23.1299° N, 113.2599° E
GUANGZHOU
Most Famous People Born in Guangzhou, China
- Notable people
- 326
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- Median birth year
- 1955
- Most distinctive
- Badminton 16.1×
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Guangzhou during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Guangzhou Is Known For
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Football is Guangzhou's biggest profession — 20% of all notables (65).
Guangzhou over-indexes on badminton — 16.1× the global rate.
Guangzhou under-produces politician — only 0.6× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Guangzhou's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
- Sports
- Film & TV
- Politics & Law
- Art & Design
- Music
- Science
- Other
I. M. Pei
1917 - 2019
Donnie Yen
Born 1963
John Woo
Born 1946
Huineng
638 - 713
Yuen Woo-ping
Born 1945
Bolo Yeung
Born 1946
Keye Luke
1904 - 1991
Sam Hui
Born 1948
Kris Wu
Born 1990
Lau Kar-leung
1936 - 2013
Chen Gongbo
1892 - 1946
Chor Yuen
Born 1934
James Wong (lyricist)
1941 - 2004
Johnny Chan
Born 1957
Richard Ng
Born 1939
Chen Yi (composer)
Born 1953
Shanshan Feng
Born 1989
Yum-Tong Siu
Born 1943
Vivienne Tam
Born 1957
Kwan Hoi-san
1925 - 2006
Chen Aisen
Born 1995
Li Fang-Kuei
1902 - 1987
Muzi Mei
Born 1978
Hins Cheung
Born 1981
Choh Hao Li
1913 - 1987
Cao Fei
Born 1978
Kwan Tak-hing
1905 - 1996
Joseph Koo
Born 1933
Patrick Tse
Born 1936
Yang Zhi (footballer)
Born 1983
Tak Wah Mak
Born 1946
Jasper Tsang
Born 1947
Xie Xingfang
Born 1981
Zhang Jiewen
Born 1981
Cao Yupeng
Born 1990
Siqin Gaowa
Born 1949
Qi Yuwu
Born 1976
Martin Yan
Born 1948
Yang Yilin
Born 1992
Yip Wing-sie
Born 1960
Dadawa
Born 1968
Wong Tin-lam
1928 - 2010
Willie Fung
1896 - 1945
Peng Zhaoqin
Born 1968
Chung Laung Liu
1934 - 2020
Connie Chan
Born 1946
Ou Chuliang
Born 1968
Alan Tang
1946 - 2011
Gu Guangming
Born 1959
Yuen Cheung-yan
-
Alex Hua Tian
Born 1989
James H. Howard
1913 - 1995
Hou Hanru
Born 1963
Chen Li (scholar)
1810 - 1882
Kuei Chih-Hung
1937 - 1999
Francis F. Chen
Born 1929
Hung Sin-nui
1924 - 2013
Zeng Xueming
1905 - 1991
Wang Zhengming
Born 1990
Yang Jinghui
Born 1983
Liu Xiang (swimmer)
Born 1996
Samuel Lamb
1924 - 2013
Sha Fei
1912 - 1950
Ma Jianfei
Born 1984
Zhao Dayu
1961 - 2015
Peng Weiguo
Born 1971
Guan Weizhen
Born 1964
Mai Chao
Born 1964
Zhu Xiaodan
Born 1953
Li Dan (gymnast)
Born 1988
Lei Jieqiong
1905 - 2011
Raymond To
Born 1946
Fan Zhendong
Born 1997
Zhang Chunhui
Born 1983
Sun Xing
Born 1963
Alfred Jefferis Turner
1861 - 1947
Lin Yanfen
Born 1970
Scud (filmmaker)
Born 1967
Hu Zhijun
Born 1970
Chang Shilei
Born 1981
Norman Yeung
-
Gin D. Wong
1922 - 2017
Li Jinfa
1900 - 1976
Steven Gwon Sheng Louie
Born 1949
Dong Zhaozhi
Born 1973
Henry Hsu
1912 - 2009
Wu Qunli
Born 1960
Li Shilong
Born 1977
Peter Lei
1922 - 1974
Ye Weichao
Born 1989
Ju Lian
1828 - 1904
Michael Chan (Canadian politician)
Born 1951
Yu Shaoteng
Born 1979
Don Hong-Oai
1929 - 2004
Liu Bin (Southern Han)
920 - 943
Lau Chin-shek
Born 1944
C. K. Yang (sociologist)
1911 - 1999
Christy Hui
-
Zhi-Hua Zhou
Born 1973
Yu Mo-lin
Born 1937
Ye Shuhua
-
Colette Richarme
1904 - 1991
Yu-chien Kuan
1931 - 2018
Peng Jiamu
1925 - 1980
Liang Jinrong
Born 1960
Yu Hexin
Born 1996
Lin Xiyu
Born 1996
Zhan Ruoshui
1466 - 1560
Guan Tianlang
Born 1998
Ha Yu (actor)
Born 1946
Chao Shao-an
1905 - 1998
Ye Xuanping
1924 - 2019
Richard Tom
1920 - 2007
Jimmy Lai
Born 1948
Zhong Chuxi
Born 1993
Ma Lik
1952 - 2007
