Fu Daqing

male
Fu Daqing, alias Fu Dajing, was a Communist propagandist, translator and organiser who worked for the Communist cause in China before his capture...
Yum-Tong Siu

Yum-Tong Siu

male, 66 years old
Yum-Tong Siu (born May 6, 1943 in Guangzhou, China) is the William Elwood Byerly Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University. Dr. Siu has been...
Cui Yingjie

Cui Yingjie

male
Cui Yingjie, is a peasant from Fuping (阜平县), Henan who came to Beijing as a migrant worker. Cui became the source of national attention when on Aug...
Joseph de Guignes

Joseph de Guignes

male, deceased (1800)
Joseph de Guignes, French orientalist and sinologist, was born at Pontoise, the son of Jean Louis de Guignes and Françoise Vaillant. He died in P...
Choh Hao Li

Choh Hao Li

male, deceased (1987)
Choh Hao Li (sometimes "Cho Hao Li") (April 21, 1913-November 28, 1987) was a Chinese-born U.S. biochemist who discovered, in 1966, that human...

Russell Sturgis

male, deceased (1887)
Russell Sturgis (1805-1887) was a Boston merchant active in the China trade, and later head of Baring Brothers, London. Sturgis was born in Boston,...
Kerson Huang

Kerson Huang

male, 81 years old
Kerson Huang (born 1928) grew up in Guangzhou, China, and is currently Professor of Physics Emeritus at MIT. His name is more familiar to Chinese...
Helmar Frank

Helmar Frank

male, 76 years old
Helmar Gunter Frank, born February 19, 1933, is a German mathematician and pedagogist. He was among the first scientists to apply mathematical...
Wang Yi Guang

Wang Yi Guang

male
Wang Yi Guang is a modern Chinese painter notable for his Tibetian paintings of flying people, yaks and sheep. Wang Yi Guang was born in Yimeng...
Tyrus Wong

Tyrus Wong

male, 99 years old
Tyrus Wong born in 1910 in Guangzhou, China is a painter, lithographer, and designer. As production illustrator in the film industry, Wong has...