Notable Non-native Speakers of Chinese
- Frederick W. Baller: British missionary, linguist, translator, educator and sinologist
- Jessica Beinecke: American entertainer and host of online show OMG Meiyu
- L. Nelson Bell: American Missionary father-in-law of Billy Graham
- John Birch: American missionary and namesake of the John Birch Society
- Vanessa Branch: English American actress
- Cường Để: Vietnamese prince
- John DeFrancis: American linguist
- Dashan: Canadian stage performer famous in China
- Arif Dirlik: Turkish historian
- Wolfram Eberhard: German sociologist
- Ai Fukuhara: Japanese national table-tennis player
- Timothy Geithner: United States Secretary of the Treasury
- Ronald Graham: American mathematician
- Ho Chi Minh: Vietnamese revolutionary
- William Hootkins: American actor
- Herbert Hoover: American President
- Jon Huntsman, Jr.: US Ambassador to China; former Governor of Utah.
- Bernhard Karlgren: Swedish sinologist
- Kim Il-sung: North Korean dictator
- Walter Henry Medhurst British missionary and translator
- Joseph Needham: English sinologist
- Michiko Nishiwaki: Japanese actress
- Park Geun-hye: South Korean President
- John Rabe: German businessman, saved thousands of Chinese people from slaughter during the Nanking massacre.
- Timothy Richard: American Baptist missionary
- Sidney Rittenberg: American interpreter, Communist and businessman
- Paul Robeson: American singer, actor and activist
- Kevin Rudd: Australian Foreign Minister and former Prime Minister
- Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn: Thai princess
- Samuel Isaac Joseph Schereschewsky: Russian-born Bishop of Shanghai
- Sidney Shapiro: American translator; acquired Chinese citizenship.
- Gary Snyder: American poet and essayist. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
- Richard Sorge: Soviet spy
- Mira Sorvino: American actress
- George Thomas Staunton: English traveller, Orientalist and translator
- Hudson Taylor: British missionary and founder of the China Inland Mission
- Elsie Tu: British-born Hong Kong politician
- James Veneris: American Korean War veteran; settled in Shandong province after the war
- Leehom Wang: American-born singer
- Samuel Wells Williams: American missionary, linguist, and diplomat
- Ruth Weiss: Austrian-born Chinese-naturalized journalist
- Bob Woodruff: American television journalist, ABC News
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