Famous People with Name Koo

Koo Dae-Sung            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Koo Dae-Sung: (born August 2, 1969 in Daejeon, South Korea) is a left-handed pitcher, formerly with the New York Mets of Major League Baseball.

Koo Chen-fu            Origin/Culture/Country: Swiss

Koo Chen-fu: was a Taiwanese businessman and diplomat. He led the Koos Group of companies from 1940 until his death. As a chairman of the Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF), Koo arranged the first direct talks between Taiwan and China since 1949 and served as Taiwan's negotiator in both the 1993 and 1998 meetings (so-called Wang-Koo talks).

Koo Kien Keat            Origin/Culture/Country: Malaysian

Koo Kien Keat: is a professional badminton player from Malaysia. Besides being a men's doubles player, he also represents Malaysia in the mixed doubles event.

Koo Vi Kyuin            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Koo Vi Kyuin: was a prominent diplomat under the Republic of China, representative to the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, Ambassador to France, Great Britain, and the United States; participant in founding the League of Nations and the United Nations; and judge on the International Court of Justice at the Hague from 1957 to 1967. Between October 1926 and June 1927, while serving as Minister of Foreign Affairs, Koo briefly held the concurrent positions of acting Premier and interim President of the Republic of China. Koo is the first and only Chinese head of state known to use a Western name publicly.