List of Chinese people
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The following is a list of famous Chinese or Chinese-speaking/writing people.
Note in Chinese names, the family name is typically placed first (for example, the family name of "Mao Zedong" is "Mao"). For westernized names, the family name is placed last (for example, the family name of "Maggie Cheung" is "Cheung").
[edit] Imperial times
- Aixinjueluo Puyi, the last emperor
- Cao Cao, founder of the Kingdom of Wei
- Cao Fang
- Cao Huan
- Cao Mao
- Cao Pi, son of Cao Cao
- Cao Ren, relative of Cao Cao and a military commander of Wei
- Cao Rui
- Cao Zhang
- Cao Zhi
- Chen Youliang, founder of Dahan
- Empress Dowager Cixi, Qing dynasty de facto leader
- Dong Zhuo, Han dynasty general
- Dou Xian
- Gao Lishi, Tang, corrupt
- Guan Yu, military commander of Shu
- Guo Jia, Kingdom of Wei strategist
- Emperor Gao of Han China
- Feng Zicai, former bandit turned general
- Hongwu Emperor of China
- Hong Tianguifu, king of Taiping
- Hong Xiuquan, king of Taiping
- Hua Xiong
- Huang Chenyan
- Huang Zhong
- Kangxi Emperor of China, Emperor of the Qing Dynasty
- Kublai Khan
- Li Bai, Chinese Poet
- Li Chengqian, Tang prince
- Li Tai, Tang prince
- Li Hongzhang, Qing statesman
- Li Houzhu, Southern Tang ruler and poet
- Li Si, Qin prime minister, Legalist, invented systemized script
- Li Zicheng, Ming rebel leader
- Lin Zexu, Qing official
- Liu Bei, founder of the Kingdom of Shu
- Liu Biao
- Liu Shan, Kingdom of Shu emperor
- Liu Ying
- Lu Su, Kingdom of Wu advisor
- Empress Dowager Lü of Han Empire
- Ming Yuzhen, founder of Daxia
- Pang Tong
- Qianlong Emperor of China, Emperor of the Qing Dynasty
- Qin Shi Huang, the First Emperor
- Sima Guang
- Sima Lun
- Sima Yi, Kingdom of Wei's strategist
- Sun Ce
- Sun Jian, founder of the Kingdom of Wu
- Sun Quan
- Emperor Tang Taizong of China
- Wang An-shih
- Wang Mang
- Wen Tianxiang, Song prime minister, writer
- Wei Yan
- Wu Zetian, Empress of China
- Xu Huang, military commander of Wei
- Xu Shu
- Yan Song, corrupt prime minister
- Yang Guozhong, Tang official by guanxi
- Yinreng
- Yongle Emperor of China
- Yuan An
- Yuan Taotu
- Zeng Guofan, Qing official
- Zhao Gao, Qin eunuch
- Zhang Zhao
- Zheng Chenggong
- Zhen Ji, wife of Cao Pi
- Zhou Tai
- Zhuge Liang, Kingdom of Shu's strategist
- Zuo Ci
- Zuo Zongtang, known as General Tso in the West
[edit] See also
[edit] Warlords
- Chang Hsüeh-liang
- Chang Tso-lin
- Feng Yü-hsiang
- Gongsun Du
- Gongsun Kang
- Gongsun Yuan
- Sheng Shicai
- Wang Jingwei
- Yuan Shikai
[edit] Communist Party of China (People's Republic of China)
- Bo Xilai
- Chen Duxiu, CPC cofounder
- Chen Li-Kang
- Chen Yun
- Deng Xiaoping family
- Deng Yingchao
- Gang of Four
- Han Zheng, Mayor of Shanghai
- Hu Jintao
- Hu Yaobang
- Hua Guofeng
- Huang Ju
- Jia Qinglin
- Jiang Zemin
