List of Famous people born in Jiangxi, People's Republic of China
Zhang Zhehan
Zhang Zhehan is a Chinese actor and singer. He is best known for his roles in Legend of Ban Shu, Demon Girl, Legend of Yunxi, The Blooms at Ruyi Pavilion, and Word of Honor.
Liu Tao
Liu Tao is a Chinese actress from Nanchang, Jiangxi. She is known for her roles in Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils (2003), Madame White Snake (2006), Mazu (2012), To Elderly With Love (2013), Nirvana in Fire (2015), Legend of Mi Yue (2015), Ode to Joy (2016) and The Advisors Alliance (2017).
Zeng Qinghong
Zeng Qinghong is a retired Chinese politician. He was a member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China, China's highest leadership council, and top-ranked member of the Secretariat of the Central Committee between 2002 and 2007. He also served as the Vice-President of the People's Republic of China from 2003 to 2008.
Deng Chao
Deng Chao is a Chinese actor, comedian, director and singer. His recent films, The Breakup Guru (2014), The Mermaid (2016) and Duckweed (2017) are among the highest-grossing Chinese film of all time in China. In 2017, Deng was crowned Best Actor at the Golden Rooster Awards for his performance in The Dead End (2015). He was a cast member of the popular variety program, Keep Running.
Lai Xiaomin
Lai Xiaomin was a Chinese business executive and senior economist who served as party chief and chairman of the board of China Huarong Asset Management from September 2012 to April 2018. He was sacked for graft on April 17, 2018.
François Cheng
François Cheng is a Chinese-born French academician, writer, poet and calligrapher. He is the author of essays, novels, collections of poetry and books on art written in the French language, and the translator of some of the great French poets into Chinese.
Guan Yi
Guan Yi is a Chinese virologist. In 2014, he was ranked as 11th in the world by Thomson Reuters among global researchers in the field of microbiology. He obtained his PhD in microbiology at the University of Hong Kong and is now a professor of microbiology at his alma mater. His research on the viral respiratory disease SARS helped the Chinese government avert the 2004 outbreak of this disease. He is the current Director of the State Key Laboratory for Emerging Infectious Diseases University of Hong Kong. In early 2017, Guan warned that the H7N9 influenza virus "poses the greatest threat to humanity than any other in the past 100 years."
Zhang Huiwen
Zhang Huiwen is a Chinese actress. She received widespread media attention after debuting in Zhang Yimou's film Coming Home (2014), and is also known for her roles in Nirvana in Fire 2 and Legend of Fei.
Li Shifeng
Li Shifeng is a Chinese badminton player. He started playing badminton when he was 6 years old, getting support from his father. Li then practiced in the Jiangxi team when he was in the elementary school, after that went to the Bayi team. At the age of 14, he participated in the National youth team training centre in Shenyang and entered the National second team in 2017. He was part of the Chinese junior team that won the gold medals at the 2017, 2018 World Junior Championships, and 2018 Asian Junior Championships. Li represented his country competed at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and clinched the gold medal in the boys' singles event.
Zhu Chenhao
Zhu Chenhao (朱宸濠) or Prince of Ning (寜王) was a member of the Ming Dynasty's Royal Family. He was the 5th generation descendant of Zhu Quan, the seventeenth son of the Hongwu Emperor. He attempted to usurp the throne and was the leader of the Prince of Ning rebellion.