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List of Chinese people
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Famous China|Chinese or Chinese language|Chinese-speaking/writing people.
Note In Chinese names, the Chinese family name|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"). The following names are listed in alphabetic order, by family names.
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Imperial times
- Aixinjueluo Puyi, the last emperor
- Chen Youliang, founder of Dahan
- Empress Dowager Cixi, Qing dynasty de facto leader
- Dong Zhuo, Han dynasty general
- Guo Jia, Kingdom of Wei strategist
- Hong Tianguifu, king of Taiping
- Hong Xiuquan, king of Taiping
- Kangxi Emperor of China, Emperor of the Qing Dynasty
- Li Chengqian, 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
- Liu Bei, founder of Kingdom of Kingdom of Shu|Shu
- Liu Chan, Kingdom of Shu emperor
- Lu Su, Kingdom of Wu advisor
- Empress Dowager L? of Han Empire
- Ming Yuzhen, founder of Daxia
- Qianlong Emperor of China, Emperor of the Qing Dynasty
- Qin Shi Huang, the First Emperor
- Sun Quan, founder of Kingdom of Wu
- Emperor Tang Taizong of China
- Wen Tianxiang, Song prime minister, writer
- Wu Zetian, Empress of China
- Yan Song, corrupt prime minister
- Yang Guozhong, Tang official by guanxi
- Zeng Guofan, Qing official
- Zhuge Liang, Han dynasty strategist
- Zuo Zongtang, known as General Tso in the West
See also: Chinese sovereign, Table of Chinese monarchs
Warlords
Communist Party of China / People's Republic of China| PRC
- Chen Duxiu, CPC cofounder
- Gang of Four (China)|Gang of Four
- Li Xiannian, PRC president
- Yang Shangkun, PRC president
Nationalists (Kuomintang)
- Du Yuming, field commander
- H. H. Kung, banker, politician
- Qiu Jin, female revolutionary
Republic of China
See also: List of leaders of the Republic of China, Premier of the Republic of China
Current Republic of China|Taiwanese politicians
Dissidents
- Yang Guifei, emperor's consort
Painters and calligraphers
- Wei Shuo, female calligrapher
- Zhu Da, also known as Bada Shanren
See also: List of Chinese painters
Actors and actresses
- Ruan Lingyu, suicided silent-film actress
Film-makers
See also: Cinema of China
Singers
- Bic Runga, Chinese?Māori singer?songwriter
See also: Cantopop
Musicians
- Ch'eng Mao-y?n, violinist and composer
See also: List of Chinese musicians
Comedians
- Raybon Kan, New Zealand Chinese comedian and newspaper columnist
Martial Artists
- Cheng Man-ch'ing, T'ai Chi
- Wong Fei Hung, kung fu during the Qing dynasty
- Wu Chien-ch'?an, T'ai Chi
- Ding Junhui, snooker player
- Ma Jian, basketball player
- Mengke Bateer, NBA basketball player
- Li Ning, gymnast, entrepreneur
- Sun Wen (football)|Sun Wen, woman football (soccer)|footballer
- Wang Zhizhi, NBA basketball player
- Wu Qingyuan (Go Seigen), Game of go|go player
- Yao Ming, NBA Basketball player, Houston Rockets
- Ye Jiangchuan, chess player
- Zhang Zhong, chess player
See also: :Category:Chinese sportspeople
- Chang-lin Tien, chancellor
Taiwan:
- John Tu and David Sun, cofounders of Kingston Technologies
Hong Kong:
- Mai Chen, NZ-based constitutional lawyer
- Five Tiger Generals (Kingdom of Kingdom of Shu|Shu):
- Jiang Wei, Kingdom of Shu general
- Xu Shouhui, Yuan dynasty rebel leader
See also: People of note in the PLA
- Ban Gu, Han dynasty historian
- Cui Hao, Tang dynasty poet
- Du Mu, Tang poet, official
- Gao Qi, Ming dynasty poet
- Gongsun Longzi, one of the Logicians of the Warring States Period
- Guan Hanqing, Yuan dynasty playwright
- Guo Moruo, poet, historian, archaeologist
- Han Yu, founded Neo-Confucianism, essayist, poet
- Jin Shengtan, editor and critic
- Mei Yaochen, Song dynasty poet
- Meng Haoran, Tang dynasty poet
- Ouyang Xiu, Song statesman, historian, poet
- Qian Xuantong, phonetician
- Qu Yuan, State of Chu poet
- Sima Qian, historiographer
- 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
- Zhang Ailing, woman novelist
See also: List of Chinese authors, List of Chinese language poets, List of Confucianists
- Xu Shen, dictionary compiler
- Zhang Binglin, phonologist
- Y. R. Chao, phonologist and dialectologist
- Faxian, Buddhist monk, explorer
- Huangbo Xiyun, Chan Buddhism master
- I Ching (monk), Buddhist monk
- 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
- Zhang Daoling, founded Daoist sect
See also: List of Taoists
- Chen Jingrun, mathematician
- David Ho, AIDS researcher
- Charles Kao, pioneer of optical fiber
- Yuan T. Lee, Nobel Laureate, Chemistry
- Qian Sanqiang, nuclear physics|nuclear physicist
- Qin Jiushao, 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
- Andrew Yao, physicist, computer scientist
- Li Shuxian, wife of Aixinjueluo Puyi
- Wan Hu, would-be astronaut
- Wang Wei (pilot), crashed PLAAF pilot
- Jack Yan, publisher and businessman
- Ying Lianzhi, newspaperist
- Cato of the Pink Panther series of films
- Judge Dee, Tang dynasty detective by Robert van Gulik
- the characters from the musical Flower Drum Song
- 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)"
- Kai Lung, of stories by Ernest Bramah
- Kato (The Green Hornet)|Kato of The Green Hornet TV series
- Li Kao and Number Ten Ox, of novels by Barry Hughart
- Dr Julius No, villain in the Ian Fleming Dr. No|novel of the same name and later the film
- Nüwa, mother goddess of Chinese mythology
- Xuanzang (fictional character)|Xuanzang and his disciples (including Sun Wukong and Zhu Bajie), of Journey to the West
- * Chinese American, List of famous Chinese Americans|List
- * List of overseas Chinese
- Taiwanese, List of Taiwanese_people
- List of people by nationality
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