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

Dai Xu is a Chinese author, social commentator, and the president of Marine Institute For Security And Cooperation (海洋安全与合作研究院). He is also a professor at the PLA National Defense University. He holds the rank of Senior Colonel in the People's Liberation Army Air Force, he is a supporter of communist orthodoxy and has expressed strong nationalist sentiments.

Wang Xing is a Chinese billionaire businessman and the CEO of Meituan-Dianping. Fortune listed Wang as number three on its 2018 "40 under 40" list. Forbes estimates his net worth at $28.8 billion as of Jan 2021.

Li Xianyu is a Chinese missile expert. She serves as the director of a research institute of the People's Liberation Army Rocket Force Research Academy and holds the military rank of major general. She is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

Fu Ziying is a Chinese politician currently serving as director of the Macau Liaison Office.

Yuan Mei was a Chinese painter and poet of the Qing Dynasty. He was often mentioned with Ji Yun as the "Nan Yuan Bei Ji".

Wang Fuzhi, 1619–1692) courtesy name Ernong (而農), pseudonym Chuanshan (船山), was a Chinese essayist, historian, and philosopher of the late Ming, early Qing dynasties.

Yixin, better known in English as Prince Kung or Gong, was an imperial prince of the Aisin Gioro clan and an important statesman of the Manchu-led Qing dynasty in China. He was a regent of the empire from 1861 to 1865 and wielded great influence at other times as well.

Dhondup Wangchen is a Tibetan filmmaker imprisoned by the Chinese government in 2008 on charges related to his documentary Leaving Fear Behind. Made with senior Tibetan monk Jigme Gyatso, the documentary consists of interviews with ordinary Tibetan people discussing the 14th Dalai Lama, the Chinese government, the 2008 Beijing Olympics, and Han Chinese migrants to the region. After smuggling the tapes of the interviews out of Tibet, however, Dhondup Wangchen and Jigme Gyatso were detained during the 2008 Tibetan unrest.

Mu-ming Poo is a Chinese-Taiwanese-American neuroscientist. He is the Paul Licht Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley and the Founding Director of the Shanghai-based Institute of Neuroscience (ION) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was awarded the 2016 Gruber Prize in Neuroscience for his pioneering work on synaptic plasticity. At ION, Poo led a team of scientists that produced the world's first truly cloned primates, a pair of crab-eating macaques called Zhongzhong and Huahua in 2017, using somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT).

Liu Youju is a contemporary Chinese art critic, calligrapher, avant-garde artist, and practitioner of "illusionist painting".