The following is a list of famous Chinese-speaking/writing people.
Note in Chinese names, the family name is typically placed first (for example, the family name of "Xu Feng" is "Xu"). For westernized names, the family name is placed last (for example, the family name of "Maggie Cheung" is "Cheung").
Republic of China
See also
Dissidents
- Wu'erkaixi (ئۆركەش دۆلەت)
- Li Lu
Non-political royalty
- Concubine Qi
- Xishi, melancholy beauty
- Yang Guifei, emperor's consort
- Camilla Shih Chen, emperor's mistress
- Malii Hoojackie Chan, emperor's MOM
Artists
Calligraphers
- Cai Xiang
- Deng Shiru
- Dong Qichang
- Huai Su
- Huang Tingjian
- Emperor Huizong of Song
- Jin Nong
- Liu Gongquan
- Mi Fu
- Ni Yuanlu
- Ouyang Xun
- Su Shi
- Wang Duo
- Wang Xizhi
- Wang Xianzhi
- Wei Shuo, female calligrapher
- Wen Zhengming
- Yan Zhenqing
- Zhao Mengfu
- Zhao Zhiqian
Architects
- Ai Weiwei
- Liang Sicheng
- Lin Huiyin
- Maya Lin
- I.M. Pei
- C.P. Wang
- Dong Yuan
- Jiang Tingxi
- Leung Long Chau
- Liang Kai
- Qi Baishi
- Xu Wei
- Zhao Mengfu
- Zheng Xiaoxu, also a politician
- Zhu Da, also known as Bada Shanren
- Cheng Man-ch'ing
Actors and actresses
Film-makers
- Bai Hua
- Bu Wancang
- Cai Chusheng
- Jackie Chan
- Chen Kaige
- Samson Chiu
- Stephen Chow
- Fei Mu
- Jia Zhangke
- King Hu
- Lou Ye
- Stanley Kwan
- Sun Yu
- Patrick Tam
- Tian Zhuangzhuang
- Johnnie To
- Tsui Hark
- Wan Laiming
- Wang Xiaoshuai
- Wayne Wang
- Wong Kar-wai
- John Woo
- Wu Tianming
- Wu Yonggang
- Xie Jin
- Yuan Muzhi
- Zhang Yimou
- Zhang Yuan
Musicians
Comedians
- Raybon Kan, New Zealand comedian and newspaper columnist
Martial Artists
- Cheng Man-ch'ing, T'ai Chi Ch'üan
- Jun Fan Bruce Lee, kung fu and Jeet Kune Do
- Leung Sheung, Wing Chun
- Wong Fei Hung, Hong Chuan during the Qing dynasty
- Wu Chien-ch'üan [Wu Jianquan], T'ai Chi Ch'üan [Wu family Taiji Quan]
- Huo Yuan Jia, Mizongyi
- 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
- Adam Ngan, UFC fighting
Sport
- Deng Yaping, table-tennis player
- Ding Junhui, snooker player
- Marco Fu, snooker player
- Fu Mingxia, diver
- Guo Yue, table-tennis player
- Han Xiaopeng, freestyle skier
- He Kexin, gymnast
- He Ying, archer
- Hu Na, tennis player
- Ma Jian, basketball player
- Mengke Bateer, basketball player
- Li Ning, gymnast and entrepreneur
- Li Tie, footballer
- Li Xiaoshuang, gymnast
- Lin Sang, archer
- Liu Xiang, hurdler
- Ma Lin, table-tennis player
- Mo Huilan, gymnast
- Sun Jihai, footballer
- Sun Ming Ming, basketball player
- 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
- Yi Jianlian, basketball player
- Zhang Juanjuan, archer
- Zhang Yining, table tennis player
- Zhang Zhong, chess player
Coaches
- Ma Junren, track coach
See also
Educators
- Cai Yuanpei, chancellor
- Chang-lin Tien, chancellor
- Winston Chang, former president of Soochow University
- Moy Lin-shin, Taoist monk
- Zhou Tong (archer), military tutor of Song Dynasty General Yue Fei
Business tycoons
- Vincent Lo
- Zhou Zhengyi
- Tang Yingshi
- Wei Ersen
- Zhang Beian
Hong Kong
- Li family
- Kwok Family
- Li Family
- David Li Kwok-po, banker and politician
- Arthur Li Kwok-cheung, professor of surgery, former Secretary for Education and Manpower
- Lee Shau Kee
- Michael Kadoorie
- Nina Wang
- Cheng Yu-tung
- Stanley Ho
- Chen Din Hwa
- Henry Fok Ying Tung
- Tung Chao Yung
- Gordon Wu
Explorers
Astronauts
Law
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
- Jiao Yu, author of the Huo Long Jing
- 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 Taofang
- Zhang Xueliang
