List of Famous people born in Taiwan

Mao Di

First Name Mao
Last Name Di
Born on October 10, 1990 (age 35)
Born in Taiwan

Chris Chiu born Qiu Yi Cheng, also known as Mao Di or Modi, is a member of a trio boyband, JPM, with Liao Xiao Jie/Liljay and his older brother, Qiu Wang Zi.

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Hou Dejian

First Name Hou
Last Name Dejian
Born on October 1, 1956 (age 69)
Born in Taiwan, Kaohsiung

Hou Dejian, is a songwriter, composer, and singer from Taiwan.

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Lee Yung-te

First Name Lee
Last Name Yung-te
Born on May 30, 1955 (age 70)
Born in Taiwan, Kaohsiung

Lee Yung-te is a Taiwanese politician. He served as the Minister of the Hakka Affairs Council from March 2005 to March 2008 and was reappointed to the position in April 2016.

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Yu Tian

First Name Yu
Last Name Tian
Born on February 18, 1947 (age 79)

Yu Tian, born Yu Tsing-yuan, is a Taiwanese pop singer in Mandarin and Hokkien. A member of the Democratic Progressive Party, Yu served as a member of the Legislative Yuan from 2008 to 2012, and was reelected to the office in 2019.

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Wen Tzu-yun

First Name Wen
Last Name Tzu-yun
Born on September 29, 1993 (age 32)
Born in Taiwan

Wen Tzu-yun is a Taiwanese karateka. At the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, she won one of the bronze medals in the women's 55 kg event. She is also a two-time gold medalist in the women's kumite 55 kg event at the Asian Games and a two-time bronze medalist in this event at the World Karate Championships.

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Yōichi Kotabe

First Name Yōichi
Last Name Kotabe
Born on September 15, 1936 (age 89)
Born in Taiwan

Yōichi Kotabe , is a Japanese animator and character designer. He has worked on several anime films from the 1960s and 1970s, on the Super Mario video game series, and the Pokémon series in television and film. He was an employee at Nintendo for two decades doing illustrations, character designs, and supervision from 1985 to 2007. At that time, he began to work as a freelancer for the anime and video game industry, including for Nintendo again.

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Demos Chiang

First Name Demos
Last Name Chiang
Born on September 10, 1976 (age 49)
Born in Taiwan

Demos Yu-bou Chiang, born on 10 September 1976 in Taipei, Taiwan, is a Taiwanese Canadian businessman. He founded DEM Inc. (橙果設計), a popular design studio in Taiwan in July 2003 and has served as its chairman since then. He is also known for being the great-grandson of the late Republic of China (ROC) President Chiang Kai-shek and the grandson of late President Chiang Ching-kuo. His grandmother was Faina Ipatyevna Vakhreva, also known as Chiang Fang-liang, making him Eurasian.

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Chen Mingyi

First Name Chen
Last Name Mingyi
Born on September 18, 1967 (age 58)

Chen Ming-yi is a Taiwanese politician. He was a member of the Taipei County Council from 2006 to 2010, and served on the New Taipei City Council from 2010 to 2014, returning to office in 2016. He is also a member of the Kuomintang’s Central Standing Committee. It was reported that he would participate in the 2014 New Taipei mayoral election, however, the Kuomintang eventually chose Eric Chu as their mayoral candidate.

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Tsay Ting-kuei

First Name Tsay
Born on March 24, 1949 (age 77)

Tsay Ting-kuei is a Taiwanese civil engineering professor, political activist, and former government official. A professor at National Taiwan University in Taipei, he has conducted research in areas including coastal engineering and computational hydraulics. In politics, he served in various positions in the Chen Shui-bian administration in the mid-2000s, and rose to greater prominence for his protests in support of the Taiwan independence movement.

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You Ching

First Name You
Last Name Ching
Born on March 20, 1942 (age 84)

You Ching was the Republic of China (Taiwan) representative to Germany. A practicing lawyer since 1978, he obtained his bachelor's degree in law from the National Chengchi University in 1965 and his doctorate from the University of Heidelberg in 1978. You was elected as the first non-Kuomintang member of the Control Yuan in 1980. He first served as a member of the Legislative Yuan from 1987 to 1989, and then served two terms as the magistrate of Taipei County from 1989 to 1997. He was again elected to the legislature in 2001 and reelected in 2004.

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