List of people on stamps of the People's Republic of China
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- Bethune, NormanNorman BethuneHenry Norman Bethune was a Canadian physician and medical innovator. Bethune is best known for his service in war time medical units during the Spanish Civil War and with the Communist Eighth Route Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War...
(1960, 1979, 1990) Canadian Physician, Medical Innovator - Bian Que (2002) Traditional Medicine Physician
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- Cai Chang (2000) President of All-China Women's Federation
- Cai HesenCai HesenCai Hesen was an early leader of the Chinese Communist Party, and a friend and comrade-in-arms of Mao Zedong. His courtesy name was Run Huan , and he was also known as He Xian , Zhe Ying , and Lin Bin...
(2001) Communist Leader - Cai LunCai LunCai Lun , courtesy name Jingzhong , was a Chinese eunuch. He is traditionally regarded as the inventor of paper and the papermaking process, in forms recognizable in modern times as paper...
(1962) Inventor of Paper - Cai Shengxi (2002) Military Leader
- Cai YuanpeiCai YuanpeiCai Yuanpei was a Chinese educator and the president of Peking University. He was known for his critical evaluation of the Chinese culture that led to the influential May Fourth Movement...
(1988) Educator - Castro, FidelFidel CastroFidel Alejandro Castro Ruz is a Cuban revolutionary and politician, having held the position of Prime Minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976, and then President from 1976 to 2008. He also served as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba from the party's foundation in 1961 until 2011...
(1963) President of Cuba - Chen GengChen GengChen Geng was a Chinese communist military leader.-Early life:Born in Hunan province, Chen was second of 12 siblings. However, because his elder brother died early due to illness, Chen became the eldest son. His grandfather, Chen Yiqong was an officer in the imperial Chinese army and was rewarded...
(2005) Senior General of Liberation Army - Chen JingrunChen JingrunChen Jingrun was a Chinese mathematician who made significant contributions to number theory.- Personal life :Chen was the third son in a large family from Fuzhou, Fujian, China. His father was a postal worker. Chen Jingrun graduated from the Mathematics Department of Xiamen University in 1953...
(1999) - Chen Qiyou (1994) Member of United front
- Chen Shutong (1994) Vice President of People's Political Consultative Conference
- Chen YiChen Yi (communist)Chen Yi was a Chinese communist military commander and politician. He served as the 2nd Mayor of Shanghai and the 2nd Foreign Minister of China.-Biography:Chen was born in Lezhi, near Chengdu, Sichuan, into a moderately wealthy magistrate's family....
(1991) Military Commander, Politician - Chen YunChen YunChen Yun was one of the most influential leaders of the People's Republic of China during the 1980s and 90s, and one of the top leaders of the Communist Party of China for almost its entire history. He was also known as Liao Chengyun ; it's unclear whether this was his original name or a pseudonym...
(2000) Leader of the Communist Party - Chu CochingCoching ChuCoching Chu or Zhu Kezhen was a prominent Chinese meteorologist, geologist and educator.Born in Shangyu, Zhejiang, Chu went to United States for further education in 1910. He graduated from College of Agriculture, University of Illinois in 1913. Five years later, he received a Ph.D. in meteorology...
(1988) Meteorologist, Geologist - ConfuciusConfuciusConfucius , literally "Master Kong", was a Chinese thinker and social philosopher of the Spring and Autumn Period....
(1989, 2000) Thinker, Social Philosopher - Copernicus, NicolausNicolaus CopernicusNicolaus Copernicus was a Renaissance astronomer and the first person to formulate a comprehensive heliocentric cosmology which displaced the Earth from the center of the universe....
(1953) Astronomer
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- Deng Enming (2001) Communist Leader
- Deng XiaopingDeng XiaopingDeng Xiaoping was a Chinese politician, statesman, and diplomat. As leader of the Communist Party of China, Deng was a reformer who led China towards a market economy...
(1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2004) Paramount Leader - Deng YingchaoDeng YingchaoDeng Yingchao , was the wife of the first Chinese Premier, Zhou Enlai, Chairwoman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference from 1983 to 1988 and a member of the Communist Party of China.-Biography:...
(2004) Chairwoman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference - Deng Zhongxia (2006) Communist Leader
- Ding YingDing YingDing Ying was a Chinese agriculturalist.Ding was born on November 25, 1888 in Gaozhou County, Guangdong Province, China. His father, Ding Lintai was an average farmer. After graduating from high school, Ding studied natural science at Guangdong Advanced Normal College for one year...
(1990) Agricultural Scientist - Dong BiwuDong BiwuDong Biwu was a Chinese communist political leader during the regime of Mao Zedong.-Biography:Dong Biwu was born in Huanggang, Hubei. He was the President of China from 1948 to 1949 and Acting President from 1968 until 17 January 1975 when Zhu De became the succeeding Chairman of the Standing...
