Famous People with Name Yang

Yang Changpeng            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yang Changpeng: is a Chinese footballer, currently playing for Wuhan Guanggu. On October 2006, Bolton Wanderers have taken Yang Changpeng dubbed 'China's Peter Crouch' on a one-month trial.

Yang Chao            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yang Chao: is a Chinese figure skater. He placed 5th at the 2006 Chinese Figure Skating Championships and 10th at the 2006 World Junior Figure Skating Championships

Yang Chen            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yang Chen: is a professional football player.While playing for Frankfurt, Yang became the first Chinese player to score in any one of the five major European football leagues. In his first year at Frankfurt, Yang scored 8 goals in the Bundesliga and helped the team to avoid relegation to 2. Bundesliga. However, in the second year, manager Felix Magath gave Chen little playing time.

Yang Chengfu            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yang Chengfu: is historically considered the best known teacher of the soft style martial art of Tai Chi Chuan (Taijiquan).

Yang Cho-Cheng            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yang Cho-Cheng: ) was an internationally renowned Chinese architect based in Taiwan. His professional career spanned over 60 years. Even though he was best known for his expertise in the Chinese style architecture, he was also a leading expert in manufacturing, high tech, finance, performing arts, and commercial/residential architecture

Shen Yang            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Shen Yang: is a Chinese Woman Grand Master chess player. In 2001, she won the U-12 Girls section of the World Youth Chess Championship in Spain. In February 2006 she gained her second IM norm in Moscow at the Aeroflot Open. In the May-June 2006 37th Chess Olympiad in Turin she was part of the Chinese team that came third in the Women's section. In October 2006, she won the Girls World Junior Championship in Yerevan, Armenia.[2] In May 2007, she was part of the Chinese team that won the First World Women's Team Chess Championship in Yekaterinburg, Russia.[3]

Song Yang            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Song Yang: is a Chinese footballer who plays for Bolton Wanderers in the English Premier League.

Wen Yang            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Wen Yang: is a Chinese chess player, who holds the GM title. He qualified for and competed in the Chess World Cup 2007 where he reached Round One, where he was defeated 0.5-1.5 by Zoltan Almasi. In this tournament he achieved a performance rating of 2498.

Xuefei Yang            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Xuefei Yang: Yang began playing the guitar at the age of seven, and started to receive formal instruction when she was ten, studying under the famous guitarist Chen Zhi, later Chairman of the China Classical Guitar Society. Her public debut came at the First China International Guitar Festival, where she met with immediate acclaim. At the same time, Yang was presented with her first foreign guitar (a "Pepe" children's guitar from Aria), by the celebrated Japanese guitar maker Masaru Kohno. She went on to take second prize at the Beijing Senior Guitar competition, being the only child competitor, aged eleven.

Yang Yang            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yang Yang: is an Olympic short track speed skater. She is currently a member of the Chinese national short track team