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Famous Chinese People.........

Oakster
Oakster Posts: 6,812
edited April 2008 in Not Sports Related
OK without looking them up or doing a google search. How many famous Chinese people - famous as in the bloke on the 198 bus will have heard of him/her - can you name?

I give you Mao Tse Tung & Ken Hom for starters.

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  • WSS
    WSS Posts: 25,117
    Zheng Zhi
  • WSS
    WSS Posts: 25,117
    Gok Wan
  • Alex Wright
    Alex Wright Posts: 8,214
    Confucious
  • Curb_It
    Curb_It Posts: 21,271
    jackie chan.
  • WSS
    WSS Posts: 25,117
    edited April 2008
    Bruce Lee
    Marco Fu
    John Woo
  • me
    me Posts: 168
    Bolo Yeung
  • Oakster
    Oakster Posts: 6,812
    It's strange that there are 1369451000 Chinese people (born there or by descent) - 20% of the worlds population - yet we can probably name more famous Belgians!!
  • T_C_E
    T_C_E Posts: 16,451
    Elvis (the one that used to sing in the Chinese up the old kent road) ;)
  • shirty5
    shirty5 Posts: 19,419
    Cato
  • BlackForestReds
    BlackForestReds Posts: 17,952
    Jackie Chan
    Zhou Enlai
    Ding Junhai
    Marco Fu
    Sun Jihai
    Yao Ming
    Ma Junren
    Jung Chang
    Sun Yatsen
    Li Ka-Shing

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  • Czech_Addick
    Czech_Addick Posts: 997
    Sum Yun Gai
  • Oakster
    Oakster Posts: 6,812
    [cite]Posted By: BlackForestReds[/cite]Jackie Chan
    Zhou Enlai
    Ding Junhai
    Marco Fu
    Sun Jihai
    Yao Ming
    Ma Junren
    Jung Chang
    Sun Yatsen
    Li Ka-Shing

    The proverbial bloke on the 198 bus is gonna be struggling with all of these barring Mr Chan.

    I might add Bert Kwok though - for fans of the Pink Panther & Harry Hill.

    I bet there are more famous Belgians.
  • Chirpy Red
    Chirpy Red Posts: 7,587
    Woody Allen's step daughter who he married.

    The golfer Michelle Wi
  • Oakster
    Oakster Posts: 6,812
    The trick seems to be if you are Chinese & you want to become famous in the West, you have to have an anglicised first name!
  • Chirpy Red
    Chirpy Red Posts: 7,587
    In my game we talk to a lot of Chinese in S'pore and Hong Kong, they all select a Western first name. Franky Orr and Charlie Wing are two guys I know.
    I friend of mine who works in S'pore knows a guy at Ernst & Young called Ernest Yeoung!
  • MCS
    MCS Posts: 8,404
    edited April 2008
    [cite]Posted By: Chirpy[/cite]is back chirpy is back, ello, ello, chirpy is back chirpy is back ello ello
  • leftbehind
    leftbehind Posts: 8,581
    Ting Tong
  • Goonerhater
    Goonerhater Posts: 12,677
    Oakster not 100% true re Chinese and Western first names. I worked with a real fire brand young Chinese lady called Lyn Wong , however her first name wasnt Lyn but it was as close as most could get to her real first name so she adopted it.
    Stunning lookin lady, 4 foot nothing spoke with a scouse acent. Her family had this huge restuarant in Liverpool. One day she says to me i need next couple days off owing to the fact that she had to attend Crown Court in Liverpool after going after a pissed up punter in her dads restaurant with a meat clever !!! case was drpped but she left through ill health 6 months later unkown to any of us she used to drink two full bottles of Vodka a day ! and her dad got her home up North and in a drying out clinic.
    was great fun to go out with, she was always hit on by guys where ever she went and to see that tiny lady say in that scouse acent "f**k off pal OK" will stick with me for ever.
  • BlackForestReds
    BlackForestReds Posts: 17,952
    [quote][cite]Posted By: Chirpy Red[/cite]Woody Allen's step daughter who he married.

    The golfer Michelle Wi[/quote]

    Michelle Wi is Hawaiin.
  • nth_london_addick
    nth_london_addick Posts: 35,919
    jimmy wang yang

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  • Curb_It
    Curb_It Posts: 21,271
    [cite]Posted By: Oakster[/cite]The trick seems to be if you are Chinese & you want to become famous in the West, you have to have an anglicised first name!

    Worked for Li Ka Shing's company in Hong Kong - yes the bloke on the 198 would struggle oakster - dont think he read your question properly.

    What a horrible place to work that was. But anyway you're right about the anglicised name... about a 1000 worked in our office and when bored i would read the telephone directory to look at the christian names! We had plenty of Fanny's, about fives Eagles, but the ones that stood out was that we had one Boogie and one Disco respectively.
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 27,089
    [cite]Posted By: Curb_It[/cite]
    [cite]Posted By: Oakster[/cite]The trick seems to be if you are Chinese & you want to become famous in the West, you have to have an anglicised first name!

    Worked for Li Ka Shing's company in Hong Kong - yes the bloke on the 198 would struggle oakster - dont think he read your question properly.

    What a horrible place to work that was. But anyway you're right about the anglicised name... about a 1000 worked in our office and when bored i would read the telephone directory to look at the christian names! We had plenty of Fanny's, about fives Eagles, but the ones that stood out was that we had one Boogie and one Disco respectively.

    Over in Singapore and HongKong for Natwest/RBS we had a Fanny Pak and Fanny Pun.
  • Stoke_addick
    Stoke_addick Posts: 182
    What that Chinese chef call Ken somthing?
  • BlackForestReds
    BlackForestReds Posts: 17,952
    [quote][cite]Posted By: Stoke_addick[/cite]What that Chinese chef call Ken somthing?[/quote]

    Ken Hom, he had a magic wok...
  • Robbo on the wing
    Robbo on the wing Posts: 4,135
    [cite]Posted By: Oakster[/cite]The trick seems to be if you are Chinese & you want to become famous in the West, you have to have an anglicised first name!
    What, like Charles chow mein?
  • mascot88
    mascot88 Posts: 9,760
    Kung pow chicken
  • ThreadKiller
    ThreadKiller Posts: 8,638
    sun tzu

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