(1986) President - Du FuDu FuDu Fu was a prominent Chinese poet of the Tang Dynasty.Along with Li Bai , he is frequently called the greatest of the Chinese poets. His greatest ambition was to serve his country as a successful civil servant, but he proved unable to make the necessary accommodations...
(1962, 1983) Poet
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- Einstein, AlbertAlbert EinsteinAlbert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of general relativity, effecting a revolution in physics. For this achievement, Einstein is often regarded as the father of modern physics and one of the most prolific intellects in human history...
(1979) German-born Theoretical Physicist - Engels, FriedrichFriedrich EngelsFriedrich Engels was a German industrialist, social scientist, author, political theorist, philosopher, and father of Marxist theory, alongside Karl Marx. In 1845 he published The Condition of the Working Class in England, based on personal observations and research...
(1955, 1958, 1960, 1963, 1964) German Social Scientist, Philosopher
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- Gao Junyu (2006) Communist Leader
- Nicolae GrigorescuNicolae GrigorescuNicolae Grigorescu was one of the founders of modern Romanian painting.-Biography:He was born in Pitaru, Dâmboviţa County, Wallachia. In 1843 the family moved to Bucharest. At a young age , he became an apprentice at the workshop of the painter Anton Chladek and created icons for the church of...
(1977) - Guan HanqingGuan HanqingGuan Hanqing , sobriquet "the Oldman of the Studio" , was a notable Chinese playwright and poet in the Yuan Dynasty.-Biography:...
(1958) Playwright - Guan Xiangying (2005) Military Leader
- Guo MoruoGuo MoruoGuo Moruo , courtesy name Dingtang , was a Chinese author, poet, historian, archaeologist, and government official from Sichuan, China.-Family history:Guo, originally named Guo Kaizhen, was born on November 10 or 16, in the small town of Shawan...
(1982) Author, Poet, Historian - Guo ShoujingGuo ShoujingGuo Shoujing , courtesy name Ruosi , was a Chinese astronomer, engineer, and mathematician born in Xingtai, Hebei who lived during the Yuan Dynasty...
(1962) Astronomer, Engineer, Mathematician
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- Han YuHan YuHan Yu , born in Nanyang, Henan, China, was a precursor of Neo-Confucianism as well as an essayist and poet, during the Tang dynasty. The Indiana Companion calls him "comparable in stature to Dante, Shakespeare or Goethe" for his influence on the Chinese literary tradition . He stood for strong...
(1983) Essayist, Poet - He LongHe LongHe Long was a Chinese military leader. He rose to the rank of Marshal and Vice Premier after the founding of the People's Republic of China.-Early life:He Long was a member of the Tujia ethnic group...
(1986) Marshal, Vice Premier - He Shuheng (2001) Communist Leader
- Hou DebangHou DebangHou Debang was a scientist and chemical engineer in China.Graduated from Tsinghua University in 1912, he was one of the scholars sent to the United States to study modern technologies...
(1990) Chemical Engineering Expert - Hoxha, EnverEnver HoxhaEnver Halil Hoxha was a Marxist–Leninist revolutionary andthe leader of Albania from the end of World War II until his death in 1985, as the First Secretary of the Party of Labour of Albania...
(1964) Secretary of the Albanian Party of Labour - Hua LuogengHua LuogengHua Luogeng was a Chinese mathematician born in Jintan, Jiangsu. He was the founder and pioneer in many fields in mathematical research. He wrote more than 200 papers and monographs, many of which became classics. Since his sudden death while delivering a lecture at the University of Tokyo, Japan,...
(1988) Mathematician - Huang Dao Po (1980) Spinning Engineer
- Huang Gonglue (2002) Military Leader
- Huang KechengHuang KechengHuang Kecheng was one of ten senior generals of People's Liberation Army.-Biography:General Huang Kecheng was born in Yongxing, Hunan, China, and he was the third of four children...
(2005) Senior General of Liberation Army - Huang XingHuang XingHuang Xing or Huang Hsing , was a Chinese revolutionary leader, militarist, and statesman, was the first army commander-in-chief of the Republic of China. As one of the founders of the Kuomintang and the Republic of China, his position was next to Sun Yat-sen. Together they were known as...
(1986) One of the Founders of the Kuomintang - Huang YanpeiHuang YanpeiHuang Yanpei was a Chinese educator, industrialist, politician, and one of the founding pioneers of the China Democratic League.-Biography:...
(1993) Politician
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- Jia Sixie (1980) Agricultual Scientist
- JianzhenJianzhenJianzhen was a Chinese monk who helped to propagate Buddhism in Japan. In the eleven years from 743 to 754, Jianzhen attempted to visit Japan some six times.-Life:...
