- Cai Yuanpei
Cai Yuanpei died at the age of 76 in Hong Kong. ---Cai Yuanpei and the National Art Academy
- Xu Zhihong
Xu Zhihong is a botanist and the President of Peking University. He is a former Vice-President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
- Justin Yifu Lin
Justin Yifu Lin is a Chinese economist, who is Founder and Director of the China Center for Economic Research, Professor of Economics at Peking University, and at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He received a Master's degree in Marxist political economy from Beijing University in 1982, and the PhD in Economics from the University of Chicago in 1986. Born in Taiwan, the Republic of China.
- Wang Li
Wang Li, or Wang Liaoyi was a Chinese linguist. Born into a poor but educated family in Bobai (博白), Guangxi, he was largely self-taught before entering the Tsinghua University in 1927. There he was taught by Yuen Ren Chao and Liang Qichao, among others. Encouraged by Chao, he went to Paris to study linguistics in 1927. There he devoted himself to the study of phonology, and attended the class of Theoretical linguistics by Joseph Vendryes.
- Li Keqiang
Li Keqiang (Born July 1955) is currently the Communist Party of China Liaoning Province committee secretary in the People's Republic of China, an office that makes him first-in-charge in that province. He was earlier speculated as a possible successor to Hu Jintao in the "fifth generation" of CPC leadership. Li has degrees in law and economics (PhD) from the Peking University, …
- Li Zhaoxing
Li Zhaoxing (Traditional Chinese:李肇星, Simplified Chinese:李肇星, Hanyu Pinyin: Lǐ Zhàoxīng, Wade-Giles: Li Chao-hsing) was the foreign minister of the People's Republic of China from 2003 to 2007. He was born in Shandong province and graduated from Peking University in 1964. He worked as a diplomat in Africa before becoming Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1990 and Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1995, ambassador to the United States in 1998, …
- Li Dazhao
Li Dazhao (October 29, 1888 - April 28, 1927) was a Chinese intellectual who co-founded the Communist Party of China with Chen Duxiu in 1921. Li was born in Leting (a county of Tangshan), Hebei province to a peasant family. From 1913 to 1917 Li studied political economy at Waseda University in Japan before returning to China in 1918. As head librarian at the Peking University Library, …
- Wang Dan
Wang Dan was a twenty year-old student at Beijing University when he came to international attention as one of the leaders of the pro-democracy student demonstrations in Beijing's Tian'anmen Square in the spring of 1989. Following the violent suppression of the demonstrations on June 4, Mr. Wang headed the Chinese government's most-wanted list. He was arrested and sentenced to four years in prison. Mr. Wang was released from prison in 1993, but was detained in 1995.
- He Weifang
He Weifang is a professor at Peking University of China and an activist striving to reform the Chinese judicial system. <br /> He earned a B.A. at Southwestern University of Political Science and Law), and an LL.M at Beijing Institute of Politics and Law (China University of Politics and Law. <br /> He was an associate professor in China University of Politics and Law from 1985 to 1995, then moved to Peking University and become a professor and advisor to Ph.D..
- Wang Xuan
Wang Xuan (February 5 1937 - February 13 2006), born in Wuxi, Jiangsu, China, innovator of the Chinese printing industry, was an academician at both the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering. He is a well-known computer application specialist, who was awarded the State Preeminent Science and Technology Award in 2001 by President of the People's Republic of China Jiang Zemin in Beijing.
- Yan Fu
Yan Fu (courtesy name:) (January 8 1854 - October 27 1921) was a Chinese scholar and translator, most famous for introducing Western thoughts, including Darwin's ideas of "natural selection" and "survival of the fittest", into China during the late 19th century. He studied in the Fujian Arsenal Academy (福州船政學堂) in Fuzhou, Fujian Province. From 1877-1879, he studied in the Navy Academy in Greenwich, England.
- Chen Xitong
Chen Xitong was a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of China and the Mayor of Beijing until he was removed from office on charges of corruption in 1995. A graduate of Peking University, he shared close ties to Deng Xiaoping and his family. Chen was once considered a possible successor to Deng Xiaoping. Chen Xitong was the Mayor of Beijing during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. He strongly advocated the use of force to quell the protests, …
- Lin Yutang
Lin Yutang (October 10, 1895 - March 26, 1976) was a Chinese writer and inventor whose original works and translations of classic Chinese texts into English became very popular in the West. Lin was born in in the town of Banzi in Fujian province in southeastern China, near Xiamen. This mountainous region made a deep impression on his consciousness, …
- Gang Tian
Gang Tian (1958 -) is a Chinese mathematician and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is known for his contributions to geometric analysis and quantum cohomology, among other fields. He was born in Nanjing, China, but now divides his time between Princeton University and Peking University.
