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List of Tsinghua University people
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This is a list of people associated with Tsinghua University in Beijing.
Politics and public service
[edit]People's Republic of China
[edit]- Hu Jintao – former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, President of China
- Xi Jinping – current General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, President of China
- Zhu Rongji – former Premier of the People's Republic of China, founding dean of Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management
- Wu Bangguo - former Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress
- Wu Guanzheng – member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party
- Huang Ju – former Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China
- Zhou Xiaochuan – governor of the People's Bank of China
- Jia Chunwang – head of Ministry of State Security 1985–1998, then Minister of Public Security
- Lou Jiwei - Minister of Finance, People's Republic of China
Republic of China
[edit]- Sun Li-jen - Kuomintang general
- Qi Xueqi - Kuomintang General
- Cha Liang-chao - educator and philanthropist
Malaysia
[edit]- Tengku Zafrul Aziz - Minister of Finance
Science and technology
[edit]- Qingyan Chen - mechanical engineer
- Shiing-Shen Chern - mathematician, Wolf Prize winner (1984)
- Wang Ganchang - nuclear physicist
- Chao Ko - mathematician
- Ma Weiming - electric engineer and naval designer
- Zhao Jiuzhang - physicist
- Wu Youxun - physicist
- Jinhua Lu - Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- Xiaoquig Ding - Department of Electronic Engineering professor and supervisor
- Shuyun Zhou - physicist
Business and entrepreneurship
[edit]- Min Chueh Chang - co-inventor of the combined oral contraceptive pill (1933)
- Tim Cook - American business executive, chairman of the advisory board for Tsinghua University's economics school[1]
- Stephen A. Schwarzman - billionaire co-founder and CEO of the Blackstone Group, founder of the Schwarzman Scholars at Tsinghua University
- Jiang Bin - billionaire co-founder of GoerTek[2]
- Sun Hongbin (born 1963), billionaire real estate developer[3]
Arts and social science
[edit]- Zhang Junmai - metaphysics, Chinese philosophy
- Zhang Dongsun - epistemology, ethics, Western philosophy, Chinese philosophy
- Jin Yuelin - logic, Western philosophy, Chinese philosophy
- Feng Youlan - Chinese philosophy
- Pan Guangdan - writer, sociologist
- Wen Yiduo – Chinese literature, writer
- Zhu Ziqing - Chinese literature
- Liang Shih-Chiu - scholar, Chinese literature
- K. C. Hsiao - scholar, political scientist
- Weiping Wu - dean of the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- Wu Wenzao - scholar, sociologist
- Fei Xiaotong - researcher of sociology and anthropology
- Qian Zhongshu - one of the most famous writers of pre-Revolutionary China; wrote Fortress Besieged
- Mu Dan - poet
- Manuel Pérez García - Associate Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and ERC Grantee 2015
- Liu Yu - political scientist and writer
- Huang Teng-hui - visual arts
- Luo Niansheng - translation of Ancient Greek literature
Education
[edit]- Zhou Peiyuan - former president of Peking University
Others
[edit]- Amy Lyons - Australian internet personality active in China, took Chinese courses at Tsinghua[4]
- Zhang Yuzhe - astronomer
- Jin Tianming - pastor of Shouwang Church, a very influential church in Beijing
Faculty
[edit]- Liang Qichao - philosopher and reformist during the Qing dynasty
- John L. Thornton - former president and co-chief operating officer of Goldman Sachs
- Tsiang Tingfu - historian and diplomat
- Wang Guowei
- Qin Hui
- David Daokui Li - economist and the Director of the Center for China in the World Economy (CCWE)
- Wang Hui
- Laurie Olin - landscape architect and author
- Liang Sicheng - architect and historian
- Chen Yinke - historian and linguist
- Patrick Chovanec – commentator and consultant on Chinese economy and US-China relations
- Lin Huiyin – architect, poet, and historian
- Chen Yinque – historian and linguist
- Jie Tang - creator of AMiner
- Norbert Wiener – theoretical and applied mathematician (Visiting Professor)
- Andrew Chi-Chih Yao – Turing Award winner (2001), computer scientist
- Shing-Tung Yau – Fields Medal winner (1982), mathematician
- Caucher Birkar – Fields Medal winner (2018), mathematician
- Nicolai Reshetikhin – mathematical physicist
- Ma Yuehan - pioneer in physical education and modern Chinese sports
Nobel Laureates
[edit]- Yang Chen Ning - physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (physics, 1957)
References
[edit]- ^ Wood, Charlie. "Apple CEO Tim Cook took a chairman position at one of China's top business schools". Business Insider. Retrieved 2019-11-15.
- ^ "Jiang Bin". Forbes. Retrieved 2 May 2015.
- ^ "Forbes profile: Sun Hongbin". Forbes. Retrieved 10 April 2018.
- ^ McNab, Alexander Cecil (2018-02-24). "Kung Fu Foreigner". The World of Chinese. Retrieved 2019-12-10. - The article misidentifies Pymble as her university (as "college" in American English means a university).
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