(1980) Monk - Jiao Yulu (1992) Communist Party Leader
- Jin Xunhua (1970) Model of Revolutionally Youth
- Joliot-Curie, FrédéricFrédéric Joliot-CurieJean Frédéric Joliot-Curie , born Jean Frédéric Joliot, was a French physicist and Nobel laureate.-Early years:...
(1959) French Physicist
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- Koch, RobertRobert KochHeinrich Hermann Robert Koch was a German physician. He became famous for isolating Bacillus anthracis , the Tuberculosis bacillus and the Vibrio cholerae and for his development of Koch's postulates....
(1982) German Physician - Kotnis, DwarkanathDwarkanath KotnisDwarkanath Shantaram Kotnis was one of five Indian physicians dispatched to China to provide medical assistance during the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1938...
(1982) Indian Physician
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- Lei FengLei FengLei Feng was a soldier of the People's Liberation Army in the People's Republic of China. After his death, Lei was characterised as a selfless and modest person who was devoted to the Communist Party, Chairman Mao Zedong, and the people of China...
(1978) Soldier - Lenin, VladimirVladimir LeninVladimir Ilyich Lenin was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and communist politician who led the October Revolution of 1917. As leader of the Bolsheviks, he headed the Soviet state during its initial years , as it fought to establish control of Russia in the Russian Civil War and worked to create a...
(1953, 1954, 1955, 1957, 1959, 1960, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1980) Leader of the October Revolution, Head of the Soviet Union, Theorist of Marxism-Leninism - Li BaiLi BaiLi Bai , also known in the West by various other transliterations, especially Li Po, was a major Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty poetry period. He has been regarded as one of the greatest poets in China's Tang period, which is often called China's "golden age" of poetry. Around a thousand existing...
(1983) Poet - Li Bing (1980) Water Conservancy Expert
- Li DazhaoLi DazhaoLi Dazhao was a Chinese intellectual who co-founded the Communist Party of China with Chen Duxiu in 1921.-Early life:...
(1989) Communist - Li FuchunLi FuchunLi Fuchun was a politician of the Communist Party of China and the People's Republic of China.-Biography:Li Fuchun was born in Changsha, Hunan Province. After completing middle school in his home province, in 1919 he traveled to France to attend a work-study program and here he started his...
(1990, 2000) Vice President - Li JishenLi JishenLi Jishen was a Chinese military commander and statesman. He served as commander of the Fourth Army of the Republic of China, governor of Guangdong, military affairs commissioner, and acting president of the Whampoa Military Academy...
(1993) Millitaly Commander of Kuomintang - Li LisanLi LisanLǐ Lìsān was an early leader of the Chinese communists, and the top leader of the Chinese Communist Party from 1928 to 1930, member of Polit Bureau, and later member of Central Committee.-Early years:...
(1999) Leader of the Communist Party - Li ShizhenLi ShizhenLi Shizhen , courtesy name Dongbi , was one of the greatest Chinese herbologists and acupuncturists in Chinese history. His major contribution to medicine was his 27-year work, which is found in his epic book the Bencao Gangmu...
(1955) Physician, Pharmacologist - Li SiguangLi SiguangLi Siguang , is the founder of China's geomechanics. According to his daughter, he was a Mongol in China. He made outstanding contributions 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...
(1988) Geomechanician - Li WeihanLi WeihanLi Weihan was a Chinese Communist politician who was the first principal of the Party School of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the highest training center for party workers and leaders. Li served as principal from 1933 to 1935 and again from 1937 to 1938.-External links:*...
(1986) Communist Party Leader - Lian Xi (2006) Forestrist
- Liang SichengLiang SichengLiang Sicheng was the son of Liang Qichao, a well-known Chinese thinker in the late Qing Dynasty. Liang Sicheng returned to China from the United States after studying at the University of Pennsylvania...
(1992) Architect - Liao ChengzhiLiao ChengzhiLiao Chengzhi was a Chinese politician. He joined the Communist Party of China in 1928, and rose to the position of director of the Xinhua News Agency; after 1949, he worked in various positions related to foreign affairs, most prominently president of the Beijing Foreign Languages Institute,...
(1988) Communist Party Leader - Liao ZhongkaiLiao ZhongkaiLiao Zhongkai , Kuomintang leader and financier. Liao Zhongkai was the principal architect of the first Kuomintang-Chinese Communist Party United Front in the 1920s....
(1987) Kuomintang Leader, Financier - Lin BiaoLin BiaoLin Biao was a major Chinese Communist military leader who was pivotal in the communist victory in the Chinese Civil War, especially in Northeastern China...
