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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] Republic of China

[edit] See also

[edit] Dissidents

[edit] Non-political royalty

Concubine Qi
Xishi, melancholy beauty
Yang Guifei, emperor's consort
Sing Song, majordomo
Ya Sum Beng, imperial guard
Goku
Daisha Lynn Nilsen

[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
Jade Fox
Zhao Mengfu
Zheng Xiaoxu, also a politician
Zhu Da, also known as Bada Shanren
Cheng Man-ch'ing
Rhino Jahns
Rice Johnson

See also

List of Chinese painters

[edit] Actors and actresses

[edit] Film-makers

Cinema of China

[edit] Musicians

Ch'eng Mao-yün, violinist and composer
Yundi Li, pianist
Muhai Tang, conductor
Herman Li, guitarist of DragonForce
Jay Chou, king of pop Asia

See also

List of Chinese musicians

[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
Huo Yuan Jia, Mizongyi
Yang Ch'eng-fu, T'ai Chi Ch'üan
Yip Man, Wing Chun
Wang Zi Ping, Cha Quan
Zhang Sanfeng, T'ai Chi Ch'üan
Chang Tung Sheng, Baoding Shuai Chiao

[edit] Athletes

Ding Junhui, snooker player
Fu Mingxia, diver
Han Xiaopeng, freestyle skiier
He Ying, archer
Ma Jian, basketball player
Mengke Bateer, basketball player
Li Ning, gymnast and entrepreneur
Li Tie, footballer
Lin Sang, archer
Liu Xiang, hurdler
Suk Dong, 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
Zuang Zhong, table tennis player

[edit] Coaches

Ma Junren, track coach

[edit] See also

Chinese sportspeople

[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

[edit] Explorers

Xu Xiake
Zhang Qian
Zheng He
Elliot Autuchovich

[edit] Astronauts

[edit] Law

Mai Chen, a constitutional lawyer in New Zealand
Andrew Li, judge in Hong Kong

[edit] Military officers and soldiers

Cai Mao
Chen Yi, communist military commander and politician
Guo Ziyi, Tang general
Five Tiger Generals (Kingdom of Shu):
- Guan Yu
- Huang Zhong
- Ma Chao
- Zhang Fei
- Zhao Yun
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

People of note in the PLA

[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
Lao Lao Bai, researcher made famous for her studies on sleep
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
Helen Tse, first British born Chinese author
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
Fling Sum Pu, 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
Skan Ki Ho, founder of Wet Tao
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

List of Taoists

[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
Jimmy Choo, film director
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
Sum Yung Gai, famous chef

[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
Fook Yu, Austin Powers: Goldmember
Fook Mi, Austin Powers: Goldmember
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)"
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
Wat Yu Lookenat, Pearls of Amora
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

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List of Chinese people

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Contents

[edit] Republic of China

[edit] See also

[edit] Dissidents

[edit] Non-political royalty

[edit] Artists and performers

[edit] Painters and calligraphers

[edit] Actors and actresses

[edit] Film-makers

[edit] Musicians

[edit] Comedians

[edit] Martial Artists

[edit] Athletes

[edit] Coaches

[edit] See also

[edit] Educators

[edit] Business tycoons

[edit] Taiwan

[edit] Hong Kong

[edit] Explorers

[edit] Astronauts

[edit] Law

[edit] Military officers and soldiers

[edit] See also

[edit] Philosophers and writers

[edit] See also

[edit] Linguists

[edit] Religion

[edit] See also

[edit] Scientists and engineers

[edit] Others

[edit] Burmese Chinese

[edit] Fictional Chinese people

[edit] See also

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