- Ma Ying-Jeou
Ma Ying-Jeou (born July 13, 1950 in Kowloon, Hong Kong) is a politician in the Republic of China (Taiwan), a former Justice Minister, former mayor of Taipei, and former chairman of the Kuomintang (KMT). Ma was elected mayor of Taipei in 1998 and re-elected in 2002. He was elected chairman of the Kuomintang by party members on July 16, 2005. - Frank Hsieh
Frank Chang-ting Hsieh (born May 18, 1946 in Dadaocheng, Datong District, Taipei), a Taiwanese politician of the Democratic Progressive Party, was the mayor of Kaohsiung City until his appointment as Premier of the Republic of China by president Chen Shui-bian on February 1, 2005 a post from which he announced his resignation on January 17, 2006. Hsieh is the DPP nominee in the 2008 presidential election. - Yu Shyi-Kun
Yu Shyi-kun (born April 25, 1948), a Taiwanese politician of the Democratic Progressive Party, is the chairman of the Democratic Progressive Party in Taiwan. He previously served as Premier of the Republic of China from 2002 to 2005. As one of the founding members of the DPP, he is seen as a loyalist of President Chen Shui-bian. - Tsai Ming-Liang
Tsai Ming-liang (born 1957) is one of the most celebrated "Second New Wave" film directors of Taiwanese Cinema, along with earlier contemporaries as Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Edward Yang. His films have been acclaimed world-wide and have won numerous festival awards. He is openly gay. Tsai is a Chinese born in Malaysia, and lived there "in a very simple small village" for 20 years after which he moved to Taipei. This, he says, had "a huge impact on [his] mind and psyche", … - Edward Yang
Edward Yang (born November 6, 1947; died June 29, 2007), along with Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Tsai Ming Liang, was one of the leading filmmakers and artists of the Taiwanese New Wave and Taiwanese Cinema. He won the Best Director Award at Cannes for his 2000 film "Yi Yi" ("A One and a Two"), and was honored with many other accolades from other prominent international film festivals. - Chen Chu
Chen Chu (born in June 10, 1950 in Yilan County), a politician in Taiwan, served as Chairperson of the Council for Labor Affairs in the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) administration between 2000 and 2005. She resigned in the wake of a scandal concerning Thai laborers brought into Taiwan to work on the Kaohsiung Mass Rapid Transit system project. Chen was one of the "Kaohsiung Eight," prominent dissidents arrested after the Kaohsiung Incident of 1979. - Chang Chen
Chang Chen is a Taiwanese actor, born in Taipei. His name is sometimes seen in the Western order (Chen Chang). He is the son of actor Zhang Guozhu - Takeshi Kaneshiro
Takeshi Kaneshiro (Born October 11, 1973) is a male actor and model. Of half-Japanese, half-Taiwanese ancestry, he was born and raised in Taipei, Taiwan but now resides in Japan. Takeshi was discovered by his classmate's mother at Taipei American School, who suggested him for a try out at modeling. Wanting money for buying a motorcycle at the time, he stepped into the show biz world. - Chan Yung-Jan
Chan Yung-jan is a professional female tennis player from Taiwan. Chan was born on August 17, 1989 in Dongshih, Taichung County, Taiwan, and currently lives in Taipei. She has won 9 ITF singles titles; and 1 WTA and 8 ITF doubles titles. Her carer highlights include semifinals in the Japan Open in 2006. In the Australian Open 2007, she lost to her first-round opponent Alicia Molik 2-6 6<sup>3</sup>-7<;sup>7</sup>. - Henry Lee
Dr. Henry Chang-Yu Lee, is one of the world's foremost forensic scientists. Lee was born in Rugao city, Jiangsu province, China, and fled to Taiwan at the end of the Chinese Civil War when he was six. He graduated in 1960 from the Taiwan Central Police College with a degree in Police Science. Lee then began his work with the Taipei Police Department, where he rose to the rank of captain at age 22, the youngest in Chinese history. - David Jones
David J. Jones (born October 25, 1961 in Taipei, Taiwan) was an American football offensive lineman in the NFL for the Detroit Lions, the Denver Broncos, and the Washington Redskins. He played college football for the University of Texas. - Lin Sen
Lin Sen, courtesy name Zichao (子超), sobriquet Changren (長仁), was Chairman of the National Government of the Republic of China from 1932 until his death. Born in Shangan Township (尚幹鄉), Minhou County (閩侯縣), Fujian, Lin worked in the Telegram Bureau of Taipei in 1884. After the First Sino-Japanese War, he engaged in guerilla activities against the Japanese occupiers. He returned to the mainland and worked in the Shanghai customs office in 1902. - Jen-Hsun Huang
Jen-Hsun Huang co-founded NVIDIA Corporation in April 1993 and has served as President, Chief Executive Officer, and a member of the Board of Directors since its inception. Under his leadership, NVIDIA has become one of the largest fabless semiconductor companies in the world. - Elva Hsiao
Elva Hsiao (born August 24 1979 in Taipei, Taiwan), also known as Elva Siu, is a Taiwanese mandarin pop singer. - Sheng-Yen
