Bodhidharma

male
Northern Wei Buddhist, bhikkhu, Non-Chinese knownbyChinesenames, Northern Wei Dynasty, Zen Patriarchs, Northern and southern China…Indian Chinese, chinese
Bodhidharma was the Buddhist monk traditionally credited as founder of Zen. Very little contemporary biographical information on Bodhidharma is...
Gautama Buddha

Gautama Buddha

male
Indian, Founder of religions, Buddhist, Siddhartha, philosopher, atheist…Non-Chinese knownbyChinesenames
Siddhārtha Gautama was a spiritual teacher from ancient India and the historical founder of Buddhism. He is universally recognized by Buddhists as t...
Pearl S. Buck

Pearl S. Buck

female, deceased (1973)
Philadelphia writer, American historical novelist, American expatriate in China, Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker, Non-Chinese knownbyChinesenames
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, most familiarly known as Pearl S. Buck (birth name Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker;) (June 26, 1892 - March 6, 1973), was a...
Norman Bethune

Norman Bethune

male, deceased (1939)
Second Sino-Japanese War, Dr. Henry Norman Bethune, Canadian military personnel of World War I, Canadian expatriate in China, communist, Henry Norman Bethune…Chinese language, chinese, Non-Chinese knownbyChinesenames
Dr. Henry Norman Bethune, MD (March 3, 1890 - November 12, 1939) was a Canadian physician, medical innovator, a member of the Communist Party of...
Joseph Needham

Joseph Needham

male, deceased (1995)
Sinologist, unesco, The Race Question, Oundle, Historian of science, Fellow of the Royal Society…Non-Chinese knownbyChinesenames
Joseph Terence Montgomery Needham. Joseph Needham pioneered the Western academic recognition of China's scientific past with the ongoing,...
J. H. Prynne

J. H. Prynne

male, 73 years old
poet, British poetry, Non-Chinese knownbyChinesenames, Chinese poetry, The English Intelligencer, Force of Circumstance and Other Poems…chinese
Jeremy Halvard Prynne is a British poet closely associated with the British Poetry Revival. Prynne's early influences include Charles Olson and...
Donald Knuth

Donald Knuth

male, 71 years old (Stanford, California, United States)
computer scientist, Turing Award laureate, mathematician, Emacs user, The Art of Computer Programming, computer pioneer…Non-Chinese knownbyChinesenames
Don's father was a Lutheran school teacher and church organist. Don studied piano, and for a brief time organ, through high school. Later as a...
Dwarkanath Kotnis

Dwarkanath Kotnis

male, deceased (1942)
University of Mumbai alumni, Expatriate in China, Hindu, physician, maharashtra, Military physician…Non-Chinese knownbyChinesenames, Indian Chinese
Dwarkanath Shantaram Kotnis (b. October 10, 1910 in Solapur District, Southern Maharashtra, India - d. December 9, 1942, in China), Chinese name:...
John K. Fairbank

John K. Fairbank

male, deceased (1991)
historian, McCarthyism, Communist Party of China, Office of Strategic Services, Pacific War, Office of War Information…Non-Chinese knownbyChinesenames, Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs, Chinese communist
John King Fairbank. In 1929, when he graduated from Harvard "summa cum laude", he went to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar in order to study British...

An Shih Kao

male, deceased (168)
Parthian royalty, Mahayana, missionary, Han Dynasty, luoyang, Parthian empire…chinese, Non-Chinese knownbyChinesenames
An Shih-kao (安世高; pinyin "Ān Shígāo") was a prince of Parthia, nicknamed the "Parthian Marquis", who renounced his prospect as a contender for the r...