Actors and Actresses

• Annie Shizuka Inoh
  Annie Shizuka Inoh
  Annie Yi is a singer, a writer and an actress from Republic of China . Born on March 4, 1969 in Taipei with the birthname of Wu Jingyi , she changed her name after her mother remarried, to a Japanese man and then simplified it to Yi Nengjing upon returning to Taiwan in 1988 to launch her singing...
  
   伊能静
• Chen Bo-lin 陳伯霖
• Chang Chen
  Chang Chen
  Chang Chen is a Taiwanese actor, born in Taipei, Taiwan. His name is sometimes seen in the Western order . He is the son of a Taiwanese actor Chang Kuo Chu and brother of a Taiwanese actor, Chang Han .-Career:...
  
   張震
• Brandon Chang
  Brandon Chang
  Brandon Chang is a popular Taiwanese artist. By his late-teens, he became the apprentice of Michelle Yeoh , before returning to Taiwan to pursue his entertainment career.- Biography :...
  
   張卓楠
• Brigitte Lin
  Brigitte Lin
  Brigitte Lin or Brigitte Lin Ching Hsia is a Taiwanese actress. She was a popular actress, regarded as an icon of Chinese cinema, who acted in both Taiwanese and Hong Kong movies...
  
   林青霞
• Huang He
  Huang He (actor)
  Huang He is a Taiwanese actor. He is the first actor signed by the director Yee Chin-yen. He won the Best Actor of the Golden Bell Awards in 2007. In 2009, he starred in a Sweden/Taiwanese film, Miss Kicki. And in 2010, he starred in Juliet, a Taiwanese film inspired by the tragic love story Romeo...
  
   黃河
• Jerry Yan
  Jerry Yan
  Jerry Yan was born 1 January 1977. He is a Taiwanese actor and member of Taiwanese boy band F4. His birth name is Liao Yangzhen .-Career:...
  
   言承旭
• Joe Chen Qiao En
  Chen Qiao En
  Joe Chen Qiao-En is a Taiwanese actress, singer and model. She is the co-leader of Taiwanese group 7 Flowers and is also the first female member of the talent agency Jungiery. Her interest lies mainly in acting and writing and she does well in both fields...
  
   陳喬恩
• Joey Wong
  Joey Wong
  Joey Wong is a Hong Kong based Taiwanese-born actress.-Biography:Wong was born on January 31, 1967 and raised in Taipei and also received a secondary school education there. She was enrolled in the drama course of Kuo Kwan Arts School...
  
   王祖賢
• Ken Chu
  Ken Chu
  Ken Chu |F4]]. Educated in Singapore , he speaks Mandarin, Cantonese and English.-Biography:Chu was working as a waiter in Taiwan when he was discovered by Cai Zhiping, the creator of the boy band F4...
  
   朱孝天
• Jimmy Lin
  Jimmy Lin Chih Ying
  Jimmy Lin Chih-Ying is a Taiwanese singer, actor and professional race car driver.-Early life:Born in Taipei, Taiwan, on the 15 October 1974, Lin was the second child in a family of five children. He graduated from Zhong Xiao Primary School and Huai Sheng Secondary School...
  
   林志穎
• Ruby Lin
  Ruby Lin
  Ruby Lin is a Taiwanese actress and pop singer. Her English name is from her mother's love of the jewel.Lin made her acting debut in a TV commercial in Taiwan. When she received her first experience in front of the camera in 1995, for a minor role, she started to develop a passion for acting...
  
   林心如
• Vanness Wu
  Vanness Wu
  Van Ness Wu is a American actor, singer, director, producer based in Asia. He was born on August 7, 1978 in Santa Monica, California and worked as a telemarketer before moving to Taiwan...
  
   吳建豪
• Vic Chou
  Vic Chou
  Vic Chou is a Taiwanese actor, singer and commercial model. He is a member of the Taiwanese boy band F4, and has starred in Taiwanese dramas. His stage name, 周渝民, literally means “a completely changed person”...
  
   周渝民
• Kelly Lin
  Kelly Lin
  Kelly Lin Hsi-Lei is a Taiwanese actress and model who has appeared mainly in Hong Kong films.-Biography:Lin was born in Taiwan in 1975. She moved to Santa Barbara, California with her family at the age of 12. She graduated from the University of California, Irvine with a Degree in Economics...
  
   林熙蕾
• Barbie Hsu
  Barbie Hsu
  Barbie Hsu also known as Dà S |Mars]] with Vic Chou of F4. She has also acted in movies, her first being the Chinese movie The Ghost Inside. She also had a singing career prior to her acting career. She was in a duo group called "S.O.S." with her sister Dee Hsu. Their last album was called...
  
   徐熙媛
• Ariel Lin
  Ariel Lin
  Ariel Lin |Hakka]]: Lim2 Yi3 Sen2) was born 29 October 1982. She is a Taiwanese actress and singer, who won Best Leading Actress in a Television Series at the 43rd Golden Bell Awards...
  
   林依晨
• Chang Shu-hao 張書豪
• Takeshi Kaneshiro
  Takeshi Kaneshiro
  Takeshi Kaneshiro , born October 11, 1973, is a Taiwan-born Japanese actor and singer.-Name:...
  
   金城武
• Nicky Wu
  Nicky Wu
  Nicky Wu is a Taiwanese singer and actor. Wu found fame in 1988, by joining the Taiwanese boy band, Little Tigers Team, performing alongside Alec Su and Julian Chen. Since then, his career has also expanded into film and television in Taiwan, Hong Kong and mainland China.-Childhood:Nicky Wu is the...
  
  　吳奇隆
• Show Luo
  Show Luo
  Show Luo also known as Xiao Zhu was born on 30 July 1979. He is a Taiwanese entertainer: Mandopop singer, dancer, host and actor. He has been dubbed "Dancing King of Asia" for his dancing skills.-Biography:...
  
  　羅志祥
• Jay Chou
  Jay Chou
  Jay Chou is a Taiwanese musician, singer-songwriter, music and film producer, actor and director who has won the World Music Award four times. In 1998 he was discovered in a talent contest where he displayed his piano and song-writing skills. Over the next two years, he was hired to compose for...
  
   周杰倫
• Cindy Yen
  Cindy Yen
  Cindy Yen is a Taiwanese-American singer, songwriter, actress, Composer and producer. She was the first artist to be signed to Jay Chou's company, JVR Music, in 2009. In October 2009 she released her first self-titled album: Cindy Yen 袁詠琳...
  
   袁詠琳

Singers and bands for popular music

• Jimmy Lin
  Jimmy Lin Chih Ying
  Jimmy Lin Chih-Ying is a Taiwanese singer, actor and professional race car driver.-Early life:Born in Taipei, Taiwan, on the 15 October 1974, Lin was the second child in a family of five children. He graduated from Zhong Xiao Primary School and Huai Sheng Secondary School...
  
