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Famous [[China|Chinese]] or [[Chinese language|Chinese]]-speaking/writing people. 

'''Note''' In [[Chinese name]]s, the [[Chinese family name|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 or(contracted; show full)* [[Ng Wui]]
* [[Tsui Hark]]
* [[Wayne Wang]]
* [[Wong Kar-wai]]
* [[John Woo]]
* [[Zhang Yimou]]

See also:  [[Cinema of China]]
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=== 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 (football)|Sun Wen]], woman [[football (soccer)|football]]er
* [[Wu Qingyuan]] (Go Seigen), [[Game of go|go]] player
* [[Xie Jun]], [[chess]] player
* [[Yao Ming]], [[NBA]] [[Basketball]] player, [[Houston Rockets]]⏎
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== 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 Yyuan]]
* [[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
* [[Qian Sanqiang]], [[nuclear physics|nuclear physicist]]
* [[Tsien Hsue-shen]], [[rocketry]] scientist
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* [[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)"
* [[Xuan Zang (fictional character)|Xuanzang]] and his disciples (including [[Sun Wukong]] and [[Zhu Bajie]]), of ''[[Journey to the West]]''

== See also ==
* [[Overseas Chinese]]
** [[Chinese American]], [[List of famous Chinese Americans|List]]
** [[Chinese Canadian]]
** [[Indonesian Chinese]]
** [[Malaysian Chinese]]
** [[Chinese Puerto Rican]]
* [[American-born Chinese]]
* [[Taiwanese American]]
* [[List of people by nationality]]