# 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
* 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

* Zhang Junmai - metaphysics, Chinese philosophy
* Zhang Dongsun - epistemology, ethics, Western philosophy, Chinese philosophy
* Jin Yuelin - logic, Western philosophy, Chinese philosophy
* Feng Youlan - Chinese philosophy
* Pan Guangdan - writer, sociologist
* Wen Yiduo - Chinese literature, writer
* Zhu Ziqing - Chinese literature
* Liang Shih-Chiu - scholar, Chinese literature
* K. C. Hsiao - scholar, political scientist
* Weiping Wu - dean of the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
* Wu Wenzao - scholar, sociologist
* Fei Xiaotong - researcher of sociology and anthropology
* Qian Zhongshu - one of the most famous writers of pre-Revolutionary China; wrote Fortress Besieged
* Mu Dan - poet
* Manuel Pérez García - associate professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and ERC Grantee 2015
* Liu Yu - political scientist and writer
* Huang Teng-hui - visual arts
* Luo Niansheng - translation of Ancient Greek literature

## 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

* Liang Qichao - philosopher and reformist during the Qing dynasty
* John L. Thornton - former president and co-chief operating officer of Goldman Sachs
* Tsiang Tingfu - historian and diplomat
* Wang Guowei
* Qin Hui
* David Daokui Li - economist and the Director of the Center for China in the World Economy (CCWE)
* Wang Hui
* Laurie Olin - landscape architect and author
* Liang Sicheng - architect and historian
* Chen Yinke - historian and linguist
* Patrick Chovanec - commentator and consultant on Chinese economy and US-China relations
* Lin Huiyin - architect, poet, and historian
* Chen Yinque - historian and linguist
* Jie Tang - creator of AMiner
* Norbert Wiener - theoretical and applied mathematician (Visiting Professor)
* Andrew Chi-Chih Yao - Turing Award winner (2001), computer scientist
* Shing-Tung Yau - Fields Medal winner (1982), mathematician
* Caucher Birkar - Fields Medal winner (2018), mathematician
* Nicolai Reshetikhin - mathematical physicist
* Zhang Li - Dean and Professor in the School of Architecture
* Ma Yuehan - pioneer in physical education and modern Chinese sports

## Nobel laureates

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