Famous Alumni
- Min Chueh Chang - a co-inventor of the combined oral contraceptive pill (1933)
- Shiing-Shen Chern - mathematician, Wolf Prize winner (1984)
- 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
- Hu Jintao - current General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and President of the People's Republic of China
- Huang Ju - 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
- Di Gao - University of Pittsburgh, Professor of Chemical & Petroleum Engineering
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Famous quotes containing the word famous:
“Lizzie Borden took an axe
And gave her mother forty whacks;
When she saw what she had done,
She gave her father forty-one.”
—Anonymous. Late 19th century ballad.
The quatrain refers to the famous case of Lizzie Borden, tried for the murder of her father and stepmother on Aug. 4, 1892, in Fall River, Massachusetts. Though she was found innocent, there were many who contested the verdict, occasioning a prodigious output of articles and books, including, most recently, Frank Spiering’s Lizzie (1985)