List of Famous people born in Liaoning, People's Republic of China
Wang Yimei
Wang Yimei is a Chinese volleyball player. She lives in Liaoning Province.
Toshiko Akiyoshi
Toshiko Akiyoshi is a Japanese-American jazz pianist, composer, arranger, and bandleader.
Pei Gang
Pei Gang is a Chinese molecular biologist and pharmacologist, Academic Hooligan and a former president of Tongji University.
Yan Zidong
Yan Zidong, also known as Kevin Yan, is a Chinese actor and singer. He is best known for his roles in the dramas Love is More Than a Word (2016), Till Death Tear Us Apart (2017) and Butterfly Lovers (2017).
Yu Xiaoguang
Yu Xiaoguang, also known as Ethan Yu, is a Chinese composer and actor. Yu is a former swimmer and sprint canoer. In 2006 he has made a crossover from sports to films. Yu made appearances on many television series, most notably My Kung Fu Girlfriend (2006), Fighting in Peking (2009), Mao Anying (2010), The Happy Time of the Spicy and Hot Girlfriend (2012), City and Country Life (2014), and Namchow Mechanic Heroes (2015).
Fan Wei
Fan Wei is a Chinese skit, sitcom and film actor best known for his performances with Zhao Benshan in CCTV New Year's Galas since 1995. In recent years, he has been featured in such films as Cell Phone, A World Without Thieves, If You Are The One and City of Life and Death. He has also acted in several television series produced in mainland China and is a member of the Fàn family.
Hua Qianfang
Hua Qianfang is a Chinese essayist and blogger. He is now the vice president of Fushun Writers Association. His most well-known works are Our Armageddon and Our Journey Is The Ocean of Stars. He is a supporter of communist orthodoxy and has expressed nationalist, anti-American and anti-western sentiments. He is noted for praising Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China at a conference on art and literature.
Chi Pang-yuan
Chi Pang-yuan is professor emeritus of English and comparative literature at National Taiwan University and a notable writer, academic, and Chinese–English translator. She has been instrumental in introducing Taiwanese literature to the western world through translations.
Zhang Shaochun
Zhang Shaochun is a former Chinese politician who served as the Vice Minister of Finance. He was dismissed from his position in May 2018 for investigation by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission.
Tadashi Yokouchi
Tadashi Yokouchi is a Japanese actor. Born in Dalian, Manchuria, he graduated from high school in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. A member of the 13th group of actors and actresses trained at the Haiyū-za, he counts Tetsuo Ishidate, Toshiyuki Hosokawa, Tomomi Satō, and Gō Katō as classmates. His older brother Shōji is a much-recorded guitarist, and his younger brother Hiroshi a composer. Tadashi belongs to TY Pro.