- Lei Feng
- Li Dazhao, CPC cofounder
- Kang Sheng
- Li Peng
- Li Ruihuan
- Li Xiannian, PRC president
- Lin Biao
- Liu Bocheng
- Liu Shaoqi
- Luo Gan
- Mao Zedong
- Peng Dehuai
- Peng Zhen
- Tung Chee Hwa
- Wang Fanxi, Trotskyist
- Wang Guangya, ambassador
- Wen Jiabao
- Wu Bangguo
- Wu Guanzheng
- Wu Yi, vice-premier
- Xie Fuzhi
- Yang Shangkun, PRC president
- Ye Jianying
- Zeng Qinghong
- Zhao Ziyang
- Zhou Enlai
- Zhu Rongji, PRC premier
[edit] Nationalists (Kuomintang)
- Chen Cheng
- Chen Yi (Kuomintang)
- Chiang Ching-Kuo
- Chiang Fang-liang
- Chiang Kai-shek
- Du Yuming, field commander
- H. H. Kung, banker, politician
- Hau Pei-tsun
- Huang Hsing
- Li Tsung-jen
- Lin Sen
- Liu Chih
- Lu Muzhen
- Qiu Jin, female revolutionary
- Soong family
- Sun Yat-sen
- Sung Chiao-jen
- Yen Chia-kan
- Yen Hsi-shan
[edit] Republic of China
[edit] See also
[edit] Dissidents
[edit] Non-political royalty
- Concubine Qi
- Xishi, melancholy beauty
- Yang Guifei, emperor's consort
[edit] Artists and performers
[edit] Painters and calligraphers
- Dong Yuan
- Jiang Tingxi
- Leung Long Chau
- Liang Kai
- Qi Baishi
- Wang Xizhi, calligrapher
- Wei Shuo, female calligrapher
- Xu Wei
- Zhao Mengfu
- Zheng Xiaoxu, also a politician
- Zhu Da, also known as Bada Shanren
[edit] See also
[edit] Actors and actresses
- Nicholas Tse
- Yuen Biao
- Fan Bing-Bing
- Ann Bridgewater
- Bobo Chan
- Ellen Chan
- Flora Chan
- Jackie Chan
- Kelly Chan
- Nadia Chan
- Angela Chang
- Kelly Chen
- Sammi Cheng
- Angie Cheung
- Cecilia Cheung
- Leslie Cheung
- Maggie Cheung
- Ada Choi
- Charlene Choi
- Niki Chow
- Athena Chu
- Cherie Chung
- Christy Chung
- Gillian Chung
- Chow Yun-Fat
- Theresa Fu
- Chen Hao
- Denise Ho
- Josie Ho
- Jessica Hester Hsuan
- Sammo Hung
- Ella Koon
- Rosamund Kwan
- Shirley Kwan
- Kenix Kwok
- Gigi Lai
- Leon Lai
- Karena Lam
- Andy Lau
- Carina Lau
- Hawick Lau
- Angelica Lee
- Bruce Lee
- Carmen Lee
- Loletta Lee
- San San Lee
- Gigi Leung
- Tony Leung Chiu Wai
- Gong Li
- Jet Li
- Nina Li Chi
- Brigitte Lin
- Ruby Lin
- Bernice Liu
- Tao Liu
- Bai Ling
- Candy Lo
- Betty Loh Ti
- Annie Man
- Karen Mok
- Anita Mui
- Kary Ng
- Sandra Ng
- Diana Pang
- Jiang Qinqin (stage name is Shui Ling)
- Michelle Reis
- Ruan Lingyu, silent-film actress
- Charmaine Sheh
- Shu Qi
- Fiona Sit
- Maggie Siu
- Alec Su
- Stephy Tang
- Angela Tong
- Irene Wan
- Emme Wong
- Fann Wong
- Faye Wong
- Joey Wong
- Race Wong
- Sally Yeh
- Anita Yuen
- Michelle Yeoh
- Charlie Yeung
- Miki Yeung
- Miriam Yeung
- Cherrie Ying
- Amy Yip
- Joey Yung
- Zhang Ziyi
- Myolie Wu
[edit] Film-makers
- Ang Lee
- Jackie Chan
- Chen Kaige
- Samson Chiu
- Stephen Chow
- Johnnie To
- King Hu
- Ringo Lam
- Stanley Kwan
- Patrick Tam
- Tsui Hark
- Wayne Wang
- Wong Kar-wai
- John Woo
- Zhang Yimou
[edit] See also
[edit] Singers
- A-do
- A-mei
- Beyond
- F.I.R.