(1967) Military Leader - Lin BoquLin BoquLin Boqu ranked 8th in the 8th Politburo of the Communist Party of China. He was born in Hunan and was a follower of Sun Yatsen, but also joined the Communist Party of China in 1921. He participated in the development of Latinxua Sin Wenz....
(1986) Communist Party Leader - Lin QiaozhiLin QiaozhiLin Qiaozhi was a Chinese physician, born in Gulangyu on December 23, 1901. She attended medical school at Beijing's Union Medical College, and later took advanced training in London and Manchester. In 1929, she became the first female resident physician in Union Hospital's Department of...
(1990) Physician - Lin ZexuLin ZexuLín Zéxú ; 30 August 1785 – 22 November 1850) was a Chinese scholar and official during the Qing Dynasty.He is most recognized for his conduct and his constant position on the "high moral ground" in his fight, as a "shepherd" of his people, against the opium trade in Guangzhou...
(1985) Scholar, Official - Liu BochengLiu BochengLiu Bocheng was a Chinese Communist military commander and Marshal of the People's Liberation Army.Liu is known as one of the "Three and A Half" Strategists of China in modern history...
(1992) Military Commander - Liu HuiLiu HuiLiu Hui was a mathematician of the state of Cao Wei during the Three Kingdoms period of Chinese history. In 263, he edited and published a book with solutions to mathematical problems presented in the famous Chinese book of mathematic known as The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art .He was a...
(2002) Mathematician - Liu HulanLiu HulanLiu Hulan was a young female spy during the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party. She was born in Yunzhouxi village, in the Wenshui County of the Shanxi province. She joined the Communist Party in 1946 and soon after joined an association of women working in support...
(1977) Young Female Spy - Liu ShaoqiLiu ShaoqiLiu Shaoqi was a Chinese revolutionary, statesman, and theorist. He was Chairman of the People's Republic of China, China's head of state, from 27 April 1959 to 31 October 1968, during which he implemented policies of economic reconstruction in China...
(1983, 1998) President - Liu Yingjun (1967) Soldier
- Liu Zhidan (2002) Military Commander
- Liu ZongyuanLiu ZongyuanLiu Zongyuan , courtesy name Zihou , was a Chinese writer who lived in Chang'an during the Tang Dynasty. Liu was born in present-day Yongji, Shanxi, along with Han Yu, he was a founder of the Classical Prose Movement...
(1983) Writer - Lu XunLu XunLu Xun or Lu Hsün , was the pen name of Zhou Shuren , one of the major Chinese writers of the 20th century. Considered by many to be the leading figure of modern Chinese literature, he wrote in baihua as well as classical Chinese...
(1951, 1962, 1966, 1976, 1981) Writer - Lu YuLu YuLu Yu is respected as the Sage of Tea for his contribution to Chinese tea culture. He is best known for his monumental book The Classic of Tea , the first definitive work on cultivating, making and drinking tea.-Biography:...
(1997) Author of The Classic of Tea - Luo Binghui (2005) Military Leader
- Luo RonghuanLuo RonghuanLuo Ronghuan was a Chinese communist military leader.-Biography:Luo was born in a village in Hengshan County, Hunan Province. He joined the Chinese Communist Youth League in April 1927 and the Chinese Communist Party later that year...
(1992) Military Leader - Luo RuiqingLuo Ruiqing-Biography:Luo Ruiqing was born in Nanchong, Sichuan in 1906. He joined the Communist Party of China in 1928. He was the eldest son of a wealthy landlord named Luo Chunting , who had a total of six kids...
(2005) Senior General of Liberation Army
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- Ma Xulun (1994) Educator
- Mao DunMao DunMao Dun was the pen name of Shen Dehong , a 20th century Chinese novelist, cultural critic, and journalist. He was also the Minister of Culture of China from 1949 to 1965. He is currently renowned as one of the best realist novelists in the history of modern China...
(1986) Novelist, Critic, Journalist - Mao YishengMao YishengDr. Mao Yisheng was a Chinese structural engineer, an expert on bridge construction, and a social activist in China.-Biography:Mao was born in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province. He entered Jiaotong University's Tangshan Engineering College and earned his bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1916...
(2006) Expert on Bridge Construction - Mao ZedongMao ZedongMao Zedong, also transliterated as Mao Tse-tung , and commonly referred to as Chairman Mao , was a Chinese Communist revolutionary, guerrilla warfare strategist, Marxist political philosopher, and leader of the Chinese Revolution...
(1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1955, 1957, 1959, 1960, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1977, 1978, 1983, 1985, 1993, 1998, 1999, 2003, 2006) Chairman - Martí, JoséJosé MartíJosé Julián Martí Pérez was a Cuban national hero and an important figure in Latin American literature. In his short life he was a poet, an essayist, a journalist, a revolutionary philosopher, a translator, a professor, a publisher, and a political theorist. He was also a part of the Cuban...
