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

Ruan Chongwu is a politician of the People's Republic of China.

Ji Kang, sometimes referred to as Xi Kang, courtesy name Shuye, was a Chinese writer, poet, Daoist philosopher, musician and alchemist of the Three Kingdoms period. He was one of the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove who held aloof from the dangerous politics of third-century China to devote themselves to art and refinement.

Tang Liangzhi is a Chinese politician who has been Mayor of Chongqing since January 2018. He was previously party secretary of Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province, and mayor of Wuhan, the capital of Hubei.

Zuoxiao Zuzhou, real name Wu Hongjin, (吴红巾), is a Chinese musician and artist.

Geng Tan is a Canadian politician who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the riding of Don Valley North in the House of Commons of Canada from 2015 to 2019 as a member of the Liberal Party. Tan made history as the first Canadian MP of a Mandarin-speaking heritage to be elected to the House of Commons.

Florence Chia-ying Yeh, also known as Ye Jiaying, Jialing, and by her married name Chia-ying Yeh Chao, is a Chinese-born Canadian poet and sinologist. She was a scholar of classical Chinese poetry. She taught for twenty years at the University of British Columbia (UBC), and has been Professor Emerita since her retirement in 1989. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. After retiring from UBC, she has been teaching at Nankai University in Tianjin where she is the founding Director of the Institute of Chinese Classical Culture.

Li Jianguo is a retired Chinese politician who served as a member of the 18th Politburo of the Communist Party of China, Vice-Chairman of the National People's Congress, and Chairman of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions. He was formerly Communist Party Chief of Shaanxi and Shandong provinces; he also served as the Secretary-General of the National People's Congress.

Yang Xianyi was a Chinese literary translator, known for rendering many ancient and a few modern Chinese classics into English, including Dream of the Red Chamber.

Chung-Yao Chao was a Chinese physicist. He studied the scattering of gamma rays in lead by pair production in 1930, without knowing that positrons were involved in the anomalously high scattering cross-section. When the positron was discovered by Carl David Anderson in 1932, confirming the existence of Paul Dirac's "antimatter", it became clear that positrons could explain Chung-Yao Chao's earlier experiments, with the gamma rays being emitted from electron-positron annihilation.

Liu Xiang is a Chinese competitive swimmer.