Chinese communists

Deng Yuanzhao or Deng Fa (simplified Chinese: 邓发; traditional Chinese: 鄧發; pinyin: Dèng Fā; Jyutping: Dang6 Faat3) (March 7, 1906 – August 4, 1946) was an early leader of the Chinese Communist Party.

Henry Norman Bethune /ˈbɛθˌjuːn/ (March 4, 1890 – November 12, 1939; Chinese: 白求恩; pinyin: Bái Qiú'ēn) was a Canadian physician, medical innovator, and noted anti-fascist.

Li Zhensheng (Chinese: 李振盛; pinyin: Lǐ Zhènshèng; born 22 September 1940) is a Chinese photojournalist who captured some of the most telling images from the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, better known as the Chinese Cultural Revolution.

Sun Weishi (1921 – October 15, 1968) was the first female director of modern spoken drama (Huaju) in Chinese history.

Tan Zhenlin (simplified Chinese: 谭震林; traditional Chinese: 譚震林; pinyin: Tán Zhènlín; 1902–1983) was a political commissar in the People's Liberation Army during the Chinese Civil War, and a politician after the establishment of the People's Republic of China.

Su Zhaozheng (simplified Chinese: 苏兆征; traditional Chinese: 蘇兆征; pinyin: Sū Zhàozhēng) (1885, Qi'ao Island - 1929, Shanghai), early phase leader of the Communist Party of China, labour movement activist.

Fang Yi (Chinese: 方毅; Wade–Giles: Fang I; 26 February 1916 – 17 October 1997) was a Chinese Communist revolutionary, diplomat, and high-ranking politician.

Kang Sheng (Chinese: 康生; pinyin: Kāng Shēng; c. 1898 – December 16, 1975) was a Communist Party of China (CPC) official best known for having overseen the work of the CPC's internal security and intelligence apparatus during the early 1940s and again at the height of the Cultural Revolution in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Chen Hansheng (Chinese: 陈翰笙; pinyin: Chén Hànshēng; February 5, 1897 – March 13, 2004), also known as Chen Han-seng and Geoffrey Chen, was a Chinese sociologist and considered a pioneer of modern Chinese social science, and also a member of legendary Soviet master-spy Richard Sorge's Tokyo ring.

Xiao San (simplified Chinese: 萧三; traditional Chinese: 蕭三; pinyin: Xiāo Sān; 10 October 1896 – 4 February 1983) was a Chinese poet and translator.

He Yong (Chinese: 何勇; born October 1940) is a retired Chinese politician.

Wang Jianlin (Chinese: 王健林; pinyin: Wáng Jiànlín; born October 24, 1954) is a Chinese businessman and philanthropist.

Liang Sicheng (Chinese: 梁思成; 20 April 1901 – 9 January 1972) was a Chinese architect and scholar, often known as the father of modern Chinese architecture.

Ài Sīqí (Chinese: 艾思奇) is the pen name of Li Shengxuan (李生萱, 1910–1966), a Yunnan Mongol Chinese philosopher and author.

Lǐ Lìsān (Chinese: 李立三; pinyin: Lǐ Lìsān; November 18, 1899 – June 22, 1967) was an early leader of the Chinese communists, and the top leader of the Chinese Communist Party from 1928 to 1930, member of the Politburo, and later a member of the Central Committee.

Ma Haide (simplified Chinese: 马海德; traditional Chinese: 馬海德; pinyin: Mǎ Hǎidé; September 26, 1910 – October 3, 1988), born Shafick George Hatem (Arabic: جورج شفيق حاتم‎‎) in Buffalo, New York, USA, was a Chinese doctor.

Fang Zhimin (Chinese: 方志敏, Wades-Giles: Fang Chih Min; August 21, 1899 - August 6, 1935) was a Chinese communist military and political leader.

Hendricus Josephus Franciscus Marie (Henk) Sneevliet, known as Henk Sneevliet or by the pseudonym "Maring" (1883 - 1942), was a Dutch Communist, who was active in both the Netherlands and the Dutch East-Indies.

Chen Changzhi (Chinese: 陈昌智; born July 1945 in Hubei Province) is the national chairman of the China Democratic National Construction Association, a legally recognized non-Communist political party in China, and one of the Vice Chairmen of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China, having served in this capacity since 2008.

(This is a Chinese name; the family name is Zhang.) Zhang Guotao (November 26, 1897 – December 3, 1979) was a founding member and important leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and bitter rival to Mao Zedong.

Israel Epstein (20 April 1915 – 26 May 2005) was a naturalized Chinese journalist and author.

Phuntsok Wangyal Goranangpa (January 2, 1922 – March 30, 2014), also known as Phuntsog Wangyal, Bapa Phuntsok Wangyal or Phünwang, was a Tibetan politician.

