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Hong Un-jong

Hong Un-jong (홍은정), born 1989, retired North Korean artistic gymnast; 2008 Olympic and 2014 world vault champion, first North Korean woman to win Olympic gymnastics gold.

Hong Wang (王虹)

Hong Wang (王虹), born 1991, is a Chinese mathematician at IHES near Paris known for the 2025 proof of the three-dimensional Kakeya conjecture and the 2026 Fields Medal.

Hong X. Tang

Hong X. Tang, also known as Hongxing Tang, is a physicist at Yale University who works on integrated photonic and optomechanical circuits and converting quantum signals between microwave and optical photons.

Hong Xiuquan (洪秀全)

Hong Xiuquan (洪秀全), born Hong Huoxiu, was a Chinese religious leader who claimed to be God's second son and younger brother of Jesus, founding the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in 1851.

Hong Yang

Hong Yang is a chemical engineer and materials scientist who holds the Richard C. Alkire Chair at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, known for mesoporous silica films and electrocatalyst research.

Hong Yao (洪尧)

Hong Yao (洪尧) is a mainland Chinese actor born 1992 in Zhengzhou, Henan, known for 弘昼 in Story of Yanxi Palace (2018) and 沈听白 in Arsenal Military Academy (2019); married actress Wu Jinyan in September 2024.

Hong Ye

Hong Ye (叶红) is a Chinese businesswoman who co-founded Peijia Medical (沛嘉医疗), a Suzhou-based developer of transcatheter heart valves and neurointerventional devices, and serves as an executive Director.

Hong Yeong-sik

Hong Yeong-sik (홍영식, 1855–1884) was a Joseon civil official who founded Korea's postal administration as director-general in 1884 and died in the failed Gapsin Coup that December.

Hong Ying

Hong Ying (虹影), pen name of Chen Hongying, is a Chinese novelist and poet born in Chongqing in 1962, known for Daughter of the River and K: The Art of Love.

Hong Yu

Hong Yu (홍유) was a Goryeo general from Uiseong who helped overthrow king Gung-ye in the 918 coup and later fought in the 936 campaign against Later Baekje.

Hong Zhaoshui

Hong Zhaoshui (洪肇水) is a Taiwanese entrepreneur who co-founded the CoCo bubble tea chain in Tamsui in 1997 with two friends, drawing on his family's tea-trading background.

Hong Zhou

Hong Zhou (洪洲) is a Chinese GPU design engineer who serves as chief technology officer and executive director of Shanghai Biren Technology, and formerly led Huawei HiSilicon's self-developed GPU team.

Hong-Cai "Joe" Zhou

Hong-Cai "Joe" Zhou (周宏才), born 1964, is an inorganic chemist and Robert A. Welch Chair professor at Texas A&M University, known for porous framework materials called metal–organic frameworks.

Hong-Gil Nam

Hong-Gil Nam (남홍길) is a South Korean plant developmental geneticist known for work on the genetic control of plant aging and leaf senescence, and for the 2014 Ho-Am Prize in Science.

Hong‐Gang Wang

Hong-Gang Wang is a cancer biologist and the Lois High Berstler Professor of Pediatrics at Penn State College of Medicine, studying apoptosis, autophagy, and the Bcl-2 family.

Hong‐Gyu Park

Hong-Gyu Park (박홍규) is a South Korean nanophotonics experimentalist and professor of physics at Seoul National University, known for nanolasers, photon-triggered nanowire transistors, and subwavelength optical devices.

Hong‐Jun Gao

Hong-Jun Gao (高鸿钧) is a Chinese condensed matter physicist and CAS academician at the Institute of Physics, known for observing Majorana zero modes in iron-based superconductors.

Hong‐Wei Dong

Hong-Wei Dong, who publishes as Hongwei Dong, is a neurobiologist who maps the long-range wiring of the mouse brain, created the Allen Reference Atlas, and is a professor at UCLA.

Hong–Ou–Mandel effect

The Hong–Ou–Mandel effect, or HOM effect, is a two-photon interference effect named after Hong, Ou, and Mandel, who first demonstrated it in 1987 at the University of Rochester.

Hongan-ji

Hongan-ji (本願寺) was the head temple of Jōdo Shinshū Buddhism in Kyoto, which fought two rebellions before splitting into Nishi and Higashi Hongan-ji in 1602.

Hongbeom sipjwa

Hongbeom sipjwa (홍범 14조) is a fourteen-article governmental reform charter proclaimed by King Gojong of Korea on January 7, 1895, during the Gabo Reforms, opening with a declaration of independence from Qing China.

Hongbin Li

Hongbin Li (李宏斌) is a Canada-based biophysical chemist, professor of chemistry at the University of British Columbia, who studies the mechanics of elastic proteins using single-molecule atomic force microscopy.

Hongbo Chi

Hongbo Chi is a Chinese-born immunologist who chairs the Department of Immunology at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, known for work on mTOR signaling, in vivo CRISPR screens, and T cell metabolism.

Hongbo Li

Hongbo Li (李红博) is a Chinese materials chemist and professor at Beijing Institute of Technology, known for coating window glass with quantum dots to make large-area luminescent solar concentrators.

Hongbo R. Luo

Hongbo R. Luo is a molecular biologist who studies neutrophils, Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital since 2004, known for work on inositol phosphate signaling.

Hongbo Zeng

Hongbo Zeng is a professor of chemical and materials engineering at the University of Alberta and a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in intermolecular forces and interfacial science.

Hongchong

Hongchong (弘充), also Shi Hongchong, was a Chinese Buddhist scholar-monk of the Southern Dynasties from Wuwei, Gansu, known for debate and lecturing on the Lotus Sutra.

Hongde Oil Field

The Hongde Oil Field is a tight sandstone oil field in Huanxian County, Gansu, China, announced by PetroChina in December 2023 with reserves over 100 million tons.

Hongdong Great Pagoda Tree migrations

The Hongdong Great Pagoda Tree migrations (洪洞大槐树移民) were 18 state-organized transfers from Shanxi in the early Ming dynasty, run from a pagoda tree in Hongdong that became a widespread ancestor legend.

Hongdu Gate Academy

Hongdu Gate Academy (鸿都门学) was an institution at the Hongdu Gate in Luoyang under Emperor Ling that recruited men skilled in letters and calligraphy for high office.