(1953) Poet, Writer - Marx, KarlKarl MarxKarl Heinrich Marx was a German philosopher, economist, sociologist, historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. His ideas played a significant role in the development of social science and the socialist political movement...
(1953, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1983) Prussian Philosopher, Economist - Mei LanfangMéi LánfangMei Lanfang was one of the most famous Beijing opera artists in modern history, exclusively known for his qingyi roles, a type of dan role. Méi Lánfāng is his stage name, and in Chinese it is generally considered a feminine name. His real name was Méi Lán...
(1962) Opera Artist - MenciusMenciusMencius was a Chinese philosopher who was arguably the most famous Confucian after Confucius himself.-Life:Mencius, also known by his birth name Meng Ke or Ko, was born in the State of Zou, now forming the territory of the county-level city of Zoucheng , Shandong province, only thirty kilometres ...
(2000) Philosopher - Michael the Brave (1977) Prince of Wallachia, Transylvania, Moldavia
- MoziMoziMozi |Lat.]] as Micius, ca. 470 BC – ca. 391 BC), original name Mo Di , was a Chinese philosopher during the Hundred Schools of Thought period . Born in Tengzhou, Shandong Province, China, he founded the school of Mohism, and argued strongly against Confucianism and Daoism...
(2000) Philosopher
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- Pablo PicassoPablo PicassoPablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso known as Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a Spanish expatriate painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer, one of the greatest and most influential artists of the...
(1950) - Peng DehuaiPeng DehuaiPeng Dehuai was a prominent military leader of the Communist Party of China, and China's Defence Minister from 1954 to 1959. Peng was an important commander during the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Chinese civil war and was also the commander-in-chief of People's Volunteer Army in the Korean War...
(1988) Military Leader - Peng PaiPeng PaiPeng Pai born in Haifeng County , Guangdong Province, China, was a pioneerIn the Preface, the author called Peng Pai "the father of Chinese rural communism"...
(2006) Communist Leader - Peng Xuefeng (2005) Military Leader
- Peng ZhenPeng ZhenPeng Zhen was a leading member of the Communist Party of China.-Biography:Born in Houma , Peng was originally named Fu Maogong....
(2002) Leader of the Communist Party
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- Qiu JinQiu JinQiū Jǐn Courtesy names: Xuánqīng and Jìngxióng Sobriquet: The Woman Knight of Mirror Lake was a Chinese anti-Qing Empire revolutionary, feminist and writer...
(1991) Revolutionalist of anti-Qing Empire - Qu QiubaiQu QiubaiQu Qiubai was born in Changzhou, Jiangsu, China. He was a leader of the Communist Party of China in the late 1920s.-Early life:...
(1989) Communist Party Leader, Writer, Thinker - Qu YuanQu YuanQu Yuan was a Chinese poet who lived during the Warring States Period in ancient China. He is famous for his contributions to the poetry collection known as the Chu-ci...
(1953) Poet
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- Rabelais, FrançoisFrançois RabelaisFrançois Rabelais was a major French Renaissance writer, doctor, Renaissance humanist, monk and Greek scholar. He has historically been regarded as a writer of fantasy, satire, the grotesque, bawdy jokes and songs...
(1953) Writer - Ren BishiRen BishiRen Bishi was a rising figure in the Chinese Communist Party until his death at the age of 46. He was born in Hunan and was ranked 5th in the 7th Politburo of the Communist Party of China.-References:...
(1984) Communist Party Leader
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- Shen JunruShen JunruShen Junru was a Chinese lawyer, political figure, and the first President of the Supreme People's Court of China in the People's Republic of China.-Biography:...
(1993) President of the Supreme People's Court - Shen KuoShen KuoShen Kuo or Shen Gua , style name Cunzhong and pseudonym Mengqi Weng , was a polymathic Chinese scientist and statesman of the Song Dynasty...
(1962) Scientist, Statesman - Smedley, AgnesAgnes SmedleyAgnes Smedley was an American journalist and writer best known for her semi-autobiographical novelDaughter of Earth. She was also known for her sympathetic chronicling of the Chinese revolution...
(1985) American journalist, Writer - Snow, EdgarEdgar SnowEdgar P. Snow was an American journalist known for his books and articles on Communism in China and the Chinese Communist revolution...
(1985) American journalist - Soong Ching-lingSoong Ching-lingSoong Ching-ling , also known as Madame Sun Yat-sen, was one of the three Soong sisters—who, along with their husbands, were amongst China's most significant political figures of the early 20th century. She was the Vice Chairman of the People's Republic of China...
