List of Chinamen
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.
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
- Emperor Gao of Han China
- 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
- Qianlong Emperor of China, Emperor of the Qing Dynasty
- 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
Others
Non-politician royalties
Artists and perfomers
Painters and calligraphers
Actors and actresses
Film-makers
See also: Cinema of China
Singers
See also: Cantopop
Musicians
Martial Artists
Athletes
Educators
Business tycoons
Taiwan:
Hong Kong:
Explorers
Military officers and soldiers
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
- Kang Youwei
- Lao She
- Lao Zi, philosopher
- Li Ao, writer
- Li Po, poet
- Liang Ch'i-ch'ao
- 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
Religion
See also: List of Taoists
Scientists and engineers
- Cai Lun, inventor of paper
- David Ho, AIDS researcher
- Charles Kao, inventor of optical fiber
- Yuan T. Lee, Nobel laureate in chemistry
- Liang Sicheng, architect and eldest son of Liang Ch'i-ch'ao
- I. M. Pei, architect
- Qian Sanqiang, nuclear physicist
- Tsien Hsue-shen, rocket scientist
- An Wang, computer scientist
- Zhang Heng, astronomer, mathematician, artist and literature scholar
- Zhu Shijie, mathematician
- Zu Chongzhi, mathematician and astronomer
Others
Fictional Chinese people
See also
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