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HONG KONG

Most Famous People Born in Hong Kong, China

Notable people

1,988

Peak decade

1980s

Median birth year

1968

Most distinctive

Justice 47.5×

A former British colony whose 20th-century entertainment industry became one of the largest in Asia. Almost one in five of Hong Kong's notables is an actor — a share matched by almost nowhere else — and the distinctive shelves beyond that are justices, legislators, badminton players, and chief executives, the vocabulary of a city that ran itself as a legal-commercial entrepôt. Jackie Chan, Leslie Cheung, Chow Yun-fat, Tony Leung, and Wong Kar-wai's regulars all belong to this bench.