John Leighton Stuart

male, deceased (1962)
Hampden-Sydney College alumni United States Ambassador Ambassador from the United States Non-Chinese known by Chinese names Yenching University
John Leighton Stuart was the first President of Yenching University and later United States ambassador to China; he was the last person to hold... More
Helen Foster Snow

Helen Foster Snow

female
Brigham Young University The Song of Ariran December 9th Movement American expatriate in China Red Dust Yan'an … Yenching University
Helen Foster Snow (1907-1997) is an American journalist who reported from China in the 1930s under the name "Nym Wales" on the developing... More
Langdon Brown Gilkey

Langdon Brown Gilkey

male, deceased (2004)
Columbia University Death from meningitis Protestant Salt Lake City Theologian union theological seminary … Yenching University
Langdon Brown Gilkey (February 91919 - November 19, 2004) was an American Protestant Ecumenical theologian. The grandson of Clarence Talmadge... More
Huang Kun

Huang Kun

male, deceased (2005)
Alumni of the University of Bristol President of the People's Republic of China physicist LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY Yenching University Bristol University
Huang Kun (September 2 1919 - July 6 2005), born in Beijing, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, is a well-known physicist in the... More
Katherine Young

Katherine Young

female, deceased (2005)
Centenarian Chinese American rose sino-japanese war American hakka … Yenching University
Katherine Young (鄭珣; Pinyin: Zhèng Xún was a centenarian, and was the oldest known living user of the Internet. She was a resident of Palo Alto,... More
Zheng Zhenduo

Zheng Zhenduo

male, deceased (1958)
Archaeologist Chinese Academy of Science journalist fudan university archeologist shanghai … Yenching University
Zheng Zhenduo, Chinese courtesy name Xidì (西諦), was a journalist, a modern writer, an archeologist and a literature scholar. His pen names were... More

Luke Chia-Liu Yuan

male, deceased (2003)
henan Anyang From Beijing california institute of technology American Asian American … Yenching University
Luke Chia-Liu Yuan (袁家騮) was an American physicist and grandson of Yuan Shikai. Born in Anyang, Henan, Yuan attended Yenching University in Beijin... More
Xu Dishan

Xu Dishan

male, deceased (1941)
Columbia University Oxford University zh-min-nan Khó͘ Tē-san Yenching University Hong Kong University tsinghua university
Xu Dishan (1893-1941) was a native Fujian Province. After obtaining a BA degree from the Yenching University, he continued his studies at Columbia... More
Guan Pinghu

Guan Pinghu

male, deceased (1967)
musician Guqin jiangsu suzhou chinese Yenching University
Guan Pinghu, was a Chinese player of the "guqin", a Chinese 7-string bridgeless zither. Born in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, Guan came from an... More
Hsiang-Lin Lo

Hsiang-Lin Lo

male, deceased (1978)
Luo Xianglin Lo Hsiang-lin Yenching University Chinese language Hong Kong University chinese
Lo Hsiang-lin (Pinyin:"Luo Xianglin" Chinese: Simplified Chinese 罗香林 Traditional Chinese 羅香林; 1906-1978) is one of the most renowned researchers... More