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

Tömür Dawamat was the chairman of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China from 1985 to 1993.

Arken Imirbaki is a Chinese politician of Uyghur ethnicity.

Ismail Amat was an Uyghur politician of China who served as Chairman (Governor) of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, State Councillor, Vice-Chairman of the National People's Congress and Vice-Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC).

Wang Shu is a Chinese architect based in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. He is the dean of the School of Architecture of the China Academy of Art. With his practice partner and wife Lu Wenyu, he founded the firm Amateur Architecture Studio. In 2012, Wang became the first Chinese citizen to win the Pritzker Prize, the world's top prize in architecture. The award was the subject of some controversy since the Pritzker committee did not also award Lu Wenyu, his wife and architectural partner, despite their years of collaboration.

Merxat Yalkun, better known as Mi Re (米热), is a Chinese actor and model of Uyghur ethnicity who came into the acting scene as Zhang Yizhi in Cosmetology High (2014).

Du Feng,, is a retired Chinese professional basketball player and current head coach of his longtime club, the Guangdong Southern Tigers. At a height of 2.07 meters, and a weight of 100 kilograms, he played as a power forward-center.

Xu Xing is a Chinese paleontologist who has named more dinosaurs than any other living paleontologist. Such dinosaurs include the Jurassic ceratopsian Yinlong, the Jurassic tyrannosauroid Guanlong, the large oviraptorosaur Gigantoraptor, and the troodontid Mei.

Zolbingiin Shijee was a Mongolian revolutionary who served as secretary of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party (MPRP) from 1930 to 1932 and concurrently as First Secretary of the Central Committee of the MPRP from March 13, 1931 to June 30, 1932. Considered one of the more extreme leftists of the MPRP, he was expelled from the party in 1932 for his role in the "Leftist Deviation" and exiled to the Soviet Union where he was arrested and shot for counterrevolution in 1941.

Abdurehim Tileshüp Ötkür was a popular Uyghur author and poet who is considered the "father of modern Uyghur poetry".

Sun Guangxin is a Chinese businessman.