Notable Inhabitants
- Han Kuo-Huang, ethnomusicologist
- Koxinga, a Ming loyalist
- Lai Changxing, businessman
- Raymond Lam, TVB actor and singer
- Yin Chengzong, pianist
- Henry Sy, Sr., businessman, founder of SM Group and chairman of SM Prime Holdings
- Tan Kah Kee, businessman, community leader, and philanthropist in colonial Singapore, and a Communist leader in the People's Republic of China.
- Lin Qiaozhi, a Chinese physician
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