List of Nanjing University people

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The list of Nanjing University people includes notable graduates, non-graduates, professors and other people affiliated with Nanjing University.

Graduates

• Chang Chi-yun (張其昀), historian, geographer, educationist, politician.
• Zhou Bangdao (周邦道), scholar, educator. The first "Zhuangyuan" (狀元) since the establishment of Republic of China (ranked No.1 in the 1st R.O.C. Gaodeng Examination (中華民國第一屆高等考試) which is in a certain sense equivalent to former Imperial examination, 1931). He was later the president of China Medical College (China Medical University), vice minister of Ministry of Examination of R.O.C..

Education

• Zhang Zonglin (張宗麟), the first Chinese professional male infant teacher in modern era
• Tai Shuangqiu (邰爽秋), educator dedicated to people's livelihood. The advocator of the Teachers' Day in China.

Humanities

• Lu Qian (卢前), dramatist, litterateur, poet, scholar
• Chen Chung-hwan (陳忠寰. autonym 陳康, Chinese Pinyin: Chen Kang), philosopher.
• Tang Junyi (唐君毅), philosopher.
• Wang Ling (王玲), historian, educator. Key collaborator of Joseph Needham on the monumental work Science and Civilisation in China

Social sciences

• Yang Kaidao (楊開道), sociologist
• Hsing Mu-huan (邢慕寰), economist, the first Director of Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica.
• Yang Bi-li (楊必立), the pioneer guru of management education in Chinese community, the initiator of Chinese MBA education.
• Xia Shuzhang (夏書章), scholar in public administration, the father of MPA education in China.
• Han Depei (韓德培), jurist

Natural science & technology

• Y. H. Woo (吳有訓), physical scientist. After Wu Youxun verified Compton effect (X-ray diffraction), Nobel Prize was given to Arthur H.Compton.
• Chung-Yao Chao (趙忠堯), physical scientist. The first scientist that captured positron through electron-positron annihilation and tested the existence of antimatter.
• Chien-Shiung Wu (吳健雄), scientist. The "First Lady of Physics", the "Greatest Experimental Physicist in 20th Century". The first laureate of Wolf Prize in Physics, the first female President of the American Physical Society.
• W. H. T. (Wellington Hsiao-tung) Loh (陸孝同), leading authority on dynamics and thermodynamics of re-entry and planetary entry. A leading figure in American Apollo program and Mars Exploration program. He was the chairman of international conference on space exploration held in Washington in 1972.
• Yuan-Cheng Fung (馮元楨), scientist of bioengineering and biomechanics. The "Founder of Modern Biomechanics" and a founding figure of bioengineering. He is the winner of United States National Academy of Engineering Founders Award (NAE Founders Award, 1998), National Medal of Science (U.S.A., 2000), and Russ Prize (2007).
• Feng Kang (馮康), mathematician. The founder of finite element algorithm.
• Qian Ji (錢驥), the General Designer of China's first satellite (Dongfanghong I).
• Kenneth J. Hsu (許靖華), scientist and geologist
• Xia Peisu (夏培肅), computer scientist. She developed China's first general purpose digital computer.
• Wang Debao (王德寶), biochemist. He firstly synthesized yeast alanine transfer RNA.
• Feng Duan (馮端), physicist.
• Liu Dongsheng (劉東生), geologist. Winner of Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement.
• Gang Tian (田剛), mathematician.
• Jeff Xia (夏志宏), astronomy, mathematician.
• Zhou Zhonghe (周忠和), researcher and director, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences; member of U.S. National Academy of Sciences.
• Zhang Xiang (張翔), a Faculty Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Director of NSF Nano-scale Science and Engineering Center; member of National Academy of Engineering of USA.
• Zhang Qiming (章启明), a distinguished professor of Electrical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering at Pennsylvania State University. He is also the vice President & CTO at Strategic Polymer Sciences, Inc.

Business, industry, commerce and finance

• Xu Boyuan (徐柏園), financier, former Central Bank Governor, Ministry of Finance, R.O.C.. He's the founder of Chinese central bank system.
• Wang Zhixin (王志莘), banker, financier, a founder and the first General Manager of former Shanghai Stock Exchange
• Tang I-Fang, industry magnate. The founder and Chairman of Board of WBL Corporation, former Singapore Economic Development Board Chairman. The Pioneer of Singapore Industry.
• Chen Guangbiao (陳光標), entrepreneur and philanthropist

Politics & government

• Kwoh-Ting Li (李國鼎), economic expert, statesmen. The "Father of Taiwan's Economic Miracle".
• Sha Zukang (沙祖康), diplomat, the head of United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs.
• Chen Deming (陳德銘), the Minister of Commerce, P.R.C.
• Yang Jiechi (楊潔篪), the foreign minister of the People's Republic of China.
• Guo Jinlong (郭金龍), Mayor of Beijing. He was the Executive President of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the 29th Olympic Games.

Arts

• Lv Fengzi (呂鳳子), artist, art educator. The founder of the first modern fine arts school in China.
• Chiang Yee (蔣彝), poet, author, painter, calligrapher. The "Silent Traveller".
• Chien-Ying Chang, artist who settled in Britain.
• Hong Fan (洪潘), musician. The "father of modern Chinese wind music (管樂, tube music)", the "father of modern Chinese martial music".