   林志穎
• Alec Su
  Alec Su
  Alec Su is a Taiwanese pop star and versatile actor in films and television dramas. He became famous as a member of the Taiwanese Idol Band The Little Tigers, formed in 1988, and later for his first Chinese TV series Princess Returning Pearl .-Little Tigers:Alec Su's career started in 1988, at...
  
   蘇有朋
• A-mei
  A-Mei
  A-Mei , also known by her birth name Chang Hui-mei , is an aboriginal Taiwanese pop singer and occasional songwriter. She is also known by her aboriginal name Gulilai Amit . She was born in the rugged mountains of eastern Taiwan and is the third youngest of nine siblings. A-mei made her debut in...
  
   張惠妹
• Lollipop
  Lollipop
  A lollipop, pop, lolly, sucker, or sticky-pop is a type of confectionery consisting mainly of hardened, flavored sucrose with corn syrup mounted on a stick and intended for sucking or licking. They are available in many flavors and shapes.- Types :Lollipops are available in a number of colors and...
  
  棒棒糖
• Brandon Chang
  Brandon Chang
  Brandon Chang is a popular Taiwanese artist. By his late-teens, he became the apprentice of Michelle Yeoh , before returning to Taiwan to pursue his entertainment career.- Biography :...
  
   張卓楠
• Jeff Chang
  Jeff Chang
  Jeff Chang is a Taiwanese male singer, who performs sentimental Mandarin pop ballads.Chang was born in Yunlin, Taiwan. He started off his showbiz career by winning a singing competition while in college...
  
   張信哲
• Cheer Chen 陳綺貞
• Chang Fei 張菲
• Chen Ying-Git
  Chen Ying-Git
  Chen Ying-Git , is a female singer of Taiwanese Hakka heritage. She has produced albums from the 1980s through the 1990s like another singer, Jody Chiang. One of her famous songs is 海海人生. She also sang a famous duet called 酒醉黑白話 with Taiwanese male singer 余天....
  
   陳盈潔
• Chthonic
  Chthonic
  Chthonic designates, or pertains to, deities or spirits of the underworld, especially in relation to Greek religion. The Greek word khthon is one of several for "earth"; it typically refers to the interior of the soil, rather than the living surface of the land or the land as territory...
  
   閃靈
• Cindy Yen
  Cindy Yen
  Cindy Yen is a Taiwanese-American singer, songwriter, actress, Composer and producer. She was the first artist to be signed to Jay Chou's company, JVR Music, in 2009. In October 2009 she released her first self-titled album: Cindy Yen 袁詠琳...
  
   袁詠琳
• David Tao
  David Tao
  David Tao , born Tao Xuzhong , was born on 11 July 1969. He is a Taiwanese Golden Melody Award-winning singer-songwriter. He is well-known for creating a crossover genre of R&B and hard rock tunes which has now become his signature style and for having popularized R&B in the Mandopop...
  
   陶喆
• Elva Hsiao
  Elva Hsiao
  Elva Hsiao, also known as Elva Siu, was born on 24 August 1979. She is a Taiwanese Mandopop singer.-Biography:She was educated at John Casablanca's College in Vancouver, British Columbia. She is fluent in both written and spoken English. While in Vancouver, she attended the New Talent Singing...
  
   蕭亞軒
• Evan Yo
  Evan Yo
  Evan Yo was born on 12 November 1986. He is a Taiwanese Mandopop singer-songwriter, who was signed by his management company at 14 and has been signed by Sony Music Taiwan since 2006. He has released three albums and was nominated for Best New Artist in 2007 at the 18th Golden Melody Awards,...
  
   蔡旻佑
• Evonne Hsu
  Evonne Hsu
  Evonne Hsu, also known as Hsu Hui-hsin was born 5 December 1979, in Longview, Texas, United States. She is a Taiwanese American Golden Melody Awards Mandopop singer...
  
   許慧欣
• F4
  F4 (band)
  F4 is a Taiwanese boy band. The group began in the Taiwanese drama Meteor Garden as F4 with members Jerry Yan, Vanness Wu, Ken Chu, and Vic Chou...
  
  
• Fahrenheit (Taiwanese band)
  Fahrenheit (Taiwanese band)
  Fahrenheit is a Taiwanese boy band who has been active in Asia since 2005. The group debut with four members: Jiro Wang, Calvin Chen, Aaron Yan and Wu Chun. They are managed by Comic International Productions . The group's music is distributed by HIM International Music in Taiwan, by WOW Music in...
  
  
• F.I.R 飛兒樂團
• Fei Yu Ching
  Fei Yu Ching
  Chang Yen-ting was born on 17 July 17 1955, better known as Fei Yu-ching . He is a Taiwanese singer-songwriter and the younger brother of television personality Chang Fei.-Biography:...
  
  費玉清
• Freya Lim林凡
• Peggy Hsu
  Peggy Hsu
  Peggy Hsu or Hsu Che-Pei is a Taiwanese singer-songwriter. She was born on February 2, 1981 in Taipei, Taiwan.Since her first appearance on the Mandarin music scene in 2001 with her self-written-and-produced debut album, Balloon, written when she was only 19, on her piano, Peggy has picked up Best...
  
   許哲珮
• i.n.g
  I.n.g
  i.n.g was a Taiwanese girl group signed under Avex Taiwan. The group consists of Ida, Nara, and Gillian. The group debuted on May 5, 2006, with their first album called Lucky Star. Because i.n.g released their album on the same day as Jolin Tsai, a popstar who had built her fame over a longer...
  
  
• Jay Chou
  Jay Chou
  Jay Chou is a Taiwanese musician, singer-songwriter, music and film producer, actor and director who has won the World Music Award four times. In 1998 he was discovered in a talent contest where he displayed his piano and song-writing skills. Over the next two years, he was hired to compose for...
  
   周杰倫
• Jerry Yan
  Jerry Yan
  Jerry Yan was born 1 January 1977. He is a Taiwanese actor and member of Taiwanese boy band F4. His birth name is Liao Yangzhen .-Career:...
  
   言承旭
• Jody Chiang
  Jody Chiang
  Jody Chiang or Jiang Hui , born as Jiang Shuhui , is a Taiwanese popular singer. She is often called the Queen of Taiwanese music. She began recording in the 1980s and maintains an active career today. Her trademark ballads and folk songs are typically sung in Taiwanese...
  
   江蕙
• Jolin Tsai
  Jolin Tsai
  Jolin Tsai was born on 15 September 1980. She is a Taiwanese Golden Melody Award-winning Mandopop singer, dancer and actor. She is managed by Mars Entertainment Ltd .-Career:...
  
   蔡依林
• Kang Jing Rong
  Kang Jing Rong
  Kang Jing Rong, or commonly known as Kang Kang, is a famous Taiwanese entertainer, singer, and television host. He was first discovered by the Taiwanese king of showbiz, Zhang Fei during a TV show performance. Before entering Taiwanese showbiz, Kang had switched many jobs. He was first a military...
  
