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Notable People

  • Gao Yao (皋陶) (lived in the 21st century BCE), political advisor of the Yu the Great.
  • Guan Zhong (管仲) (720-645 BC), Prime Minister of Duke Huan of Qi.
  • Zhuang Zi (庄子) (369-286 BC), philosopher of Taoism.
  • Fan Zeng (范增) (277-204 BC), advisor to Xiang Yu.
  • Zhang Liang (张良) (262–189 BC), strategist and statesman of the early Han Dynasty.
  • Liu An (刘安) (179-122 BC), King of Huainan.
  • Hua Tuo (华陀) (140-208), physician.
  • Cao Cao (曹操) (155-220), warlord and the penultimate chancellor of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
  • Cao Pi (曹丕) (187-226), Emperor Wen of Wei, first emperor of the state of Cao Wei.
  • The Three Kingdoms era Cao Wei generals Cao Ren (曹仁), Cao Hong (曹洪), Xiahou Dun (夏侯惇), Xiahou Yuan (夏侯渊), Cao Zhen (曹真).
  • The Three Kingdoms era Sun Wu generals Zhou Yu (周瑜), Lu Su (鲁肃), Lü Meng (吕蒙).
  • Ji Kang (嵇康) (223–262), musician, author, poet.
  • Huan Wen (桓温) (312–373), general of the Jin Dynasty.
  • Huan Xuan (桓玄) (369–404), founder of the state of Huan Chu.
  • Emperor Taizu of Later Liang (852–912), founder of Later Liang Dynasty.
  • Yang Xingmi (杨行密) (852–905), founder of the state of Wu (Ten Kingdoms).
  • Bao Zheng (包拯) (999–1062),a famous upright official of Northern Song Dynasty.
  • Li Gonglin (李公麟) (1049–1106), painter.
  • Zhu Xi (朱熹) (1130–1200), philosopher of Neo-Confucianism.
  • Zhu Yuanzhang (朱元璋) (1328–1398), Hongwu Emperor, founder and first emperor of the Ming Dynasty.
  • The Ming Dynasty generals Xu Da (徐达), Chang Yuchun (常遇春), Tang He (汤和), Mu Ying (沐英).
  • Hong Ren (弘仁), painter.
  • Zhang Tingyu (张廷玉), politician and historian of Qing Dynasty.
  • Yao Nai (姚鼐), main figure of Tongcheng School of Qing Dynasty.
  • Wu Jingzi (吴敬梓) (1701—1754), novelist.
  • Dai Zhen (戴震) (1724–1777), a notable scholar.
  • Cheng Changgeng (程长庚) (1811－1880), one of the founders of Beijing opera.
  • Li Hongzhang (李鸿章) (1823–1901), leading statesman of the late Qing Empire.
  • Liu Mingchuan (刘铭传) (1836–1896), first governor of the province of Taiwan.
  • Jeme Tien Yow (詹天佑) (1861–1919), famous Chinese railroad engineer.
  • Duan Qirui (段祺瑞) (1865–1936), warlord and politician, commander in the Beiyang Army.
  • Bai Wenwei (柏文尉) (1875–1947), Scholar, Kuomintang (KMT) General, Governor of Anhui (1912–13)
  • Feng Yuxiang (冯玉祥) (1882–1948), warlord and leader in Republican China.
  • Hu Shih (胡适) (1891–1962), philosopher, essayist and diplomat.
  • Zhang Zhizhong (张治中) (1895–1969), Kuomintang (KMT) General.
  • Wei Lihuang (卫立煌) (1897–1960), Kuomintang (KMT) General.
  • Sun Li-jen (孙立人) (1900–1990), Kuomintang (KMT) General.
  • Tao Xingzhi (陶行知) (1891–1946), a renowned Chinese educator and reformer.
  • Chen Duxiu (陈独秀) (1879–1942), co-founder of the Chinese Communist Party.
  • Wang Ming (王明) (1904–1974), senior leader of the early Chinese Communist Party.
  • Wang Jiaxiang (王稼祥) (1906–1974), one of the senior leaders of the early Communist Party of China.
  • Li Kenong (李克农) (1899–1962), a major figure of Chinese Communist intelligence.
  • Ke Qingshi (柯庆施) (1902–1965)
  • Zhu Guangqian (朱光潜), founder of the study of aesthetics in 20th c. China.
  • Zhao Puchu (赵朴初) (1907–2000), religious and public leader.
  • Yu Ying-shih (余英时), Chinese American historian.
  • Yan Fengying (严凤英), performing artist of Huangmei opera.
  • Huang Binhong (黄宾虹), painter.
  • Wu Zuoren (吴作人), painter.
  • Deng Jiaxian (邓稼先), leading organizer and key contributor to the Chinese nuclear weapon programs.
  • Chen Ning Yang (杨振宁), Chinese-American physicist who won the 1957 Nobel prize in physics.
  • Xu Haifeng (许海峰), first person to win a gold medal for China in the Olympic Games.
  • Jin Jing
  • Hu Jintao (胡锦涛), current General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, President of the People's Republic of China

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