List of Tsinghua University people

This is a list of people associated with Tsinghua University in Beijing.

Politics and public service

People's Republic of China

• Hu Jintao – former CPC General Secretary, President of China
• Xi Jinping – current CPC General Secretary, President of China
• Zhu Rongji – former Premier of the People's Republic of China
• Wu Guanzheng – member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China
• 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

• Sun Li-jen - Kuomintang general
• Qi Xueqi - Kuomintang General

Science and technology

• Shiing-Shen Chern - mathematician, Wolf Prize winner (1984)
• Chao Ko - mathematician
• Zhao Jiuzhang - physicist
• Wu Youxun -physicist

Business and entrepreneurship

• Min Chueh Chang - co-inventor of the combined oral contraceptive pill (1933)
• Jiang Bin - billionaire co-founder of GoerTek^[1]

Arts and social science

• Mu Dan - poet
• Liang Shih-Chiu - scholar
• Wen Yiduo - writer, poet
• Feng Youlan - Chinese philosopher
• Fei Xiaotong - researcher of sociology and anthropology
• Qian Zhongshu - one of the most famous writers of pre-Revolutionary China; wrote Fortress Besieged

Education

• Zhou Peiyuan - former president of Peking University

Others

• Di Gao - University of Pittsburgh, Professor of Chemical & Petroleum Engineering
• Zhang Yuzhe - astronomer

Faculty

• 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
• Norbert Wiener – theoretical and applied mathematician (Visiting Professor)
• Andrew Chi-Chih Yao – Turing Award winner (2001), computer scientist
• Ma Yuehan - pioneer in physical education and modern Chinese sports

Nobel Laureates

• Tsung-Dao Lee - physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (physics, 1957)
• Yang Chen Ning - physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (physics, 1957)

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