List of Famous people born in People's Republic of China
Wang Yi
Wang Yi is a Chinese diplomat and politician. He formerly served as China's Vice Foreign Minister, Ambassador to Japan and Director of the Taiwan Affairs Office. He has served as the Foreign Minister since March 2013 and a State Councilor since March 2018.
Li Xiang
Li Xiang is a Chinese actress, host and singer.
Zhao Leji
Zhao Leji is a senior leader of the Communist Party of China and the Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the party's top anti-corruption body. Additionally, he is a member of the Politburo Standing Committee, the party's top decision making body.
Song Dandan
Song Dandan is a popular Chinese skit and sitcom actress.
Rei Nakanishi
Rei Nakanishi was a Japanese novelist and songwriter. He won the 122nd Naoki Prize.
Sun Yi
Sun Yi is a Chinese actress.
Cheung Tze-keung
Cheung Tze-keung was a notorious Hong Kong gangster also known as "Big Spender". He was a kidnapper, robber, arms smuggler and was wanted for murder. He was best known for having masterminded the abduction of Walter Kwok and Victor Li, son of Li Ka Shing.
Liu Qiangdong
Richard Liu Qiangdong is a Chinese Internet entrepreneur. He has been called the "Jeff Bezos of China" and his company JD.com has been compared to Amazon due to its business model. Liu founded Jingdong as a business-to-consumer single retail store for magneto-optical products in June 1998 and later moved the company into an e-commerce website known as JD.com in 2004. Liu is the company's chief executive officer and expanded its e-commerce products from selling consumer electronics to less specialized items, which grew JD.com into one of the largest retailers in China. According to Forbes, Liu's net worth is US$9 billion as of May 2020 with a 15.8% stake in JD.com. He was included on the "China Rich List" for 2019.
Wan Qian
Wan Qian, also known as Regina Wan, is a Chinese actress and singer. She won Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actress for the 2014 Taiwanese film Paradise in Service and the Beijing College Student Film Festival for Best Actress for the 2016 film The Insanity.
Zhang Zetian
Zhang Zetian, also known as Nancy Zhang, is a Chinese businesswoman and investor who is the chief fashion adviser of the luxury business of JD.com. She gained initial fame from the popularity of a photograph of her holding milk tea, and was nicknamed "Sister Milk Tea". She later married JD.com's billionaire founder Liu Qiangdong, and became an investor in several companies. She has been included in the list of Chinese billionaires by New Frontier and is considered to be China's youngest female billionaire.