Literature

• Shen Zufen (沈祖棻), scholar, writer. Classic writer.
• Nieh Hua-Ling (聶華苓), writer. Contributed a lot to world literature exchange.

Journalism & media

• Hu Bangji (胡邦濟), journalist. China's war correspondent in European battlefield in World War II. She interviewed many men of the time, including Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin, Charles de Gaulle, Harry S. Truman, Neville Chamberlain and Josip Broz Tito. Her husband, Bi Jilong, former vice secretary general of United Nations, was her schoolmate at Nanjing University.
• Yu Chi-chung (余紀忠), Taiwan's media gurus, the founder of the China Times Group.

Performing arts & entertainment

• Gong Jianong (龔稼農), actor
• Chang Cheh (張徹), film director. The "Father of New Gongfu Film", the "Godfather of Hong Kong cinema".
• Lu Yang, film director, photographer, scientist extraordinaire

Miscellaneous

• Luo Fuxin (羅福鑫), the first blind college student in China.
• Fang Xianjue (方先覺), a general against the invasion of militaristic Japan
• Zeng Liansong (曾聯松), the designer of the Flag of the People's Republic of China.

Non-graduate

• Jiang Zemin (江澤民), former General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and President of the People's Republic of China (Studied at Nanjing Central University from 1943 to 1945).
• Kim Jun-Yop, historian, educationalist, social activist.
• Mochtar Riady, financial magnate in southeast Asia. Founder and CEO of Lippo Group. Chairman of the Asian Bankers Association. The founder of several banks.
• Wang Gungwu, historian, educator.
• Vikram Seth (賽斯), poet, novelist.
• Miles Flint, the former President of Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications.

Faculty

• Liu Yizheng (柳詒徵), historian
• Wang Bohang (王伯沆), Confucian scholar, literary history scholar
• Xiao Junxian (蕭俊賢), the first artist providing Chinese painting education in modern institutions of higher learnings.
• Matsumoto Kouzirou (松本孝次郎), educationist. Former provost of Tokyo Higher Normal School (today's University of Tsukuba). He jointly founded the first magazine for children education in Japan.
• Tao Xingzhi (陶行知), educator
• Wang Yanqing (王燕卿), the first musician introducing Guqin and Guoyue education into modern higher learning institutions. The founder of Meian qin school (梅庵琴派, Meian music school. Meian is the Zi(字) of former school president Li Ruiqing).
• Liu Boming (劉伯明), philosopher
• Zhu Kezhen (竺可楨), meteorologist, geologist.
• Mao Yisheng (茅以升), structural engineer
• Xiong Qinglai (熊慶來) mathematician
• Mei Guangdi (梅光迪), the first dean of the first department of western literature in Chinese universities.
• Ma Yinchu (馬寅初), economist.
• Thome H. Fang (方東美), philosopher
• Pearl Buck (賽珍珠), writer. A Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
• Xu Beihong (徐悲鴻), artist
• Chang Dai-chien (張大千), great Chinese artist.
• Zheng Ji (鄭集), biochemist
• Ren Mei'e (任美鍔), geomorphologist, geologist, marine and coastal scientist
• Na zhong (納忠), the first scholar teaching Arabic in Chinese universities, master of Arabic culture and history studies.
• Xu Xin (徐新), a founder of Judaic studies in China.
• Du Junfei (杜骏飞), scholar in computer-mediated communication and mass communication. A pioneer scholar in the study of internet mass communication.
• Robert March scholar in international business and negotiation

Honorary professors, visiting professors

• Charles W. Woodworth, American entomologist. The founder of the Entomology Division University of California, Berkeley. He was a lecturer in Entomology during his sabbatical there in 1918 and then again between 1921-1924. See the C. W. Woodworth Award.
• Hans Driesch, biologist and philosopher. German leader of vitalism. He taught for a semester in 1922.

Retired professors

• Xu Longdao (徐龙道), physics

Alumni of mergered and attached schools

Alumni of the University of Nanking (merged in 1952)

• Choh Hao Li, biologist, biochemist. His achievements include isolating and synthesizing the human pituitary growth hormone and he received many honors including Lasker Award.
• Choh-Ming Li, educationist, economist.
• Francois Cheng, writer, poet. A "Bridge Between Eastern and Western Culture".
• T.C. Tso, agriculturalist, tobacco scientist.
• Te-Tzu Chang, agriculturalist. He receives Tyler World Prize for Environmental Achievement 1999.
• Thome H. Fang, philosopher.
• Wu Teh Yao, educationist, politics scholar.

Alumni of attached schools

• Gao Xingjian, novelist, dramatist and critic. Nobel Prize Winner in Literature in 2000. He entered Middle School Attached to University of Nanking (Now Jinling High School) in 1952.
• Yuan Longping, agriculturalist. "China's Most Famous 'Farmer'", "Father of Hybrid Rice", Wolf Prize winner in agriculture. He graduated from Middle School Attached to National Nanjing University (Now High School Affiliated to Nanjing Normal University) in 1949.

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