List of Famous people born in Taiwan

Weber Yang is a Taiwanese actor. He is known for his roles in the television series Time Story (2008), Who's The One (2011), Two Fathers (2013), The Way We Were (2014) and A Touch of Green (2015). Upon completion of filming A Touch of Green, Yang took a year-long break from acting to spend more time with his parents and to take care of his older sister, who was diagnosed with cancer in that year. He returned to the screen in 2017, starring in the SET Metro drama series The Masked Lover.

Candy Chen is a dancer, actress, host, singer, rapper and a model. She is featured on the Taiwanese variety shows: Blackie's Teenage Club and Blackie Lollipop. Candy was a member of the Taiwanese girl group Hey Girl from 2010 to 2011, and a member of Twinko from 2013 to 2016. She is 1/8th Dutch. She changed her name to Chen Yi-Ling in July 2012 to follow her mother's maiden name. Her English name becomes Nina Chen. In November 2013, she changed her name to Candy Chen and Chen Si Ya.

Kawlo Iyun Pacidal is a Taiwanese politician and former TV presenter. In January 2016 she was elected to serve in the Legislative Yuan as an at-large legislator on the party list of the New Power Party. Kawlo is a member of the Amis tribe of Taiwan's indigenous people and the cousin of singer Ilid Kaolo.

Hsieh Chen-wu is a Taiwanese lawyer and TV presenter. He worked for many television stations, such as TTV, CTS, FTV, PTV, SET, STAR Chinese Channel, CTi Variety, Much TV and Momo TV. He is most famous for hosting the Chao ji da fu weng game show.

Hsu Yao-chang is a Taiwanese politician. He represented Miaoli County in the Legislative Yuan from 2002 to 2014, when he was elected Magistrate of Miaoli County.

Wu Nai-ren is a Taiwanese politician. He is the former Secretary-General of the Democratic Progressive Party. When Cho Jung-tai declared his intention to run for the party chairmanship in December 2018, Wu withdrew from the party to protest Cho's candidacy.

Li Yuan, better known by his pen name Hsiao Yeh (小野), is a Taiwanese novelist and screenwriter.

Jay Shih is a Taiwanese actor, singer and television host. He debuted as one half of the Mandopop duo Awaking, with the other being Wesley Chia. As an actor, he has appeared in television series including Miss No Good (2008), Summer Fever (2012) and Love Cheque Charge (2014), and is best known for portraying Cheng Jen-wei in the SET series In a Good Way (2013).

Chou Ssu-chi is a Taiwanese professional baseball outfielders for the Chinatrust Brothers of Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL). At the end of 2008, when the dmedia T-REX folded in a gambling scandal, he was picked by the Brother Elephants in the third round of the redistribution draft.

Lin Chih-chieh is a Taiwanese professional basketball player of Amis descent. During his career with the Taiwan Beer club of the Super Basketball League (SBL), Lin has won one Regular Season most valuable player (MVP) award, two back-to-back Championship Series MVP awards, and two scoring champion titles. Dubbed "The Beast" (野獸) by local media, Lin is renowned for his ability to boost his team's morale by making sensational plays and is among the most beloved basketball players in Taiwan.