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

Zhang Hanzhi was a Chinese diplomat who was Mao Zedong's English teacher and U.S. President Richard Nixon's interpreter during his historic 1972 trip to China.

Jing Haipeng is a Chinese pilot and astronaut selected as part of the Shenzhou program. A fighter pilot in the People's Liberation Army Air Force, he was selected to be a CNSA astronaut in 1998. He is the first and currently only Chinese astronaut to have flown on three missions: Shenzhou 7, Shenzhou 9 and Shenzhou 11.

Ba Jin was a Chinese and Esperanto author. He wrote three original works in Esperanto. As a political activist he also wrote The Family in the 20th century.

Zhang Zhen was a general of the People's Liberation Army of China and a member of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China.

Huang Wanli was a Chinese hydrologist. Huang was a professor at Tsinghua University from 1953 till 2001.

Zhang Enhua was a Chinese professional football player and coach.

Deng Xiaohua, better known by her pen name Can Xue, is a Chinese avant-garde fiction writer and literary critic. Her family was severely persecuted following her father being labeled a rightist in the Anti-Rightist Campaign of 1957. Her writing, which consists mostly of short fiction, breaks with the realism of earlier modern Chinese writers. She has also written novels, novellas, and literary criticisms of the work of Dante, Jorge Luis Borges, and Franz Kafka. Can Xue has been described as "China’s most prominent author of experimental fiction", and some of her fiction has been translated and published in English.

Ge Huijie is a Chinese model. In 2002, she won the NICE cup, and was runner-up in 2004 at the Pierre Cardin International Model Contest. At 17, she entered a relationship with Wang Feng, a Chinese rock musician, breaking up two years later. She has also acted in some films and television series, and was featured on the cover of Marie Claire magazine.

Sun Fo or Sun Ke, courtesy name Zhesheng (哲生), was a high-ranking official in the government of the Republic of China. He was the son of Sun Yat-sen, the founder of the Republic of China, and his first wife Lu Muzhen.

Xu Xiang is a former Chinese private placement investor who served as General Manager of Zexi Investment (泽熙投资), a Chinese investment company. He has been variously called "China's Carl Icahn", "China's Warren Buffett", and "Big Man of Private Placement" (私募一哥) by fellow Chinese investors. On November 1, 2015, Xu Xiang was arrested by the police for insider trading.