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

Liu Zhigeng is a former Chinese politician. He was the Vice-Governor of Guangdong and the Communist Party Secretary of Dongguan. On February 4, 2016, Liu was placed under investigation by the Communist Party's anti-corruption agency.

Ge Ping is a Chinese actor and voice actor who graduated from Wuhan Conservatory of Music. He was best known for the role of Blue Cat in 3000 Whys of Blue Cat., an animation series known to and beloved by many children born in the 1990s. Since 2009, Ge Ping became famous due to MAD parodies made by netizens in China, stemming from a video from the past of Ge Ping addressing little viewers of the show. Many parodies create humor by the use of vulgar or sexual language, which outraged many fans of Ge Ping. However, there are also videos that seek to be inspirational; Ge Ping himself approved this type of parody, announcing that he would like to be the "foundation stone" for creative youngsters to step on.

Peng Guanying is a Chinese actor. He graduated from the Beijing Film Academy.

Yang Jisheng is a Chinese journalist and author of Tombstone, a comprehensive account of the Great Chinese Famine during the Great Leap Forward. Yang joined the Communist Party in 1964 and graduated from Tsinghua University in 1966. He promptly joined Xinhua News Agency, where he worked until his retirement in 2001. His loyalty to the party was destroyed by the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. Although he continued working for the Xinhua News Agency, he spent much of his time researching for Tombstone. As of 2008, he was the deputy editor of the journal Yanhuang Chunqiu in Beijing. Yang Jisheng is also listed as a Fellow of China Media Project, a department under Hong Kong University.

Wang Ziyi, also known as BOOGIE, is a Chinese rapper, dancer and singer. He is a member of C-pop boy group BBT and former member of Chinese boy group Nine Percent. He is known for his participation as a trainee under Simply Joy Music in the idol survival show Idol Producer, where he finished in 7th place overall and thus became a member of Nine Percent. The group achieved huge success in China and was scheduled to promote for 18 months. After the group officially disbanded on October 6, 2019 and held their final farewell concert on October 12, 2019 in Guangzhou, Wang continued on his career as a solo artist.

Li Shiqun was a politician in the Republic of China. During the Japanese occupation, he was the head of the secret police Tèwu of Wang Jingwei's collaborationist regime.

Yunreng, born Yinreng, was a Manchu prince of the Qing dynasty. He was the second among the Kangxi Emperor's sons to survive into adulthood and was designated as Crown Prince for two terms between 1675 and 1712 before being deposed. He was posthumously honoured as Prince Limi of the First Rank.

Shen Buhai was a Chinese essayist, philosopher, and politician. He served as Chancellor of the Han state under Marquis Zhao of Han for fifteen years, from 354 BC to 337 BC. A contemporary of syncretist Shi Jiao and Legalist Shang Yang, he was born in the State of Zheng, and was likely a minor official there. After Han conquered Zheng in 375 BC, he rose up in the ranks of the Han officialdom, dividing up its territories and successfully reforming it. Though not dealing in penal law himself, his administrative innovations would be incorporated into "Chinese Legalist" statecraft by Han Fei, his most famous successor, and Shen Buhai's book most resembles the Han Feizi. He died of natural causes while in office.

Li Changchun is a retired Chinese politician and a former senior leader of the Communist Party of China. He served on the Politburo Standing Committee, the Communist Party's top leadership council, and as the top official in charge of propaganda, between 2002 and 2012. He also served as Chairman of the CPC Central Guidance Commission for Building Spiritual Civilization, de facto head of propaganda and media relations. Li had a widely varying political career spanning three provinces, first as Governor of Liaoning, then Party Secretary of Henan, and then Party Secretary of Guangdong, before being promoted to the national leadership in 2002. He retired in 2012.

Lu Ke is a Chinese materials scientist. He was born in Huachi County, Gansu, and received his bachelor's degree at East China Institute of Technology. In January 1990 he received a doctor's degree at the Institute of Metals Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and became a researcher there 3 years later. In 1993 he was awarded first class natural science prize of the CAS. In 2003, he was elected the youngest academician of the CAS. He is mainly known for his work in the field of crystallization of amorphous metals.