    康康
• Ken Chu
  Ken Chu
  Ken Chu |F4]]. Educated in Singapore , he speaks Mandarin, Cantonese and English.-Biography:Chu was working as a waiter in Taiwan when he was discovered by Cai Zhiping, the creator of the boy band F4...
  
   朱孝天
• Landy Wen
  Landy Wen
  Landy Wen is a Taiwanese singer.A member of the Atayal ethnic group, she is one of the few Taiwanese aborigines to become a musical star....
  
   溫嵐
• Leehom Wang 王力宏
• Machi
  Machi
  -Mythology and religious tradition:*Machi, a minor Biblical figure appearing in Numbers 13:15*Machi , the shaman of the Mapuche indigenous culture.*Machi, a Japanese neighborhood district 田丁 or address.-Popular culture:...
  
   麻吉
• Takeshi Kaneshiro
  Takeshi Kaneshiro
  Takeshi Kaneshiro , born October 11, 1973, is a Taiwan-born Japanese actor and singer.-Name:...
  
   金城武
• Rainie Yang
  Rainie Yang
  Rainie Yang , born June 4th, 1984, is a Taiwanese singer, Golden Bell Awards actress and talk show host.-Career:Yang began her career in 2000, as a member of Taiwanese quartet girl group 4 in Love, where she was given the stage name of Rainie, matching the weather theme of each member. The group's...
  
   楊丞琳
• Richie Ren
  Richie Ren
  Richie Jen is a Taiwanese singer and actor. He has become extremely popular throughout Asia, particularly in the Chinese-speaking countries. He graduated from the Chinese Culture University's physical education department.-Films:...
  
   任賢齊
• Seraphim
  Seraphim (band)
  -History:Formed in 2001 in the City of Taipei, Taiwan, they recorded their first song "Love Hate" for a demo weeks later, gaining notice and eventually a contract from Magnum Music in April...
  
  
• Show Luo
  Show Luo
  Show Luo also known as Xiao Zhu was born on 30 July 1979. He is a Taiwanese entertainer: Mandopop singer, dancer, host and actor. He has been dubbed "Dancing King of Asia" for his dancing skills.-Biography:...
  
   羅志祥/小豬
• Sodagreen
  Sodagreen
  Sodagreen is a Taiwanese independent folk-rock-pop band formed in 2001. Its lineup has been unchanged since 2003. Sodagreen emerged in the Taiwanese indie music scene after receiving the Grand Jury Award in the Hohaiyan Gongliau Rock Festival in 2004, after which it signed a contract with Willlin...
  
   蘇打綠
• Seraphim 六翼天使
• S.H.E
  S.H.E
  S.H.E is a Taiwanese girl group whose members are Selina Jen, Hebe Tien, and Ella Chen. The name of the group is an alphabetism derived from the first letter of each member's name. Since releasing their first album Girls Dorm , S.H.E has recorded 12 albums with sales totalling over 15 million, and...
  
  
• Nicky Wu
  Nicky Wu
  Nicky Wu is a Taiwanese singer and actor. Wu found fame in 1988, by joining the Taiwanese boy band, Little Tigers Team, performing alongside Alec Su and Julian Chen. Since then, his career has also expanded into film and television in Taiwan, Hong Kong and mainland China.-Childhood:Nicky Wu is the...
  
   吳奇隆
• Tank
  Tank
  A tank is a tracked, armoured fighting vehicle designed for front-line combat which combines operational mobility, tactical offensive, and defensive capabilities...
  
   吕建忠
• Teresa Teng
  Teresa Teng
  Teresa Teng , was an immensely popular and influential Chinese pop singer from Taiwan. Teresa Teng's voice and songs are instantly recognized throughout East Asia and in areas with large Asian populations...
  
   鄧麗君
• Tim Wu
  Tim Wu
  Tim Wu is a professor at Columbia Law School, the former chair of media reform group Free Press, and a writer for Slate Magazine. He is also a former Bernard L. Schwartz and Future Tense fellow at The New America Foundation...
  
  * 金力若
• Tsai Chin
  Tsai Chin (singer)
  Tsai Chin is a pop and folk singer from Taiwan . She sings in both Mandarin Chinese and Taiwanese Hokkien and is known for her naturally magnetic rich vocals and witty persona.-Music career:...
  
   蔡琴
• Typhoon
• Vivian Hsu
  Vivian Hsu
  Vivian Hsu is a Taiwanese singer, actress, and model who has gained remarkable popularity in East Asia, mainly in Taiwan and Japan.Hsu rose to prominence in Japan, where she made her first appearance in 1995 and has become a highly-recognized celebrity with her countless appearances in media...
  
   徐若瑄
• Wilber Pan
  Wilber Pan
  Wilber Pan also known as Will Pan was born on 6 August 1980. He is an American-born Taiwanese Mandopop singer, rapper and actor, who started his career as a host of Channel V programs.-Biography:...
  
   潘瑋柏
• Wu Bai
  Wu Bai
  Wu Bai on 14 January 1968) is a Taiwanese rock singer and songwriter. He formed the band Wu Bai & China Blue with Dean "Dino" Zavolta on drums, Yu Ta-hao on keyboards, Chu Chien-hui on bass guitar and Wu Bai himself on lead guitar and lead vocals...
  
   伍佰
• Mayday
  Wu Yue Tian
  Mayday , is a Taiwanese alternative rock band that was formed in the late 1990s with five members, Ashin , Monster and Stone , Masa and Guan You ....
  
   五月天
• Jacky Wu
  Jacky Wu
  Wu Jing , sometimes credited as Jacky Wu or Jing Wu, is a Chinese martial artist, actor and film director. Wu is perhaps best known as Hawkman / Jackie in 1996 film Tai Chi Boxer and Kong Ko in 2006 film Fatal Contact.-Personal life:At age six he was sent to the Beijing Sports Institute at Shichahai...
  
   吳宗憲
• Chou Chuan-huing 周傳雄
• Vic Zhou 周渝民

Musicians

• Ch'eng Mao-yün
  Ch'eng Mao-yün
  Cheng Maoyun , 25 Aug 1900 - 31 Jul 1957) was a Chinese composer and a professor at National Central University and Hangzhou Societal University . He composed the "National Anthem of the Republic of China"....
  
  *, violinist and composer
• Lin Cho-liang, violinist
• Kessier Hsu, Guitarist and Composer
• Freddy Lim, vocalist and Hena player
• Julie Chang
  Julie Chang
  Julie Chang is the entertainment anchor for the 5PM/10PM news on FOX 5 . She joined the morning show Good Day New York in June, 2008, but changed over to the evening newscasts in October 2011. Previously, she was a feature reporter for CW11 Morning News, WPIX. Chang has been recognized for her...
  
   張鈴, pianist and flutist

Fine artists

• Chen Cheng-po
  Chen Cheng-po
  Chen Cheng-po , was a well known Taiwanese painter. In 1926, his oil painting Street of Chiayi was featured in the seventh Empire Art Exhibition in Japan, which was the first time a Taiwanese artist's work could be displayed at the exhibition...
  
