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

Ma Xiaoxu is a Chinese footballer who currently plays for Dalian Quanjian in the Chinese Women's Super League.

Du Jing is a former Chinese badminton player from Anshan, Liaoning.

Wang Jiao is a female Chinese freestyle wrestler who won gold at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Guo Xinwa is a Chinese badminton player. Guo won 2018 Asian Junior Championships in the mixed doubles with partner Liu Xuanxuan. In his early career, he joined the Jinzhou Sports School badminton team for training at the age of 8, and afterwards joined the Shandong team at the age of 13. When he turned 17, he represented the Shandong team in the National Games and won 2–1 against Beijing team. His upset victory over Lin Dan made him famous in the first battle.

Di Zijian is Chinese badminton player. Born in Liaoyang, Liaoning, he started practicing badminton at the age of 10 and entered the Liaoning team when he was 14. Di was selected to join the national youth team in 2017, then became the national second team players at the beginning of 2018. He was two times boys' doubles gold medalists at the Asian Junior Championships in 2017 and 2018, also won the mixed team title with the national junior team in 2018. At the World Junior Championships, he helps the team clinched the gold medal in 2017 and 2018, and won the silver medals in the boys' doubles event in 2017 and 2019. He also showed his achievement in the senior tournament level by reaching the final at the 2018 Lingshui China Masters and finished as the runner-up in the men's doubles event. Di won his first BWF World Tour title in 2019 SaarLorLux Open.

Zhao Lin is a former Chinese footballer. He was included in the Chinese national squad that played during the 1992 AFC Asian Cup; however, he did not feature in any of the games.

Chen Zhenggao is a Chinese politician. He is best known for his terms as Minister of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, and governor of Liaoning province.

Wang Xin is a retired badminton player from China and former World No. 1 women's singles player. She was awarded as Best Female Players of the Year by the BWF in 2010. Wang represented China in the 2012 Summer Olympics and had to forfeit the match in the bronze medal playoff game against Saina Nehwal of India in which she was 21–18, 1–0 up, due to a knee injury.

Liu Zige is a world record holding swimmer from China. She swam for China at the 2008 Olympics, where she won the women's 200 butterfly in a new world record (2:04.18).