- Luo Gan
Luo Gan (罗干) (born July 1935) is a member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China and Political and Legislative Affairs Committee secretary of the People's Republic of China. Luo Gan was born in Shandong province and studied engineering at the Beijing Steel and Iron Institute. Luo joined the Communist Party of China in 1960.
- Yuan Sheng
Yuan Sheng (born 1967) is a Chinese captain for China Eastern Airlines. He is a native of China's Shandong Province. In 2006, while a member of the flight crew on a trip to Los Angeles, he made the decision to seek political asylum in the United States, claiming he faced persecution in China because of his beliefs in the Falun Gong spiritual movement.
- Li Zhaoxing
Li Zhaoxing (Traditional Chinese:李肇星, Simplified Chinese:李肇星, Hanyu Pinyin: Lǐ Zhàoxīng, Wade-Giles: Li Chao-hsing) was the foreign minister of the People's Republic of China from 2003 to 2007. He was born in Shandong province and graduated from Peking University in 1964. He worked as a diplomat in Africa before becoming Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1990 and Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1995, ambassador to the United States in 1998, …
- Chen Yi
Chen Yi (August 26, 1901 - June 6, 1972) was a Chinese communist military commander and politician. He was born in Lezhi, near Chengdu, Sichuan, into a moderately wealthy magistrate's family. A comrade of Lin Biao from their guerilla days, Chen was a commander of the New Fourth Army during the Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945), spearheaded the Shandong counter-offensive during the Chinese Civil War, …
- Xiaoyun Wang
Xiaoyun Wang (born 1966) is a researcher and professor in the Department of Mathematics and System Science, Shandong University, Shandong, China. At the rump session of CRYPTO 2004, she and co-authors demonstrated collision attacks against MD5, SHA-0 and other related hash functions. (A collision occurs when two distinct messages result in the same hash function output). They received a standing ovation for their work.
- Wu Guanzheng
Wu Guanzheng (b. August 1938) is the head of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China, an anti-corruption body, and ranked 7 out of 9 on the Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China. He is known to have good relationships with both President Hu Jintao and former President Jiang Zemin. Some sources consider him to be Hu's ally, while other consider him to be Jiang's.
- Wan Li
Wan Li (Traditional Chinese: 萬里; Simplified Chinese: 万里) (born December, 1916) was the Chairman of the National People's Congress before his retirement in 1993, and was generally considered to be a moderate. He was born in Dongping, Shandong province of China. Wan Li joined the Communist Party of China in 1935. After the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949, he had taken many high rank positions.
- Li Shan
Li Shan (born around 1686, died in 1756) was a Qing dynasty painter born in Jiangsu. He had an interest in painting at an early age and by 16 was a noteworthy painter. His paintings had an unrestricted quality and were influenced by Shitao. He was one of the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou. Aside from painting he also served as a magistrate for a county in Shandong. Li Shan is also the name for two modern Chinese painters, one born in 1885 and the other in 1926.
- Wang Dong
Wang Dong is a Chinese football player who currently plays for Changchun Yatai. He was born in Qingdao, Shandong Province, China. He recently scored two of China's five goals in a 5-1 victory over Malaysia.
- Mo Yan
Mo Yan (莫言; Pinyin: Mò Yán) (born February 17, 1955) is a modern Chinese author, known in the West for two of his novels which were the basis of the film "Red Sorghum". Mo Yan was born in the Shandong province to a family of farmers. He left school during the Cultural Revolution to work in a factory that produced oil. He joined the People's Liberation Army at age twenty, and began writing while he was still a soldier, in 1981.
- Zhang Gaoli
Zhang Gaoli (Chinese:) (born in Jinjiang, Fujian province, April 1946) is the current CPC Tianjin Committee Secretary. Until March 2007 he was the Party Secretary in the economic sprawl of Shandong. He joined the CPC in November 1973, and he is an economist by profession. From 1997 to 2002 he held prominent leadership positions in the special economic zone of Shenzhen and the provincial government of Guangdong, …
- Wang Xizhi
Wang Xizhi was a Chinese calligrapher, traditionally referred to as the Sage of Calligraphy (書聖). Born in Linyi, Shandong, he spent most of his life in the present-day Shaoxing, Zhejiang. He learned the art of calligraphy from Wei Shuo. He excelled in every script but particularly in the semi-cursive script. Unfortunately, none of his original works remains today. His most famous work is the "Preface to the Poems Composed at the Orchid Pavilion", …
- Liu Zhi
Liu Zhi (ca. 1660 - ca. 1739) was a Chinese Muslim scholar of the Qing period from Nanjing.
- Xing Huina
Xing Huina is a Chinese track and field athlete. Xing was born to family of farmers in Weifang, Shandong province. Standing 1.66 m tall and weighing 50 kg (110 lb), she began training at Weifang City Sport School, coached by Chi Yuzhai. She joined the Shandong Sport Technology Institute in 1999, coached by Yin Yanqin. She was selected into national team in 2002 after running 4:10.43 in 1500 m and 14:56.15 in 5000 m in 2001 Chinese National Games.