Venerable Master Sheng-yen is one of the more famous living teachers of Chan (Japanese: Zen) Buddhism. Master Sheng Yen is the 57th generation descendant of Linji in the Linji (Japanese: Rinzai) School and a 3rd generation descendant of Master Hsu Yun. In the Caodong (Japanese: Soto) lineage, Master Sheng Yen is the 52nd generation descendant of Master Tung Shan (807-869), and the direct descendant of Master Tung Chu (1908-1977). - Justin Lin
Justin Lin (born 1973) is a Taiwanese-American film director. He earned an MFA in film directing from the famed UCLA Film School. Lin was born in Taipei. His solo directorial debut "Better Luck Tomorrow" (1997's "Shopping for Fangs" was co-directed by Quentin Lee) made a huge splash with critics and fans alike. - Mc Hotdog
MC HotDog (born Chung-Jen Yao,, Taiwanese: Iâu Tiong-jîn,, November 27 1978, Taipei) is a Taiwanese rap artist known for his use of explicit lyrics in his songs. Some consider his music to present a gritty, realistic picture of life, while others claim that it is not suitable for younger audiences. He is known for his two famous hits - 我的生活 (My Life) and 韓流來襲 (The Korean Invasion). In 2001, his four mini-CDs sold over 220,000 copies. - Hsieh Su-Wei
Hsieh Su-Wei (born January 4, 1986 in Taipei) is a Taiwanese professional female tennis player. Su-Wei won the women's gold in tennis at the 15th Asian Games in Doha, Qatar. - Teresa Teng
Teresa Teng </small> (January 29, 1953 - May 8, 1995), was a very famous singer from Taipei, Taiwan. She enjoyed immense popularity amongst all Chinese-speaking people and in the rest of East Asia, particularly in Japan, for some 30 years. Teng was known for her folk songs and romantic ballads, which remain popular today. She made famous several songs, including "When Will You Return?". - Christopher Doyle
Christopher Doyle is an Australian-born cinematographer and member of the HKSC. Doyle has worked with Chinese directors like Wong Kar-wai (for which he has done the cinematography of all his movies but the first one), Zhang Yimou, Edward Yang, and Zhang Yuan. He directed a feature film, "Away with Words" (aka "Kujaku", aka "San tiao ren") set in Hong Kong and Okinawa, starring Tadanobu Asano and Mavis Xu. - Kevin Lin
Kevin Lin According to his profile on Running the Sahara's website: Living in Taipei, Kevin is one of the most well known endurance athletes in Asia. Kevin together with Charlie Engle and Ray Zahab became the first modern runner to cross the Sahara Desert on February 21, 2007. He had agreed to work with the H2O Africa project and be part of the first team of runners to cross the Sahara from coast to coast. The expedition was filmed and will be edited into a documentary, … - Lung Ying-Tai
Prof. Lung Ying-tai, is a celebrated essayist and cultural critic, with a total of 15 published titles to her credit in Chinese. Essays in other languages had appeared in European newspapers such as the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung before she accepted the appointment as the first Cultural Minister of Taipei in 1999. During her 4-year term as cultural architect of the city she has designed as well as practiced a new concept of cultural policy, … - Chiang Wei-Shui
Chiang Wei-shui (8 February 1891—5 August 1931) was a founder of the Taiwanese Cultural Association and the Taiwan People's Party. He is seen as one of the most important figures in the colonial resistance movement. - Ruby Lin
Ruby Lin (born 27 January 1976 in Taipei, Taiwan) is a Chinese TV drama and film actress and singer from Taiwan. Her English name was chosen by herself, after her mother's love of the jewel. At first, Ruby Lin made her debut by TV commercial in Taiwan. In 1996, After several supporting roles in Taiwanese TV drama, Ruby Lin was one of the lead actresses in the popular television series "Princess Returning Pearl" and its sequel, "Princess Returning Pearl" II, … - Peggy Hsu
Peggy Hsu or Hsu Che-Pei is a Taiwanese singer-songwriter. She was born on February 2, 1981 in Taipei, Taiwan. Along with releasing two albums of her own, Hsu has written and composed a large number of songs for other Mandarin artists, notably Evonne Hsu and Joi Chua. - Selina Ren
Selina Ren (born October 31, 1981 in Taipei, Taiwan), more commonly credited as Selina, is a member of the Taiwanese girl-band S.H.E. On June 11, 2004, she graduated from the National Taiwan Normal University with a Bachelor of Education degree, majoring in Civic Education and Leadership.. In September 2006, Selina released her first book, "Selina Loves Beading" (愛的小珠珠), which taught readers how to use beads to make designs. - Chi-Huey Wong
Chi-Huey Wong is a Taiwan-born biochemist and Ernest W Hahn Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology in The Scripps Research Institute at La Jolla, California. His expertise is synthetic chemistry and organic chemistry, especially in carbohydrate biochemistry and chemical proteomics. He was elected as a member of the United States National Academy of Science in 2002 and an academician of Taiwan's Academia Sinica in 1994, respectively. - Bai Yang
