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

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### People's Republic of China

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* 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

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* Sun Li-jen \- Kuomintang general
* Qi Xueqi \- Kuomintang General
* Cha Liang-chao \- educator and philanthropist

### Malaysia

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* Tengku Zafrul Aziz \- Minister of Finance

## Science and technology

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* Qingyan Chen \- mechanical engineer
* Shiing-Shen Chern \- mathematician, Wolf Prize winner (1984)
* Wang Ganchang \- nuclear physicist
* Chao Ko \- mathematician
* Guo Yike \- computer scientist
* Ma Weiming \- electric engineer and naval designer
* Zhao Jiuzhang \- physicist
* Wu Youxun \- physicist
* Henry X. Liu \- Bruce D. Greenshields Collegiate Professor of Engineering at the University of Michigan
* 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

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* 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

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* 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

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* Zhou Peiyuan \- former president of Peking University

## Others

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* 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

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* 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
* Zhang Li \- Dean and Professor in the School of Architecture
* Ma Yuehan \- pioneer in physical education and modern Chinese sports

## Nobel laureates

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* Yang Chen Ning \- physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (physics, 1957)

## References

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1. ^ Wood, Charlie. "Apple CEO Tim Cook took a chairman position at one of China's top business schools". Business Insider. Retrieved 2019-11-15.
2. ^ "Jiang Bin". Forbes. Retrieved 2 May 2015.
3. ^ "Forbes profile: Sun Hongbin". Forbes. Retrieved 10 April 2018.
4. ^ 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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