Top 10 Well-known Chinese Who Graduated From Top U.S. Universities

The United States has the best universities in the world and many Chinese or foreign Chinese celebrities have studied there and made great contribution to both China and the United States. Here is our list of the 10 Chinese celebrities who went to study at top U.S universities.

1. Yo-yo Ma 马友友

Known as:  Cellist
Graduated from: Harvard University
Yo-Yo Ma, born in 1955, is a well-known cellist. He graduated from Harvard University in 1976. His mother, Lu Yawen, was a singer graduating from Nanjing National Central University (now Nanjing University), and his father, Ma Xiaojun, was a violinist and music professor of the university.

2. Ma Yinchu 马寅初

Known as: Economist
Graduated from: Yale University & Columbia University
Ma Yinchu (1882–1982) was a prominent Chinese economist and former president of Peking University. He put forward the idea of adoption of a national family planning policy. Ma started to study economics at Yale University from 1907 and received a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1914.

3. Xu Zhimo 徐志摩

Known as: Poet
Graduated from: Columbia University
Xu Zhimo (1897-1931) is China’s most popular modernist poet. His best known poem is “On Leaving Cambridge.” Xu studied economics and political science in Columbia University from 1919. In 1921 He left to study at Cambridge in England.

4. Lang Xianping 郎咸平

Known as: Economist
Graduated from: University of Pennsylvania
Lang Xianping (born in 1956) is a famous Chinese economist. He studied at University of Pennsylvania and received a master degree and a PhD in Finance. He is well known for his daring remarks about China`s economy.

5. Victor Li Tzar-kuoi 李泽钜

Known as: Billionaire
Graduated from: Stanford University
Victor Li Tzar-kuoi (born in 1964), the elder son of tycoon Li Ka-shing, is a Hong Kong-based Billionaire with a net worth of $32 billion. Ltd. Victor graduated from Stanford University with a M.Sc. degree in Structural Engineering and now is the Managing Director of Cheung Kong Holdings.

6. Rao Yutai 饶毓泰

Known as: Physicist
Graduated from: Princeton University
Rao Yutai (1891 – 1968) was a Chinese physicist and one of the founders of modern China’s physics. He studied in Yale University and then Princeton University and received his master’s degree from Princeton in 1921 and doctorate in 1922.

7. Zeng Zimo 曾子墨

Known as: Anchorwoman
Graduated from: Dartmouth College
Zeng Zimo, born in 1991 in Beijing, is an anchorwoman of Phoenix TV financial program in Hong Kong. She studied at Dartmouth College and graduated with a Bachelor Degree in 1996. She once worked in Morgan Stanley as an analyst and later quit and became anchorwoman of Hong Kong Phoenix TV.

8. Ding Zhaozhong 丁肇中

Known as: Physicist
Graduated from: University of Michigan
Ding Zhaozhong (or Samuel C. C. Ting, born in 1936) is an American Chinese physicist who received the Nobel Prize in 1976. He attended the University of Michigan in 1956 and he earned a doctorate in physics in 1962.

9. Li Zhengdao 李政道

Known as: Physicist
Graduated from: University of Chicago
Li Zhengdao (or Tsung-Dao Lee, born in 1926) is a Chinese-born American physicist. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1957. He started to study in the University of Chicago from 1946 and received his PhD in 1950.

10.  Qian Xuesen钱学森

Known as: Physicist
Graduated from: California Institute of Technology
Qian Xuesen (1911 – 2009) was a famous Chinese scientist. He made important contributions to the missile and space programs of both the United States and China. He attended California Institute of Technology and earned his doctorate in 1939.