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This is a list of famous Taiwanese people. People who were not born in Taiwan are indicated by an asterisk (*, notation incomplete).

Artists and performers

Models

Musicians

Fine artists

Film-makers

Comedians

See also: Cinema of Taiwan

Athletes

Billiards

Zhiting Wu

Badminton

  • Tai Tzu-ying, at the age of 22, she became world No. 1 in the women's singles in December 2016, and holds the record for most weeks ranked at the top in BWF history
  • Chou Tien-chen, currently 4th place in the BWF World Ranking (as of February 2021)

Basketball

Joe Alexander
Austin Cheng

Baseball

Infielders

Outfielders

Pitchers

Chien-Ming Wang

Golf

Yani Tseng

Table tennis

  • Ben Chiu, 1st (1981 Jr. Canadian Champion), 2nd (1984 US Open doubles)

Tennis

Olympic medalists

Chuan-Kwang Yang

Business people

Educators

Linguists

Others

  • Mai Chen, constitutional lawyer, emigrated to New Zealand
  • Wen Ho Lee, engineer falsely accused of spying; author of book "My Country Versus Me" 李文和
  • Fu Szeto (1916–92), commander-in-chief of the Air Force and presidential advisor
  • Jason Wu, fashion designer
  • Hsing Yun*, Buddhist monk and founder of Fo Guang Shan Order

Philosophers, thinkers, and writers

See also: List of Taiwanese authors and List of Confucianists

Politicians

See also: List of leaders of the Republic of China, Premier of the Republic of China

Scientists, physicians and engineers

See also

References

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  6. ^ "Benjamin S. Hsiao Named Vice President for Research at Stony Brook University". Archived from the original on 12 July 2012. Retrieved 12 July 2012.