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 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
• Guo Yike - computer scientist
• Ma Weiming - electric engineer and naval designer
• Zhao Jiuzhang - physicist
• Wu Youxun - physicist
• Henry X. Liu - Bruce D. Greenshields Collegiate Professor of Engineering at the University of Michigan
• 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
• Anthony Pangilinan - Filipino businessman and media personality
• 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
• Sun Hongbin (born 1963), billionaire real estate developer

Arts and social science

Education

• Zhou Peiyuan - former president of Peking University

Others

• Amy Lyons - Australian internet personality active in China, took Chinese courses at Tsinghua
• Zhang Yuzhe - astronomer
• Jin Tianming - pastor of Shouwang Church, a very influential church in Beijing

Faculty

Nobel laureates

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

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