37 Notable alumni of
Wuhan University
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Wuhan University is 792nd in the world, 158th in Asia, and 16th in China by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 37 notable alumni from Wuhan University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Li Wenliang
- Enrolled in Wuhan University
- 2004-2011 graduated with master's degree
- Occupations
- physician
- Biography
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Li Wenliang was a Chinese ophthalmologist who warned his colleagues about early COVID-19 infections in Wuhan.
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Wu Qian
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Wu Qian, also known as Janice Wu, is a Chinese actress. She rose to fame for portraying the younger counterpart of Zhao Mosheng in the 2015 hit romance drama My Sunshine, and gained attention for her roles in the television series My Amazing Boyfriend (2016), Fighter of the Destiny (2017), The Brightest Star in the Sky (2019), Le Coup de Foudre (2019), and Skate into Love (2020).
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Lei Jun
- Occupations
- businesspersonpoliticianchief executive officerentrepreneurengineer
- Biography
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Lei Jun is a Chinese billionaire entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is known for founding the consumer electronics company Xiaomi. As of 2025, Lei's net worth was estimated at either US$30.4 billion according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, making him the 66th wealthiest person in the world, or at $30.6 billion by Forbes, ranking him 65th worldwide.
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Li Rui
- Occupations
- historianpolitician
- Biography
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Li Rui was a Chinese politician, historian and dissident Chinese Communist Party (CCP) member.
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Wang Zhi'an
- Years
- 1968-.. (age 57)
- Enrolled in Wuhan University
- 1986-1990 graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- journalistYouTuber
- Biography
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Wang Zhi'an is a Japan-based Chinese journalist. He served as a reporter and host for China Central Television and chief investigative reporter for The Beijing News. After being banned from the Chinese internet in 2019, he moved to Japan and has worked as an independent journalist. In May 2022, he started hosting news talk show Wang Ju Pai An on YouTube. In 2024, he was banned from entering Taiwan for five years.
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Karim Massimov
- Occupations
- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Karim Qajymqanuly Massimov is a Kazakh politician who served as Prime Minister of Kazakhstan from 2007 to 2012 and again from 2014 to 2016. He was Deputy Prime Minister from 2006 to 2007 and held the positions of Minister of Economy and Budget Planning and Minister of Transport and Communications in 2001. He served as chairman of the National Security Committee from 2016 to 2022.
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Fang Fang
- Enrolled in Wuhan University
- 1978-1982 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- writerjournalisteditor
- Biography
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Fang Fang, pen name of Wang Fang (汪芳; born 11 May 1955), is a Chinese writer, known for her literary depictions of the working poor. She won the Lu Xun Literary Prize in 2010. Born in Nanjing, she attended Wuhan University in 1978 to study Chinese. In 1975, she began to write poetry and in 1982, her first novel was published. She has since written several novels, some of which have been honored by Chinese national-level literary prizes. Fang garnered international attention for her Wuhan Diary, documenting the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic in China, and has used her platform to call for an end to internet censorship in China.
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Yi Zhongtian
- Occupations
- writeruniversity teacherhistorian
- Biography
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Yi Zhongtian is a Chinese historian. He is also a professor and Ph.D. supervisor at the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Xiamen University's School of Humanities.
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Chi Pang-yuan
- Occupations
- translatorwriter
- Biography
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Chi Pang-yuan was a Manchurian-born Taiwanese writer, academic, and Chinese–English translator. She was instrumental in introducing Taiwanese literature to the Western World through translations. She is also known for her autobiography The Great Flowing River (2009).
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Leo Li
- Enrolled in Wuhan University
- Studied in 2011-2015
- Occupations
- television presentersingeractor
- Biography
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Leo Li is a Chinese actress, singer-songwriter and television presenter. She is famous for her photo album with her alma mater — Yali, I Will Marry You Today (Chinese: 雅礼，今天我要嫁给你了) in 2013.
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Zhang Jun
- Occupations
- judge
- Biography
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Zhang Jun is a Chinese lawyer and politician, who is currently the president of the Supreme People's Court. Between 2018 and 2023, he served as the procurator-general of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, and the minister of Justice between 2017-2018. He formerly served as vice minister of Justice and vice president of China's Supreme People's Court.
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Chen Changhao
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Chen Changhao was a member of the 28 Bolsheviks and an important military figure of Zhang Guotao's 4th Red Army from Hanyang, Wuhan. Chen had also been known as Cangmu.
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Wan Exiang
- Occupations
- judgepoliticianjurist
- Biography
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Wan Exiang is a Chinese politician and jurist who served as a vice chairperson of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress from 2018 to 2023. He was the chairman of the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang between 2012 and 2022.
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Ruan Chengfa
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Ruan Chengfa is a Chinese politician who served as Communist Party Secretary and Governor of Yunnan, and before that, Communist Party Secretary of Wuhan, mayor of Huangshi, head of the General Office of the Hubei Provincial Government, vice governor of Hubei, and party chief of Xiangfan. Ruan is an alternate member of the 18th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and a member of the 19th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.
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Li Xiaolin
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Li Xiaolin is a Chinese politician who served as party secretary and chairperson of the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries. She is also a member of the 12th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
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Ye Shengtao
- Occupations
- writerjournalistchildren's writer
- Biography
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Ye Shengtao was a Chinese writer, journalist, educator, publisher and politician. He was a founder of the Association for Literary Studies (文學研究會), the first literature association during the May Fourth Movement in China. He served as the Vice-Minister of Culture of the People's Republic of China.