- Robin Li
Robin Li is a Chinese entrepreneur. In 2000, he founded Baidu with Eric Xu (徐勇). He is the CEO of Baidu since January 2004.
- Xu Beihong
Xu Beihong (July 19, 1895 - September 26, 1953) (born in Yixing, Jiangsu) was a Chinese painter. Considered a modern master in China, his merging of Western techniques with classic Chinese approaches was unmatched. He is particularly known for his "shuimohua" depictions of horses and birds. Xu began studying classic Chinese works and calligraphy with his father Xu Dazhang when he was six, and Chinese painting when he was nine.
- Fei Xiaotong
Fei Xiaotong (Chinese: 費孝通) (November 2, 1910 – April 24, 2005) was a pioneering Chinese researcher and professor of sociology and anthropology; he was also noted for his studies in the study of China's ethnic groups as well as a social activist. Considered by some as one of China's finest and most prominent sociologists and anthropologists, …
- Qian Xuantong
Qian Xuantong was a Chinese phonetician who promoted vernacular Chinese. Born as Qian Xia (钱夏), his courtesy name was Deqian (德潜). Qian was born in Wuxing, Zhejiang. He held the position as a professor in numerous universities. He proposed the eradication of Chinese characters. He was a strong supporter of Esperanto; at times he even proposed the substitution of Chinese by it, …
- Dai Jinhua
Dai Jinhua (1959) is Chinese feminist film critic. She teaches at Beijing University as well as in the United States.
- Zhou Chaochen
Zhou Chaochen (born November 1, 1937) is a Chinese computer scientist. Chaochen is a professor from Beijing, China. He studied as an undergraduate at the Department of Mathematics and Mechanics, Peking University (1954-1958) and as a postgraduate at the Institute for Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) (1963-1967). He worked at Peking University and CAS until his visit to the Oxford University Computing Laboratory (1989-1992).
- Xu Xing
Xu Xing is a famed Chinese paleontologist who has named many dinosaurs, including the new Jurassic Ceratopsian "Yinlong", the feathered relative of "Tyrannosaurus" "Guanlong", and the unusual "Gigantoraptor". He was born in Xin Jiang, China, in 1969. A graduate from the department of geology of Peking University, …
- Wang Xiaobo
Wang Xiaobo (May 13, 1952 - April 11, 1997) was a Chinese writer who became famous after his death. Wang was born in an intellectual family in Beijing in 1952. He was sent to a farm in Yunnan province as an "intellectual youth" at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution in 1968. In 1971, he was sent to the countryside of Shandong province, and became a teacher. In 1972, he was allowed to return to Beijing, and he got a job as a working in a local factory.
- Zhang Guotao
Zhang Guotao (1897 - December 3, 1979) was a founding member and leader of the Communist Party of China (CPC) during the late 1920s and 1930s. He wrote several memoirs on the CPC that provide valuable information on its early history.
- Zhu Ziqing
Zhu Ziqing (real name: Zhu Zhihua) was a Chinese poet and essayist. Zhu was a prose and poetry writer but was better known for his essays. He studied at Peking University and was made a professor of Chinese Literature at Tsinghua University in 1925. From 1931 to 1932 he studied English Literature and Linguistics in London. His best known work is the long poem: "Huimie," (《毀滅》) <i>Destruction</i>.
- Michael Halliday
Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday (often M. A. K. Halliday) (born 1925) is an English linguist who developed an internationally influential grammar model, the "systemic functional grammar" (which also goes by the name of "systemic functional linguistics" ["SFL"]). In addition to English, the model has been applied to other languages, both Indo-European and non-Indo-European. Halliday was born and grew up in England.
- Wang Youcai
Wang Youcai (born June 29, 1966), an active dissident of the Chinese democracy movement, was one of the student leaders in the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. Then a graduate student at the Peking University, he was arrested in 1989 and sentenced in 1991. He suffered in prison for "conspiring to overthrow the Government of China". In June 25, 1998, he and his colleagues organized the China Democracy Party, which is banned by the Chinese government.
- Zhao Leji
Zhao Leji (born 1957) is a Chinese statesman and politician. He is a member of the 16th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, perviously the secretary of the Qinghai CPC Committee, and chairman of the Standing Committee of Qinghai Provincial People's Congress, Zhao is now the Party chief in Shaanxi. Zhao was born in Xining, Qinghai. He joined the Communist Party in 1975 and entered Peking University in 1977; he studied philosophy there until 1980.
- Victor Perton
Victor Perton (born December 2, 1958) is a former Australian parliamentarian. He was a member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 1988 to November 2006, representing the electorate of Doncaster for the Liberal Party of Australia. He was Shadow Minister for Education, and one of the most visible members of the state opposition. He is now a regulatory affairs practitioner and Barrister.
