33 Notable alumni of
Wuhan University
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Wuhan University is 810th in the world, 167th in Asia, and 16th in China by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 33 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 Manchurian ophthalmologist who warned his colleagues about early COVID-19 infections in Wuhan. On 30 December 2019, Wuhan CDC issued emergency warnings to local hospitals about a number of mysterious "pneumonia" cases discovered in the city in the previous week. On the same day, Li, who worked at the Central Hospital of Wuhan, received an internal diagnostic report of a suspected severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) patient from other doctors which he in turn shared with his Wuhan University alumni through a WeChat group. He was dubbed a whistleblower when that shared report later circulated publicly despite his requesting confidentiality from those with whom he shared the information. Rumors of a deadly SARS outbreak subsequently spread on Chinese social media platforms; Wuhan police summoned and admonished him and seven other doctors on 3 January for "making false comments on the Internet about unconfirmed SARS outbreak."
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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
- entrepreneurchief executive officerpoliticianbusinesspersonengineer
- 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 October 2022, Lei's net worth was estimated at either US$8.1 billion according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, making him the 203rd richest person in the world, or at $7.5 billion by Forbes, ranking him 265th worldwide.
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Li Rui
- Occupations
- politicianhistorian
- Biography
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Li Rui was a Chinese politician, historian and dissident Chinese Communist Party (CCP) member.
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Karim Massimov
- Occupations
- politicianinternational forum participanteconomist
- Biography
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Karim Qazhymqanuly Massimov is a politician who served as a Prime Minister of Kazakhstan from 10 January 2007 to 24 September 2012 and again from 2 April 2014 to 8 September 2016.
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Wang Zhi'an
- Years
- 1968-.. (age 56)
- Enrolled in Wuhan University
- 1986-1990 graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- YouTuberjournalist
- Biography
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Wang Zhi'an is a Chinese investigative journalist and former television host.
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Fang Fang
- Enrolled in Wuhan University
- 1978-1982 graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- journalistwritereditor
- 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
- historianuniversity teacherwriter
- Biography
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Yi Zhongtian is a Chinese writer and 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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Leo Li
- Enrolled in Wuhan University
- Studied in 2011-2015
- Occupations
- actorsingertelevision presenter
- 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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Wan Exiang
- Occupations
- politicianjudgejurist
- 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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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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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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Zhang Jun
- Occupations
- judge
- Biography
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Zhang Jun is a Chinese lawyer, politician and judge, who is currently the chief justice and 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 the Supreme People's Court.
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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
- children's writerjournalistwriter
- 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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Liu Ning
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Liu Ning is a Chinese politician, serving since October 2021 as Communist Party Secretary of Guangxi. Previously he served as Governor of Liaoning. He spent much of his career in water resources.
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Li Hanjun
- Years
- 1890-1927 (aged 37)
- Occupations
- politicianwriter
- 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 founding member of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
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Shu Yinbiao
- Occupations
- electrical engineerinternational forum participant
- Biography
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Shu Yinbiao is currently the President of the International Electrotechnical Commission and Chairman of China Huaneng Group.
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Fang Liu
- Occupations
- international forum participantlawyer
- 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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Han Shaogong
- Occupations
- writertranslator
- Biography
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Han Shaogong is a Chinese novelist and fiction writer.
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Han Song
- Enrolled in Wuhan University
- 1984-1991 graduated with Master of Laws
- Occupations
- science fiction writerinternational forum participantreporter
- 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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Wu Ken
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Wu Ken is a Chinese diplomat.
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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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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
- human rights activistLGBTQI+ rights activistwomen's 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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Eugene Zhu
- Years
- 1961-.. (age 63)
- 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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Chen Wenxin
- Occupations
- biologist
- 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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Lai-Sheng Wang
- Enrolled in Wuhan University
- 1978-1982 graduated with Bachelor of Science
- Occupations
- chemistresearcher
- 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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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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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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Xiaonan Ma
- Years
- 1972-.. (age 52)
- Occupations
- university teachermathematician
- Biography
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Xiaonan Ma is a Chinese mathematician working in global analysis and local index theory.
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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.
