List of Famous people born in Taiwan

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Famous People
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Steve Chen

First Name Steve
Last Name Chen
Born on August 18, 1978 (age 44)
Born in Taiwan

Steven Shih Chen is an American Internet entrepreneur who is one of the cofounders and previous chief technology officer of the video-sharing website YouTube. After having cofounded the company AVOS Systems, Inc. and built the video-sharing app MixBit, he joined Google Ventures in 2014. In March 2019 he became advisor to Theta, a new peer to peer video streaming network that uses blockchain technology.

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Chang Chen

First Name Chang
Last Name Chen
Born on October 14, 1976 (age 46)
Born in Taiwan

Chang Chen, sometimes credited as Chen Chang according to Western name order, is a Taiwanese actor. His father Chang Kuo-chu and his brother Hans Chang are also actors.

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Elaine Chao

First Name Elaine
Born on March 26, 1953 (age 69)
Born in Taiwan

Elaine Lan Chao is an American businesswoman and politician. A member of the Republican Party, Chao served as Secretary of Labor in the Bush administration from 2001 to 2009, and as Secretary of Transportation in the Trump administration from 2017 to 2021.

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Gingle Wang

First Name Gingle
Born on February 7, 1998 (age 25)
Born in Taiwan, Taipei

Gingle Wang or Wang Ching is a Taiwanese actress and writer. In 2017, she was offered her first role by director Lien Yi-chi in his film All Because of Love. Wang rose to fame in 2019 with her role in John Hsu's psychological horror film Detention. By her performance, she was nominated the Best Leading Actress award at the 56th Golden Horse Awards.

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Kao Chia-yu

First Name Kao
Last Name Chia-yu
Born on October 17, 1980 (age 42)

Kao Chia-yu is a Taiwanese politician and a member of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). She was elected to the National Assembly in 2005. Upon assuming office, she became the youngest person to ever be seated in that legislative body. Between 2010 and 2020, Kao was a Taipei City Councillor. She was elected to the Legislative Yuan in 2020.

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Tsai Ing-wen

First Name Tsai
Last Name Ing-wen
Born on August 31, 1956 (age 66)
Born in Taiwan, Taipei

Tsai Ing-wen is a Taiwanese politician and academic serving as the seventh president of the Republic of China (Taiwan), since 2016. A member of the Democratic Progressive Party, Tsai is the first female president of Taiwan. She has served as Chair of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) since 2020, and previously from 2008 to 2012 and 2014 to 2018.

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Chen Po-wei

First Name Chen
Last Name Po-wei
Born on July 10, 1985 (age 37)
Born in Taiwan

Chen Po-wei is a Taiwanese politician. He was elected to the Legislative Yuan in the 2020 legislative election.

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Natalie Morales

First Name Natalie
Last Name Morales
Born on June 6, 1972 (age 50)
Born in Taiwan

Natalie Morales-Rhodes is an American journalist working for NBC News. She is the Today Show West Coast anchor and appears on other programs including Dateline NBC and NBC Nightly News.

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Jay Chou

周杰倫
First Name Jay
Last Name Chou
Born on January 18, 1979 (age 44)

Jay Chou is a Taiwanese singer, songwriter, rapper, record producer, actor, film director, businessman and magician. Dubbed the "King of Mandopop", and having sold more than 30 million albums, Chou is one of the best-selling artists in Mainland China and is known for his work with lyricist Vincent Fang, with whom he has frequently collaborated on his music.

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Yen Ching-piao

First Name Yen
Last Name Ching-piao
Born on August 25, 1960 (age 62)
Born in Taiwan, Taichung

Yen Ching-piao is a Taiwanese politician.

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Alyssa Chia

First Name Alyssa
Last Name Chia
Born on October 7, 1974 (age 48)
Born in Taiwan

Alyssa Chia is a Taiwanese actress and television host. She is known for her roles in television series such as The Prince of Han Dynasty, The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber and Lady Wu: The First Empress.

