Famous People
The province and its diaspora abroad also has a tradition of educational achievement, and has produced many important scholars, statesmen and other notable persons since the time of the Song dynasty, such as:
- Huang Qiaoshan (871–953), Vice-Minister of Works, Tang dynasty.
- Zheng Qiao (1108–1166), historian.
- Zhu Xi (1130–1200), Confucian philosopher.
- Huang Senping (14th-15th century), Royal son-in-law of Sultan Muhammad Shah of Brunei.
- Hong Chengchou (1593–1665), Ming dynasty official.
- Shi Lang (1621–1696), Qing dynasty admiral.
- Zheng Chenggong (1624–1662), a Ming dynasty general who defeated the Dutch to reconquer Taiwan.
- Lin Zexu (1785–1850), scholar and official.
- Lin Shu (1852–1924), translator.
- Yan Fu (1854–1921), scholar and translator.
- Lin Yutang (1894–1976), writer.
- Zheng Zhenduo (1898–1958), literary historian.
- Ong Schan Tchow (Chinese: 翁占秋) (1900 – 1945), artist well known for the painting of the “Book of Chrysanthemums”
- Go Seigen (born 1914), pseudonym of Go champion Wú Qīngyuán.
- Zhang Jingchu (born 1980), actress
- Raymond Lam (born 1979), Hong Kong actor
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Famous quotes containing the words famous and/or people:
“That a famous library has been cursed by a woman is a matter of complete indifference to a famous library. Venerable and calm, with all its treasures safe locked within its breast, it sleeps complacently and will, so far as I am concerned, so sleep forever. Never will I wake these echoes, never will I ask for that hospitality again ...”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)
“While most of today’s jobs do not require great intelligence, they do require greater frustration tolerance, personal discipline, organization, management, and interpersonal skills than were required two decades and more ago. These are precisely the skills that many of the young people who are staying in school today, as opposed to two decades ago, lack.”
—James P. Comer (20th century)