List of Famous people born in Taiwan
Miu Zhu
Miu Chu (Chinese: 朱俐靜; Wade–Giles: Chu1 Li4-ching4) is a Taiwanese singer. She was the winner of the third season of the Taiwanese reality television show Super Idol.
Chen Shih-hsin
Chen Shih-hsin is the first Taiwanese athlete to win a gold medal at the Olympics. She won the gold medal in the women's 49-kilogram category in taekwondo at the 2004 Summer Olympics on August 26.
Sam Lee
Sam Lee, born 21 February 1973, is a Taiwanese singer and songwriter. He is one-quarter German through his maternal grandfather. He graduated from Soochow University, and was once on the Taiwanese national tennis team.
Chan Ya-wen
Chan Ya-wen is a Taiwanese Hokkien pop singer, lyricist, and composer. She won the 2008 Golden Melody Award for Best Dialect Female Artist.
Wu Maw-kuen
Maw-Kuen Wu is a Taiwanese physicist specializing in superconductivity, low-temperature physics, and high-pressure physics. He was a professor of physics at University of Alabama (Huntsville), Columbia University, and National Tsing Hua University, the Director of the Institute of Physics at Academia Sinica, the president of the National Dong Hwa University, and is currently a distinguished research fellow of the Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica.
Rachel Liang
Rachel Liang or Liang Wen-yin is a Taiwanese Mandopop singer.
Tseng Wen-hui
Tseng Wen-hui (Chinese: 曾文惠; pinyin: Zēng Wénhuì; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Chan Bûn-hūi; is a Taiwanese public figure, First Lady of the Republic of China from 1988 to 2000, and widow of former Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui.
Chen Chao-long
Chen Chao-long is a Taiwanese transplant surgeon.
Yuan T. Lee
Yuan Tseh Lee is a Taiwanese chemist and a Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. He was the first Taiwanese Nobel Prize laureate who, along with the Hungarian-Canadian John C. Polanyi and American Dudley R. Herschbach, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1986 "for their contributions to the dynamics of chemical elementary processes".
Chang Chen-yue
Chang Chen-yue, also known as A-Yue and by his Amis name Ayal Komod, is an aboriginal Taiwanese rock and Hip-Hop musician, songwriter, singer and guitarist, and the frontman of his band, Free Night, also known as Free9. He is most widely known for his 1998 hit song "Ai Wo Bie Zou". His 2013 album I am Ayal Komod was awarded the Best Album Award during the 25th Golden Melody Awards.