List of Tsinghua University people

This is a list of people associated with Tsinghua University in Beijing.

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
 * Ma Weiming - electric engineer and naval designer
 * Zhao Jiuzhang - physicist
 * Wu Youxun - physicist
 * 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

• Ma Yuehan - pioneer in physical education and modern Chinese sports

Nobel Laureates

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