38 Notable alumni of
Wuhan University
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Wuhan University is 766th in the world, 157th in Asia, and 16th in China by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 38 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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Lei Jun
- Occupations
- politicianchief executive officerentrepreneurengineerbusinessperson
- Biography
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Lei Jun is a Chinese billionaire entrepreneur and computer engineer. He is known for being the founder, chairman, and CEO of the consumer electronics company Xiaomi. He also is the chairman of Kingsoft and Shunwei Capital. Lei has been a deputy to the National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China since 2013.
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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 58)
- 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 was an investigative reporter at China Central Television from 1998 to 2015, after which he was chief investigative reporter at The Beijing News. He was banned from the Chinese internet in 2019. After moving to Japan in 2021, he has worked as an independent reporter. In May 2022, he launched his YouTube talk show Wang Ju Pai An. In 2024, he was banned from entering Taiwan for five years for violating the terms of his tourist visa by appearing on a television show.
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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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Karim Massimov
- Occupations
- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Kärım Qajymqanūly Mäsımov 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
- writerpoetjournalisteditor
- 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
- historianwriteruniversity teacher
- 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
- singeractortelevision 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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Zhang Jun
- Occupations
- judge
- Biography
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Zhang Jun is a Chinese lawyer and politician who has been serving as President of the Supreme People's Court and Chief Justice of the People's Republic of China since March 2023.
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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
- juristjudgepolitician
- 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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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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Ruan Chengfa
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Ruan Chengfa is a Chinese politician who served as 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 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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Liu Ning
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Liu Ning is a Chinese politician, currently serving as Party Secretary of Henan. Previously he served as Party Secretary of Guangxi and Governor of Liaoning. He spent much of his career in water resources.
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Ye Shengtao
- Occupations
- children's writerwriterjournalist
- Biography
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Ye Shengtao also known as Ye Shaojun, 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
- historianwriterpolitician
- 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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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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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. Li came into contact with Marxism through Japanese-language sources. He was fluent in Japanese, English, French and German. His residence was used as the Site of the First National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party.
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Han Song
- Enrolled in Wuhan University
- 1984-1991 graduated with Master of Laws
- Occupations
- science fiction writerwriterediting staffreporteropinion journalist
- Biography
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Han Song is a Chinese science fiction writer and a 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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Guo Yonghang
- Years
- 1965-.. (age 61)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Guo Yonghang is a Chinese politician who is currently served as the deputy chairperson of the Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. Previously, he was served as Party Secretary of Guangzhou from June 2023 to December 2025. He is a delegate to the 14th National People's Congress.
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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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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
- human rights defenderdocumentary filmmakerwomen's rights activistLGBTQ rights activist
- 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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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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Li Deren
- Years
- 1939-.. (age 87)
- Occupations
- remote sensing specialistsurveyorgeodesistuniversity teacher
- 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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Zhu Yuchen
- Years
- 1961-.. (age 65)
- 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
- 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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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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Xiaonan Ma
- Years
- 1972-.. (age 54)
- 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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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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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.
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Marguerite S. Chang
- Occupations
- chemist
- Biography
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Marguerite Shue-wen Chang was a Chinese-born American research chemist and inventor, awarded the Federal Woman's Award in 1973 for her work in the United States Naval Ordnance Laboratory, based in Maryland.
