List of Famous people born in South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea
Pyo Ye-jin
Pyo Ye-jin is a South Korean actress.
Yun Sung-bin
Yun Sung-Bin is a South korean skeleton racer. He won the gold medal in men's skeleton at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang and was a participant at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.
Park Si-hun
Park Si-hun is a retired South Korean amateur boxer. He won the light middleweight gold medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics despite an inferior performance, a result that was attributed to the judges favouring Korean competitors.
Sofia Valentina Torres Sanchez
Kim Jong Yang is a South Korean police officer and the President of Interpol.
Ahn Cheol-soo
Ahn Cheol-soo is a South Korean politician, medical doctor, businessperson and software entrepreneur. A two-time former presidential election candidate in 2012 and 2017, Ahn was the Bareunmirae Party's candidate for the Seoul mayorship in 2018.He ran as an independent candidate for the presidential election in 2012, but withdrew a month before the election took place to support Moon Jae-in whom he ran against in 2017 as the People's Party nominee. He was a founding co-leader and the party leader of the People's Party until his party and Bareun Party merged as Bareunmirae Party in February 2018.Prior to politics, Ahn founded AhnLab, Inc., an antivirus software company, in 1995. He was chairman of the board and Chief Learning Officer of AhnLab until September 2012, and remains the company's largest stakeholder. Prior to entering politics, Ahn served as dean of the Graduate School of Convergence Science and Technology at Seoul National University until September 2012.
Lee Seung Hyun
Lee Seung-Hyun is a former professional StarCraft II player from South Korea who played Zerg under the alias Life. He was on the Korean team Afreeca Freecs, which he joined in January 2016. He has also played for StarTale and KT Rolster.
Kim Pan-gon
Kim Pan-Gon is a South Korean football manager who is currently chief of the South Korea national team supervisory committee. Kim holds the AFC Professional Football Coaching Diploma, the highest football coaching qualification in Asia.
Yoon Mee-hyang
Yoon Mee-hyang is a South Korean human rights activist, politician, and author. She was the former head of the Korean Council for Justice and Remembrance for the Issues of Military Sexual Slavery by Japan, an organization dedicated to advocacy for former comfort women, who were forced into sexual slavery during World War II. She is the author of 25 Years of Wednesdays: The Story of the "Comfort Women" and the Wednesday Demonstrations.
Kim Jeong-hoon
Kim Jeong-hoon, also known by his stage name John Hoon, is a South Korean singer and actor. He initially rose to fame as a member of South Korean duo UN debuting with the single Voice Mail in 2000. After the duo disbanded in 2005, his fame increased as an actor starring in Princess Hours, a drama based on a manhwa.
Lee Myung-Hee
Lee Myung-hee is a South Korean business magnate and the chairwoman of the Shinsegae Group. She is the youngest daughter of Lee Byung-chul, founder of the Samsung Group and the sister of the former late chairman Lee Kun-Hee. Lee became the company's chairwoman in 1997 following its separation from Samsung and is credited for growing it into the country's second-largest retailer. With an estimated net worth of $840 million she is one of the wealthiest people in South Korea and was ranked 20th on Forbes 2017 list of 50 Richest Koreans.