- S.H.E. - Selina Ren, Hebe Tian and Ella Chen
- Twins (band) - Charlene Choi Cheuk-Yin and Gillian Chung Yan-Tung
- Andy Lau
- Aaron Kwok
- Kit Chan
- Angela Chang
- Brandon Chang
- Chen Hanwei
- Edison Chen
- Joi Chua
- Tanya Chua
- Chyi Chin
- Cui Jian
- Dadawa
- Dao Lang
- Dong Wenhua
- Emme Wong
- Jay Chou
- Dicky Cheung
- Jacky Cheung
- Kaira Gong
- Elva Hsiao
- Evonne Hsu
- Peggy Hsu
- Vivian Hsu
- Yuki Hsu
- Samuel Hui
- Sam Hui
- Alan Ke You Lun
- Jocie Kok
- Karena Lam
- Angelica Lee
- CoCo Lee
- Lee Pui Ming
- Fish Leong
- Guang Liang
- Li Yuchun
- Lin Jun Jie
- Jimmy Lin Chih Ying
- Candy Lo
- Show Luo
- Mavis Fan
- Ming Dao
- Rebecca Pan
- Wilber Pan
- Bic Runga, Chinese–Māori singer–songwriter
- Shunzi
- Stefanie Sun
- Penny Tai
- Teresa Teng
- Roman Tam
- Tank (Taiwanese singer)
- Jolin Tsai
- Bowie Tsang
- Zoe Tay
- Jolin Tsai
- Ron Ng
- Cyndi Wang
- Lee-Hom Wang
- Wei Wei (singer)
- Landy Wen
- Fann Wong
- Faye Wong, singer/actress
- Xiang Xiang
- Qu Xin
- Zhang Liangying
- Zhou Bichang
- Vic Zhou
- Zhou Xuan
- Yang Chengang
- Ocean Ou De Yang
- Rainie Yang
- Na Ying
- Nancy Yuen
[edit] Musicians
- Ch'eng Mao-yün, violinist and composer
- Yundi Li, pianist
- Muhai Tang, conductor
- Herman Li, guitarist of Dragonforce
[edit] See also
[edit] Comedians
- Raybon Kan, New Zealand comedian and newspaper columnist
[edit] Martial Artists
- Cheng Man-ch'ing, T'ai Chi Ch'üan
- Bruce Lee, kung fu and Jeet Kune Do
- Leung Sheung, Wing Chun
- Wong Fei Hung, kung fu during the Qing dynasty
- Wu Chien-ch'üan, T'ai Chi Ch'üan
- Yang Ch'eng-fu, T'ai Chi Ch'üan
- Yip Man, Wing Chun
- Zhang Sanfeng, T'ai Chi Ch'üan
- Chang Tung Sheng, Baoding Shuai Chiao
[edit] Athletes
- Michael Chang, former tennis player
- Ding Junhui, snooker player
- Fu Mingxia, diver
- Han Xiaopeng, freestyle skiier
- He Ying, archer
- Michelle Kwan, ice-skater
- Ma Jian, basketball player
- Mengke Bateer, basketball player
- Li Ning, gymnast and entrepreneur
- Li Tie, footballer
- Lin Sang, archer
- Liu Xiang, hurdler
- Sun Jihai, footballer
- Sun Wen, woman footballer
- Teng Haibin, gymnast
- Wang Junxia, long-distance runner
- Wang Zhizhi, basketball player
- Wu Qingyuan (Go Seigen), go player
- Xie Jun, chess player
- Xu Jun, chess player
- Yao Ming, basketball player
- Ye Jiangchuan, chess player
- Yining Zhang, table tennis player
- Zhang Juanjuan, archer
- Zhang Zhong, chess player
[edit] Coaches
- Ma Junren, track coach
[edit] See also
[edit] Educators
- Cai Yuanpei, chancellor
- Chang-lin Tien, chancellor
- Winston Chang, former president of Soochow University
- Moy Lin-shin, Taoist monk
[edit] Business tycoons
[edit] Taiwan
[edit] Hong Kong
- Li family
- Walter Kwok
- Thomas Kwok
- Raymond Kwok
- Lee Shau Kee
- Michael Kadoorie
- Nina Wang
- Cheng Yu-tung
- Stanley Ho
- Chen Din Hwa
- Henry Fok Ying Tung
- Tung Chao Yung
- Gordon Wu
[edit] Explorers
[edit] Astronauts
[edit] Law
[edit] Military officers and soldiers
- Cai Mao
- Chen Yi, communist military commander and politician
