Notable People
- Zhong Ziqi (钟子期) – ancient Chinese musician whose musical composition Flowing Water had been burned on a CD carried by the U.S. space probe Voyager 1 as a representative of the earth civilization in the hope of being picked by humans from other planets.
- Peng Xiuwen – composer and conductor
- Paula Tsui – singer who spent most of her singing career in Hong Kong
- Xu Fan – actress
- Liu Yifei – actress and singer
- Li Yuanhong – former President of the Republic of China.
- Xiong Bingkun (熊秉坤) – armyman who called the start to the Wuhan Uprising in the Chinese Revolution of 1911 which gave birth to the Republic of China, Asia's first democratic country.
- Chang-Lin Tien – seventh Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley (1990–1997), the first Asian to head a major university in the United States.
- Li Ting – female tennis player, Olympic gold medalist (in woman's doubles, Athens 2004)
- Fu Mingxia – female diver, four-time Olympic gold Medalist (1 in Barcelona 1992, 2 in Atlanta 1996, 1 in Sydney 2000), the only athlete that had won gold medals at 3 Olympiads as well as one of the very few divers in the world who are able to win world championship in both platform diving and springboard diving. diver
- Zhou Jihong – woman diving athlete, Olympic gold medalist (Los Angeles 1984), the first Chinese who has won an Olympic gold medal in diving.
- Qiao Hong – woman table tennis player, two-time Olympic gold medalist (in woman's doubles, Barcelona 1992, Atlanta 1996)
- Wu Yi – former Vice-Premier and Minister Of Health of the People's Republic of China
- Xiao Hailiang – Olympic gold medalist (in 3m springboard synchronized diving, Sydney 2000) diver
- Gao Ling –, professional badminton player, two-time Olympic gold medalist (Sydney 2000, Athens 2004)
- Li Na – female tennis player, Champion of the French Open 2011
- Chi Li – modern writer
- Zhou Mi – Super Junior M member
- Tang Jie Li – AIBA Women's Boxing World Champion
- Tian Yuan – singer and actress
- Xiao Bowei – Silver medal in nba2k11 competition by International nba2k11 committee(Toronto, 2012).
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