2001 Newsmaker Roster Name list
English Name | Chinese Name | Descriptions | English Name | Chinese Name | Descriptions | ||
1 | George W. Bush | 小布殊 | 43rd President of the United States | 16 | Qian Qichen | 錢其琛 | Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China |
2 | Osama bin Laden | 拉登 | Founder of the pan-Islamic militant organization al-Qaeda | 17 | Wang Zhizhi | 王治郅 | Chinese basketball player |
3 | Lee Teng-hui | 李登輝 | Former President of the Republic of China | 18 | Vladimir Putin | 普京 | President of Russia |
4 | Koizumi Junichiro | 小泉純一郎 | Prime Minister of Japan | 19 | Yasser Arafat | 阿拉法 | President of the Palestinian National Authority |
5 | Tung Chee-hwa | 董建華 | Chief Executive of Hong Kong | 20 | Li Peng | 李鵬 | Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress |
6 | Jiang Zemin | 江澤民 | President of the People's Republic of China | 21 | Joseph Estrada | 埃斯特拉達 | President of the Philippines |
7 | Abdurrahman Wahid | 瓦希德 | President of Indonesia | 22 | Kofi Annan | 安南 | Secretary-General of the United Nations |
8 | Zhu Rongji | 朱鎔基 | Premier of the People's Republic of China | 23 | Deng Xiaoping | 鄧小平 | Former Paramount Leader of the People's Republic of China |
9 | Chang Hsueh-liang | 張學良 | Chinese Warlord | 24 | Mori Yoshirou | 森喜朗 | Prime Minister of Japan |
10 | Colin Powell | 鮑威爾 | Secretary of State of the United States | 25 | Shi Guangsheng | 石廣生 | Minister of Foreign Trade and Economic Co-operation of the People's Republic of China |
11 | Bill Clinton | 克林頓 | 42nd President of the United States | 26 | Dick Cheney | 切尼 | Vice President of the United States |
12 | Kim Jong-il | 金正日 | Supreme Leader of North Korea | 27 | Dalai Lama | 達賴 | The highest spiritual leader of Tibet |
13 | Tang Jiaxuan | 唐家璇 | Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China | 28 | Dennis Tito | 蒂托 | American engineer, the first space tourist to fund his own trip into space |
14 | Megawati Sukarnoputri | 梅加瓦蒂 | President of Indonesia | 29 | Yao Ming | 姚明 | Chinese basketball player |
15 | Tony Blair | 貝理雅 | Prime Minister of the United Kingdom |