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Jian Bozan
- Occupations
- writerpoliticianhistorian
- Biography
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Jian Bozan was a Chinese scholar and Marxist historian of Uyghur descent. Born in Taoyuan County, Hunan Province, Jian became an early supporter of the Chinese Communist Party. From 1952 to his death, he was Vice President of Peking University. Like many authoritative academic figures of his generation, he was persecuted during the Cultural Revolution over a perceived divergence between his own ideas and that of dominant Maoist orthodoxy of the time. Unable to bear torture, Jian committed suicide in 1968.
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Liu Ning
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Liu Ning is a Chinese politician, currently serving as Communist Party Secretary of Henan. Previously he served as Communist Party Secretary of Guangxi and Governor of Liaoning. He spent much of his career in water resources.
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Li Hanjun
- Years
- 1890-1927 (aged 37)
- Occupations
- writerpolitician
- Biography
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Li Hanjun was an alternate member of the 3rd Central Executive Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. He was the younger brother of Li Shucheng. Born in Hubei Province, he studied abroad in Japan from 1902 to 1918, graduating from University of Tokyo. He was fluent in Japanese, English, French and German. Although a founding member of the Chinese Communist Party, he later left the party after coming into conflict with Zhang Guotao and joined the Kuomintang. An opponent of Chiang Kai-shek's anti-Communist campaign, he fled to the Japanese concession in Hankou when Chiang's supporters entered Wuhan in November 1927. He was captured by the New Guangxi clique and murdered.
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Chen Tanqiu
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Chen Tanqiu was a Chinese politician and founding member of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
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Han Song
- Enrolled in Wuhan University
- 1984-1991 graduated with Master of Laws
- Occupations
- science fiction writerreporter
- Biography
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Han Song is a Chinese science fiction writer and a state journalist at the Xinhua News Agency.
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Han Shaogong
- Occupations
- translatorwriter
- Biography
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Han Shaogong is a Chinese novelist and fiction writer.
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Shu Yinbiao
- Occupations
- electrical engineer
- Biography
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Shu Yinbiao is a Chinese business executive that is the President of the International Electrotechnical Commission and Chairman of China Huaneng Group.
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Fang Liu
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Liu Fang is a Chinese attorney who was the twelfth Secretary General of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), a position she has held from 2015 until 2021 when Juan Carlos Salazar was appointed the new Secretary General. She was the first woman to hold this position.
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Guo Yonghang
- Years
- 1965-.. (age 60)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Guo Yonghang is a Chinese politician who is the current party secretary of Guangzhou, in office since June 2023. He is a delegate to the 14th National People's Congress.
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Wu Ken
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Wu Ken is a Chinese diplomat who has been serving as the Chinese ambassador to Germany from March 2019 to August 2024.
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Wei Tingting
- Enrolled in Wuhan University
- 2005-2009 graduated with Bachelor of Laws in sociology
- 2009-2011 graduated with Master of Laws in anthropology
- Occupations
- women's rights activistLGBTQ rights activisthuman rights activistdocumentary filmmaker
- Biography
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Wei Tingting is a Chinese LGBTI+ and feminist activist, writer and documentary filmmaker. She is one of the Feminist Five.
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Yi Peiji
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Yi Peiji was a Chinese politician, scholar, and educator.
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Zhu Yuchen
- Years
- 1961-.. (age 64)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Zhu Yuchen, also known as Eugene Zhu, is a Chinese business executive and one of the explorers and founders of the Chinese futures market. He is the former CEO of Dalian Commodity Exchange (DCE) and China Financial Futures Exchange (CFFEX). He is also the former chairman of the China Futures Association (CFA).
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Li Deren
- Years
- 1939-.. (age 86)
- Occupations
- university teacherremote sensing specialistsurveyorgeodesist
- Biography
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Li Deren is a Chinese scientist who is a professor at Wuhan University, a former president of Wuhan University of Surveying and Mapping Technology, and member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
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Lai-Sheng Wang
- Enrolled in Wuhan University
- 1978-1982 graduated with Bachelor of Science
- Occupations
- researcherchemist
- Biography
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Lai-Sheng Wang is an experimental physical chemist currently serving as the Chair of the Chemistry Department at Brown University. Wang is known for his work on atomic gold pyramids and planar boron clusters.
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Chen Wenxin
- Occupations
- microbiologistbiologist
- Biography
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Chen Wenxin was a Chinese biologist specializing in soil microorganisms and bacterial taxonomy, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Some English-language sources cite her as "Wen Xin Chen" or as "Wen-Xin Chen".
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Tan Lei
- Occupations
- mathematician
- Biography
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Tan Lei was a mathematician specialising in complex dynamics and functions of complex numbers. She is most well-known for her contributions to the study of the Mandelbrot set and Julia set.
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Xiaonan Ma
- Years
- 1972-.. (age 53)
- Occupations
- mathematicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Xiaonan Ma is a Chinese mathematician working in global analysis and local index theory.
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Lu Yongzheng
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Lu Yongzheng is a Chinese politician and the current Director of the Publicity Department of the CCP Guizhou Committee.
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Yi Lijun
- Occupations
- translator
- Biography
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Yi Lijun, also known by her pen name Han Yi (韩逸; 韓逸; Hán Yì), was a Chinese translator who had been honored by the Polish Government.
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Liu Yan
- Occupations
- geologist
- Biography
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Liu Yan is a Chinese Antarctic researcher best known for her work on iceberg calving. She is an associate professor of geography in the College of Global Change and Earth System Science (GCESS) and Polar Research Institute, Beijing Normal University.