(1982, 1993) Madame Sun Yat-sen, President of the All-China Women's Federation, Honorary Chairwoman - Song JiaorenSong JiaorenSong Jiaoren was a Chinese republican revolutionary, political leader and a founder of the Kuomintang . He was assassinated in 1913 after leading his Kuomintang party to victory in China's first democratic elections...
(1991) Political Leader - Song YingxingSong YingxingSong Yingxing , born in Yichun of Jiangxi, was a Chinese scientist and encyclopedist who lived during the late Ming Dynasty . He was the author of an encyclopedia that covered a wide variety of technical subjects, including the use of gunpowder weapons...
(2002) Scientist - Stalin, JosephJoseph StalinJoseph Vissarionovich Stalin was the Premier of the Soviet Union from 6 May 1941 to 5 March 1953. He was among the Bolshevik revolutionaries who brought about the October Revolution and had held the position of first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee...
(1950, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1964, 1979) General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee - Strong, Anna LouiseAnna Louise StrongAnna Louise Strong was a twentieth-century American journalist and activist, best known for her reporting on and support for communist movements in the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China.-Early years:...
(1985) American journalist - Su SongSu SongSu Song was a renowned Chinese polymath who specialized himself as a statesman, astronomer, cartographer, horologist, pharmacologist, mineralogist, zoologist, botanist, mechanical and architectural engineer, poet, antiquarian, and ambassador of the Song Dynasty .Su Song was the engineer of a...
(2002) Astronomer, cartographer, horologist, pharmacologist, mineralogist, zoologist, botanist, mechanical and architectural engineer - Su YuSu YuSu Yu was a Chinese Communist military leader. He was considered by many to be among the best commanders of the PLA only next to Lin Biao and Liu Bocheng. Su Yu fought in the Sino-Japanese War and in the Chinese Civil War...
(2005) Senior General of Liberation Army - Su ZhaozhengSu ZhaozhengSu Zhaozheng , early phase leader of the Communist Party of China, labour movement activist. A native of the Qi'ao Island of Xiangshan County, Guangdong Province, he became a sailor, active in Sun Yatsen's nationalist organization Tongmenghui, and took part in organizing the Sailors' Union in 1920...
(2006) Communist Leader - Damdin Sükhbaatar (1961)
- Sun SimiaoSun SimiaoSun Simiao was a famous traditional Chinese medicine doctor of the Sui and Tang dynasty. He was titled as China's King of Medicine for his significant contributions to Chinese medicine and tremendous care to his patients....
(1962) Medicine Doctor - Sun TzuSun TzuSun Wu , style name Changqing , better known as Sun Tzu or Sunzi , was an ancient Chinese military general, strategist and philosopher who is traditionally believed, and who is most likely, to have authored The Art of War, an influential ancient Chinese book on military strategy...
(1995) Author of The Art of War - Sun Yat-senSun Yat-senSun Yat-sen was a Chinese doctor, revolutionary and political leader. As the foremost pioneer of Nationalist China, Sun is frequently referred to as the "Father of the Nation" , a view agreed upon by both the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China...
(1950, 1956, 1961, 1966, 1981, 1986, 1999, 2006) Revolutionary and Political Leader
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- Tan Kah KeeTan Kah KeeTan Kah Kee was a prominent businessman, community leader, and philanthropist in colonial Singapore, and a Communist leader in the People's Republic of China.- Early years :...
(1984) Singaporian businessman - Tan Xinpei (2005) Opera Actor, Movie Actor
- Tan Zheng (2005) Senior General of Liberation Army
- Tang Feifan (1992) Microbiologist
- Tao XingzhiTao XingzhiTao Xingzhi , was a renowned 20th century Chinese educator and reformer. He studied at Teachers College, Columbia University and returned to China to champion progressive education. His career in China as a liberal educator was not derivative of John Dewey, as some have alleged, but creative and...
(1991) Educator - Tao ZhuTao ZhuTao Zhu is a Former Member of the 8th Communist Party of China Politburo Standing Committee.-Biography:He was Secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Committee and Commander of the Guangzhou Military Region....
(1988) Communist Party Leader
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- Wang HeboWang HeboWang Hebo , whose forebears had come from Taiyuan, Shanxi, born in Minhou, Fujian, joined the CPC in June 1922. He led the strike of the Tianjin-Pukou Railway workers in 1923, which effectively supported the General Strike of February 7...
(2006) Communist Leader - Wang JiaxiangWang JiaxiangWang Jiaxiang , one of the senior leaders of the Communist Party of China in its early stage and a member of the 28 Bolsheviks, with his life of up and down indicating the cruel reality of politics.-Biography:...
