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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.
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Rulers Politicians
Imperial times
- Aixinjueluo Puyi
- Dou Xian
- Fu Hsi
- Genghis Khan
- Han Gao Zu
- Han Shangdi
- Hongwu Emperor of China
- Hong Tianguifu
- Hong Xiuquan of the Heavenly Kingdom of Taiping
- Kublai Khan
- Li Hongzhang
- Qin Shi Huangdi
- Sima Guang
- Emperor Tang Taizong of China
- Wang An-shih
- Wu Zetian, Empress of China
- Yongle Emperor of China
- Zheng Chenggong
See also: Chinese sovereign, Table of Chinese monarchs
- Chen Duxiu
- Deng Nan
- Deng Pufang
- Deng Xiaoping
- Deng Yingchao
- Gang of Four
- Hu Jintao
- Hu Yaobang
- Hua Guofeng
- Jiang Zemin
- Kang Sheng[?]
- Li Peng
- Liu Shaoqi
- Ma Ying-jeou
- Mao Zedong
- Tung Chee Hwa
- Wen Jiabao
- Xie Fuzhi[?]
- Zhao Ziyang
- Zhou Enlai
- Zhu Rongji
- Chen Shui-bian
- Chiang Ching-Kuo
- Chiang Kai-shek
- Chu Mei-feng
- H. H. Kung
- Lee Teng-hui
- Lien Chan
- James Soong
- Soong sisters
- Sun Yat Sen
- Sung Chiao-jen
- Wang Jingwei
- Yen Chia-jin
- Yuan Shi-Kai
Others
Actors and Actresses
- Jackie Chan
- Sammi Cheng
- Leslie Cheung
- Maggie Cheung
- Chow Yun-Fat
- Gong Li
- Sammo Hung
- Leon Lai
- Bruce Lee
- Tony Leung Chiu Wai
- Jet Li
- Ling Bai[?]
- Zhang Ziyi
Film-makers
- Ang Lee
- Jackie Chan
- King Hu[?]
- Ringo Lam
- Ng Wui[?]
- Tsui Hark
- Wayne Wang
- Wong Kar-wai
- John Woo
- Zhang Yimou
See also: Chinese film history
Singers
See also: Cantopop
Musicians
- Ch'eng Mao-yün, violinist and composer
Atheletes
- Wu Qingyuan (Go Seigen), the preeminent go player of the 20th century
- Xie Jun, chess player
- Yao Ming, NBA Basketball player, Houston Rockets
Educators
- Chang-lin Tien, first Asian American to head a major U.S. university, (Chancellor, University of California, Berkeley)
Entrepenuers
- An Wang, founder of Wang Laboratories
- Tung Chao Yung
Explorers
Martial Artists
- Wong Fei Hung, kung fu during the Qing dynasty
- Zhang Sanfeng
Military officers and soldiers
- Huang Gai
- Lin Biao[?]
- Liu Huaqing
- Ma Chao
- Song Zhe Yuan
- Sun Ce
- Zhang Xue-liang
- Zhang Zi Zhong
- Zhu De
Philosophers and Writers
- Chang San-feng
- Ch'ien Mu[?]
- Confucius
- Gao Xingjian
- Gongsun Longzi, one of the Logicians of the Warring States Period
- Hu Shih
- Jin Shengtan, editor and critic
- Lao She
- Lao Zi
- Li Ao
- Li Po
- Lu Hao-tung
- Lu Xun
- Mao Dun
- Qian Xuantong, phonetician
- Qian Zhongshu
- Qu You, Ming novelist
- Sima Qian, historiographer
- Su Dongpo[?] (蘇東坡)
- Sun Tzu
- Wang Pi
- Woo Tsin-hang, linguist
- Zhang Ailing
- Zhuang Zi
See also: List of Chinese authors, List of Chinese language poets
Religion
- Xuanzang, Buddhist monk
- Liang Fa, Christian preacher
- Witness Lee, Christian founder of the Local Church
- Gong Shengliang, Christian preacher
Scientists and Engineers
- Cai Lun, conventionally regarded as the inventor of paper
- Cheng Man-ch'ing
- David Ho (AIDS researcher)
- Charles Kao (Inventor of optical fiber)
- I. M. Pei (Architect)
- Zhang Heng (astronomer, mathematician, artist and literature scholar)
- Zhu Shijie (Mathematician)
- Zu Chongzhi (mathematician and astronomer)
Others
See also: List of people by nationality, List of Confucianists, List of Taoists, Chinese American, Malaysian Chinese
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