- Pu Songling
Pu Songling was from a poor landlord-merchant family from Zichuan (淄川, now Zibo, Shandong). Possibly he was of Mongol ancestry. At the age of nineteen, he received the xiucai degree in the civil service examination, but it was not until he was seventy-one that he received the gongsheng degree. He spent most of his life working as a private tutor, and collecting the stories that were later published in "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio".
- Faxian
Faxian (also romanized as "Fa-Hien" or "Fa-hsien") (ca. 337 - ca. 422) was a Chinese Buddhist monk, who, between 399 and 412 travelled to India and Sri Lanka to bring Buddhist scriptures. His journey is described in his work "A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms, Being an Account by the Chinese Monk Fa-Hien of his Travels in India and Ceylon in Search of the Buddhist Books of Discipline".
- Zheng Xie
Zheng Xie (1693-1765), commonly known as Zheng Banqiao, was a painter from Jiangsu. He began life in poverty, but rose in the exam system to become a magistrate at Shandong. However after 12 years he became critical of the life of an official, he reportedly was criticized for building a shelter for the poor, and resigned. After that he expressed himself in art and became one of the Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou. He was noted for his drawing of orchids, …
- Li Qingzhao
Li Qingzhao (Traditional Chinese: 李清照; Simplified Chinese: 李清照, pinyin: Lǐ Qīngzhào; Wade-Giles: Li Ch'ing-chao) (1084-c. 1151) was a Chinese writer and poet of the Song Dynasty, regarded by many as the premier woman poet in the Chinese language. She was born in Licheng to a family of officials and scholars; her father was a friend of Su Shi. Before she got married, her poetry was already well known with elite circles.
- Wendi Deng
Wendi Murdoch (simplified Chinese: 邓文迪; pinyin: Dèng Wéndí, originally 邓文革; pinyin: Dèng Wéngé) (born 1968) is a Chinese born American businesswoman, and wife of News Corporation Chairman and CEO Rupert Murdoch. Deng was born in Shandong, China, and raised in Xuzhou, the neighbouring province of Jiangsu. She attended the local Xuzhou No. 1 Middle School. During high school, Deng's father relocated to Guangzhou to work at the People's Machinery Works, …
- Chi Haotian
General Chi Haotian was born July, 1929 in Zhaoyuan, Shandong Province, China. In October, 1946 he joined the CPC (Communist Party of China). In 1993 Chi became the Minister of National Defense until 2003.
- Chen Hao
Chen Hao (born 9 December 1979 in Qingdao, Shandong, China;) is a Chinese actress and model.
- Henry Luce
Henry Robinson Luce (pronounced like "loose") (April 3, 1898 - February 28, 1967) was an influential American publisher.
- Wu Peifu
Wu Peifu or Wu P'ei-fu, was a major figure in the struggles between the warlords who dominated Republican China from 1916 to 1927. Born in Shandong Province in Eastern China, Wu initially received a traditional Chinese education. He later joined the Baoding Military Academy (保定軍校) in Beijing and embarked on a career as a professional soldier. His talents as an officer were recognized by his superiors, and he rose quickly in the ranks.
- Zhan Tao
Zhan Tao (b. April 1963 in Shandong, China) is a Chinese mathematician and president of Shandong University, beginning in July of 2000.
- Fan Bingbing
Fan Bingbing is a popular Chinese actress. She was born in Qingdao, Shandong, China and graduated from Xie Jin's Star School and Shanghai Theater Academy. Her films include "Twins Effect II". Fan rose to stardom when she played "Jin Suo", a fragile maid character, in the popular TV sitcom Huan Zhu Ge Ge and its sequel Huan Zhu Ge Ge 2 in 1998. Fan starred alongside Andy Lau as cavalry chief Yi Yue in the A Battle of Wits in 2006.
- Xia Yu
Xia Yu (夏雨) (born October 6, 1978) is a Chinese actor. He was born in Qingdao, Shandong Province. He was initially discovered by Jiang Wen during his semi-autobiographical film "In the Heat of the Sun" (1994). Xia was chosen partly because of facial resemblance to a young Jiang. He achieved international fame by winning many awards for his first film, …
- Jiang Chunyun
Jiang Chunyun is vice-chairman of the Standing Committee of the Ninth National People's Congress. Jiang was born in Laixi county, Shandong province, April 1930, and started work in 1946; he joined Communist Party of China in February 1947. Since then, Jiang has served as secretary-general of Communist Party of China Shandong Provincial Committee, secretary of Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Jinan Municipal Committee, governor of Shandong province, …
- Ping Lu
LU Ping, born in Kaohsiung in 1953, writes under the pen name "PING Lu." Her writing encompasses a broad range of genres, including novels, essays, poems, commentary, and theater plays. She is also known in the Chinese-language world for her critique of social phenomenon, ranging from cultural development to gender issues and human rights. Over the past two decades, Ms. Lu has successfully established herself as a prominent novelist, columnist, and commentator in Taiwan.
