Anhui - Notable People

Notable People

• Gao Yao (皋陶) (lived in the 21st century BCE), political advisor of the Yu the Great.
• Guan Zhong (管仲) (720-645 BC), Prime Minister of Duke Huan of Qi.
• Zhuang Zi (庄子) (369-286 BC), philosopher of Taoism.
• Fan Zeng (范增) (277-204 BC), advisor to Xiang Yu.
• Zhang Liang (张良) (262–189 BC), strategist and statesman of the early Han Dynasty.
• Liu An (刘安) (179-122 BC), King of Huainan.
• Hua Tuo (华陀) (140-208), physician.
• Cao Cao (曹操) (155-220), warlord and the penultimate chancellor of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
• Cao Pi (曹丕) (187-226), Emperor Wen of Wei, first emperor of the state of Cao Wei.
• The Three Kingdoms era Cao Wei generals Cao Ren (曹仁), Cao Hong (曹洪), Xiahou Dun (夏侯惇), Xiahou Yuan (夏侯渊), Cao Zhen (曹真).
• The Three Kingdoms era Sun Wu generals Zhou Yu (周瑜), Lu Su (鲁肃), Lü Meng (吕蒙).
• Ji Kang (嵇康) (223–262), musician, author, poet.
• Huan Wen (桓温) (312–373), general of the Jin Dynasty.
• Huan Xuan (桓玄) (369–404), founder of the state of Huan Chu.
• Emperor Taizu of Later Liang (852–912), founder of Later Liang Dynasty.
• Yang Xingmi (杨行密) (852–905), founder of the state of Wu (Ten Kingdoms).
• Bao Zheng (包拯) (999–1062),a famous upright official of Northern Song Dynasty.
• Li Gonglin (李公麟) (1049–1106), painter.
• Zhu Xi (朱熹) (1130–1200), philosopher of Neo-Confucianism.
• Zhu Yuanzhang (朱元璋) (1328–1398), Hongwu Emperor, founder and first emperor of the Ming Dynasty.
• The Ming Dynasty generals Xu Da (徐达), Chang Yuchun (常遇春), Tang He (汤和), Mu Ying (沐英).
• Hong Ren (弘仁), painter.
• Zhang Tingyu (张廷玉), politician and historian of Qing Dynasty.
• Yao Nai (姚鼐), main figure of Tongcheng School of Qing Dynasty.
• Wu Jingzi (吴敬梓) (1701—1754), novelist.
• Dai Zhen (戴震) (1724–1777), a notable scholar.
• Cheng Changgeng (程长庚) (1811－1880), one of the founders of Beijing opera.
• Li Hongzhang (李鸿章) (1823–1901), leading statesman of the late Qing Empire.
• Liu Mingchuan (刘铭传) (1836–1896), first governor of the province of Taiwan.
• Jeme Tien Yow (詹天佑) (1861–1919), famous Chinese railroad engineer.
• Duan Qirui (段祺瑞) (1865–1936), warlord and politician, commander in the Beiyang Army.
• Bai Wenwei (柏文尉) (1875–1947), Scholar, Kuomintang (KMT) General, Governor of Anhui (1912–13)
• Feng Yuxiang (冯玉祥) (1882–1948), warlord and leader in Republican China.
• Hu Shih (胡适) (1891–1962), philosopher, essayist and diplomat.
• Zhang Zhizhong (张治中) (1895–1969), Kuomintang (KMT) General.
• Wei Lihuang (卫立煌) (1897–1960), Kuomintang (KMT) General.
• Sun Li-jen (孙立人) (1900–1990), Kuomintang (KMT) General.
• Tao Xingzhi (陶行知) (1891–1946), a renowned Chinese educator and reformer.
• Chen Duxiu (陈独秀) (1879–1942), co-founder of the Chinese Communist Party.
• Wang Ming (王明) (1904–1974), senior leader of the early Chinese Communist Party.
• Wang Jiaxiang (王稼祥) (1906–1974), one of the senior leaders of the early Communist Party of China.
• Li Kenong (李克农) (1899–1962), a major figure of Chinese Communist intelligence.
• Ke Qingshi (柯庆施) (1902–1965)
• Zhu Guangqian (朱光潜), founder of the study of aesthetics in 20th c. China.
• Zhao Puchu (赵朴初) (1907–2000), religious and public leader.
• Yu Ying-shih (余英时), Chinese American historian.
• Yan Fengying (严凤英), performing artist of Huangmei opera.
• Huang Binhong (黄宾虹), painter.
• Wu Zuoren (吴作人), painter.
• Deng Jiaxian (邓稼先), leading organizer and key contributor to the Chinese nuclear weapon programs.
• Chen Ning Yang (杨振宁), Chinese-American physicist who won the 1957 Nobel prize in physics.
• Xu Haifeng (许海峰), first person to win a gold medal for China in the Olympic Games.
• Jin Jing
• Hu Jintao (胡锦涛), current General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, President of the People's Republic of China