List of Famous people born in Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Chen Chien-jen OS KSG KHS is a Taiwanese epidemiologist and politician. He joined the Chen Shui-bian presidential administration in 2003 as leader of the Department of Health, serving through 2005. He later headed the National Science Council between 2006 and 2008. Chen then served as a vice president of Academia Sinica from 2011 to 2015. Later that year, Chen joined Tsai Ing-wen on the Democratic Progressive Party presidential ticket. He served one term as Vice President of the Republic of China, from 2016 to 2020.

Hsu Kun-yuan was a Taiwanese politician. He was born in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. He was a member of the Kuomintang. He was a member of the Kaohsiung City Council from 1994 until his death. From 2010 to 2014 and again from 2018 until his death, he was Speaker of the City Council.

Chiu Yi is a former Kuomintang and People First Party legislator of the Republic of China (Taiwan) known for his pro-CCP unification views. He has also been a member of the New Party.

Hou Dejian, is a songwriter, composer, and singer from Taiwan.

Lee Yung-te is a Taiwanese politician. He served as the Minister of the Hakka Affairs Council from March 2005 to March 2008 and was reappointed to the position in April 2016.

Yang Chiu-hsing is a Taiwanese politician. He was a Minister without Portfolio in the Executive Yuan and Magistrate of Kaohsiung County.

Tzu-Wei Lin, is a Taiwanese baseball infielder for the Minnesota Twins organization. He has played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Boston Red Sox. He has played in MLB with Boston each season from 2017 through 2020. Nicknamed Tzunami by MLB fans, Lin has been touted as the next "Linsanity" after Jeremy Lin.

Rachel Liang or Liang Wen-yin is a Taiwanese Mandopop singer.

Tsai Hsiao-hu is a Taiwanese Hokkien pop singer. He is nicknamed Prince of Pork as he worked in a family-owned pork butchery.

Yang Hung-duen is a Taiwanese physicist. Yang was the president of National Sun Yat-sen University from 2008 to 2016, when he was selected to lead the Ministry of Science and Technology.