  , oil painter 陳澄波
• Ben Chiu
  Ben Chiu
  Benjamin Chiu is the founder of KillerApp.com, a popular comparison shopping site for computers and consumer electronics that was acquired by CNET Networks Inc...
  
  , oil/acrylic/watercolor, McMichael Canadian Art Collection
  McMichael Canadian Art Collection
  The McMichael Canadian Art Collection is an art gallery in Kleinburg, Ontario, Canada, northwest of Toronto. It houses an extensive collection of paintings by Tom Thomson, the Group of Seven and their contemporaries, and First Nations and Inuit artists....
  
   邱澤堃
• Lee Tze-Fan
  Lee Tze-Fan
  Lee Tze-Fan was a Taiwanese painter and art teacher. He was studying at Taipei Normal School when he was 14 years old...
  
  , oil painter 李澤藩
• Liu Chi-hsiang
  Liu Chi-hsiang
  Liu Chi-hsiang is a Taiwanese painter. He was born in Liuying, Tainan County , in the period of Japan-ruled Taiwan. In 1923, Liu finished his Public School education and headed to Japan to study abroad in Aoyama Gakuin...
  
  , oil painter 劉啟祥
• Yen Shui-long
  Yen Shui-long
  Yen Shui-long , a Taiwanese painter and sculptor, was born in Xiaying in Tainan County . He began to study abroad in the Tokyo School of Fine Arts since 1922, and graduated in 1927.In 1929, Yen went to France to study arts...
  
  , sculptor, mosaic artist 顏水龍
• Lee Shih-chiao
  Lee Shih-chiao
  Lee Shih-chiao was a Taiwanese painter. Most of his paintings were realistic, but he also created some cubist works in his mid-life.-Biography:...
  
  , oil painter 李石樵
• Suling Wang
  Suling Wang
  Suling Wang born in 1968, is an internationally recognized painter and contemporary artist, known predominantly for her large scale abstract works. She currently lives and works in London, UK.- Biography :...
  
  , painter 王淑鈴
• Jimmy Liao
  Jimmy Liao
  Jimmy Liao is a well-known Taiwanese illustrator as well as a picture book writer. The name Jimmy is his English first name which brought about his Chinese pen name, 幾米....
  
  , Illustrator 幾米
• Yang Maolin
  Yang Maolin
  Yang Maolin is a noted contemporary Taiwanese artist.Born in 1953 in Changhua, Taiwan, Yang studied painting at the Chinese Culture University in Taipei. He co-founded several artists groups linked to the Transavantgarde movement in Taiwan: 101 and the Taipei Group in the 1980s, and Hantooshe in...
  
  , artist 楊茂林

Film-makers

• Ang Lee
  Ang Lee
  Ang Lee is a Taiwanese film director. Lee has directed a diverse set of films such as Eat Drink Man Woman , Sense and Sensibility , Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon , Hulk , and Brokeback Mountain , for which he won an Academy...
  
   李安
• Hou Hsiao-Hsien
  Hou Hsiao-Hsien
  Hou Hsiao-Hsien is an award-winning film director and a leading figure of Taiwan's New Wave cinema movement.-Biography:...
  
  * 侯孝賢, Director of the City of Sadness
• Wei Te-Sheng
  Wei Te-Sheng
  Wei Te-Sheng , Taiwan) is the director of Cape No. 7, the 2nd top-selling film in Taiwanese history.-Career:Wei’s film career began when he got a job in a small production house. Then he became an assistant in Edward Yang's film studio in 1995. When Yang was filming Mahjong , he was promoted to...
  
   魏德聖

Athletes

• Professional Billiards Player
  • Jennifer Chen
    Jennifer Chen
    Jennifer Chen is a professional pool player.-Career:1991*1st - China/Japan Women's Pool Championship1992*1st - Taiwan Cup*1st - US Open 14.11993*1st - Japan Open1996*1st - Women's Team*3rd - Swiss Cup1997...
    
    
  • Po-Cheng Kuo
    Kuo Po-cheng
    Kuo Po-cheng is a Taiwanese professional pool player, nicknamed "The Little Monster". Kuo finished 1st runner-up to Wu Chia-ching in the 2005 World Pool Championship held in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. He was also runner-up to Francisco Bustamante in the 2010 World 9-Ball Championship held in Doha,...
    
    
  • Kun-Fang Lee
    Lee Kun-fang
    Lee Kun-fang is a Taiwanese professional pool player. He came close to winning his first world title at the 1997 WPA World Nine-ball Championship, but the American cue artist Johnny Archer defeated him in the final match. In 1998, Lee won the International Challenge of Champions, defeating...
    
    
  • Hung-Hsiang Wang
    Wang Hung-hsiang
    Wang Hung-hsiang is a Taiwanese professional pool player, nicknamed "the Master." During the 2006 WPA Men's World Nine-ball Championship he survived the group stages and the round of 64, but was eliminated in the round of 32 by Wu Chia-ching....
    
    
  • Chia-Ching Wu
    Wu Chia-ching
    Wu Jia-Qing is a professional pool player. He is nicknamed the Taishan Shentong . Previously known as Wu Chia-Ching , he changed his name upon moving to China....
    
    
  • Ching-Shun Yang
    Yang Ching-shun
    Yang Ching-shun is a Taiwanese professional pool player, nicknamed "the Son of Pool."Yang won the nine-ball event of the 1998 Asian Games against then World Pool champion Kunihiko Takahashi. He defended it in 2002 against Warren Kiamco...
    
    
• Professional Baseball Player
  • Infielder
    • Chin-Lung Hu
      Chin-Lung Hu
      Hu Chin-lung is a Taiwanese professional baseball player. He is currently an infielder for the New York Mets of Major League Baseball. Hu, along with his countryman Fu-Te Ni , has the shortest surname in Major League Baseball history...
      
      , Los Angeles Dodgers
      Los Angeles Dodgers
      The Los Angeles Dodgers are a professional baseball team based in Los Angeles, California. The Dodgers are members of Major League Baseball's National League West Division. Established in 1883, the team originated in Brooklyn, New York, where it was known by a number of nicknames before becoming...
      
       2007 All-Star Futures Game
      All-Star Futures Game
      The All-Star Futures Game is an annual baseball exhibition game between a team of top minor league prospects from the United States and a team of prospects from other parts of the World...
      
       MVP
    • Yung-Chi Chen, Oakland Athletics
      Oakland Athletics
      The Oakland Athletics are a Major League Baseball team based in Oakland, California. The Athletics are a member of the Western Division of Major League Baseball's American League. From to the present, the Athletics have played in the O.co Coliseum....
      
       3A
    • Sen Yang, Uni President Lions (CPBL)
    • Tai-Shan Chang, Sinon Bulls (CPBL)
  • Outfielder
    • Chia-Hsian Hsieh
      Chia-Hsian Hsieh
      Hsieh Chia-hsien, , is a Taiwanese professional baseball player. Originally drafted by the Taiwan Major League's Taichung Agan in 1998, after TML's merger into CPBL he has been playing for the Chinese Professional Baseball League's Macoto Gida and its successors Macoto Cobras and Dmedia T-REX since...
      