- Guo Ziyi, Tang general
- Five Tiger Generals (Kingdom of Shu):
- Fu Zuoyi
- Gan Ning
- Han Shizhong, Southern Song General
- Han Xin, Western Han general
- Huang Gai
- Jiang Wei, Kingdom of Shu general
- Yue Jin
- Liao Hua
- Lin Biao
- Liu Huaqing
- Lu Yi
- Ma Su
- Nian Gengyao
- Nie Rongzhen
- Shi Lang
- Sima Yi
- Sima Zhao
- Song Zheyuan
- Sun Ce
- Wuqiu Jian
- Yuan Chonghuan
- Yuan Shao
- Xu Shouhui, Yuan dynasty rebel leader
- Zhang He
- Zhang Liao
- Zhang Xueliang
- Zhang Zizhong
- Zhou Yu
- Zhu De
[edit] See also
[edit] Philosophers and writers
- Amy Tan, writer and author
- Bai Shouyi, historian
- Ban Gu, Han dynasty historian
- Cao Yu, dramatist
- Iris Chang, Chinese American writer most famous for her book, The Rape of Nanking
- Chang San-feng
- Ch'ien Mu
- Confucius, philosopher
- Cui Hao, Tang dynasty poet
- Du Mu, Tang poet, official
- Gao Qi, Ming dynasty poet
- Gao Xingjian
- Gongsun Longzi, one of the Logicians of the Warring States Period
- Guan Hanqing, Yuan dynasty playwright
- Guo Moruo, poet, historian, archaeologist
- Han Fei, philosopher of the Warring States Period
- Han Yu, founded Neo-Confucianism, essayist, poet
- Hu Shih, writer
- Jia Dao, poet
- Jin Shengtan, editor and critic
- Jinyong, novelist
- Jung Chang, historian
- Kang Youwei
- Lao She
- Lao Zi, philosopher
- Li Ao, writer
- Li Po, poet
- Li Qiao, Tang poet
- Li Shangyin, poet
- Li Zongwu, philosopher and writer
- Liang Qichao
- Lin Yutang, writer
- Eric Liu, Chinese American writer and former speech writer for Bill Clinton
- Liu Zongyuan, poet
- Lu Hao-tung
- Lu Xun, novelist
- Luo Binwang, Tang poet
- Mao Dun, writer
- Mei Yaochen, Song dynasty poet
- Meng Haoran, Tang dynasty poet
- Mozi, philosopher
- Mencius, philosopher
- Ouyang Xiu, Song statesman, historian, poet
- Pai Hsien-yung, writer
- Pu Songling, Qing writer
- Qian Xuantong, phonetician
- Qian Zhongshu
- Qu You, Ming novelist
- Qu Yuan, State of Chu poet
- Shen Congwen, writer
- Sima Qian, historiographer
- Su Dongpo, poet
- Sun Tzu, philosopher
- Tao Qian, poet
- Tian Han, playwright
- Tu Wei-ming, ethicist
- Wang Yi-Ch'eng, poet
- Wang Pi, Three Kingdoms philosopher
- Wang Wei, Tang poet, painter, official
- Wang Wei (17th century poet), poet
- Wang Yangming, Ming neo-Confucianist
- Wu Cheng'en, Ming novelist, poet
- Xu Zhimo, poet
- Xun Zi, philosopher
- Zhang Ailing, woman novelist
- Zhuang Zi, philosopher
[edit] See also
[edit] Linguists
- Xu Shen, dictionary compiler
- Woo Tsin-hang, linguist
- Zhang Binglin, phonologist
- Y. R. Chao, phonologist and dialectologist
[edit] Religion
- Chen Po (Chen Tuan, Chen Hsi I), Taoist monk
- Faxian, Buddhist monk, explorer
- Huangbo Xiyun, Chan Buddhism master
- I Ching (monk), Buddhist monk
- Jianzhen Buddhist monk
- Xi Shengmo (Pastor Hsi), Christian preacher and missionary to opium addicts
- Witness Lee, Christian founder of the Local Church
- Liang Fa, Christian preacher
- Gong Shengliang, Christian preacher
- K. H. Ting, Christian leader
