List of Famous people born in Zhejiang, People's Republic of China
Li Lanjuan
Li Lanjuan, also romanized as Lan-Juan Li, is a Chinese epidemiologist and hepatologist. She is a professor at Zhejiang University School of Medicine, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and serves as the director of the State Key Laboratory for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases. She developed Li-NBAL, an artificial liver support system that is used to sustain the lives of people suffering from acute liver failure, and won multiple national awards for her roles in combatting the SARS, H1N1, and H7N9 epidemics.
Wu-Chung Hsiang
Wu-Chung Hsiang is a Chinese-American mathematician, specializing in topology. Hsiang served as chairman of the Department of Mathematics at Princeton University from 1982 to 1985 and was one of the most influential topologists of the second half of the 20th century.
Chen Wei
Chen Wei is a Chinese epidemiologist and virologist specializing in biodefense, currently researcher and doctoral adviser at the Academy of Military Medical Sciences, and an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE).
Huang Xingguo
Huang Xingguo was the Mayor of Tianjin, and, between 2015 and 2016, the acting Communist Party Secretary of Tianjin. Huang is originally from Zhejiang province, and previously served as party chief of Ningbo, and the party chief of Taizhou. In 2016, he was investigated by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and subsequently expelled from the Communist Party of China for breaking party regulations. He was sentenced to 12 years in prison upon being convicted on charges of bribery.
Mao Chi-kuo
Mao Chi-kuo is a Taiwanese politician, who served as the Premier, the President of Executive Yuan from 2014 to 2016.
Cao Xiwen
Cao Xiwen is a Chinese actress. She is noted for her roles as Consort Xiao and Gao Cuilan in the television series Beauty World and Journey to the West respectively.
Lee Ching-hua
Lee Ching-hua is a Taiwanese politician.
Sui He
Sui He is a Chinese model and actress. She was the first East Asian model to open a Ralph Lauren runway show and the second model of Chinese descent to walk in the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show. Sui He also appeared on the cover of W magazine as a relative unknown.
Yao Di
Yao Di is a Chinese actress.
Han Dong
Han Dong is a Chinese actor. He rose to fame for his role as Ninth prince in the historical drama Scarlet Heart.