      , Macoto Cobras (CPBL)
    • Chin-Feng Chen
      Chin-Feng Chen
      Chin-Feng Chen is a baseball outfielder who was the first player born in Taiwan to play in Major League Baseball.He played for the Los Angeles Dodgers during - season, but only sparingly. In 2005, Chen was reluctant to accept the designate for assignment back to Dodgers' Las Vegas 51s AAA team,...
      
      , Los Angeles Dodgers
      Los Angeles Dodgers
      The Los Angeles Dodgers are a professional baseball team based in Los Angeles, California. The Dodgers are members of Major League Baseball's National League West Division. Established in 1883, the team originated in Brooklyn, New York, where it was known by a number of nicknames before becoming...
      
      , La New Bears (CPBL)
    • Che-Hsuan Lin
      Che-Hsuan Lin
      Che-Hsuan Lin [Chay shoo-ahn Lin] is a Taiwanese outfielder in the Boston Red Sox minor league system. Lin was born in Hualien, Taiwan.-Career:Lin helped his 12-and-under Bronco League team to the World Championship with a grand slam...
      
      , Boston Red Sox
      Boston Red Sox
      The Boston Red Sox are a professional baseball team based in Boston, Massachusetts, and a member of Major League Baseball’s American League Eastern Division. Founded in as one of the American League's eight charter franchises, the Red Sox's home ballpark has been Fenway Park since . The "Red Sox"...
      
       1A+ 2008 All-Star Futures Game
      All-Star Futures Game
      The All-Star Futures Game is an annual baseball exhibition game between a team of top minor league prospects from the United States and a team of prospects from other parts of the World...
      
       MVP
  • Pitcher
    • Chien-Fu Yang
      Chien-Fu Yang
      Yang Chien-fu, , is a Taiwanese professional baseball pitcher. After serving in the National Training Team in 2001 and 2002 he was drafted by the Sinon Bulls of the Chinese Professional Baseball League in early 2003 and stays at that club to date...
      
      , Sinon Bulls (CPBL)
    • Chien-Ming Wang
      Chien-Ming Wang
      Chien-Ming Wang is a Taiwanese Major League Baseball pitcher. He was initially signed as an amateur free agent by the New York Yankees for the 2000 season, and played for the Staten Island Yankees...
      
      , Washington Nationals
      Washington Nationals
      The Washington Nationals are a professional baseball team based in Washington, D.C. The Nationals are a member of the Eastern Division of the National League of Major League Baseball . The team moved into the newly built Nationals Park in 2008, after playing their first three seasons in RFK Stadium...
      
      
    • Chien-Ming Chiang
      Chien-Ming Chiang
      Chiang Chien-ming, , is a starting pitcher for the Yomiuri Giants of Nippon Professional Baseball. He was initially signed at 2005, became the fifth Taiwanese Yomiuri Giants' players...
      
      , Yomiuri Giants
      Yomiuri Giants
      The are a professional baseball team based in Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan. The team competes in the Central League in Nippon Professional Baseball, the top level of professional play in Japan. They play their home games in the Tokyo Dome, opened in 1988. The English-language press occasionally calls the...
      
       (NPB)
    • Chin-Hui Tsao
      Chin-hui Tsao
      Chin-Hui Tsao is a former Major League Baseball and CPBL pitcher. He is the second major league player and the first major league pitcher of Republic of China nationality, and like the first, former Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Chin-Feng Chen, he is a Taiwanese aborigine...
      
      , Los Angeles Dodgers
      Los Angeles Dodgers
      The Los Angeles Dodgers are a professional baseball team based in Los Angeles, California. The Dodgers are members of Major League Baseball's National League West Division. Established in 1883, the team originated in Brooklyn, New York, where it was known by a number of nicknames before becoming...
      
      
    • En-Yu Lin
      En-Yu Lin
      Lin En-yu, , is a Taiwanese professional baseball pitcher. After serving in Chinese Taipei's National Training Team in 2003 and 2004, he was drafted by the Macoto Cobras of the Chinese Professional Baseball League in Republic of China in early 2005 and stayed with the team until the end of 2006...
      
      , Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles
      Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles
      The is a baseball team founded in 2004; it played its first season in the Japanese Pacific League in 2005. It is simply called Rakuten . The team was created to fill the void left by the merger of the Orix Blue Wave and the Kintetsu Buffaloes, after the 2004 season due to financial difficulties,...
      
       (NPB)
    • Hong-Chih Kuo
      Hong-Chih Kuo
      Hong-Chih Kuo is a Major League Baseball pitcher with the Los Angeles Dodgers. When Kuo made his debut in , he became the fourth MLB player from Taiwan ....
      
      , Los Angeles Dodgers
      Los Angeles Dodgers
      The Los Angeles Dodgers are a professional baseball team based in Los Angeles, California. The Dodgers are members of Major League Baseball's National League West Division. Established in 1883, the team originated in Brooklyn, New York, where it was known by a number of nicknames before becoming...
      
      
    • Ming-Chieh Hsu
      Ming-Chieh Hsu
      Hsu Ming-Chieh , born December 1, 1976 in Kaohsiung County, now part of Kaohsiung City, Taiwan) is a pitcher for Nippon Professional Baseball's Seibu Lions. He is known for his Shuuto .-Early life:...
      
      , Seibu Lions
      Seibu Lions
      The are a professional baseball team in Japan's Pacific League based west of Tokyo in Tokorozawa, Saitama. Before 1979, they were based in Fukuoka in Kyushu. The team is owned by a subsidiary of Prince Hotels, which in turn is owned by the Seibu Group...
      
       (NPB)
    • Tai-Yuan Kuo
      Tai-Yuan Kuo
      Kuo Tai-yuan, ; , born March 20, 1962), is a retired Taiwanese NPB baseball pitcher and currently a baseball coach. With 117 wins accumulated during his 13 seasons in the Seibu Lions, Kuo set the record of being the international player who achieves most wins in the NPB history, and is widely...
      
      , former Seibu Lions
      Seibu Lions
      The are a professional baseball team in Japan's Pacific League based west of Tokyo in Tokorozawa, Saitama. Before 1979, they were based in Fukuoka in Kyushu. The team is owned by a subsidiary of Prince Hotels, which in turn is owned by the Seibu Group...
      
       (NPB)
    • Wei-Yin Chen, Chunichi Dragons
      Chunichi Dragons
      The are a professional baseball team based in Nagoya, the chief city in the Chubu region of Japan. The team is in the Central League. They won the 2007 Japan Series and 2007 Asia Series.-History:...
      
       (NPB)
    • Fu-Te Ni
      Fu-Te Ni
      Fu-Te Ni is a Major League Baseball relief pitcher in the Detroit Tigers organization. Before joining the Tigers, Ni was a professional baseball player from Taiwan's Chinese Professional Baseball League...
      