- Jiang Menglin
Jiang Menglin (1886 - 1964), who in English used the name Chiang Monlin, was the president of Peking University, serving in 1919. He later became the president of National Zhejiang University. He obtained his Ph.D. from Columbia University, United States, under John Dewey's guidance. He also served as the minister of education of Republic of China government in 1928 and Chairman of the Sino-American Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction in the late 1940s and 1950s.
- Ta-You Wu
Ta-You Wu was a Chinese-born atomic and nuclear theoretical physicist (1907-2000) who worked in the United States, Canada, mainland China, and Taiwan. He has been called the "Father of Chinese Physics." Wu was born in Guangzhou (Canton) on September 27, 1907. In 1929 he took his undergraduate degree at Nankai University in Tianjin (Tientsin). He moved to the United States for graduate schooling and took a Doctor of Philosophy Degree from the University of Michigan in 1933.
- Li Siguang
Li Siguang, is the founder of China's geomechanics. He is of the Mongol ethnic group in China. He made outstanding contribution to changing the situation of "oil-deficiency" in the country, enabling the large-scale development of oil fields to raise the country to the ranks of the world major oil producers. A native of Huanggang, Hubei, Li studied in Japan and the UK in his early years.
- John Hartley
John Hartley (born 1948) is an ARC Federation Fellow and Professor of Cultural Studies at the Queensland University of Technology, where he is Research Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Creative Industries and Innovation. He was Foundation Dean of the Creative Industries Faculty at QUT, and before that Head of the School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies at Cardiff University in the UK. He has been visiting professor at Peking University, …
- Xu Dishan
Xu Dishan (1893-1941) was a native Fujian Province. After obtaining a BA degree from the Yenching University, he continued his studies at Columbia University and Oxford University. He is remembered as an educationalist and professor at Yenching University, Peking University and Tsinghua University. His association with Hong Kong began in 1936 when he was appointed by Hong Kong University to be dean of the department of Chinese literature.
- Li Haopei
Li Haopei (Chinese: 李浩培; born Shanghai, 6 July 1906; died The Hague, 6 November 1997) was a Chinese jurist, diplomat and academic. He was a leading authority on international law. Li attended Soochow University and received his Bachelor and Master's of laws in 1928 and 1930 respectively. In 1936 he won a scholarship and travelled to the United Kingdom to pursue advanced studies in public international law, …
- Chi-Foon Chan
Chi-Foon Chan is President and Chief Operating Officer of Synopsys, Inc.. From the Synopsys website... Dr. Chi-Foon Chan shares responsibility for running the company with Synopsys Chairman and CEO Dr. Aart de Geus. Dr. Chan is focused on driving the company's internal operations and worldwide field organization. He joined Synopsys in 1990 as Vice President of Applications and Services. Previously at NEC Corporation, Dr. Chan was General Manager of the microprocessor group, …
- Ronald St. John MacDonald
Ronald St. John Macdonald, C.C. (20 August 1928 - 7 September 2006) was a Canadian legal academic and jurist. Born in Montreal, the son of R. St. John Macdonald and Elizabeth Smith, he served as a Sub-Lieutenant in the Royal Canadian Navy (Reserve) during World War II. Returning back to Canada he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1949 from St. Francis Xavier University, a Bachelor of Law degree in 1952 from Dalhousie Law School, …
- Xian Xinghai
Xian Xinghai into a family of a poor sailor, Xian started learning clarinet in 1918 at the YMCA charity school attached to the Lingnan University in Canton. In 1926, he joined the National Music Institute at Peking University to study music. In 1928, he entered Shanghai National Music Conservatory to study violin and piano, and in the same year, he published his well-known essay, "The Universal Music". In 1929, Xian went to Paris and, in 1931, …
- Fan Changjiang
Fan Changjiang (1909~Oct 1970), originally named Fan Xitian (Trad.: 范希天, Simp.: 范希天), was a famous journalist, reporter and author in China. Fan was born in Sichuan Province (四川省) and educated at Peking University (北京大學). Fan committed suicide in Henan Province at the age of 61.
- Zhu Qianzhi
Zhu Qianzhi ，1899-1972. Chinese intellectual, translator and historian. Born to a medical family in Fuzhou City, Fujian Province, Zhu was admitted to Peking University (Beida) at the age of 17 in 1916, majoring in philosophy. Prior to the emergence of Marxism in the 1920s, anarchism and socialism were major influences among radical students.
- Xue Zongzheng
Xue Zongzheng (b. 1935) is a renowned Chinese historian, a director of Ancient History at the Institute of History in Xinjiang Academy of Social Sciences, and a professor of History at the Xinjiang Normal University. Born in Jinan, Shandong, he was graduated in history from the Peking University in 1958, specialized in the fronter policy of ancient China and the history of Central Asia. He published several books in the Chinese language.