Notable People
- Sun Tiantian, (born October 12, 1981), tennis player
- Zhao Ziyang, (October 17, 1919 – January 17, 2005), former Premier and CCP Secretary
- Deng Yaping, (born February 5, 1973), four-time Olympic gold medalist.
- Du Wei (born February 9, 1982), professional football player
- Ge Xin'ai, (born June 30, 1953) Table tennis World Champion (1975, 1977, 1979)
- Chen Zhong, Olympic gold medalist in Taekwondo
- Liu Guoliang, member of the Chinese ping pong team
- Su Zhibo, the first Chinese gold medalist in the Asian Games
- Shang Tang, the first ruling king of the Shang dynasty
- Hui Shi, (380 BC–?), philosopher
- Xu Shen, (c.58–c. 147), editor of the Shuowen Jiezi
- Ruan Ji, (210–263), poet
- Du Fu, (712–770), considered one of the greatest of Chinese poets
- Han Yu, (768–824), one of China's most famous prose writers and poets
- Li Shangyin, (813–858), poet
- Cheng Hao, (1032–1085) and brother Cheng Yi (1033–1107), Neo-Confucian philosophers
- Li Tang (c. 1080–c. 1130), painter
- Yuan Shikai, (1859–1916), second President of the Republic of China
- Feng Youlan, (1895–1990), philosopher
- Lao Zi, (Lao Tzu: dates uncertain), founder of Daoism
- Chuang Tzu, (born 369 BC), Daoist philosopher
- Gao Yaojie, medical doctor
- Mo Zi, founder of Mohism
- Lie Yukou, (c. 4th century BC), Daoist philosopher
- Li Pei Yun, Member of Henan Professional Wushu Team and winner of the won the gold medal every year from 1977 through 1982 in the Henan Province Kung-Fu competition in four different events; Nan Quan Style (empty hand form), Sword, Pairs and Long Stick.
- Ding Jia, Member of Henan Professional Wushu Team and nine (9) time consecutive Chen Style Tai Chi Chinese National Champion.
- Su Qin
- Han Fei, (c. 280–233 BC), Legalist philosopher
- Chen Sheng, (known in some sources as Chen She) and Wu Guang (both died 209 BC or 208 BC), leaders of the first rebellion against Qin Dynasty
- Jia Yi, a Chinese poet and statesman of the Han Dynasty
- Zhang Heng, an astronomer, mathematician, inventor, geographer, artist, poet, statesman, and literary scholar of the Eastern Han Dynasty
- Feng Yi, a general of the Eastern Han Dynasty
- Zhang Ji (style-named Zhang Zhongjing) (150–219), an Eastern Han physician, the author of the Shanghan Zabing Lun
- Xu Shu, one of Liu Bei's advisors during the Three Kingdoms period of China.
- Sima Yi, (179–251), a general, military strategist, and politician of Cao Wei during the Three Kingdoms period
- Xun Yu, (styled-named Wenruo), an advisor to Cao Cao during the Three Kingdoms period
- Xun You, an advisor to Cao Cao during the Three Kingdoms Period period
- Deng Ai, (?–264), an officer of Cao Wei during the Three Kingdoms period
- Fan Zhen, (c. 450–515), a Chinese philosopher of the Southern Dynasty, remembered today for the treatise Shen Mie Lun (On the Annihilation of the Soul)
- Yue Fei, (1103–1142) a famous Chinese patriot and military general who fought for the Southern Song Dynasty against the Jurchen
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