      , Detroit Tigers
      Detroit Tigers
      The Detroit Tigers are a Major League Baseball team located in Detroit, Michigan. One of the American League's eight charter franchises, the club was founded in Detroit in as part of the Western League. The Tigers have won four World Series championships and have won the American League pennant...
      
      
    • Chia-Jen Lo
      Chia-Jen Lo
      Chia-Jen Lo , is a Taiwanese professional baseball player, and the first Taiwanese player ever signed by the Houston Astros organization. As of 2010, he is a pitcher on the Double-A Corpus Christi Hooks team...
      
      , Houston Astros
      Houston Astros
      The Houston Astros are a Major League Baseball team located in Houston, Texas. They are a member of the National League Central division. The Astros are expected to join the American League West division in 2013. Since , they have played their home games at Minute Maid Park, known as Enron Field...
      
       recorded Win in 2009 All-Star Futures Game
      All-Star Futures Game
      The All-Star Futures Game is an annual baseball exhibition game between a team of top minor league prospects from the United States and a team of prospects from other parts of the World...
      
      

• • Table tennis
    • Ben Chiu
      Ben Chiu
      Benjamin Chiu is the founder of KillerApp.com, a popular comparison shopping site for computers and consumer electronics that was acquired by CNET Networks Inc...
      
      , 1st (1981 Jr. Canadian Champion), 2nd (1984 US Open doubles)
  • Tennis
    • Yen-Hsun Lu, professional player
    • Yeu-Tzuoo Wang, professional player
  • Olympics Medalist
    • Shih-Hsin Chen
      Chen Shih-Hsin
      Chen Shih-hsin is the first Taiwanese athlete to win a gold medal at the Olympics. She won the gold medal in the women's 49-kilogram category in taekwondo at the 2004 Summer Olympics on August 26....
      
      , gold medal, Athens Olympics
      2004 Summer Olympics
      The 2004 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad, was a premier international multi-sport event held in Athens, Greece from August 13 to August 29, 2004 with the motto Welcome Home. 10,625 athletes competed, some 600 more than expected, accompanied by 5,501 team...
      
      , 2004
    • Mu-Yen Chu
      Chu Mu-Yen
      Chu Mu-yen is a Taekwondo athlete from Taiwan. He is the second Taiwanese athlete and first male to win a gold medal at the Olympics, winning in men's under 58-kilogram class in Taekwondo at the Athens 2004 Games...
      
      , gold medal, Athens Olympics
      2004 Summer Olympics
      The 2004 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad, was a premier international multi-sport event held in Athens, Greece from August 13 to August 29, 2004 with the motto Welcome Home. 10,625 athletes competed, some 600 more than expected, accompanied by 5,501 team...
      
      , 2004
    • Chuan-Kwang Yang
      Yang Chuan-Kwang
      Yang Chuan-kwang, or C.K. Yang , was an Olympic decathlete from the Republic of China....
      
      , silver medal, Rome Olympics, 1960
    • Chih-Hsiung Huang, silver medal, Athens Olympics
      2004 Summer Olympics
      The 2004 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad, was a premier international multi-sport event held in Athens, Greece from August 13 to August 29, 2004 with the motto Welcome Home. 10,625 athletes competed, some 600 more than expected, accompanied by 5,501 team...
      
      , 2004; bronze medal, Sydney Olympics, 2000
    • Cheng Chi, bronze medal, Mexico Olympics, 1968

Businesspeople

• Momofuku Ando
  Momofuku Ando
  , ORS, was a Taiwanese-Japanese businessman who founded Nissin Food Products Co., Ltd. He is famed as the inventor of instant noodles and cup noodles.- Early life :...
  
  , founder of Nissin Food Products Company Limited
• Jimmy Lin
  Jimmy Lin Chih Ying
  Jimmy Lin Chih-Ying is a Taiwanese singer, actor and professional race car driver.-Early life:Born in Taipei, Taiwan, on the 15 October 1974, Lin was the second child in a family of five children. He graduated from Zhong Xiao Primary School and Huai Sheng Secondary School...
  
   CEO of an IT company/has own racing team/owns JR(Jimmy Racing)company. 林志穎
• Morris Chang
  Morris Chang
  Morris Chang , is the founding Chairman of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. in 1987. TSMC pioneered the "dedicated silicon foundry" industry and is the largest silicon foundry in the world. Morris is known as the father of Taiwan's chip industry.Chang was born in Ningbo, Zhejiang...
  
   張忠謀
• David Chu
  David Chu
  David Chu may refer to:* David Chu , founder of Nautica, a men's designer outerwear company* David S. C. Chu, former U.S. Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness-See also:* David Chiu...
  
  , co-founder of Nautica
• Terry Gou
  Terry Gou
  Terry Tai-Ming Gou, sometimes written as Terry Guo, is a Taiwanese tycoon who leads Hon Hai Precision, a company that manufactures electronics on contract for other companies...
  
   郭台銘
• Jen Hsun Huang, co-founder, President and CEO of NVIDIA
  NVIDIA
  Nvidia is an American global technology company based in Santa Clara, California. Nvidia is best known for its graphics processors . Nvidia and chief rival AMD Graphics Techonologies have dominated the high performance GPU market, pushing other manufacturers to smaller, niche roles...
  
   Corporation
• Min Kao
  Min Kao
  Min H. Kao is the co-founder of Garmin Corporation with Gary Burrell. As of January 2010, his personal wealth was estimated at $1.6 billion.-Biography:He was born in 1949 in a small town in Taiwan called Jhushan in Nantou....
  
  , co-founder of Garmin
  Garmin
  Garmin Ltd. , incorporated in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, is the parent company of a group of companies founded in 1989 by Gary Burrell and Min Kao , that develops consumer, aviation, and marine technologies for the Global Positioning System...
  
  
• Koo Chen-fu
  Koo Chen-fu
  Koo Chen-fu , was a Taiwanese businessman and diplomat. He led the Koos Group of companies from 1940 until his death. As a chairman of the Straits Exchange Foundation , Koo arranged the first direct talks between Taiwan and China since 1949 and served as Taiwan's negotiator in both the 1993 and...
  
    辜振甫
• Winston Wang founded Grace Semiconductor Manufacturing
• Wang Yung-ching
  Wang Yung-ching
  Wang Yung-ching was an influential entrepreneur who founded a large business empire in Taiwan. According to the 2008 Forbes survey, he was the 178th richest person in the world with an estimated net worth of US$5.5 billion...
  
   王永慶
• Steve Chen
  Steve Chen (YouTube)
  Steven Shih "Steve" Chen is a Chinese Taiwanese American and a co-founder and previous Chief Technology Officer of the popular video sharing website YouTube.- Early years and education :...
  
  , co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of YouTube
  YouTube
  YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos....
  
   陳士駿
• Stan Shih
  Stan Shih
  Stan Shih is a retired Taiwanese business tycoon...
  