- Zhang Zizhong
- Zhou Yu
- Zhu De
See also
Philosophers and writers
- List of Chinese philosophers
- List of Chinese authors
- List of Chinese language poets
- List of Confucianists
Linguists
- Xu Shen, dictionary compiler
- Woo Tsin-hang, linguist
- Zhang Binglin, phonologist
- Y. R. Chao, phonologist and dialectologist
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
- Li Zhizao (李之藻, 1565 – 1630)One of the Three Great Pillars of Chinese Catholicism 中国天主教的三大柱石
- Yang Tingyun (杨廷筠, 1557–1627)One of the Three Great Pillars of Chinese Catholicism 中国天主教的三大柱石
- 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
- Elias Wen, Chinese Orthodox Priest
See also
Scientists, inventors, and engineers
- Sunshu Ao, China's first hydraulic engineer
- Chen Jingrun, mathematician
- Sir CK Chow, engineer/CEO
- Steven Chu, physicist, Nobel Laureate (Physics)
- Du Shi, engineer and metallurgist
- Fang Lizhi, astrophysicist
- Guo Shoujing, mathematician, astronomer, and engineer
- David Ho, HIV/AIDS researcher
- Charles Kao, pioneer of fibre-optics, Nobel Laureate (Physics)
- Bruce Lahn, geneticist
- Yuan T. Lee, Nobel Laureate (Chemistry)
- Li Shizhen, physician and pharmacologist
- Li Siguang, the founding father of geomechanics in China
- Li Zhengdao, also known as Tsung-Dao Lee, Nobel Laureate (Physics)
- Liu Hui, mathematician
- Liu Yong-chuan, methodologist
- Ma Jun, engineer
- I. M. Pei, architect
- Qian Sanqiang, nuclear physicist
- Qin Jiushao, mathematician
- Shen Kuo, mathematician and scientist
- Su Buqing, mathematician
- Su Song, engineer and scientist
- Terence Tao, mathematician (Fields Medallist)
- Samuel Ting, physicist, Nobel Laureate (Physics)
- Tsien Hsue-shen, rocket scientist
- Roger Yonchien Tsien, Nobel Laureate (Chemistry)
- Daniel Chee Tsui, physicist, Nobel Laureate (Physics)
- An Wang, computer scientist
- Wang Hao, logician
- Wu Jianxiong, also known as Chien-Shiung Wu, physicist
- Yang Zhenning, also known as Chen Ning Yang, Nobel Laureate (Physics)
- Andrew Yao, physicist, computer scientist
- Shing-Tung Yau, mathematician (Fields Medallist)
- Yi Xing, mathematician, engineer and astronomer
- Yu Hao, architect of the Song Dynasty
- Zhang Heng, astronomer, mathematician, artist and literature scholar
- Zhang Yuzhe, astronomer
- Zhu Shijie, mathematician
- Zu Chongzhi, mathematician and astronomer
See also the List of Ethnic Chinese Nobel laureates
Others
- Bi Yantao, communication researcher
- Jing Ke, assassin
- Li Shuxian, wife of Puyi
- Liu Yiting, student who attended Harvard and was made famous in the parenting manual Harvard Girl
- Ching Shih, woman pirate
- Wan Hu, would-be astronaut
- Wang Wei, PLAAF pilot who was killed in the Hainan Island incident
- Jack Yan, publisher and businessman
- Ying Lianzhi, newspaper founder
- Yue-Sai Kan, entrepreneur and television personality
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
Fictional Chinese people
- Amy Wong, of Futurama TV series
- Cato Fong, of the Pink Panther film series
- Charlie Chan, detective
- Cho Chang, of Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
- Chuckie Chan, of Chop Socky Chooks
- 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 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)"
- Gen, of the Street Fighter Series
- the characters from Hua Mulan
- 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 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 168, 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
See also
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