Famous people starting with zh - FMSPPL.com

Zhang Gaoli is a retired Chinese politician. He served as the Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China between 2013 and 2018 and as a member of the Politburo Standing Committee, China's highest ruling council, between 2012 and 2017. Prior to his ascension, Zhang served as the Communist Party Secretary of Tianjin between 2007 and 2012, and the Party Secretary in the economic powerhouse of Shandong province between 2002 and 2007.

Zhao Xintong is a Chinese professional snooker player, widely considered one of the most promising upcoming snooker talents.

Zhou Guanyu is a Chinese racing driver who currently competes in Formula One for Alfa Romeo. He is the first Chinese driver to compete in Formula One. He competed in the FIA Formula 2 Championship for UNI-Virtuosi Racing from 2019 to 2021, having finished 3rd in the 2021 campaign.

Zhang Weili, nicknamed "Magnum", is a Chinese mixed martial artist. She was the former Kunlun Fight (KLF) strawweight champion and currently competes in the strawweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), where she is the current UFC Women's Strawweight World Champion. She is the first ever Chinese and East Asian champion in UFC history. As of November 23, 2020, she is ranked #3 in UFC women's pound-for-pound rankings.

Zhong Nanshan is a Chinese pulmonologist. He was president of the Chinese Medical Association from 2005 to 2009 and is currently the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Thoracic Disease. He is a recipient of Order of the Republic, the highest order of honor of China.

Zhanna Iosifovna Badoeva - is a Ukrainian TV personality and producer. Most known as an author and onscreen moderator of the TV travel program “Oryol i Reshka”.

Zhao Liying, also known as Zanilia Zhao, is a Chinese actress. She is best known for her roles in television series Legend of Lu Zhen (2013), Boss & Me (2014), The Journey of Flower (2015), The Mystic Nine (2016), Noble Aspirations (2016), Princess Agents (2017), The Story of Minglan (2018), and Legend of Fei (2020).

Zhao Lusi, is a Chinese actress. She is known for her roles in The Romance of Tiger and Rose, Oh! My Emperor, Dating In The Kitchen and Love of Thousand Years.

Zhou Youguang, also known as Chou Yu-kuang or Chou Yao-ping, was a Chinese economist, banker, linguist, sinologist, publisher, and supercentenarian, known as the "father of Pinyin", a system for the writing of Mandarin Chinese in Roman script, or romanization, which was officially adopted by the government of the People's Republic of China in 1958, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in 1982, and the United Nations in 1986.

Zhou Shen, also known as Charlie Zhou, is a Chinese singer. He is best known for his songs "Big Fish", which won 8 awards. In November 2017, Zhou released his debut album 深的深, a co-creation with producer Gao Xiaosong, songwriter Yin Yue, and composer Qian Lei. He has performed for many TV series and Chinese animation films such as Big Fish & Begonia, Dahufa, and Crystal Sky of Yesterday, among others. In March 2018, Zhou sang the Chinese promotional song for the 2018 Oscar Best Picture The Shape of Water. In 2020, Zhou Shen won first place for his performance of the song "Da La Beng Ba" in the show Singer 2020, imitating multiple voices, including that of a little girl and a man. By April 2020, this performance clip's view count on Bilibili had exceeded 10 million, surpassing that of the original song; after the song was released on Netease Cloud Music, it dominated the chart for several days, and the single has been played over 100 million times, and has been on top of Chinese search engines.

Zhou Yongkang is a former senior leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). He was a member of the 17th Politburo Standing Committee (PSC), China's highest decision-making body, and the Secretary of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission (Zhengfawei) between 2007 and 2012, making him one of the most powerful leaders in China. In that position, Zhou oversaw China's security apparatus and law enforcement institutions, with power stretching into courts, prosecution agencies, police forces, paramilitary forces, and intelligence organs. He was convicted of corruption-related charges in 2014 and expelled from the CCP.

Zhao Ziyang was a high-ranking politician in the People's Republic of China (PRC). He was the third premier of the People's Republic of China from 1980 to 1987, vice chairman of the Communist Party of China from 1981 to 1982, and general secretary of the Communist Party of China from 1987 to 1989. He was in charge of the political reforms in China from 1986, but lost power in connection with the reformative neoauthoritarianism current and his support of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.

Zhang Zhehan is a Chinese actor and singer. He is best known for his roles in Legend of Ban Shu, Demon Girl, Legend of Yunxi, The Blooms at Ruyi Pavilion, and Word of Honor.

Zheng Shuang is a Chinese actress. She rose to fame with her role as Chu Yuxun in Meteor Shower (2009–2010), becoming the youngest actress to be nominated for Best Actress at the China TV Golden Eagle Award. In 2016, she starred in the hit romance comedy drama Love O2O.

Zhang Yuxi is a Chinese actress. She is known for her roles as Lin Xingchen in the romance comedy drama My Little Princess and Li Shiya in I Cannot Hug You.

