football defender, who plays for Wuhan Guanggu in China Super League.

Wang Kun            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Wang Kun: is a female Chinese football (soccer) player who competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics.

Chen Kun            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Chen Kun: is a Chinese actor and singer. He has won the Hundred Flowers Award's for Best Actor, Huabiao Award for Best Actor, and has received one Golden Horse Award nomination for Best Actor. Chen debuted in the 1999 film National Anthem, and rose to prominence on the 2001 television drama Love in Shanghai. He was nominated for Best Actor from his role in A West Lake Moment at the 2005 Golden Horse Awards, won Best Actor for his role in The Knot at the 2007 Huabiao Film Awards, and won Best Actor for his role in Painted Skin at the 2010 Hundred Flowers Awards.

Huang Kun            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Huang Kun: was a well-known physicist in the People's Republic of China. He was awarded the State Preeminent Science and Technology Award (The highest science award in China) by the President of the People's Republic of China Jiang Zemin in 2001. In 1951, Huang returned to China to teach, and became a professor of physics at Peking University. In 1955, he became one of the first batch of academicans of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). After his retirement in 1983, Huang remained active in the research of semiconductors and was selected as the chairman of the Chinese Society of Physics between 1987 and 1991. He used to be the director of the institute of semiconductors of CAS.