List of Famous people born in Taiwan
Dong Zhisen
Dong Zhisen is a journalist from Jincheng, Kinmen, Taiwan. Dong used to work as a reporter for China Times and United Daily News. He covered mainly Taipei Municipal news. He was the former presenter of the TVBS political talk show《2100全民開講. He has a Taiwanese Hokkien accent when speaking in Mandarin.
Ding Kung-wha
Ding Kung-wha is a Taiwanese politician who served as the Chairperson of Financial Supervisory Commission in 2016.
Nita Ing
Nita Ing is the Taiwanese-American president of Continental Engineering Corporation and the former chairman of the board of the Taiwan High Speed Rail Corporation, the company which built a high-speed railway system from Taipei to Kaohsiung. A supporter of the Democratic Progressive Party, she had been an advisor to the former President Chen Shui-bian.
Tsai Ping-kun
Tsai Ping-kun is a Taiwanese politician.
Emily Hung
Emily Hung is a Taiwanese actress.
Wu Tai-hao
Wu Tai-Hao (Chinese: 吳岱豪; born February 7, 1985 in Taoyuan County is a Taiwanese basketball player.
Zheng Zhihua
Zheng Zhihua is a Taiwanese singer. When he was two, he contracted polio and became permanently paralyzed from the waist down. He started his career in the late 1980s and enjoyed great success and popularity during the early 1990s in both Taiwan and mainland China. He announced his retirement in January 1999, but in 2005 he reemerged.
Hung-Yu Lin
Lin Hung-yu is a Taiwanese baseball player for the Rakuten Monkeys of the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL).
Jade Y. Chen
Jade Y. Chen is a novelist, journalist, theatre director and playwright from Taiwan. She is best known for her book, China, which won the Taiwan Golden Text Award (金典獎) for best novel and the Hong Kong Baptist University’s Dream of the Red Chamber Award Jury Prize. Her 2004 bestselling novel Mazu's Bodyguards was adapted into a musical, presented at the National Theater in Taipei in December 2009. In Taiwan Today, it was described as a "bold attempt to explore Taiwan’s complex ethnic, cultural and political history".
Ehlo Huang
Ehlo Huang is a Taiwanese actor and singer who is a member of Taiwanese group 183 Club. He is of Hakka and Amis descent.