50 Notable alumni of Zhejiang University

Wei Zheng is an American pharmaceutical scientist and toxicologist. He is Professor Emeritus at the School of Health Sciences at Purdue University.

He Yafei is a Chinese diplomat who was vice-minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2008 to 2009.

Wang Jianzhou, is Chinese business executive. His roles included being the former chairman of China Mobile.

Sha Wenhan, was a Chinese historian, revolutionary, educator and politician. He served as Governor of Zhejiang Province and President of Zhejiang University.

Ho Ping-sung, (1890–1946), was a Chinese historian.

Hu Jimin was a Chinese nuclear physicist, plasma physicist and educator.

Guozhen Lu is a professor of mathematics at the University of Connecticut. He is known for his contributions to harmonic analysis, geometric analysis, and partial differential equations.

Yu Mao-Hong is a Chinese engineer and a university professor. He is noted for his research on the strength criteria and yield surfaces of isotropic materials. His unified strength theory (UST) has found acceptance as generalized classical strength theory. It contains the following strength theories (hypotheses) and criteria as a function of the equivalent stress σ e q = σ...

Shao Piaoping was a journalist, author, and political activist in China during the early 20th century. He was originally named Jingqing (鏡清), and later renamed himself Zhenqing (振青).

Xie Xuren is a Chinese politician, serving since 2013 as the Chair of the National Council for Social Security Fund. Previously he served as Minister of Finance of People's Republic of China, and Director-General of the State Administration of Taxation. He was also a member of the 17th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.

Hu Ning was a Chinese physicist and writer.

Lizhen Ji, is a Chinese American mathematician. He is a professor of mathematics at the University of Michigan.

Ye Duzheng was a Chinese meteorologist and academician at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Gu Chaohao was a Chinese mathematician. He graduated from National Chekiang University (Zhejiang University) in 1948, and received a doctorate in physics and mathematical science from Moscow University in 1959. He was primarily engaged in research on partial differential equations, differential geometry, solitons, and mathematical physics. He served as vice president of Fudan University and from 1988 to 1993 as...

Xu Shoushang was a Chinese writer.

Hu Weiwei is a Chinese journalist and businesswoman. She is a co-founder of bicycle-sharing company Mobike.

Jiang Menglin, also known as Chiang Monlin, was a Chinese educator, writer, and politician. Between 1919 and 1927, he also served as the President of Peking University. He later became the president of National Chekiang University. In the early 1950s, he was head of the Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction in Taiwan.

Xia Yan was a left-lean Chinese playwright and screenwriter, and the People's Republic of China's Deputy Minister of Culture between 1954 and 1965.

Teng Jin-guang is a Chinese engineer and educator, currently serving as the president of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University since 1 July 2019. Previously he served as the vice-president of Southern University of Science and Technology.

Xie Zhenye is a Chinese sprinter. He is the current Asian record holder of the 200 metres with a time of 19.88 seconds. In 2018, Xie ran a personal best of 9.97 seconds in the 100 metres, making him the second Chinese sprinter to record a time below the 10-second barrier, after his compatriot Su Bingtian. Xie represented China at...

Chen Wei is a Chinese epidemiologist and virologist specializing in biodefense, and is currently working as a researcher and doctoral advisor at the Academy of Military Medical Sciences, and is an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE). In September 2021, The Globe and Mail reported that Chen is also a major general in China's People's Liberation Army.

Kang Keqing was a Chinese revolutionary and politician. As a teenager, she joined the Chinese Red Army, fighting with the Chinese Communist Party during the Chinese Civil War and participating in the Long March. She later served as chair of the All-China Women's Federation and served on the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party during the 1980s. She was...

Kwon Ki-ok was the first Korean female aviator, as well as one of the first female pilots in China. Her name in Chinese is Quan Jiyu (Chinese: 權基玉; pinyin: Quán Jīyù). Kwon went into exile in China during the Japanese occupation of Korea and became a lieutenant colonel in the Republic of China's air force. She returned home after the...

Huang Fu was a general and politician in early Republic of China.

Jiang Yuyuan is a retired Chinese gymnast. She is the 2008 Chinese all-around senior National Champion and a member of the gold medal-winning People's Republic of China team for the 2008 Summer Olympics. Jiang was a member of the silver medal-winning Chinese team at the 2007 World Championships, the bronze medal-winning member at the 2010 World Championships and 2011 World...

Zhao Jiuzhang, also known as Jeou Jang Jaw, was a Chinese meteorologist and physicist. He was a pioneer of Chinese space technology and is considered as a founding father of China's satellite program.

Ho Iat Seng GLM GCIH is a Macau politician who served as the third chief executive of Macau from 2019 to 2024.