(1986) Communist Party Leader - Wang Jinmei (2001) Communist Leader
- Wang Jinxi (1972, 1974) Worker
- Wang Shusheng (2005) Senior General of Liberation Army
- Wei Baqun (2002) Military Leader
- Wu YouxunWu YouxunWu Youxun or Y. H. Woo was a physical scientist. He had the courtesy name of Zhèngzhī .- Biography :Wu graduated from the Department of Physics of Nanjing Higher Normal School , and was later associated with the Department of Physics at Tsinghua University...
(1988) Physical Scientist
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- Xiang Jingyou (1978) Member of Communist Party
- Xian XinghaiXian XinghaiXian Xinghai was one of the earliest generation of Chinese composers influenced by western classical music and has influenced generations of Chinese musicians...
(1985) Composer - Xiao Jinguang (2005) Senior General of Liberation Army
- Xiong QinglaiXiong QinglaiXiong Qinglai , courtesy name Youzhi , was a Chinese mathematician from Yunnan. He was the first person to introduce modern mathematics into China, and served as an influential president of Yunnan University from 1937 through 1947. A Chinese stamp was issued in his honour.-Biography:Xiong studied...
(1992) Mathematician - Xu BeihongXu BeihongXu Beihong was born in Yixing, China. He was primarily known for his shuimohua of horses and birds and one of the first Chinese artists to articulate the need for artistic expressions that reflected a new modern China at the beginning of the 20th century...
(1978=Painting, 1985) Painter - Xu Dehang (1994) Leader of Jiusan Society
- Xu Guangda (2005) Senior General of Liberation Army
- Xu GuangqiXu GuangqiXu Guangqi , was a Chinese scholar-bureaucrat, agricultural scientist, astronomer, and mathematician in the Ming Dynasty. Xu was a colleague and collaborator of the Italian Jesuits Matteo Ricci and Sabatino de Ursis and they translated several classic Western texts into Chinese, including part of...
(1980) Bureaucrat, Agricultural Scientist, Astronomer, Mathematician - Xu HaidongXu HaidongXu Haidong was a Grand General in the People's Liberation Army of China.Xu was born in Huangpi , Hubei, China. He was the six kid of his parents, who had a total of 10 children. His father was Xue Zhongben and his mother is only remembered by her last name, Wu...
(2005) Senior General of Liberation Army - Xu Jishen (2001) Military Leader
- Xu XiangqianXu XiangqianXu Xiangqian was a Chinese communist military leader.-Biography:Xu was born in Wutai county, Shanxi province, China. He was admitted to the Whampoa Academy in 1924 and held various officer ranks in the National Revolutionary Army between 1925 and 1927...
(1991) Military Leader - Xu XilinXu XilinXu Xilin , was a Chinese revolutionary born in Dongpu, Shanyin, Shaoxing, Zhejiang during the Qing dynasty.Xu was sent to Japan in 1903 for study where he joined other Zhejiang students in rescuing Zhang Taiyan, who was arrested for spreading Anti Qing views...
(1991) Member of Guangfuhui (Restoration Society) - Xun ZiXun ZiXun Zi was a Chinese Confucian philosopher who lived during the Warring States Period and contributed to one of the Hundred Schools of Thought. Xun Zi believed man's inborn tendencies need to be curbed through education and ritual, counter to Mencius's view that man is innately good...
(2000) Philosopher
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- Yan Jici (2006) Physical Scientist
- Yang HuchengYang HuchengYang Hucheng was a Chinese warlord during the Warlord Era of Republican China and Kuomintang general during the Chinese Civil War....
(1993) Military Leader - Yang JingyuYang JingyuYang Jingyu , was a Chinese Communist, commander-in-chief and political commissar of the New First Army of the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army, in the guerrilla war in Manchuria against the Japanese campaign to pacify Manchukuo during the Second Sino-Japanese War.-...
(2005) Commander-in-chief, Political Commissar - Yang KaihuiYang KaihuiYáng Kāihuì , who was the second wife of Mao Zedong from 1920 to 1930, was born in a small village named Bancang, in Changsha, Hunan Province, on November 6, 1901. She had three children with Mao Zedong, named Mao Anying, Mao Anqing, and Mao Anlong...
(1978) Second Wife of Mao Zedong - Yang LiweiYang LiweiYáng Lìwěi is a Chinese major general and military pilot and a CNSA astronaut. He was the first man sent into space by the Chinese space program and his mission, Shenzhou 5, made China the third country to independently send people into space.-Background:...
(2003) Astronaut - Yang Zerong (1970)
- Ye JianyingYe JianyingYe Jianying was a Chinese communist general and the chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress from 1978 to 1983.-Biography:...
(1987) General, The Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress - Ye TingYe TingYe Ting , born in Huiyang, Guangdong, was a Chinese military leader. He started out nationalist and went to the communists....