- Mou Zongsan
Mou Zongsan was a New-Confucian philosopher. He was born in Shandong province and in 1933 graduated from Beijing University. In 1949 he moved to Taiwan and remained outside of Mainland China for the rest of his life. His thought was heavily influenced by Immanuel Kant and he translated all 3 of Kant's Critiques into Chinese.
- Zou Yan
Zou Yan (305 BC - 240 BC) was the representative thinker of the School of Yin-Yang (or School of Naturalists) during the Hundred Schools of Thought era in Chinese philosophy. Joseph Needham, a British sinologist, describes Zou as (1978:142) "The real founder of all Chinese scientific thought." His teachings combined and systematized two current theories during the Warring States Period: Yin-Yang and the Five Elements/Phases (wood, fire, earth, metal, and water).
- Su Jun
Su Jun (蘇峻) (d. 328) was a Jin Dynasty (265-420) general, whose rebellion against Emperor Cheng's regent Yu Liang was initially successful, allowing him to take over the imperial government, but he was eventually defeated by Tao Kan and Wen Jiao's forces and killed in battle. The disturbance he created greatly weakened the Jin regime, which for decades did not have any ability to fight back against rival Later Zhao.
- Sun Zhen
Sun Zhen, Sun Chen,(1892 – 1985), General of the National Revolutionary Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War. In 1933 he was made a General commanding the Garrison of Sichuan's Northwestern District. After the outbreak of the war with Japan, in 1938 he was made acting Commander in Chief of the 22nd Army Group, Sun similtaneously he held the command of the 41st Corps which he retained until 1940. His command fought in the Battle of Xuzhou, …
- Liu Binyan
Liu Binyan was a Chinese author and journalist, as well as a political dissident. Liu Binyan, whose family hails from Shandong province, was born in 1925, on the fifteenth of the first month of the lunar calendar, in the city of Changchun, Jilin Province. He grew up in Harbin in Heilongjiang province, where he went to school until the ninth grade, after which he had to withdraw for lack of tuition money.
- Wang Xiaobo
Wang Xiaobo (May 13, 1952 - April 11, 1997) was a Chinese writer who became famous after his death. Wang was born in an intellectual family in Beijing in 1952. He was sent to a farm in Yunnan province as an "intellectual youth" at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution in 1968. In 1971, he was sent to the countryside of Shandong province, and became a teacher. In 1972, he was allowed to return to Beijing, and he got a job as a working in a local factory.
- Zhang Zongchang
Zhang Zongchang (1881 - 1932), nicknamed the "Dogmeat General," was a Chinese warlord in Shandong in the early 20th century. Born in poverty in Yi County (now Laizhou) in Shandong, he joined a bandit gang in 1911 and rose quickly after the bandits took service in the forces of the warlord of Jiangsu. After his defeat by rivaries, Zhang Zongchang sought refuge under Zhang Zuolin's power, and he made a good impression for himself at Zhang Zuolin's birthday party.
- Fu Biao
Fu Biao (September 27, 1963 - August 30, 2005) was a famous Chinese actor.
- Wang Lun
Wang Lun (died November 1, 1774) was the leader of the White Lotus sect in Shandong province, China in the 1770s. He preached a millenarial philosophy, emphasizing the imminent coming of the Buddha Maitreya. A martial arts master and self-taught physician, Wang taught his followers yoga, meditation, and the ability to fast for very long periods by drinking purified water. His group became known as the "Pure Water Sect", and by 1774 numbered several thousand.
- Chai Ling
Chai Ling was one of the leaders in the Tian'anmen Square protests of 1989. Chai Ling was born in the city of Rìzhào in Shāndōng province. She graduated from Beijing University in 1987 and then undertook graduate study in Beijing Normal University concentrating on child psychology.
- Linji
Línjì Yìxuán (?–866) was the founder of the Linji school of Zen-Chán Buddhism during Tang Dynasty China. Linji was born into a family named Xing (邢) in Caozhou (modern Heze in Shandong), which he left at a young age to study Buddhism in many places. Linji was trained by the Chan master Huángbò Xīyùn (黃蘗希運; Huang-Po Hsi-Yun) but, according to the "Record of Linji", enlightened under the reclusive monk Dàyú (大愚).
- Kong Rong
Kong Rong was a bureaucrat, poet, and minor warlord during the late Eastern Han Dynasty and Three Kingdoms era in ancient China. He was also the 20th generation descendant of Confucius. As he was once the governor of Beihai Commandery (北海, present day Weifang, Shandong), he was also known as Kong Beihai. He was defeated by Yuan Tan in 196 and escaped to the capital Xuchang, where he served effectively under Cao Cao, who held the puppet Emperor Xian under his control.