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

Hiroshi Matsumoto is a Japanese engineer and atmospheric scientist. He serves as the president of RIKEN, and until August 2014 was the president of Kyoto University. He is a member of the Japanese government's committee on space policy. He has a Doctorate in Engineering. He was born in Zhangjiakou, China.

Emperor Xianwen of Northern Wei ( 魏獻文帝), personal name Tuoba Hong, Xianbei name Didouyin (第豆胤), was an emperor of the Xianbei dynasty Northern Wei. He was the first emperor in Chinese history who, after retiring at age 17 in favor of his 4-year old son Emperor Xiaowen to become Taishang Huang in 471, continued to hold on to power until his death in 476—when the official history states vaguely that he may have been killed by his stepmother Empress Dowager Feng.

Chen Chen-hsiang is a Taiwanese politician and a retired army general. He served as the Army Commander-in-chief before retirement, and elected into the Eighth Legislative Yuan from 2012 to 2016 and has been the Vice Chairperson of Kuomintang (KMT) since 23 November 2016.

Wang Zhi is a Chinese actress. She first rose to prominence in 2015 for playing Qiu Ya in the comedy film Goodbye Mr. Loser, which placed third at the box office with US$226.6 million in China.

Liu Xiang or Liu Hsiang was one of the warlords who controlled Sichuan province during the Warlord era of 20th-century China.

Gong Hongjia, or known as his official Hong Kong transliteration Kung Hung Ka, is a Chinese billionaire businessman, vice-chairman and the second largest shareholder in Hikvision, a security equipment supplier. He was ranked 15 in the Forbes 2017 China Rich List, as well as 137th in 2018 Forbes billionaires list in March 2018, with a net worth of US$11.2 billion at that time.

Luo Ben, better known by his courtesy name Guanzhong, was a Chinese writer who lived during the Ming Dynasty. He was also known by his pseudonym Huhai Sanren. Luo was attributed with writing Romance of the Three Kingdoms and editing Water Margin, the first two of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature.

Li Xueqin was a Chinese historian, archaeologist, and palaeographer. He served as Director of the Institute of History of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Professor of the Institute of Sinology of Tsinghua University, Chairman of the Pre-Qin History Association of China, and participated in the Xia–Shang–Zhou Chronology Project.