  , co-founder of Acer. 施振榮
• Aimee Sun
  Aimee Sun
  Aimee Sun is a Taiwanese socialite, heiress, media personality, jewelry designer, businesswoman, celebrity endorser, commercial actress and cover girl. She is a co-founder of Breeze Center, a shopping mall located in Taipei...
  
  , co-founder of Breeze Center. 孫芸芸
• Tsai Wan Lin, founder of Cathay Life Insurance
• Jerry Yang, computer scientist and entrepreneur, cofounder of Yahoo!
  Yahoo!
  Yahoo! Inc. is an American multinational internet corporation headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, United States. The company is perhaps best known for its web portal, search engine , Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! Answers, advertising, online mapping ,...
  
   楊致遠
• Ben Chiu
  Ben Chiu
  Benjamin Chiu is the founder of KillerApp.com, a popular comparison shopping site for computers and consumer electronics that was acquired by CNET Networks Inc...
  
   邱澤堃, founder of KillerApp.com acquired by CNET
  CNET
  CNET is a tech media website that publishes news articles, blogs, and podcasts on technology and consumer electronics. Originally founded in 1994 by Halsey Minor and Shelby Bonnie, it was the flagship brand of CNET Networks and became a brand of CBS Interactive through CNET Networks' acquisition...
  
  
• Wu Yao-ting
  Wu Yao-ting
  Wu Yao-ting , a Taiwanese businessman, is the founder of the President Department Store and other businesses such as supermarket, hotel, and food industry....
  
  , founder of several large department stores.

Educators

• Winston Chang
  Winston Chang
  Winston Hsiao-tzu Chang was a president of Soochow University in Taipei.-Biography:He and his twin brother, John Chang, were born the sons of Chiang Ching-kuo and Chang Ya-juo in Guilin, but took their mother's surname as they were born out of wedlock, although they both were given the generation...
  
  *
• Hu Shih
  Hu Shih
  Hu Shih , born Hu Hung-hsing , was a Chinese philosopher, essayist and diplomat. His courtesy name was Shih-chih . Hu is widely recognized today as a key contributor to Chinese liberalism and language reform in his advocacy for the use of written vernacular Chinese...
  
  *
• Henry T. Yang
  Henry T. Yang
  Henry Tzu-Yow Yang was named the fifth chancellor of the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1994. He was formerly the Neil A. Armstrong Distinguished Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Purdue University, where he also served as the dean of engineering for ten years...
  
  , Chancellor of the University of California, Santa Barbara
  University of California, Santa Barbara
  The University of California, Santa Barbara, commonly known as UCSB or UC Santa Barbara, is a public research university and one of the 10 general campuses of the University of California system. The main campus is located on a site in Goleta, California, from Santa Barbara and northwest of Los...
  
  

Others

• Mai Chen
  Mai Chen
  Mai Chen is a prominent constitutional lawyer in Wellington, New Zealand.She is a founding partner of the law firm Chen Palmer, alongside former New Zealand Prime Minister Sir Geoffrey Palmer.-Early life:...
  
  , constitutional lawyer, emigrated to New Zealand
• Wen Ho Lee
  Wen Ho Lee
  Dr. Wen Ho Lee is a Taiwan-born Taiwanese American scientist who worked for the University of California at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. He created simulations of nuclear explosions for the purposes of scientific inquiry, as well as for improving the safety and reliability of the US nuclear...
  
  , engineer falsely accused of spying, author of book "My Country Versus Me" 李文和
• Jason Wu
  Jason Wu
  Jason Wu is a Manhattan-based Taiwanese American fashion designer.-Biography:Born in Taiwan, Wu moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada at age nine and attended Eaglebrook School in Deerfield, Massachusetts and Loomis Chaffee, in Windsor ,Connecticut. He learned how to sew by designing and...
  
  , Fashion Designer

Philosophers, thinkers, and writers

• Sheng-yen
  Sheng-yen
  Sheng-yen was a Buddhist monk, a religious scholar, and one of the mainstream teachers of Chinese Chan Buddhism. He was the 57th generational descendant of Linji in the Linji School and a 3rd generational descendant of Master Hsu Yun...
  
  , Religious Scholar
• Cheng Yen
  Cheng Yen
  Cheng Yen is a Taiwanese Buddhist nun , teacher, and philanthropist. She is often called the "Mother Teresa of Asia." In 1966, Cheng Yen founded the Buddhist Compassion Relief Tzu Chi Foundation, commonly known as Tzu Chi; its motto is "instructing the rich and saving the poor"...
  
  , Founder of Tzu chi
  Tzu Chi
  The Tzu Chi Foundation, whose name means "compassionate relief," is an international humanitarian organization and the largest non-governmental organization in the Chinese-speaking world....
  
  
• R. C. T. Lee
  R. C. T. Lee
  R. C. T. Lee , also known as Richard C. T. Lee, received his B. Sc. degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering of National Taiwan University and Ph. D. degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from University of California, Berkeley...
  
  (Chia-Tung Lee), writer and professor
• Tu Wei-ming
  Tu Wei-ming
  Tu Weiming , b.1940, is an ethicist and a New Confucian. He is Lifetime Professor of Philosophy and founding Dean of the Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies at Peking University...
  
  , ethicist

Politicians

• Tsai Ing-wen
  Tsai Ing-wen
  Tsai Ing-wen is the current chairperson of the Democratic Progressive Party in Taiwan. Studying in Taiwan, the U.S and the U.K. Tsai earned an LL.B. from National Taiwan University, an LL.M. from Cornell University Law School and a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics....
  
   蔡英文
• John Chiang
  John Chiang
  John Chiang Hsiao-yen , formerly surnamed Chang , is a Kuomintang politician in Taiwan.-Biography:He and his twin brother, Winston Chang, both illegitimate, were born the sons of Chiang Ching-kuo and his mistress Chang Ya-juo in Guilin amid the Sino-Japanese War...
  
  * 蔣孝嚴
• Chang Chun*
• Chen Li-an
  Chen Li-an
  Chen Li-an , sometimes spelled Chen Lu-an, is an electrical engineer, mathematician and former Taiwanese politician.-Biography:Son of former Vice President Chen Tsyr-shiou and earned his masters' and Ph.D. in mathematics from New York University. He had a close friendship with Wang Yung-ching, a...
  
  *
• Chen Shui-bian
  Chen Shui-bian
  Chen Shui-bian is a former Taiwanese politician who was the 10th and 11th-term President of the Republic of China from 2000 to 2008. Chen, whose Democratic Progressive Party has traditionally been supportive of Taiwan independence, ended more than fifty years of Kuomintang rule in Taiwan...
  
   陳水扁
• Sisy Chen
  Sisy Chen
  Sisy Wen-hsien Chen is a Taiwanese politician and television commentator. She hosts Sisy's World News, a daily talk show at the KMT-owned China Television Corporation and UFO Dinner a daily radio talk show at the UFO Radio Station. She was an independent member of the Legislative Yuan from...
  
