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

Xiao Jianhua is a Chinese-Canadian businessman and billionaire known for managing assets for descendants of prominent Chinese leaders. He was abducted to Mainland China in 2017.

Ma Tianyu, also known as Ray Ma, is a Chinese Mandopop singer and actor. He graduated from the Beijing Film Academy.

Yang Yongxin is a highly controversial Chinese clinical psychiatrist who advocated and practiced electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) without anaesthesia or muscle relaxants as a cure for alleged Internet addiction in adolescents. Yang is currently deputy chief of the Fourth Hospital of Linyi, in the Shandong province of China. He runs the Internet Addiction Treatment Center at the hospital.

Guan Moye, better known by the pen name Mo Yan, is a Chinese novelist and short story writer. Donald Morrison of U.S. news magazine TIME referred to him as "one of the most famous, oft-banned and widely pirated of all Chinese writers", and Jim Leach called him the Chinese answer to Franz Kafka or Joseph Heller.

Song Ping is a Chinese Communist revolutionary and a retired high-ranking politician. He was a member of the CPC Politburo Standing Committee, which effectively rules China, and is considered the only living member of the Second Generation of Chinese Leadership.

Zhang Yujian is a Chinese actor.

Li Xiaopeng is a former Chinese international footballer who is the current head coach of China. As a football player he would spend his entire professional football career playing for Shandong Luneng, while internationally he would be a participant of the 2000 AFC Asian Cup, 2002 FIFA World Cup and 2004 AFC Asian Cup.

Zhang Linpeng is a Chinese footballer of Hui ethnicity who currently plays for Guangzhou Evergrande in the Chinese Super League.

Wang Quanzhang is a Chinese human rights lawyer from Wulian County, Shandong. He was arrested in August 2015 as part of the "709 crackdown" on human rights lawyers instigated by General Secretary of the Communist Party of China Xi Jinping, and after being held incommunicado for three years, he was put on trial for subversion of state power in December 2018.

Chen-yi Lee, better known as Leena , is a Japanese fashion model best known for her regular appearances in the CanCam women's fashion magazine.