Notable Residents
Notable people from Kunming include:
- Benedict Anderson, scholar (born in Kunming)
- Cai Xitao, botanist
- Chih-Kung Jen, physicist
- Pierre Jean Marie Delavay, 19th century French missionary, lived and died in Kunming
- Nie Er, composer (born in Kunming)
- Frank Shu, Chinese-American astrophysicist, born in Kunming
- Lamu Gatusa, professor and writer
- Li Guoxing, China's first face transplant patient. His face was terribly disfigured in 2004 after an attack by a bear. He received a partial face transplant operation at Xi'an's Xijing Hospital in April 2006, the second operation of its kind following a French female patient in 2005.
- Li Weiwei, Olympics handball player
- Liu Fang, pipa player
- Maran Brang Seng, Burmese politician (died in Kunming)
- Tang Jiyao, general and warlord of Yunnan, died in Kunming
- Tu Wei-ming, ethicist (born in Kunming)
- Wang Hongni, triathlete and Asian Games gold medallist
- Wen Yiduo, poet and scholar, (lived and assassinated in Kunming)
- Zhang Xiaogang, artist, born in Kunming
- Zhu De, military leader (studied in Kunming)
- Zhu Youlang (Ming Dynasty emperor), (fought and was executed in Kunming)
- Anthony Zee, physicist
- Wang Fei, Major of Kunming
Diplomats:
- Auguste François, French consul in south China
- George Soulié de Morant, French diplomat
- John S. Service, American diplomat served in Kunming for two years
National Southwestern Associated University:
- Chen Ning Yang, physicist
- Chen Yinke, linguist
- Feng Youlan, philosopher
- Shiing-Shen Chern, mathematician
- Ta-You Wu, physicist
- Tsung-Dao Lee, physicist
- Wang Yuan, mathematician
- Wu Ningkun, professor emeritus
- Zhang Boling, founder of Nankai University
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