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Yen Kuan-heng

First Name Yen
Last Name Kuan-heng
Born on September 14, 1977 (age 45)
Born in Taiwan, Taichung

Yen Kuan-heng is a Taiwanese politician. He was elected to the Legislative Yuan from Taichung in 2013, to replace his father Yen Ching-piao in office. Yen lost reelection to Chen Po-wei in 2020.

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Cheryl Yang

First Name Cheryl
Last Name Yang
Born on December 12, 1977 (age 45)
Born in Taiwan

Cheryl Yang is a Taiwanese actress. She joined the entertainment scene at the age of 14 when she filmed her first commercial. Not long after she started her career, she filmed a music video together with Andy Lau, which made her attention in the industry. She rose to prominence when she filmed the Taiwanese drama My Queen in 2009 with actor Ethan Juan.

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Lin Ching-yi

First Name Lin
Last Name Ching-yi
Born on February 12, 1974 (age 49)

Lin Ching-yi is a Taiwanese physician and politician. She was first elected to the Legislative Yuan in 2016.

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Tai Tzu-Ying

First Name Tai
Last Name Tzu-Ying
Born on June 20, 1994 (age 28)
Born in Taiwan

Tai Tzu-ying is a Taiwanese professional badminton player. At the age of 22, she became world No. 1 in the women's singles on December 2016, and holds the record for most weeks ranked at the top in BWF history with 148 weeks.

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Joseph Tsai

First Name Joseph
Last Name Tsai
Born on January 1, 1964 (age 59)
Born in Taiwan
Net Worth $11.6B

Joseph Chung-Hsin Tsai is a Taiwanese-Hong Kong-Canadian billionaire businessman and philanthropist. He is a co-founder and executive vice chairman of Chinese multinational technology company Alibaba Group. Born in Taiwan and educated in the U.S., he is a naturalized citizen of Canada. He owns the Brooklyn Nets of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and has interests in several other professional sports franchises.

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Austin Lin

First Name Austin
Last Name Lin
Born on January 27, 1988 (age 35)
Born in Taiwan

Austin Lin is a Taiwanese actor and singer. Born and raised in Taipei, Taiwan, he took part in the second season of Taiwanese singing competition, One Million Star, in 2007. In 2009, he made his acting debut in Taiwanese film, Somewhere I Have Never Traveled, for which he also sang on the soundtrack. In 2016, he appeared in Taiwanese film, At Cafe 6, and won a Golden Horse Award for Best Supporting Actor.

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Lee Ying-yuan

First Name Lee
Last Name Ying-yuan
Born on March 16, 1953
Died on November 11, 2021 (aged 68)

Lee Ying-yuan is a Taiwanese politician. He was elected to the Legislative Yuan in 1995 and stepped down in 2000. In 2005, Lee was appointed the Minister of Council of Labor Affairs, which he led until 2007. Lee has also served as Secretary-General of the Executive Yuan and the Democratic Progressive Party, and was reelected to the Legislative Yuan in 2012. He was appointed the Minister of Environmental Protection Administration in 2016.

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Aaron Yan

吳庚霖
First Name Aaron
Last Name Yan
Born on November 20, 1985 (age 37)
Born in Taiwan

Aaron Yan is a Taiwanese actor and singer. He was also one of the members of Taiwanese boy band Fahrenheit.

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Lee Teng-hui

First Name Lee
Last Name Teng-hui
Born on January 15, 1923
Died on July 30, 2020 (aged 97)

Lee Teng-hui was a Taiwanese statesman and economist who was the fourth president of the Republic of China (Taiwan) under the 1947 Constitution and chairman of the Kuomintang (KMT) from 1988 to 2000. He was the first president of the Republic of China to be born in Taiwan and the first to be directly elected. During his presidency, Lee oversaw the end of martial law and the full democratization of the ROC, advocated the Taiwanese localization movement, and led an ambitious foreign policy to gain allies around the world. Nicknamed "Mr. Democracy", Lee was credited as the president who initiated Taiwan's transition to the democratic era.

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