- Genghis Khan
(IPA: ; ; classic Mongolian: (see below for alternative spellings); ca. 1162 -August 18, 1227) was a Mongol "Khan" (ruler; posthumously "Khagan", emperor). Born with the name Temüüjin into the Borjigin clan, he became one of the most significant and successful military leaders in history. He united the Mongol tribes and founded the Mongol Empire, (1206 - 1368), the largest contiguous empire in world history.
- Nicholas D. Kristof
Nicholas Donabet Kristof (born April 27 1959 in Yamhill, Oregon) is an American political scientist, author, and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist specializing in East Asia. He is currently a columnist for "The New York Times" and previously served as the as The New York Times' Bureau Chief in Hong Kong, Beijing, and Tokyo. He has written a number of books on Asia, …
- Edwin O. Reischauer
Edwin Oldfather Reischauer was the leading U.S. educator and noted scholar of the history and culture of Japan, and of East Asia. From 1961–66, he was the U.S. ambassador to Japan.
- Bruce Cumings
Bruce Cumings is a historian, and professor at the University of Chicago, specializing in modern Korean history and contemporary international relations in East Asia. Starting July 1, 2007, he will start a three-year term as Chair of the Department of History. In his youth, Cumings was a Peace Corps volunteer in South Korea. He was one of the founding members of the Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars and published extensively in its journal, …
- Gavan McCormack
Gavan McCormack is an Orientalist specialising in East Asia who is currently Emeritus Professor and Visiting Fellow, Division of Pacific and Asian History of the Australian National University.
- Xuanzang
Xuanzang (was a famous Chinese Buddhist monk, scholar, traveler and translator that brought up the interaction between China and India in the early Tang period. Xuanzang was born near Luoyang, Henan in 602? as Chén Huī or Chén Yī (陳 褘) and died 5th Feb. 664 in Yu Hua Gong (玉華宮). He became famous for his seventeen year trip to India, during which he studied with many famous Buddhist masters, …
- Boa
Boa Kwon (born November 5 1986 in Guri, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) is a South Korean singer, commonly known by her stage name BoA. She is currently active in both South Korea and Japan. She has released a total of ten full-length albums. Sold in many parts of Asia, she has sold over ten-million copies.
- Susan Shirk
Susan Shirk is a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State during the Clinton administration. She was in the Bureau of East Asia and Pacific Affairs (People's Republic of China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Mongolia).
- Guan Yu
Guan Yu (關羽) (160-219) was a Chinese military general under the warlord Liu Bei during the late Eastern Han Dynasty and Three Kingdoms period in ancient China. He played a significant role in the civil war that led to the collapse of the Han Dynasty and the establishment of Shu Han, of which Liu Bei was the first emperor. One of the best known Chinese historical figures throughout East Asia, Guan Yu's true life stories have largely given way to semi-fictional ones, …
- Stanley Karnow
Stanley Karnow (born 1925 in New York City) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author who covered Asia from 1959 as chief correspondent for "Time" and "Life" magazines. Until 1974 he was in southeast Asia reporting for the "Saturday Evening Post", the "London Observer", the "Washington Post", and NBC News. He is a graduate of the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Paris Institute of Political Studies).
- Cordwainer Smith
Cordwainer Smith — pronounced "CORDwainer" — was the pseudonym used by American author Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger (July 11, 1913–August 6, 1966) for his science fiction works. Linebarger was also a noted East Asia scholar and expert in psychological warfare. Linebarger also employed the literary pseudonyms "Carmichael Smith" (for his political thriller "Atomsk"), …
- Victor H. Mair
Victor H. Mair is Professor of Chinese Language and Literature in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States. Professor Mair has edited the standard "Columbia History of Chinese Literature" and the "Columbia Anthology of Traditional Chinese Literature". Dr. Mair received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1976. He has taught at the University of Pennsylvania since 1979. Dr.
- Teresa Teng
Teresa Teng </small> (January 29, 1953 - May 8, 1995), was a very famous singer from Taipei, Taiwan. She enjoyed immense popularity amongst all Chinese-speaking people and in the rest of East Asia, particularly in Japan, for some 30 years. Teng was known for her folk songs and romantic ballads, which remain popular today. She made famous several songs, including "When Will You Return?".
- Jon Huntsman Jr.
