List of Famous people born in Xiangtan, People's Republic of China

Mao Zedong

毛澤東
First Name Mao
Last Name Zedong
Born on December 26, 1893
Died on September 9, 1976 (aged 82)
Height 180 cm | 5'11

Mao Zedong, also known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese communist revolutionary who was the founder of the People's Republic of China (PRC), which he ruled as the chairman of the Communist Party of China from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976. Ideologically a Marxist–Leninist, his theories, military strategies, and political policies are collectively known as Maoism.

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Luo Yixiu

First Name Luo
Last Name Yixiu
Born on October 20, 1889
Died on February 11, 1910 (aged 20)

Luo Yixiu, a Han Chinese woman, was the first wife of the later Chinese communist revolutionary and political leader Mao Zedong, to whom she was married from 1908 until her death. Coming from the area around Shaoshan, Hunan, in south central China – the same region as Mao – her family were impoverished local landowners.

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Zhou Qunfei

First Name Zhou
Last Name Qunfei

Zhou Qunfei is a Chinese entrepreneur who founded the major touchscreen maker Lens Technology. After the public listing of her company on the Shenzhen ChiNext market in March 2015, her net worth reached US$10 billion, making her the richest woman in China. In 2018, she was named the world's richest self-made woman, with a net worth of $9.8 billion.

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He Guoqiang

First Name He
Last Name Guoqiang
Born on October 1, 1943 (age 80)

He Guoqiang is a retired senior leader of the Communist Party of China (CPC). Between 2007 and 2012, He was a member of the Politburo Standing Committee (PSC), China's highest ruling council, and the Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the party's anti-corruption agency. Earlier in his career, He served as the head of the Organization Department of the Communist Party, the Governor of Fujian, and the Party Committee Secretary of Chongqing.

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Cheng Siwei

First Name Cheng
Last Name Siwei
Born on January 1, 1935
Died on July 12, 2015 (aged 80)

Cheng Siwei was a Chinese economist, chemical engineer and politician. He was the Chairman of China Soft Science Research Association; President of the Chinese Society for Management Modernization; Director of the Research Center on Fictitious Economy and Data Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Dean of the School of Management of the Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Honorary President of East China University of Science and Technology.

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Zeng Guofan

First Name Zeng
Last Name Guofan
Born on November 26, 1811
Died on March 12, 1872 (aged 60)

Zeng Guofan, Marquis Yiyong, birth name Zeng Zicheng, courtesy name Bohan, was a Chinese statesman, military general, and Confucian scholar of the late Qing dynasty. He is best known for raising and organizing the Xiang Army to aid the Qing military in suppressing the Taiping Rebellion and restoring the stability of the Qing Empire. Along with other prominent figures such as Zuo Zongtang and Li Hongzhang of his time, Zeng set the scene for the Tongzhi Restoration, an attempt to arrest the decline of the Qing dynasty. Zeng was known for his strategic perception, administrative skill and noble personality on Confucian practice, but also for his ruthlessness in repressing rebellions.

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Mao Zetan

First Name Mao
Last Name Zetan
Born on September 25, 1905
Died on April 25, 1935 (aged 29)

Máo Zétán was the younger brother of Mao Zedong. He joined the Communist Party of China in 1923. In 1927, he participated in the Nanchang Uprising, retreating with the Communists to the Jinggang Mountains at its completion. At the age of 29, he was captured and executed while fighting Kuomintang forces in Jiangxi, covering the withdrawal of the main Communist army during the Long March.

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Mao Yichang

First Name Mao
Last Name Yichang
Born on October 15, 1870
Died on January 23, 1920 (aged 49)

Mao Yichang was a Chinese farmer and grain merchant who achieved notability as the father of Mao Zedong. The nineteenth generation of the Mao clan, he was born and lived his life in the rural village of Shaoshanchong in Shaoshan, Hunan Province.

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Wen Qimei

First Name Wen
Last Name Qimei
Born on February 12, 1867
Died on October 5, 1919 (aged 52)

Wen Suqin, also called Wen Qimei was the mother of Chinese leader Mao Zedong.

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Zeng Jize

First Name Zeng
Last Name Jize
Born on January 1, 1839
Died on April 12, 1890 (aged 51)

Marquis Zeng Jize was a Qing dynasty Chinese diplomat. As one of China's earliest ministers to London, Paris and Saint Petersburg, he played an important role in the diplomacy that preceded and accompanied the Sino-French War.

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