List of Famous people born in South Korea

Heo Young-ji, referred to as Youngji, is a South Korean singer and television personality. She is best known as a member of girl group Kara after winning the TV show Kara Project in 2014, which saw her become the newest member of the group. Heo began her solo music career in August 2017 with her first single, "Memory Clock".

Choi Daniel is a South Korean actor. He is best known for his roles in Jugglers as Nam Chi Won, High Kick Through the Roof, Cyrano Agency, Baby Faced Beauty and School 2013. He is also an anchorman on KBS World Radio since 2011 and a DJ on KBS 2FM since 2013.

Yoo Jeong-yeon, known mononymously as Jeongyeon (Korean: 정연), is a South Korean singer and songwriter. She is a member of Twice, a South Korean girl group formed by JYP Entertainment.

Choi Kyu-hah, also spelled Choi Kyu-ha or Choi Gyu-ha, was President of South Korea between 1979 and 1980.

Lee Chung-ah is a South Korean actress. She is best known for her leading roles in the films Temptation of Wolves (2004) and My Tutor Friend 2 (2007), as well as the cable dramas Cool Guys, Hot Ramen (2011) and VIP (2019).

Kyongae Chang is a South Korean astrophysicist. She is best known for her work on gravitational lensing, including the Chang-Refsdal lens.

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.

Lee Na-eun is a South Korean singer and actress. She is a member of South Korean girl group April. Besides from her group's activities, Naeun also has roles in A-Teen (2018), A-Teen 2 (2019) and Extraordinary You (2019). She has been a host of SBS Inkigayo since October 2019 together alongside with Jaehyun of NCT and Minhyuk of Monsta X.

Lee Jung-hyun, also known by her occasional stage name Ava, is a South Korean pop singer and actress. She was first recognized for her acting abilities with award-winning role in her first film and has been solidified as one of the top international acts from South Korea with her illustrious singing career. She has been known as "the Techno Queen" as she introduced the techno music genre to Korea. Lee is also known as "The Queen of Transformation" due to her changing new look for different songs. She is known as one of the first artists who introduced Korean Wave (Hallyu) to China and caused a sensation.

Lee Seung-yuop is a retired baseball player, who spent most of his career with the Samsung Lions of the KBO League. At the age of 26, he became the youngest professional baseball player in the world to hit 300 home runs. He formerly held the Asian home run record of 56 homers in a season, established in 2003 while playing for Samsung in the KBO. The record was broken by Wladimir Balentien of the Tokyo Yakult Swallows, on September 15, 2013, when he hit his 56th and 57th Home Runs of the season against the Hanshin Tigers of the Nippon Professional Baseball League. He holds the KBO records for career home runs, runs scored, RBIs, total bases, slugging percentage and OPS. Combined, across the KBO and NPB, Lee has also recorded more hits than any other native-born South Korean player.