Jon Huntsman , Sr., W�59, was profiled in an article about the most influential people in Utah. The article focused on Huntsman�s incredible philanthropy, noting that Time magazine listed him as the sixth-largest philanthropist in the United States. Huntsman also chairs Wharton�s Board of Overseers, in addition to serving as chairman of International Services for the American Red Cross. ( Deseret News, 5/15/01 )
- Cai Lun
Cai Lun (ca. AD 50-121), courtesy name Jingzhong (敬仲), was a Chinese eunuch, who is conventionally regarded as the inventor of paper and the papermaking process, in forms recognizable in modern times as paper (as opposed to Egyptian papyrus). Although paper existed in China before Cai Lun (since the 2nd century BC), …
- Arthur Kleinman
Professor Arthur Kleinman was appointed chair of the DSM in 1991 and led the DSM into its second decade, continuing and strengthening academic programs in medical anthropology, the history of medicine, social and health policy, the humanities, and medical ethics.
- Odd Arne Westad
Professor Odd Arne Westad, born 5 January 1960, is a Norwegian academic and historian specialising in the Cold War and contemporary East Asian history. After studying as an undergraduate at the University of Oslo, Westad attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to work on his Ph.D. He was appointed as Director of Research at the Norwegian Nobel Institute and Adjunct Professor of History at the University of Oslo in 1991.
- Felice Beato
Felice Beato (born 1833 or 1834, died c.1907), sometimes known as Felix Beato, was a Corfiote photographer. He was one of the first photographers to take pictures in East Asia and one of the first war photographers. He is noted for his genre works, portraits, and views and panoramas of the architecture and landscapes of Asia and the Mediterranean region.
- Eric Talmadge
Eric Talmadge is an Associated Press reporter who has covered events in East Asia, including the story of Charles Robert Jenkins and the Indian Ocean tsunami. He is currently News Editor of the AP Tokyo Bureau.
- Julia Chang Bloch
Julia Chang Bloch (born 1942) was an American diplomat, and the first U.S. ambassador of Asian origin. Chang Bloch was born in China, and moved to the United States when she was nine. She earned a master's degree in government and East Asia studies from Harvard University, and entered the civil service. From 1971 she served as a staffer for the Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs, and thereafter in a number of other roles, …
- Franklin L. Lavin
Franklin L. Lavin (Frank Lavin) is the Undersecretary for International Trade of the United States Department of Commerce. Born in Canton, Ohio, in 1957, he previously served as the United States Ambassador to Singapore from 2001 to 2005. The Undersecretary position, in addition to its policy making role, oversees the U.S. International Trade Administration. Educated at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, …
- Shi Lang
Shi Lang was a Ming-Qing admiral who had extensive experience in southeastern China. He was commander-in-chief of the Manchu fleets which destroyed the power of the Zheng family and conquered Taiwan in 1681. Shi Lang was born to a distinguished lineage in Jinjiang, Fujian and studied military strategy in youth. He was particularly proficient in naval warfare, knowing how to take advantage of wind and tide.
- Theodore White
Theodore Harold White was an American political journalist, historian, and novelist, best known for his accounts of the 1960, 1964, 1968, and 1972 presidential elections.
- Christopher Nelson
Christopher Nelson is the editor and sole author of The Nelson Report, a daily communiqué on international affairs, focused primarily on United States trade policy and United States foreign policy in East Asia. Nelson is a longtime journalist and a former Congressional staff member. He is currently a Senior Vice President at Samuels International Associates in Washington, D.C.
- Donald Keyser
Donald W. Keyser (born 17 July 1943) is a former official of the United States Department of State who is accused of espionage. Keyser attended the University of Maryland, the Stanford Inter-University Center in Taiwan, George Washington University, and the National War College. He joined the State Department in 1972, and has held a number of senior posts relating to East Asian affairs.
- Aiko
aiko, born is a Japanese pop singer-songwriter. She is known for her cheerful disposition. Her music primarily consists of love songs and is particularly popular among young girls all over East Asia. Oricon published the results of a survey of 20,000 subscribers' favourite singers, and aiko topped the list in both 2005 and 2006
- Robert Suettinger
Robert Suettinger was United States President Bill Clinton's national intelligence officer for East Asia at the National Intelligence Council (NIC) from 1997-1998. While there, Suettinger oversaw the preparation of national intelligence estimates for the director of the Central Intelligence Agency. His areas of specialty included the People's Republic of China and the North Korean nuclear weapons program.
- Andrew Nelson
Andrew Nathaniel Nelson (December 23 1893 - May 17 1975) was an American missionary and scholar of East Asian languages and literatures, best-known for his work in Japanese lexicography. He was born in Great Falls, Montana to Swedish immigrant parents and earned his B.A. from Walla Walla College. In 1918, he began his long career of service in the Seventh-day Adventist missions of East Asia, …
- Ken Lunde
Ken Lunde has been working for Adobe Systems Incorporated, headquartered in San Jose, California, for over seventeen years, and is currently a Senior Computer Scientist in CJKV Type Development. He is currently putting the finishing touches on "CJKV Information Processing" Second Edition, which is expected to be published at the end of 2008.
