List of Famous people born in People's Republic of China
Hu Weiwei
Hu Weiwei is a Chinese journalist and businesswoman. She is a co-founder of bicycle-sharing company Mobike.
Ke Zhao
Ke Zhao, is a Chinese footballer who currently plays for China Super League side Henan Jianye as a right-footed Left-back.
Deng Enxi
Deng Enxi is a Chinese actress.
Shen Xiaoming
Shen Xiaoming is a Chinese politician, serving since 2017 as the Governor of Hainan. A pediatrician by training, Shen rose through the ranks in the health and education bureaucracy of Shanghai. He successively served as party chief of Pudong and vice minister of education.
Sun Shaocheng
Sun Shaocheng is a Chinese politician currently serving as the Minister of Veterans Affairs. Previously, he served as vice-minister of Land and Resources, vice-minister of Civil Affairs, vice-governor of Shanxi, and vice-governor of Shandong. He served two separate terms as vice-minister of Ministry of Civil Affairs, from April 2009 to August 2012 and from February 2017 to June 2017. He is a member of the 19th CPC Central Committee. He is a member of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.
Mao Daolin
Mao Daolin is an internet tycoon. He is a former Chief Executive Officer of Sina.com. He married Hu Jintao's daughter, Hu Haiqing, in 2003.
Mak Soi Kun
Mak Soi-kun is a member of the Legislative Assembly of Macau. With a construction business in the city, Mak and fellow legislator Zheng Anting, a casino VIP room manager, founded the Macau Jiangmen Communal Society and provide social benefits to new immigrants. He later entered politics with a remarkable support from the working class after his mediation in the collapse of Sin Fong Garden.
Li Shangyin
Li Shangyin, courtesy name Yishan, was a Chinese poet and politician of the late Tang Dynasty, born in Henei. He was "rediscovered" in the 20th century by young Chinese writers. He is noted for the imagist quality of his poems as well as his tantalizing "no title" (無題) poems.
Xiong Xianghui
Xiong Xianghui was a Chinese Communist spy during the Chinese Civil War, and, after the establishment of the People's Republic of China, a high-ranking official in diplomacy and intelligence. He played a role in the victory of the Communist Party of China over the Kuomintang in the Chinese Civil War, in his capacity as private secretary and aide-de-camp to Hu Zongnan, one of the most senior Nationalist generals; Xiong was secretly a Communist mole and for many years passed highly sensitive information to the Communist Party leadership, including top-secret orders and documents of Chiang Kai-Shek.
Xiaowei Zhuang
Xiaowei Zhuang is a Chinese-American biophysicist who is the David B. Arnold Jr. Professor of Science, Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, and Professor of Physics at Harvard University, and an Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. She is best known for her work in the development of Stochastic Optical Reconstruction Microscopy (STORM), a super-resolution fluorescence microscopy method, and the discoveries of novel cellular structures using STORM. She received a 2019 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for developing super-resolution imaging techniques that get past the diffraction limits of traditional light microscopes, allowing scientists to visualize small structures within living cells. She was elected a Member of the American Philosophical Society in 2019 and was awarded a Vilcek Foundation Prize in Biomedical Science in 2020.