List of Famous people born in Taiwan
Cho-liang Lin
Cho-Liang Lin, born in Hsinchu, Taiwan, is an American violinist who is renowned for his appearances as a soloist with major orchestras. "Musical America" named him its "Instrumentalist of the Year" in 2000. He founded the Taipei International Music Festival in 1997, the largest classical music festival in the history of Taiwan, performing to an indoor audience of over 53,000 and the Taipei Music Academy & Festival in 2019, a summer music festival.
Donna Chiu
Donna Chiu is a Taiwanese singer and former television host. She has won the Golden Bell Award as a host in 2003. She has released a number of albums and has also appeared in films. She is currently engaged in Christian evangelical work.
Chen Po-liang
Chen Po-liang is a Taiwanese professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Chinese Super League side Changchun Yatai. He is also captain of the Taiwan national football team.
Woo Gwa
Kuo Lee Chien-Fu
Kuo Lee Chien-Fu is a retired Taiwanese professional baseball pitcher and currently a baseball coach. He is best known for being the ace pitcher in the Chinese Taipei national baseball team in the 1992 Olympics where he was twice the winning pitcher in the two Chinese Taipei versus Japan matches, one in the preliminary round and the other in the semifinal. The two victories helped the Chinese Taipei team win the silver medal that year. He was also a member of the Chinese Taipei national baseball team in the 1988 Olympics when baseball was a demonstration sport, but did not play in any of the tournament's matches due to his juniority at that time.
Li Kan
Renée Chen
Renee "Jia-Wei" Chen is a Taiwanese singer and songwriter. Renee first gained recognition when she won fourth place in the 2001 New Talent Singing Awards. Although she ultimately did not win the competition, record companies noticed that Renee's voice stood out aside from being the only contestant to sing, dance and choreograph her own performance with fellow stage performers. Given her young age combined with an evident talent for performing, an artist management agency approached her the following day with a contract, which eventually led to her debut release, through Warner Music in November 2003.
Icyang Parod
Icyang Parod is a Taiwanese Amis politician. He served as the Minister of the Council of Indigenous Peoples (CIP) from 2007 to 2008 and took office again in 2016.
Lin Rong-te
Lin Rong-te is a Taiwanese politician.
Yang Ching-huang
Yang Ching-huang is a Taiwanese singer and actor. He released 5 Mandopop albums in the 1980s and 1990s.