- William D. Rogers
William D. Rogers (born 1927) is an American lawyer. He served as U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs (October 1974-June 1976) and Undersecretary of State for Economic Affairs (June 1976-January 1977) under then-Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in the administration of President Gerald Ford. He is, as of 2004, vice president of Kissinger's consulting firm Kissinger Associates. In the 1950s, he joined the law firm of Arnold, Fortas, …
- Bartolomeo Columbus
Bartholomew Columbus (Spanish: Bartolomé Colón; Italian: Bartolomeo Colombo; c. 1461 - 1515) was the younger brother of explorer Christopher Columbus. In the 1470s Bartolomeo was a mapmaker in Lisbon, the principal center of cartography of the time, and conceived with his brother the "Enterprise of the Indies," a scheme to break the Portuguese grip on the remunerative Oriental trade by sailing west to reach East Asia.
- Han Kuo-Huang
Han Kuo-Huang is a Chinese-born American ethnomusicologist and musician. Han was born in Xiamen, China and grew up in Taiwan. He obtained his bachelor's degree in Taiwan. In 1960 he assisted Elizabeth (Whittington) Hovhaness, the wife of the American composer Alan Hovhaness, in obtaining recordings of Chinese and Taiwainese music during her trip to Taiwan, and in 1962 served as translator for composer Lou Harrison.
- Anna Lo
Anna Lo, MLA is an Alliance Party politician from Northern Ireland. Born in Hong Kong, of Chinese ethnicity, Lo was elected to the Northern Ireland Assembly for South Belfast in the 2007 assembly election. She was the first ethnic minority politician elected at a national level in Northern Ireland, and the first politician born in East Asia elected to any national parliament or assembly in the United Kingdom.
- Pieter Bleeker
Pieter Bleeker (July 10 1819 - January 24 1878) was a Dutch medical doctor and ichthyologist, famous for his work on the fishes of East Asia. He was employed as a medical officer in the Dutch East Indian Army from 1842 to 1860, stationed in Indonesia. During that time, he did most of his ichthyology work, besides his duties in the army. Many of his specimen he got from local fishermen, …
- Hameed Haroon
Hameed Haroon (October 23, 1952-) is a Pakistani businessman and CEO of the Dawn Group of newspapers,and grandson of Sir Abdullah Haroon.He was born in Karachi to a politically influential and financially strong Sindhi family. After his primary education at the Karachi Grammar School, he moved to London, UK, and did his BSc (Hons) in economics from the London School of Economics. He did his MA in regional studies (East Asia) from the Harvard University, …
- Tran Huu Dung
Tran Huu Dung is a professor of economics at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. He is a specialist in the economies of East Asia, particularly Vietnam. Dung (pronounced "Zung") is also the managing editor of the popular web portal Arts & Letters Daily.
- George Hamilton IV
George Hamilton IV is an American country musician, known across the world for singles like "Before This Day Ends" and "Abilene". He began performing in the late 1950s as a teen idol, only later switching to pop-country, then folk music. At age 19, George had a big pop hit in 1956 with “A Rose And A Baby Ruth" on Colonial Records, climbing to No. 6 on the pop charts. However, he was unable to follow-up that success, but since his smooth, …
- Satō Nobuhiro
Satō Nobuhiro was a scientist and early advocate of Japanese Westernization. He is considered the founder of the "Greater East Asia" concept. Satō advocated an authoritarian-style government based on Western science and political institutions. In his "Keizai yoryaku" ("The Epitome of Economy"), he wrote that "The rationale of economy is to manage the realm, develop goods, make domains affluent, …
- Robert McDuffie
Robert McDuffie is an internationally-renowned violinist. He has soloed with many of the major orchestras around the world including those of New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Montreal, Toronto, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Minnesota, Houston, St. Louis, Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the North German Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Frankfurt Radio Orchestra, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, …
- Colin Ronan
Colin A. Ronan (1920-1995), was an author and specialist in the history and philosophy of science. He published works i.a. on archeoastronomy in East Asia. He played key roles in the administration of the British Astronomical Association and was its former President and editor of its journal. Ronan had an asteroid named in honor of his achievements: 4024 Ronan is belonging to the Floras family, discovered by E. Bowell November 24, 1981 at Anderson Mesa.