Famous People with Name Yang

Yang Yongjian            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yang Yongjian: is a male Chinese race walker.

Yang Yu            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yang Yu: is a female Olympic medal-winning swimmer from the People's Republic of China. She became part of the Chinese national swimming team in 1999.

Yang Zhi            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yang Zhi: is a Chinese football player who currently plays for Beijing Guoan. He represented the Chinese National Team participating in Malaysia's Asian Cup in 2007.

Yang Zhixue            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yang Zhixue: is a Chinese figure skater. He competed for one season on the Junior Grand Prix circuit and placed 19th at the 2004 World Junior Figure Skating Championships.

Yang Sze            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yang Sze: , better known as Bolo Yeung, is a former competitive bodybuilder and a martial arts film actor. Primarily cast as the villain in the movies he stars in, he is best known for his performances as Bolo in Enter the Dragon and as Chong Li in Bloodsport, and also for his many appearances in martial arts B-movies.

Sun Yang            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Sun Yang: a Chinese swimmer who competed for Team China at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Sun participated in the 400 m freestyle, 4 x 200 m freestyle relay, and the 1500 m freestyle swim. Sun was born in Hangzhou, Zhejiang.

Edward Yang            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Edward Yang: along with Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Tsai Ming Liang, was one of the leading filmmakers of the Taiwanese New Wave and Taiwanese Cinema.[1] He won the Best Director Award at Cannes for his 2000 film Yi Yi ("A One and a Two").[2]While working in Seattle, Yang came across the Werner Herzog film Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972). This encounter rekindled Yang's passion for film and introduced him to a wide range of classics in world and European cinema. Yang was particularly inspired by the films of Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni (Antonioni's influence has shown up in some of Yang's later works).[citation needed] He married Taiwanese pop-singer and music legend Tsai Chin in May 1985.[citation needed] They divorced in August 1995, and he subsequently married concert pianist Kai-Li Peng.[citation needed]

Zhang Yang            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Zhang Yang: is a Chinese film director, screenwriter, and occasional actor. He is the son of Zhang Huaxun, who is also a Chinese film director.Zhang grew up in Beijing, studied until 1988 at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangdong, from which he graduated with a degree in Chinese literature, and then went to the Central Academy of Drama (??????), graduating in 1992.[1]Zhang Yang uses a realistic style, and achieved great recognition for his 1999 independent production Xizao (??; English translation: Shower), which was successful at Chinese box offices as well as international film festivals. This was followed in 2001 by Zuotian ("Quitting" in its American release). The actors in this unusual story about a real actor, Jia Hongsheng, and his struggle with drug addiction are Jia himself, Jia's parents, fellow inmates in a mental institution, the director, Zhang, and others playing themselves. The relationship between parents and their grown children is as central to this film as it was in Shower.

Tan Yang            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Tan Yang: is a Chinese international footballer currently playing for Hangzhou Greentown F.C. as a striker. Tan Yang began his professional football career with Hangzhou Greentown F.C. in 2008 when he made his debut against Qingdao Jonoon on April 5 in a league game, which Hangzhou lost 2-0. A young and physically imposing player Tan Yang was he included in Gao Hongbo's squad for a friendly against Palestine on the 18th of July 2009 in a 3-1 win coming on as a substitute for Qu Bo.

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