Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Famous Chinese or Chinese-speaking/writing people. Note In Chinese names, the family name is typically placed first (for example, the family name of "Mao Zedong" is "Mao"). For westernized names, the family name is placed last (for example, the family name of "Maggie Cheung" is "Cheung"). The following names are listed in alphabetic order, by family names. Table of contents 1 Rulers and politicians 1.1 Imperial times 1.2 People's Republic of China 1.3 Republic of China 1.4 Others 2 Non-politician royalties 3 Artists and perfomers 3.5 Painters and calligraphers 3.6 Actors and actresses 3.7 Film-makers 3.8 Singers 3.9 Musicians 3.10 Martial Artists 4 Athletes 5 Educators 6 Entreprenuers 7 Explorers 8 Military officers and soldiers 9 Philosophers and writers 10 Linguist 11 Religion 12 Scientists and engineers 13 Others 14 Fictional Chinese people 15 See also Rulers and politicians Imperial times Aixinjueluo Puyi, the last emperor Empress Dowager Cixi, Qing dynasty de facto leader Dou Xian Fu Hsi Genghis Khan, Mongolian emperor Gao Lishi, Tang, corrupt Han Gao Zu Han Shangdi Hongwu Emperor of China Hong Tianguifu, king of Taiping Hong Xiuquan, king of Taiping Kangxi Emperor of China, Emperor of the Qing Dynasty Kublai Khan Li Hongzhang, Qing statesman Li Zicheng, Ming rebel leader Empress Dowager Lü of Han Empire Qin Shi Huangdi, first emperor Sima Guang Emperor Tang Taizong of China Wang An-shih Wu Zetian, Empress of China Yan Song, corrupt prime minister Yang Guozhong, Tang official by guanxi Yongle Emperor of China Zheng Chenggong See also: Chinese sovereign, Table of Chinese monarchs People's Republic of China Chen Duxiu Deng Nan Deng Pufang Deng Xiaoping Deng Yingchao Gang of Four Jiang Qing Wang Hongwen Yao Wenyuan Zhang Chunqiao Hu Jintao Hu Yaobang Hua Guofeng Jiang Zemin Kang Sheng Li Peng Liu Shaoqi Mao Zedong Tung Chee Hwa Wen Jiabao Xie Fuzhi Zhao Ziyang Zhou Enlai Zhu Rongji Republic of China Chen Shui-bian Chiang Ching-Kuo Chiang Kai-shek Chu Mei-feng H. 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Kung Lee Teng-hui Lien Chan Ma Ying-jeou Qiu Jin, female revolutionary James Soong Soong sisters Soong Ai-ling Soong Ching-ling Soong May-ling Sun Yat Sen Sung Chiao-jen Wang Chien-shien Wang Jingwei Yen Chia-jin Yuan Shi-Kai Others Wuer Kaixi, Li Lu Non-politician royalties Yang Guifei, emperor's consort Concubine Qi Xishi, melancholy beauty Artists and perfomers Painters and calligraphers Wang Xizhi, calligrapher Xue Wei, painter Wei Shuo, female calligrapher Actors and actresses Jackie Chan Sammi Cheng Leslie Cheung Maggie Cheung Chow Yun-Fat Gong Li Sammo Hung Leon Lai Andy Lau Bruce Lee Tony Leung Chiu Wai Jet Li Ling Bai Anita Mui Zhang Ziyi Film-makers Ang Lee Jackie Chan Samson Chiu King Hu Ringo Lam Ng Wui Tsui Hark Wayne Wang Wong Kar-wai John Woo Zhang Yimou See also: Cinema of China Singers Roman Tam Faye Wong See also: Cantopop Musicians Ch'eng Mao-yün, violinist and composer Martial Artists Cheng Man-ch'ing, Tai Chi Leung Sheung Wong Fei Hung, kung fu during the Qing dynasty Yip Man Zhang Sanfeng Athletes Fu Mingxia, diver Sun Wen, woman footballerer Wu Qingyuan (Go Seigen), go player Xie Jun, chess player Yao Ming, NBA Basketball player, Houston Rockets Educators Cai Yuanpei, chancellor Chang-lin Tien, chancellor Entreprenuers Tung Chao Yung Explorers Zheng He Military officers and soldiers Guo Ziyi, Tang general Huang Gai Lin Biao Liu Huaqing Ma Chao Song Zhe Yuan Sun Ce Zhang Xueliang Zhang Zizhong Zhu De See also: People of note in the PLA Philosophers and writers Bai Shouyi, historian Chang San-feng Ch'ien Mu Confucius, philosopher Gao Xingjian Gongsun Longzi, one of the Logicians of the Warring States Period Hu Shih, writer Jin Shengtan, editor and critic Jinyong, novelist Lao She Lao Zi, philosopher Li Ao, writer Li Po, poet Lin Yutang, writer Lu Hao-tung Lu Xun, novelist Mao Dun, writer Qian Xuantong, phonetician Qian Zhongshu Qu You, Ming novelist Sima Qian, historiographer Su Dongpo, poet Sun Tzu, philosopher Tu Wei-ming, ethicist Wang Pi, Three Kingdoms philosopher Zhang Ailing, woman novelist Zhuang Zi, philosopher See also: List of Chinese authors, List of Chinese language poets, List of Confucianists Linguist Woo Tsin-hang, linguist Zhang Binglin, phonologist Y. R. Chao, phonologist and dialectologist Religion Xuanzang, Buddhist monk Liang Fa, Christian preacher Witness Lee, Christian founder of the Local Church Gong Shengliang, Christian preacher See also: List of Taoists Scientists and engineers Cai Lun, inventor of paper David Ho, AIDS researcher Charles Kao, inventor of optical fiber I. M. Pei, architect An Wang, computer scientist Zhang Heng, astronomer, mathematician, artist and literature scholar Zhu Shijie, mathematician Zu Chongzhi, mathematician and astronomer Others Ching Shih, woman pirate Jing Ke, assassin Wan Hu, would-be astronaut Fictional Chinese people Charlie Chan, detective Kai Lung, of stories by Ernest Bramah Kato of Pink Panther series of films. Li Kao and Number Ten Ox, of novels by Barry Hughart Fu Manchu, criminal mastermind parodied in the radio series Round the Horne as "Dr Chou En Ginsberg MA (failed)" Xuanzang and his disciples (including Sun Wukong and Zhu Bajie), of Journey to the West See also Overseas Chinese Chinese American, List Chinese Canadian Indonesian Chinese Malaysian Chinese Chinese Puerto Rican American-born Chinese Taiwanese American List of people by nationality This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.