List of Famous people born in People's Republic of China
Li Ling
Li Ling is a female Chinese athlete, who specialises in the pole vault.
Wang Manli
Wang Manli is a Chinese ice speed skater who won a silver medal in the Women's 500 m at the 2006 Winter Olympics.
Huang Wei
Huang Wei was a Chinese Nationalist military general who fought in the Encirclement Campaigns, Second Sino-Japanese War and Chinese Civil War.
Wang Zhi
Wang Zhi, art name Wufeng (五峰), was a Chinese pirate lord of the 16th century, one of the chief named and known figures among the wokou pirates prevalent during the reign of the Jiajing Emperor. Originally a salt merchant, Wang Zhi turned to smuggling during the Ming dynasty's period of maritime prohibitions banning all private overseas trade, and eventually became the head of a pirate syndicate stretching the East and South China Seas, from Japan to Thailand. Through his clandestine trade, he is credited for spreading European firearms throughout East Asia, and for his role in leading the first Europeans to reach Japan in 1543. However, he was also blamed for the ravages of the Jiajing wokou raids in China, for which he was executed in 1560 while trying to negotiate a relaxation of the Ming maritime prohibitions.
Wendy Kaplan
Wendy Kaplan is an actress who appeared in films, on television, and in theater.
Edward Tang
Chen Chi-kwan
Chen Chi-kwan was a Taiwanese artist, architect, and educator, particularly for his paintings and architectural work for Tunghai University. He collaborated with I.M. Pei to design the Luce Memorial Chapel on the university campus, a hallmark of mid-century modernist architecture completed in 1963.
Yu Yaodong
Yu Yaodong was a badminton player from People's Republic of China.
Guan Qing
Liu Gang
Liu Gang is a Chinese scientist and revolutionary who founded the Beijing Students' Autonomous Federation. He was a prominent student leader at the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. Liu holds a M.A. in physics from Peking University and a M.A. in computer science from Columbia University. After his exile to the United States in 1996, Liu studied technology and physics at Bell Labs in New Jersey. Liu was employed at Morgan Stanley as a Wall Street IT analyst.