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

Yue Yunpeng is a Chinese actor and xiangsheng performer, best known in film for portraying Zhu Tianpeng in Buddies in India (2017), Yue Yunpeng in Top Funny Comedian: The Movie and Li Shuaiting in Revenge for Love. Mainly performing xiangsheng as the lead actor (Dougen), his current fixed partner is Sun Yue.

Gu Junshan is a former lieutenant general in the People's Liberation Army (PLA) of China who was sentenced to prison for corruption. He served as the Deputy Director of the PLA General Logistics Department (GLD) from December 2009 to February 2012. During his tenure he oversaw the consolidation and sale of military real estate assets. Prior to that, he served as the chief of the barracks and housing division of the GLD, in charge of upgrades to the facilities and residences of army personnel.

Wang Luoyong is a Chinese actor who has appeared in American films. He first appeared in Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story as James Yim Lee. He had recently appeared in CCTV's The Legend of Bruce Lee as Shao Ruhai, a master of Hung Ga and the first to train Bruce Lee. His character "Shao Ruhai" is partially based on James Yimm Lee. He is also the first Chinese Broadway singer.

Ji Xingwen, courtesy name Shaowu, was a general in the National Revolutionary Army of the Republic of China. He fought in the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Chinese Civil War and was killed in action during the Second Taiwan Strait Crisis.

Wang Anshun is a Chinese politician who served as Mayor of Beijing between 2012 and 2016, the 15th person to hold the office under Communist Party rule. Wang began his career in geological exploration, then made the transition into politics, serving in Gansu, Shanghai, and Beijing through his career.

Xiaodong Wang is a Chinese-American biochemist best known for his work with cytochrome c. His laboratory developed an in-vitro assay for the activation of the apoptosis related proteinase Caspase-3. This allowed the biochemical purification of a complex of Cytochrome c, Caspase-9 and the Apoptotic Protease Activating factor-1 (APAF1). These components are essential for forming a ternary complex called the apoptosome that activates Caspase-3 downstream of the intracellular or mitochondrial pathway of apoptosis.

Cao Gangchuan was vice chairman of the Central Military Commission and former Minister of National Defense of the People's Republic of China. He was also state councilor and director of the PLA General Armament Department.

Qin Yizhi is a Chinese politician, best known for his term as First Secretary of the Communist Youth League of China.

Xu Yongyue is a Chinese Communist Party senior official, who served as Minister of State Security from March 1998 to August 2007. Prior to that, he was private secretary to Party Elder Chen Yun from 1983 to Chen's death in 1994.

Daniel Chee Tsui is a Chinese-born American physicist, Nobel laureate, and the Arthur Legrand Doty Professor of Electrical Engineering, Emeritus, at Princeton University. Tsui's areas of research include electrical properties of thin films and microstructures of semiconductors and solid-state physics.