  
• Chang Chau-hsiung
  Chang Chau-hsiung
  Chang Chau-hsiung is the vice-chairman of People First Party of the Republic of China since 2000.Born in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Empire of Japan, Chang was a physician who graduated from National Taiwan University with an MD in 1967. He worked in the university hospital as a part-time attending...
  
  
• Chiang Ching-kuo
  Chiang Ching-kuo
  Chiang Ching-kuo , Kuomintang politician and leader, was the son of President Chiang Kai-shek and held numerous posts in the government of the Republic of China...
  
  * 蔣經國
• Chiang Wei-kuo
  Chiang Wei-kuo
  Chiang Wei-kuo was an adopted son of President Chiang Kai-shek, adoptive brother of President Chiang Ching-kuo, and an important figure in the Kuomintang . His courtesy names were Jianhao and Niantang .- Early life :...
  
  * 蔣緯國
• Chu Mei-feng
  Chu Mei-feng
  Chu Mei-feng is a Taiwanese TV journalist, former Taipei City councilwoman and the former director of Hsinchu City's Bureau of Cultural Affairs....
  
  
• Frank Hsieh
  Frank Hsieh
  Frank Hsieh Chang-ting is a Taiwanese politician of the Democratic Progressive Party in the Republic of China. He was the mayor of Kaohsiung City until his appointment as President of the Executive Yuan by president Chen Shui-bian on February 1, 2005. He announced his resignation from the post of...
  
   謝長廷
• Lee Teng-hui
  Lee Teng-hui
  Lee Teng-hui is a politician of the Republic of China . He was the 7th, 8th, and 9th-term President of the Republic of China and Chairman of the Kuomintang from 1988 to 2000. He presided over major advancements in democratic reforms including his own re-election which marked the first direct...
  
   李登輝
• Lien Chan
  Lien Chan
  Lien Chan is a politician in Taiwan. He was Premier of the Republic of China from 1993 to 1997, Vice President of the Republic of China from 1996 to 2000, and was the Chairman of the Kuomintang from 2000 to 2005...
  
  * 連戰
• Lin Yang-kang
  Lin Yang-kang
  Lin Yang-kang is a politician in the Republic of China .-Biography:Born in Nantou County, Taiwan, Lin graduated from National Taiwan University with a bachelor of science degree...
  
  
• Annette Lu
  Annette Lu
  Annette Lu Hsiu-lien , was the Vice President of the Republic of China from 2000 to 2008, under Chen Shui-bian. She announced her intentions to run for President of Taiwan on March 6, 2007, but withdrew in order to support DPP presidential nominee, Frank Hsieh...
  
   呂秀蓮
• Ma Ying-jeou
  Ma Ying-jeou
  Ma Ying-jeou is the 12th term and current President of the Republic of China , commonly known as Taiwan, and the Chairman of the Kuomintang Party, also known as the Chinese Nationalist Party. He formerly served as Justice Minister from 1993 to 1996, Mayor of Taipei from 1998 to 2006, and Chairman...
  
  * 馬英九
• Vincent Siew
  Vincent Siew
  Vincent C. Siew Wan-chang is the incumbent Vice President of the Republic of China. He was the first Taiwanese-born Premier of the Republic of China and former vice-chairman of the Kuomintang .-Biography:...
  
   蕭萬長
• James Soong
  James Soong
  James Soong Chu-yu , is a politician in the Republic of China on Taiwan. He founded and chairs the People First Party, a smaller and more conservative party in the Kuomintang -led Pan-Blue Coalition....
  
  * 宋楚瑜
• Su Tseng-chang
  Su Tseng-chang
  Su Tseng-chang is a Taiwanese politician of the Democratic Progressive Party. He is the former Premier of the Republic of China. Su actively campaigned for the Presidential nomination of the DPP, but finished second to Frank Hsieh in the nomination process...
  
   蘇真昌
• Sun Yun-suan
  Sun Yun-suan
  Sun Yun-suan was a Chinese engineer and politician. As minister of economic affairs from 1969 to 1978 and Premier of the Republic of China from 1978 to 1984, he was credited for overseeing the transformation of Taiwan from being a mainly agricultural economy to an export powerhouse.-Early life...
  
  *
• Yu Shyi-kun
  Yu Shyi-kun
  Yu Shyi-kun , a Taiwanese politician of the Democratic Progressive Party, is a former chairman of the Democratic Progressive Party in Taiwan. He previously served as Premier of the Republic of China from 2002 to 2005...
  
   游錫堃
• Wang Chien-shien
  Wang Chien-shien
  Wang Chien-shien is a founder of the New Party. He was finance minister of the Republic of China from 1990 to 1992 and is the chairman of the Chinese Management Association...
  
  *
• Wang Jin-pyng
  Wang Jin-pyng
  Wang Jin-pyng , Taiwan, Empire of Japan), Taiwanese politician, is the President of the Legislative Yuan. As one of the leading figures of the Kuomintang, Wang is considered to be soft-spoken and a conciliatory figure.-Early life:...
  
   王金平

Scientists, physicians and engineers

• David Ho, medical researcher 何大一
• Henry Lee
  Henry Lee (criminologist)
  Dr. Henry Chang-Yu Lee , is one of the world's foremost forensic scientists.-Early life and career:...
  
  *, forensic expert 李昌鈺
• Sung-Yang Lee
  Sung-Yang Lee
  Sung-Yang Lee is a Taiwanese entomologist, photographer and writer, known for his entomologic firms. In April 1975, the BBC made a special documentary about him.In Taiwan, he is also called as "Taiwanese Jean Henri Fabre."...
  
  , entomologist 李淳陽
• Yuan T. Lee
  Yuan T. Lee
  Yuan Tseh Lee, Ph.D. is a chemist. He was the first Taiwanese Nobel Prize laureate, who, along with the Hungarian-Canadian John C. Polanyi and American Dudley R. Herschbach won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1986 "for their contributions to the dynamics of chemical elementary processes"...
  
  , Nobel laureate in chemistry 李遠哲
• Fushih Pan
  Fushih Pan
  Fushih Pan is a Taiwanese plastic surgeon certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery. Fushih Pan is also certified by the National Board of General Surgery of Taiwan and the Board of Plastic Surgery Specialist of the U.A.E....
  
  , medical researcher
• Tsungming Tu, medical doctor 杜聰明
• Cheng-Wen Wu
  Cheng-Wen Wu
  Cheng-Wen Wu is a Taiwanese biochemist. He is the former founding president of Taiwan National Health Research Institutes in 1996-2005.Wu Was elected as an academician of Taiwan Academia Sinica in 1984. Currently he works as a special lecturer at National Yang-Min University.-References:...
  
  , biochemist 吳成文
• Chi-Huey Wong
  Chi-Huey Wong
  Chi-Huey Wong is a Taiwanese-born biochemist and professor of chemistry and chemical biology at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California. His expertise is bioorganic chemistry, especially in carbohydrate biochemistry and chemical proteomics...
  
  , biochemist 翁啟恵

See also

• Taiwanese American
• List of people by nationality