Famous People with Name Shi

Shi Zhecun            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Shi Zhecun: was a Chinese author and journal editor in Shanghai during the 1930s. He also wrote poetry and essays, but is now most known for his modernist short stories exploring the psychological conditions of Shanghai urbanites. From the 1940s onwards, he translated western novels into Chinese and also worked as a scholar of classical Chinese literature.

Shi Zhiyong            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Shi Zhiyong: is a Chinese weightlifter. He became Olympic Champion during the 2004 Summer Olympics. He lifted a total of 325 kg, equalising the World record at that time.

Shi Feng            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Shi Feng: a Chinese swimmer, who competed for China at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.Shi Feng reached the semifinals of the men's 100 m butterfly. His semifinal time of 51.68 seconds[1] meant he missed out on a place in the final by 6-hundredths of a second.

Shi Yuzhu            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Shi Yuzhu: a noted Chinese billionaire entrepreneur and software engineer.In 1989, Shi founded his own software company with only 4,000 Chinese yuan. In 1992, he founded the Giant Group (????/????). In 1998, after Shi went bankrupt, he disappeared from the public view. Later, in 2007, Shi became a billionaire in US dollars. [1]

Shi Hairong            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Shi Hairong: is a male Chinese volleyball player. He was part of the gold medal winning team at the 2001 National Games.

Hui Shi            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Hui Shi: was a Chinese philosopher during the Warring States Period. He was a representative of the School of Names (Sophists or Dialecticians), and is famous for ten paradoxes about the relativity of time and space, for instance, "I set off for Yue (southernmost China) today and came there yesterday.

Su Shi            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Su Shi: was a writer, poet, artist, calligrapher, pharmacologist, and statesman of the Song Dynasty, and one of the major poets of the Song era. His courtesy name was Zizhan (??) and his pseudonym was Dongpo Jushi (???? “Resident of Dongpo”), and he is often referred to as Su Dongpo (???). Besides his renowned poetry, his other existent writings are of great value in the understanding of 11th century Chinese travel literature as well as details of the 11th century Chinese iron industry.

Xi Shi            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Xi Shi: was one of the renowned Four Beauties of ancient China. She was said to have lived during the end of Spring and Autumn Period in Zhuji, the capital of the ancient State of Yue.

Ye Shi            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Ye Shi: , was a Chinese neo-Confucian of the Song dynasty.A native of Wenzhou, Zhejiang, he was the most famous figure of the Yongjia School, a neo-Confucianism School composed mostly of philosophers from Wenzhou Prefecture in Zhejiang province. In contrast to other neo-Confucianists in the same period like Zhu Xi and Lu Jiuyuan, he stressed practical learning and applying Confucian doctrine to real world problems. This school had important influence on later thinkers from Zhejiang province, including Wang Shouren and Huang Zongxi, who were the most important philosophers in the Ming and Qing periods.

Dr Zhengrong Shi            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Dr Zhengrong Shi: the founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Suntech Power.Dr. Shi was born in Yangzhong, China. After obtaining his Master's degree from Shanghai, he went to the University of NSW's School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering where he obtained his doctorate degree on solar power technology.[3]He acquired Australian citizenship[4] and returned to China in 2001 to set up his solar power company - Suntech Power. According to Forbes Magazine, he is now one of the wealthiest people living in China, with a personal net worth of US$2.9 billion as of March 2008.[4]