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

People's Republic of China

• 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

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

Malaysia

• Tengku Zafrul Aziz - Minister of Finance

Science and technology

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Zhou Peiyuan - former president of Peking University

Others

• 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

• 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

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

References

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).