Tsinghua Department of Mathematical Sciences - Notable Alumni and Academics - Famous Alumni

Famous Alumni

  • Hu Jintao – former CPC General Secretary, President of China
  • Xi Jinping – current CPC General Secretary, President of China
  • Min Chueh Chang – a co-inventor of the combined oral contraceptive pill (1933)
  • Shiing-Shen Chern – mathematician, Wolf Prize winner (1984)
  • Shing-Tung Yau - mathematician, Fields Medalist (1982) and Wolf Prize winner (2010)
  • Kai Lai Chung – mathematician
  • Mu Dan – poet
  • Chao Ko – mathematician
  • Zhao Jiuzhang – physicist
  • Sun Li-jen – Kuomintang general
  • Liang Shih-chiu – scholar
  • Wen Yiduo – writer, poet
  • Feng Youlan – Chinese philosopher
  • Zhang Yuzhe – astronomer
  • Fei Xiaotong – researcher of sociology and anthropology
  • Qian Zhongshu – one of the most famous writers of pre-Revolutionary China, wrote Fortress Besieged
  • Zhou Peiyuan – former president of Peking University
  • 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
  • Zhu Rongji – former 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

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    Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great. We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety.
    Daniel J. Boorstin (b. 1914)