Bai Yang (Chinese: 柏楊; Pinyin: Băi Yáng; born March 7, 1920), or Bo Yang, is a Chinese writer based in Taiwan. - Kaila Yu
Kaila Yu (Chinese: 于麗萍, pinyin: Yú Lìpíng, (born "Li Ting Yu" on May 16, 1979 in Taipei, Taiwan) is a Taiwanese American model and pop singer. Born Li Ting Yu in Taipei, Taiwan, she and her family moved to California when she was three years old. She gained popularity through modeling in import car shows. Kaila has been featured in several magazines including Import Tuner, Playboy, and FHM. - Kai-Fu Lee
Kai-Fu Lee (Traditional Chinese:李開復 Simplified Chinese:李开复 pinyin:Lǐ Kāifù, b. December 3, 1961) is an information technology executive and a computer science researcher. The founding president of Google China, he was hired in July, 2005. He became the focus of a 2005 legal dispute between Google and Microsoft, his former employer, … - Momofuku Ando
(March 5, 1910 – January 5, 2007) was the Taiwanese Japanese founder and chairman of Nissin Food Products Co., Ltd., and the inventor of world's first instant noodles and cup noodles. He was dubbed as Mr Noodle. Ando was born Gô Pek-hok (吳百福) into a wealthy Taiwanese family in Kagi (now Chiayi), Taiwan in 1910, when Taiwan was a part of the Empire of Japan. Ando's parents died when he was at an early age, and hence he was raised by his grandparents in Tainan, … - Brigitte Lin
Brigitte Lin or Brigitte Lin Ching Hsia (born November 3 1954) is a Taiwanese actress. She was born in Taipei, and was "discovered" in 1972 by a film producer, and first appeared in many Taiwanese romance films based on the novels of Qiong Yao, also known as Chiung Yao. She later switched over to more mainstream movies in Hong Kong. At the height of her popularity she was arguably one of the most sought after actress in the Chinese film industry. - Alec Su
Alec Su (born on September 11, 1973 in Taipei, Taiwan) is a Taiwanese pop star and well-known actor in Taiwanese 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 Pearl" (series 1 and 2). Alec Su's stardom career started in 1988, at the age of 15, when he joined The "Little Tigers" trio boy band. - Faith Yang
Faith Yang (born March 2, 1974 in Taipei, Taiwan) is a rock musician and fashion model. She grew up in Sydney, Australia and studied biology and genetics at Sydney University. - George H. Kerr
George H. Kerr was a United States diplomat during World War II. He was also known as 葛超智 in Taiwan. Kerr was born in Pennsylvania. He lived in Japan and Taiwan before World War II. As a Lieutenant in the United States Naval Reserve, Kerr worked for the U.S. Navy as a Taiwan expert and instructed future military government officers during the Pacific War. After the war, Kerr returned to Taiwan in 1945 as an Assistant Naval Attaché, … - Joey Wong
Joey Wong (王祖賢, Hanyu Pinyin: "Wáng Zǔxián", born January 31, 1967, also known as Joey Wong Cho-yin (Cantonese), Joey Wang Zu Xian (Mandarin), Joey Wang Tsu Hsien (Taiwanese), Joey Ong Jyo Han or Hen (Fukien) and Joey Wang) is a Taiwanese actress. Wong was born and raised in Taipei and also received a secondary school education there. She was enrolled in the drama course of Kuo Kwan Arts School. She has an older brother, a younger brother and one sister. - Carling Bassett-Seguso
Carling Kathrin Bassett-Seguso (born October 9, 1967 in Toronto, Canada) is a former professional tennis player from Canada. Basset is the daughter of John F. Bassett, who was an executive for his father John Bassett's company Baton Broadcasting, and Susan Carling, the granddaughter of politician and brewery executive John Carling. In 1981, Bassett won the Canadian junior indoor tennis title. In 1982, she was ranked No. - Liu Mingchuan
Liu Mingchuan was a Chinese official during the Qing dynasty, born in Hefei in Anhui province. He became involved in the suppression of the Taiping rebellion at and early age, and worked closely with both Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang. In 1885, he was appointed the first governor of the newly-established province of Taiwan. Today he is remembered for his efforts in modernizing Taiwan during his tenure as governor and several institutions have been given his name, … - Jo Chen
Jo Chen is a comic book artist. Chen was born in Taipei, Taiwan on the 4th of July and emigrated to the United States in late 1994. Working professionally in the Asian comic book industry since age 18, she burst suddenly onto the U.S. comic book scene with her art work for the Racer X mini-series, part of the Speed Racer series published by Wildstorm/D.C. Comics in 2000. - Ing Chang-Ki
Ing Chang-ki was a Taiwan industrialist, Go player, and Go promoter. He was the founder of the Ing Cup. He is also known for inventing and promoting the ING Rules of Go. He also promoted one of the first digital game clocks to support byoyomi. He created the Ing Foundation for further promotion of Go. Until 2000, he sponsored a tournament and substantial prize for computer Go programs known as the Ing Prize. Ing Chang-ki was born in Cixi, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province in 1914.
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