Zhou Enlai, Wade-Giles transliteration Chou En-lai, was the first Premier of the People's Republic of China. From October 1949 until his death in January 1976, Zhou was China's head of government. Zhou served under Chairman Mao Zedong and helped the Communist Party rise to power, later helping consolidate its control, form its foreign policy, and develop the Chinese economy.

Zhao Wei, also known as Vicky Zhao or Vicki Zhao, is a Chinese actress, businesswoman, film director, producer and pop singer. She is considered one of the most popular actresses in China and Chinese-speaking regions, and one of the highest paid actresses.

Zhuge Liang, courtesy name Kongming, was a Chinese politician, military strategist, writer, engineer and inventor. He served as the chancellor and regent of the state of Shu Han during the Three Kingdoms period. He is recognised as the most accomplished strategist of his era, and has been compared to Sun Tzu, the author of The Art of War. His reputation as an intelligent and learned scholar grew even while he was living in relative seclusion, earning him the nickname "Wolong" or "Fulong", meaning "Crouching Dragon" or "Sleeping Dragon". Zhuge Liang is often depicted wearing a Taoist robe and holding a hand fan made of crane feathers.

Zhang Zhan is a Chinese citizen journalist and former lawyer who was tortured by Chinese secret police and sentenced to four years in prison on the charges of "picking quarrels and provoking trouble" for her reporting on the Chinese government's mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic. She is the first citizen journalist to be sentenced for reporting on the pandemic in China, although at least 47 other journalists are currently in detention in China for their coronavirus reporting.

Zhang Shangwu is a Chinese former artistic gymnast and member of the national gymnastics team. He gained much attention in the 2010s after it was discovered that his life had turned to stealing and begging on the streets.

Zhanna Andreyevna Bolotova is a Soviet film actress who was popular in the 1970s and the early 1980s. In 1977 she became a USSR State Prize laureate and was designated as a People's Artist of Russia in 1985. The actor and theatre/film director Nikolai Gubenko was her husband.

Zhang Xincheng, also known by his English name Steven Zhang, is a Chinese actor.

Zhang Jin, also known as Max Zhang, is a Hong Kong-Chinese actor, martial artist and a former wushu athlete who won the Best Supporting Actor at the 33rd Hong Kong Film Awards.

Zhang Ziyi is a Chinese actress and model. Her first major role was in The Road Home (1999). She later gained international recognition for her role in Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), which was nominated for 10 Academy Awards. Zhang has also appeared in Rush Hour 2 (2001), Hero (2002), and House of Flying Daggers (2004). Her most critically acclaimed works are Memoirs of a Geisha (2005), which earned her nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama, the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role; and The Grandmaster (2013), for which she won 12 different Best Actress awards to become the most awarded Chinese actress for a single film.

Evgeny Viktorovich Belousov, better known as Zhenya Belousov was a Soviet and Ukrainian pop singer, popular in the late 1980s — early 1990s. His best-known hits include My Blue-Eyed Girl, Night Taxi, Alyoshka, Girl girl, Evening-evening, Hair cloud, Golden domes, Short summer, Dunya-Dunyasha, In the evening on a bench.

Zhang Bichen, also known as Diamond Zhang, is a Chinese singer. She was a member of the South Korean girl group Sunny Days. In 2014, she won the Chinese singing contest The Voice of China.

Carisa Zhavia Ward is an American singer and songwriter from Norwalk, California. Her mother Bobbi Jo Black was the singer of the metal band Xenoterra. She rose to fame after competing in singing reality television show The Four: Battle for Stardom, which premiered on Fox on January 4, 2018, where she was one of four finalists. In May 2018, Ward signed a deal with Columbia Records, and was featured on Diplo and Lil Pump's single "Welcome to the Party". She started her first tour on March 6, 2019. In 2019, she performed a cover of "A Whole New World" with Zayn Malik for the Aladdin soundtrack.

Zhou Dongyu is a Chinese actress, who gained recognition after appearing in Zhang Yimou's film Under the Hawthorn Tree. She was also chosen by Southern Metropolis Daily as one of the "Four Dan actresses of the post-90s Generation", along with Zheng Shuang, Guan Xiaotong and Yang Zi. In 2016, she won the Golden Horse Award for Best Leading Actress with her performance in Soul Mate. In 2020, she won the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actress with her performance in Better Days.

Zhang Shuai is a Chinese professional tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 23, achieved on 14 November 2016, and a highest doubles ranking of 9, reached on 20 May 2019. Zhang has won 24 singles titles: 20 on the ITF Circuit, two on the WTA Tour – both at the Guangzhou International Women's Open – and two on tournaments of the WTA 125K series. In doubles, she has won 17 titles, including the 2019 Australian Open, partnered with Samantha Stosur.

Zhu Xudan, also known as Bambi Zhu, is a Chinese actress. She is known for her supporting role in Eternal Love and her lead role as Zhou Zhiruo in Heavenly Sword and Dragon Slaying Sabre.