Peng Tao, one of the leaders of the "December 9th" patriotic student movement and the first chemistry minister of New China, studied here.
The Politburo Standing Committee (PSC) Wu Guanzheng, former secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, was admitted to Tsinghua University with full marks of 1959 in mathematics, physics and chemistry.
Shi Ping, an academician of China Academy of Engineering, Liu, Huang Dingyuan, Chen Xuanda, Patten, alternate members of the Central Committee and deputy secretary of Hebei Provincial Party Committee, and many other scientists, party and government officials, experts and scholars, celebrities, all gave their lives and made great achievements.