Otto Braun (28 September 1900 – 15 August 1974) was a German Communist with a long and varied career.

Wang Huiwu (Chinese: 王会悟; May 1898 – 20 October 1993) was a social reformer, a Communist Party of China (CCP) women's organizer (in the early years), as well as a proponent of women's emancipation.

Li Hua (simplified Chinese: 李桦; traditional Chinese: 李樺; pinyin: Lǐ Huà) March 6, 1907 − May 5, 1994), a Chinese woodcut artist and communist known for his participation in left-wing activities, was born in Panyu, Guangdong.

Jia Yinghua (simplified Chinese: 贾英华; traditional Chinese: 賈英華; pinyin: Jiǎ Yīnghuá) was a Chinese writer and researcher who focused on the late Qing Dynasty.

Ren Bishi (simplified Chinese: 任弼时; traditional Chinese: 任弼時; pinyin: Rén Bìshí; 30 April 1904 – 27 October 1950) was a military and political leader in the early Chinese Communist Party.

Hu Zhaoyun (Chinese: 胡昭云 born: November 1963) is an award winning entrepreneur & industrialist in the People's Republic of China, CPPCC committee member, Philanthropist and the President & Chairman of Yunli Group and Dajiang Investment & Development Corporation.

(This is a Chinese name; the family name is Hu.) Hu Lanqi (Chinese: 胡兰畦; pinyin: Hú Lánqí; Wade–Giles: Hu Lan-ch'i; 1901 – 13 December 1994) was a Chinese writer and military leader.

Zhou Zikun (Chinese: 周子昆) (1901 - March 14, 1941) was a Chinese communist officer who fought in the first phase of the Chinese Civil War (1927-1937) and the Second Sino-Japanese War, eventually becoming deputy chief of staff of the New Fourth Army.

Xia Minghan (Chinese: 夏明翰; 1900 – 30 March 1928) was an early leader of the Chinese revolution, revolution martyr, and a pioneer of Communist Party of China (CPC).

Máo Zétán (毛泽覃, also named Máo Zélín 毛泽淋, courtesy name first Yǒngjú 咏菊, then Rùnjú 润菊) (September 25, 1905 – April 25, 1935) was the younger one of Mao Zedong's two brothers.

Geshe Sherab Gyatso (Tibetan: དགེ་བཤེས་ཤེས་རབ་རྒྱ་མཚོ།, ZYPY: Gêxê Xêrab Gyamco; simplified Chinese: 喜饶嘉措; traditional Chinese: 喜饒嘉措; pinyin: Xǐráo Jiācuò) (1884–1968), was a Tibetan religious teacher and a politician who served in the Chinese government in the 1950s.

Zhuo Lin (April 6, 1916 – July 29, 2009) was the third and last wife of Deng Xiaoping, former Paramount leader of China.

Sidney Rittenberg (Chinese: 李敦白; pinyin: Lǐ Dūnbái; born August 14, 1921) is an American journalist, scholar, and Chinese linguist who lived in China from 1944 to 1979.

(This is a Chinese name; the family name is Zhao.) Zhao Yiman (Chinese: 趙一曼; Wade–Giles: Chao I-man; 1905 – 2 August 1936) was a female Chinese resistance fighter against the Imperial Japanese Army in Northeast China, which was under the occupation of the Japanese puppet state Manchukuo.

Zhou Enlai: The Last Perfect Revolutionary, ISBN 1-58648-645-4, is a book written by Gao Wenqian.

He Shuheng (Chinese: 何叔衡; 1876–1935) was a Chinese Communist revolutionary.

Mo Xiong (Chinese: 莫雄; pinyin: Mò Xióng) 1891 - February 1980) was born in Yingde, Guangdong and was a close friend of Sun Yat-sen, and member of Tongmenghui, a member of Kuomintang, and a communist sympathizer / agent.

Hu Di (Chinese: 胡底; 1905 – September 1935) was a Chinese filmmaker and Communist secret agent during the Republic of China era.

Ren Changxia (February 8, 1964 – April 14, 2004) was a celebrated Chinese policewoman.

Wang Ruofei (11 October 1896 – 8 April 1946) was a high-ranking member of the Chinese Communist Party.

Peng Shuzhi (also spelled Peng Shu-tse; Chinese: Péng Shùzhī 彭述之; 1896–1983) was an early leader of the Communist Party of China and became a Trotskyist.

Li Tianyou (Chinese: 李天佑; Wade–Giles: Li T'ien-yu; 1914–1970) was a general (shang jiang) of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.

Kong Qingdong (born September 22, 1964) is a controversial Chinese academic, author, talk show host, and social commentator.