- Abbot Wang, Daoist priest
- Xuanzang, Buddhist monk
- Zhang Daoling, founded Daoist sect
- Zhang Tian Ran, founder of I Kuan Tao
- Wang Hao De, founder of Maitreya Great Tao
[edit] See also
[edit] Scientists and engineers
- Sir CK Chow, engineer/CEO
- Chen Jingrun, mathematician
- David Ho, HIV/AIDS researcher
- Charles Kao, pioneer of optical fiber
- Yuan T. Lee, Nobel Laureate (Chemistry)
- Liu Hui, mathematician
- Liu Yong-chuan, methodologist
- Qian Sanqiang, nuclear physicist
- Qin Jiushao, mathematician
- Su Buqing, mathematician
- Tsien Hsue-shen, rocket scientist
- An Wang, computer scientist
- Zhang Heng, astronomer, mathematician, artist and literature scholar
- Zhu Shijie, mathematician
- Zu Chongzhi, mathematician and astronomer
- Li Zhengdao, Nobel Laureate (Physics)
- Yang Zhenning, Nobel Laureate (Physics)
- Daniel Chee Tsui, Nobel Laureate (Physics)
- Wu Jianxiong, physicist
- Andrew Yao, physicist, computer scientist
- Zhang Yuzhe, astronomer
- I. M. Pei, architect
- Li Shizhen, physician and pharmacologist
- Li Siguang, the founding father of geomechanics in China
[edit] Others
- Guo Shoujin, astronomer and mathematician
- Jing Ke, assassin
- Li Shuxian, wife of Puyi
- Ching Shih, woman pirate
- Wan Hu, would-be astronaut
- Wang Wei (pilot), crashed PLAAF pilot
- Jack Yan, publisher and businessman
- Ying Lianzhi, newspaper founder
[edit] Burmese Chinese
- Aw Boon Haw, a Chinese entrepreneur and philanthropist
- Lo Hsing Han, an infamous Burmese drug trafficker
- Ne Win, was a Burmese military commander and dictator of Burma from 1962 until 1988
[edit] Fictional Chinese people
- Amy Wong, of Futurama TV series
- Cato Fong, of the Pink Panther film series
- Charlie Chan, detective
- Chun-Li, of the Street Fighter series and film
- Con Smith, of Killer7
- Judge Dee, Tang dynasty detective by Robert van Gulik
- the characters from the musical Flower Drum Song
- Forrest Law, of the Tekken series
- Fu Chien, villain and marital artist of the series Tenjou Tenge
- Fu Hsi, mythical first emperor of China
- Fu Manchu, criminal mastermind
- Parodied in the radio series Round the Horne as "Dr Chou En Ginsberg MA (failed)"
- Hua Mulan, ancient heroine
- Jacob 'Jake' Luke Long, of American Dragon: Jake Long
- Juniper Lee, of The Life and Times of Juniper Lee
- Kai Lung, of stories by Ernest Bramah
- Kato, of The Green Hornet TV series
- Li Kao and Number Ten Ox, of novels by Barry Hughart
- Ling Xiaoyu, of the Tekken series
- Dr Julius No, villain in the Ian Fleming novel of the same name and later the film
- Marshall Law of the Tekken series
- Nikki Wong, of 6teen
- Numbuh 49, 168, 406, 407, 408, 409, 410, and 888, of Codename: Kids Next Door
- Nüwa, mother goddess of Chinese mythology
- Wai Lin, a Chinese secret agent in the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies
- Xuanzang and his disciples (including Sun Wukong and Zhu Bajie), of Journey to the West
[edit] See also
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