List of Famous people born in New Taipei City, Taiwan
Jay Chou
Jay Chou is a Taiwanese singer, songwriter, rapper, record producer, actor, film director, businessman and magician. Dubbed the "King of Mandopop", and having sold more than 30 million albums, Chou is one of the best-selling artists in Mainland China and is known for his work with lyricist Vincent Fang, with whom he has frequently collaborated on his music.
Jolin Tsai
Jolin Tsai is a Taiwanese singer, songwriter, dancer, actress, and businesswoman. Tsai is known for frequently reinventing both her music and image, and she is cited as a huge role of popularizing dance-pop as mainstream popular music in Greater China. She maintains her autonomy within the recording industry, and her musical productions have received widespread critical acclaim. Referred to as the "Queen of C-Pop", she has achieved popularity in Chinese-speaking world by releasing a series of successful albums.
Terry Gou
Terry Gou is a Taiwanese billionaire businessman who is the founder, chairman and general manager of Foxconn. Foxconn is the world's largest contract manufacturer of electronics, with factories in several countries, mostly in mainland China where it employs 1.2 million people and is its largest private employer and exporter.
Puff Kuo
Puff Kuo is a Taiwanese actress, singer, model, and was the youngest member of Taiwanese girl group Dream Girls until their disbandment.
Naomi Watanabe
Naomi Watanabe is a Japanese comedian, actress, and fashion designer. She rose to fame in 2008 for her imitation of Beyoncé, after which she was given the title “the Japanese Beyoncé”.
Ili Cheng
Ili Cheng, nicknamed Jipai Mei, is a Taiwanese internet celebrity and model, who has appeared in television programmes, feature films, videos and a music EP. She came to fame in January 2012 when her promotional video for a fried chicken cutlet restaurant went viral. Thereafter she became an internet celebrity.
Bamboo Chen
Bamboo Chen Chu-sheng is a Taiwanese actor, acting coach and producer. He is best known for his roles in Zone Pro Site, The Great Buddha + and Alifu, the Prince/ss.
Huang Kuo-chang
Huang Kuo-chang is a Taiwanese politician, activist, legal scholar, researcher and writer. He is one of the lead figures of the Sunflower Student Movement and joined the New Power Party shortly afterwards. He served as leader of the party from 2015 to 2019, and represented Taipei in the Legislative Yuan on behalf of the NPP between 2016 and 2020.
Lai Ching-te
William Lai Ching-te is a Taiwanese politician who has been the Vice President of the Republic of China (Taiwan) since 2020. He served as a legislator in the Legislative Yuan from 1999 to 2010, and as Mayor of Tainan from 2010 to 2017, prior to taking office as premier of the Republic of China.
Holger Chen
Holger Chen or Chen Chih-han, is a Taiwanese internet celebrity, entrepreneur, political activist and mixed martial artist. He is also known popularly as Kuan Chang in Taiwan, being the founder and CEO of G.K. Fitness Club (成吉思汗健身俱樂部), named after Genghis Khan. As an actor, Chen had his first appearance as a cameo in the 2008 film Parking.