Yu Wen, better known by his courtesy name Yu Dafu was a modern Chinese short story writer and poet. He was one of the new literary group initiators, and this new literary group was named the Creation Society. His literary masterpieces include Chenlun (沈淪, Sinking), Chunfeng chenzui de wanshang (春風沈醉的晚上, Intoxicating Spring Nights), Guoqu (過去, The Past), Chuben (出奔, Flight)...

Hu Qiaomu was a Chinese sociologist, Marxist philosopher and politician.

Wu Han was a Chinese historian and politician. Wu was one of the most important historians in the development of modern historical scholarship in China during the 1930s and 1940s.

Ding Zhongli is a Chinese geologist and officeholder, who is the chairman of the China Democratic League and a vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress.

Wang Youcai is a Chinese dissident and was one of the prominent student leaders in the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. At the time he was graduate student at the Peking University, he was arrested in 1989 and sentenced to four years in 1991 for "conspiring to overthrow the Government of China".

Sun Yang is a Chinese Olympic and former world-record-holding competitive swimmer. In 2012, Sun became the first Chinese athlete to win an Olympic gold medal in men's swimming. Sun is the first male swimmer in history to earn Olympic and World Championship gold medals at every freestyle distance from 200 to 1500 metres. A three-time Olympic gold medalist and eleven-time...

Chen Duxiu was a Chinese intellectual, revolutionary, and political activist who co-founded the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) with Li Dazhao in 1921 and served as its first General Secretary from 1921 to 1927. Chen was also a leading figure in the New Culture Movement (c. 1915–1922) and May Fourth Movement of 1919, which significantly influenced China's intellectual and political landscape...

Ying Yong is a Chinese politician and lawyer who is currently serving as the procurator-general of the Supreme People's Procuratorate.

Chang Shuhong was a Chinese painter known as the "guardian of Dunhuang" for his crucial role in documenting, preserving, and publicizing the ancient artworks at the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang, China.

Eva Lüdi Kong is a Swiss sinologist, translator, and cultural mediator.

Wu Guanzhong was a contemporary Chinese painter widely recognized as a founder of modern Chinese painting. He is considered to be one of the greatest contemporary Chinese painters. Wu's artworks display both Western and Eastern influences, such as the Western style of Fauvism and the Eastern style of Chinese calligraphy. Wu painted various aspects of China, including its architecture, plants,...

Xie Chuntao is a Chinese writer and politician currently serving as vice president of the Central Party School of the Chinese Communist Party.

Shi Ping was a Chinese academic, political administrator, and supercentenarian. He is posthumously recognised as having been the world's oldest verified living man from the death of Venezuela's Juan Vicente Pérez on 2 April 2024, until his own death.

Chien-Shiung Wu was a Chinese-American particle and experimental physicist who made significant contributions in the fields of nuclear and particle physics. Wu worked on the Manhattan Project, where she helped develop the process for separating uranium into uranium-235 and uranium-238 isotopes by gaseous diffusion. She is best known for conducting the Wu experiment, which proved that parity is not conserved....

Yang Huanming is a Chinese biologist, businessman and one of China's leading genetics researchers. He is Chairman and co-founder of the Beijing Genomics Institute, formerly of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was elected as member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2007, a foreign academician of Indian National Science Academy in 2009, a member of the German National...

Tianwen Tony Cai is a Chinese statistician. He is the Daniel H. Silberberg Professor of Statistics and Vice Dean at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is also professor of Applied Math & Computational Science Graduate Group, and associate scholar at the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology & Informatics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. In 2008...

Guoping Feng is a Chinese-American neuroscientist. He is the Poitras Professor of Neuroscience at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT and member of the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at Broad Institute. He is most notable for studying the synaptic mechanisms underlying psychiatric disease. In addition to developing many genetic-based...

Zhou Zuyi is a Chinese politician who is the current Party Secretary of Fujian and previously served as Minister of Human Resources and Social Security. He is a member of the 20th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.

Chen Yi was a Chinese communist military commander and politician. He served as Mayor of Shanghai from 1949 to 1958 and as Foreign Minister of China from 1958 to 1972. He is one of Ten Marshals of the People's Republic of China.

Tsung-Dao Lee was a Chinese-American physicist known for his work on parity violation, the Lee–Yang theorem, particle physics, relativistic heavy ion (RHIC) physics, nontopological solitons, and soliton stars. He was a university professor emeritus at Columbia University in New York City, where he taught from 1953 until his retirement in 2012.

Ye Peijian is a Chinese aerospace engineer. He is the Chief Commander and Chief Designer of the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program.

Lu Yongxiang is a Chinese mechanical engineer and politician. He served as President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Vice Chairman of the National People's Congress.