List of Famous people born in Cangzhou, People's Republic of China

Zhang Zhaozhong is a Chinese military theorist at the PLA National Defense University. He held the rank of rear admiral in the People's Liberation Army Navy prior to his retirement.

Gao Qiang is a Chinese politician and a former minister and party secretary of the Ministry of Health of the People's Republic of China.

Jia Qinglin is a retired senior leader of the People's Republic of China and of its ruling Communist Party. He was a member of the Politburo Standing Committee, the party's highest ruling organ, between 2002 and 2012, and Chairman of the National Committee of the People's Political Consultative Conference between 2003 and 2013. Jia's functions as the head of China's consultative legislative body were largely ceremonial in nature.

Wu Shengli is a retired Chinese admiral who served as commander of the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) from 2006 to 2017. Prior to that, he served as PLA's deputy chief of staff, commander of the South Sea Fleet and commandant principal of Dalian Naval Academy.

Yang Dongliang is a former Chinese politician who spent most of his career in the city of Tianjin in northern China. He has successively served as the vice mayor of Tianjin, and the Director of the State Administration of Work Safety. In August 2015, he was put under investigation by the Communist Party's anti-corruption agency. Yang was a member of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China; he was the sixth member of the committee to be investigated for wrongdoing following the 18th Party Congress.

Wang Xiankui is a Chinese politician best known for his terms as Governor, then Communist Party Secretary of Heilongjiang, a province in the northeast part of the country. Wang worked in various capacities in the railway system before entering politics in 2003 as the deputy party chief of Gansu province.