(1996) Military Leader - Yi XingYi XingYi Xing , born Zhang Sui , was a Chinese astronomer, mathematician, mechanical engineer,and Buddhist monk of the Tang Dynasty...
(1955) Astronomer, Mathematician
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- Zai Lun (1962)
- Zhang LanZhang LanZhang Lan , courtesy name Biaofang, was a Chinese political activist best known for being the chairman of the China Democratic League from its founding in 1941 until 1955.-Biography:Zhang was born into a scholarly family in Nanchong, Sichuan in 1872...
(1993) President of China Democratic League - Zhang Xiaoqian (1992) Physician
- Zhang Yunyi (2005) Senior General of Liberation Army
- Zetkin, ClaraClara ZetkinClara Zetkin was a German Marxist theorist, activist, and fighter for women's rights. In 1910, she organized the first International Women's Day....
(1960, 1980) German Politician - Zhan TianyouZhan TianyouJeme Tien Yow was a distinguished Chinese railroad engineer. Educated in the United States of America, he was the chief engineer responsible for construction of the Imperial Peking-Kalgan Railway , the first railway constructed in China without foreign assistance.-Biography:Jeme was born in...
(1961) Railroad Engineer - Zhang BinglinZhang BinglinZhang Binglin was a Chinese philologist, textual critic and anti-Manchu revolutionary.His philological works include Wen Shi , the first systematic work of Chinese etymology...
(1986) Philologist - Zhang HengZhang HengZhang Heng was a Chinese astronomer, mathematician, inventor, geographer, cartographer, artist, poet, statesman, and literary scholar from Nanyang, Henan. He lived during the Eastern Han Dynasty of China. He was educated in the capital cities of Luoyang and Chang'an, and began his career as a...
(1955) Astronomer, Mathematician - Zhang Sui (1955)
- Zhang WentianZhang WentianZhang Wentian . He is also known as Luo Fu . His names in Wade-Giles are Chang Wen-t'ien and Lo Fu.Born in Jiangsu, he attended engineering school in Nanjing and also spent a year at the University of California. He later joined the Communist Party and was sent to study at Sun Yat-sen University...
(1990) General Secretary of the Communist Party - Zhang YuzheZhang YuzheZhang Yuzhe or Yu-che Chang was a Chinese astronomer who is widely regarded as the father of modern Chinese astronomy....
(1990) Astronomer - Zheng HeZheng HeZheng He , also known as Ma Sanbao and Hajji Mahmud Shamsuddin was a Hui-Chinese mariner, explorer, diplomat and fleet admiral, who commanded voyages to Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, and East Africa, collectively referred to as the Voyages of Zheng He or Voyages of Cheng Ho from...
(2005) Mariner, Explorer, Diplomat, Fleet Admiral - Zhao ShiyanZhao ShiyanZhao Shiyan was a Chinese Communist martyr and former Chinese premier Li Peng's uncle.In 1915, Zhao went to Beijing to study at the High School Affiliated to Beijing Normal University, majored in English. In 1919, he participated in the May Fourth Movement, China Youth Association. The following...
(2001) Communist Leader - Zhou EnlaiZhou EnlaiZhou Enlai was the first Premier of the People's Republic of China, serving from October 1949 until his death in January 1976...
(1977, 1998) Premier - Zhou PeiyuanZhou PeiyuanZhou Peiyuan was a renowned theoretical physicist of China. He was a former president of Peking University, and an academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences ....
(2006) Physicist - Zhu DeZhu DeZhu De was a Chinese militarist, politician, revolutionary, and one of the pioneers of the Chinese Communist Party. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, in 1955 Zhu became one of the Ten Marshals of the People's Liberation Army, of which he is regarded as the founder.-Early...
(1952, 1957, 1977, 1986) Communist military leader, Statesman - Zhu Yuan (1953)
- ZhuangziZhuangziZhuangzi was an influential Chinese philosopher who lived around the 4th century BCE during the Warring States Period, a period corresponding to the philosophical summit of Chinese thought — the Hundred Schools of Thought, and is credited with writing—in part or in whole—a work known by his name,...
(2000) Philosopher - Nikolai? Zhukov (1958)
- Zuo QuanZuo QuanZuo Quian, also named Zuo Shuren , born in Liling, Hunan, a general of Chinese Communist Party, Lieutenant General of Republic of China. He is the highest general of Eighth Route Army...
(2005) Military Leader - Zou Taofen (1985) Editor
- Zu ChongzhiZu ChongzhiZu Chongzhi , courtesy name Wenyuan , was a prominent Chinese mathematician and astronomer during the Liu Song and Southern Qi Dynasties.-Life and works:...
(1955) Mathematician, Astronomer