Yixing
Yixing ranks 5,221st in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Krško, Kőszeg, and Chickasha, Oklahoma. Memorable people born in Yixing include Xu Beihong, Zhou Xiaochuan, and Ding Junhui. Yixing has been the birth place of many painters, and politicians. Yixing is located in China.
Yixing is a county-level city administered under the prefecture-level city of Wuxi in southern Jiangsu province, China, and is part of the Yangtze River Delta. The city is known for its traditional Yixing clay ware tea pots. It is a pene-exclave with Changzhou. The city spans an area of 1,996.6 square kilometres (770.9 sq mi), and has a registered hukou population of about 1,075,800 as of 2020. Read more on Wikipedia
People
Between 1895 and 1987, Yixing was the birth place of 3 globally memorable people, including Xu Beihong, Zhou Xiaochuan, and Ding Junhui.
People Born in Yixing
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Xu Beihong
PAINTER
1895 - 1953
HPI: 53.56
Rank: 1
Zhou Xiaochuan
POLITICIAN
1948 - Present
HPI: 46.40
Rank: 2
Ding Junhui
SNOOKER
1987 - Present
HPI: 38.94
Rank: 3
Occupations
Most individuals born in present day Yixing were painters (1), politicians (1), and snookers (1), while most who died were .
Occupational Trends
Over the past 100 years, politicians have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in Yixing, including Zhou Xiaochuan. Whereas, throughout history, painters have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Yixing, including Xu Beihong.
Places
Overlapping Lives
Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 1 globally memorable people born in Yixing since 1700.
