List of Peking University people

This is a list of people associated with Peking University in China. Several notable individuals have been associated with Peking University.

Faculty

* Qian Xuantong - linguist
* Gu Hongming - writer
* Chen Duxiu - dean of letters, later co-founder of Communist Party of China
* Lu Xun - writer
* Shen Congwen - writer
* Hu Shih - philosopher and writer
* Lin Yutang - writer
* Fei Xiaotong - researcher of sociology and anthropology
* Wang Xiaobo - writer
* He Weifang - judicial reformist
* Wang Tieya - jurist, Judge of International Criminal Court
* Li Haopei - jurist, Judge of International Criminal Court
* Jian Bozan - historian

Administrators

* Cai Yuanpei - early university Chancellor
* Yan Fu - early university Chancellor
* Li Dazhao - head librarian, later co-founder of Communist Party of China

Alumni

Writers

* Fan Changjiang - journalist and writer
* Feng Youlan - philosopher
* Han Suyin - writer
* Mao Dun - writer and journalist
* Xu Zhimo - poet
* Zhang Chengzhi - writer
* Zhu Ziqing - poet
* Dolma Kyab - writer (currently political prisoner)
* Jan Wong - writer (one of the first western students permitted to study aboard.)

Academics

* Michael Halliday - developed systemic functional grammar
* Gang Tian - Mathematician
* Li Yining - economist
* Tsung-Dao Lee (Li Zhengdao) - physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (physics, 1957)
* Justin Yifu Lin - economist
* Yu Jie - First house church leader to meet an American president (May 2006, meeting George W Bush in the White House)
* Yu Min - physicist, Father of Chinese H-bombs

In politics

* Bo Xilai - minister of commerce
* Deng Nan - former vice minister of the State Science and Technology CommissionLi
* Hu Chunhua - first secretary of the Communist Youth League
* Hu Deping - vice chairman of All-China General Chamber of Industry & Commerce Party, Secretary of National Association of Industry and Commerce, and vice minister of the Propaganda Department
* Li Keqiang - Politburo Standing Committee member.
* Li Zhaoxing - minister of foreign affairs
* Shen Tong - Author, Pro-democracy activist
* K. Natwar Singh - India politician
* Wang Dan - Leader of the Tiananmen protests in 1989
* Zhang Guotao - early leader in the Communist Party of China

In commerce and media

* Li Yanhong - founder of baidu.com
* Wang Xuan - founder of Founder Co.

Former employees

* Mao Zedong - staff librarian, leader of Communist Party of China
* Bertrand Russell - Lecturer in Philosophy (1920-21)

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