List of Famous people born in Jiangxi, People's Republic of China
Xu Yuanchong
Xu Yuanchong was a Chinese translator, best known for translating Chinese ancient poems into English and French. He was a professor at Peking University since 1983.
Cheng Wei
Cheng Wei is a Chinese billionaire businessman. He is the founder and CEO of DiDi, a Chinese mobile transportation platform with global operations. In 2012, after eight years at Alibaba Group's regional and Alipay's operations, Cheng founded Beijing Xiaoju Technology Co Ltd in Zhongguancun.
Fang Zhimin
Fang Zhimin was a Chinese communist military and political leader.
Chen Hong
Chen Hong is a Chinese actress and film producer. She married film director Chen Kaige in 1996 and they have two sons. In recent years, she has co-produced and acted in the films Together, The Promise and Forever Enthralled. She is also known for her role as Diaochan in the 1994 television series Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
Huang Tingjian
Huang Tingjian was a Chinese calligrapher, painter, and poet of the Song dynasty. He is predominantly known as a calligrapher, and is also admired for his painting and poetry. He was one of the Four Masters of the Song Dynasty, and was a younger friend of Su Shi and influenced by his and his friends' practice of literati painting, calligraphy, and poetry.
Mervyn Peake
Mervyn Laurence Peake was an English writer, artist, poet, and illustrator. He is best known for what are usually referred to as the Gormenghast books. The three works were part of what Peake conceived as a lengthy cycle, the completion of which was prevented by his death. They are sometimes compared to the work of his older contemporary J. R. R. Tolkien, but Peake's surreal fiction was influenced by his early love for Charles Dickens and Robert Louis Stevenson rather than Tolkien's studies of mythology and philology.
Ye Yingchun
Ye Yingchun is a Chinese news anchor and journalist for China's state-run broadcaster China Central Television. She is known for hosting various programs on CCTV-4, the official Chinese-language channel targeting overseas viewers. In August 2014, Hong Kong-based Phoenix Television reported that Ye had been detained for investigation in connection with the Zhou Yongkang case.
Lei Hsueh-ming
Kang Keqing
Kang Keqing was a politician of the People's Republic of China, and the wife of Zhu De until his death in 1976.
Wang Wenjing
Wang Wenjing is a Chinese billionaire businessman, chairman of Yonyou, a Chinese company specialising in accounting software and ERP software.