Zhu Zhixin (revolutionary)
1885 - 1920
Xu Zhiqiang
Born 1963
Chen Yunshang
1919 - 2016
Tam Kong Pak
1911 - 2006
Liang Chong
Born 1980
Ju Chao
1811 - 1899
So Yokoku
Born 1979
Ma Man-kei
1919 - 2014
Chi Mak
Born 1940
Bi Pu
1922 - 2016
Yeung Sum
Born 1947
Fu Tong Wong
Born 1948
David Siu
Born 1964
Zhong Qianxin
Born 1990
Miriam Lau
Born 1947
Li Ai
Born 1979
Liao Bingxiong
1915 - 2006
Percy Snow
Born 1967
Lü Jinqing
Born 1962
Zheng Churan
Born 1989
Deng Xuan
Born 1992
Liu Xiaoyu (basketball)
Born 1989
Yu Haoming
Born 1987
Lu Lin (footballer)
Born 1985
Huang Hongtao
Born 1970
Chen Junyi
Born 1981
Sarah Song
Born 1985
Huang Zhengyu
Born 1997
Chen Xirong
Born 1953
Li Deliang
Born 1972
Yuan Lin
Born 1977
Xu Yingkui
1830 - 1903
Poon Chung-kwong
Born 1940
Tong Suet-fong
Born 1924
Tang Xiaoyin
Born 1985
Wang Jisi
-
Hui Yin-fat
1936 - 2016
Francisco Hung
1937 - 2001
Huang Zhongming
Born 1982
Song Wenfei
1985 - 2013
Chen Guanrong
-
Yu Jinhao
Born 1975
Leong On-kei
Born 1961
Seong Moy
1921 - 2013
Desmond Lee (Hong Kong politician)
Born 1944
Lin Yilin
Born 1964
Gene Wu
Born 1978
Kong Guoxian
Born 1965
Zhang Bo (Architekt)
1911 - 1999
Afong Moy
Born 1819
Gregorio Wu Pak Chiu
1913 - 1974
Loo Hor-Kuay
Died 2009
Lily Yip
Born 1963
Tsang Tak-sing
Born 1949
Bak Sheut-sin
Born 1926
Feng Junyan
Born 1984
Wu Yantong
Died 826
Tang Dechao
Born 1984
He Yiming
Born 1962
Lee Kai-ming
Born 1937
Huang Jiaqiang
Born 1990
Jack Chiang
-
Lam Bun
1929 - 1967
William Mong
1927 - 2010
Eddie Ng
Born 1953
R. F. Kuang
Born 1996
Bow-sim Mark
-
Eddie Hui
1943 - 2009
Zhou Hanming
Born 1980
Chen Yang (TV host)
Born 1954
Leo Fong
Born 1928
Barbara Chiu
Born 1964
Wengie
Born 1986
Steven Poon
Born 1943
James Wu Man-hon
1920 - 2006
Tam Shek-wing
Born 1935
Jack So
Born 1945
Yu Si
Born 218
Charlene Tse
Born 1963
Liu Yongshi
Born 1990
Che Runqiu
Born 1990
Chiang Yung-Ning
1927 - 1968
Rebecca Lee (explorer)
Born 1944
Lin Yao Ji
1937 - 2009
Chen Shou-lum
1925 - 2018
Ye Quan-Zhi
Born 1989
Fung King-hey
1922 - 1985
Jonathan Lu
Born 1969
Cao Jianliao
Born 1955
Thomas Fung
Born 1951
Chen Yaobang
Born 1935
Carol Yu
Born 1983
Ocean Hai
Born 1982
Ge Ping
Born 1961
Lan Wei
Born 1968
He Binglin
1916 - 2007
Wu Xuesong
Born 1993
Dai Xianrong
Born 1982
Kenneth Huang
Born 1964
Shiu Sin-por
Born 1949
Tsang Siu-Fo
1923 - 2014
Huang Shizhao
Born 1973
Tu Dongxu
Born 1991
William Chichele Plowden
1832 - 1915
George B. Fitch
1948 - 2014
Su Qiang
1931 - 2017
Jing Wen
Born 1993
Rebecca Chan Chung
1920 - 2011
Sonia Chan
Born 1964
Tang Xianhu
Born 1942
Liang Zicheng
Born 1982
Liao Wenfen
Born 1963
Wai Yiu Cheung
1933 - 1998
Liang Jie
Born 1975
Lao Yujing
Born 1965
Deng Jinghuang
Born 1985
Shi Hongjun
Born 1991
Mai Jiajian
Born 1995
Zhu Haiwei
Born 1991
Zhou Sui'an
Born 1961
Greta Wrage von Pustau
1902 - 1989
Song Zhiguang
1916 - 2005
Louis Ah Mouy
1826 - 1918
You Meihong
Born 1993
Cici Chen
Born 1985
Lee Chark-tim
1934 - 2007
Brilliant Chang
Born 1886
John Shying
1796 - 1880
Au Lok Man
-
Zhang Li (entrepreneur)
Born 1953
Mo Kwan-nin
1937 - 2013
Xu Shaohua (politician)
Born 1958
Li Zhixing
Born 1985
Chen Ailian
1939 - 2020
Peng Shaoxiong
Born 1989
Ning An (footballer)
Born 1995
Peng Weijun
Born 1973
Chan King-ming (swimmer)
Born 1954
Zhang Jianzhong
Born 1985
Li Yuyang
Born 1997
Guo Zichao
Born 1989
Theodone C. Hu
1872 - 1957
Li Zhilang
Born 1991
Leeann Chin (restaurateur)
1933 - 2010
Tan Ende
Born 1971
Feng Zhigang
1911 - 1988
Ho Chi Fung
Born 1976
Ye Zhibin
Born 1972
Roger Ing
1933 - 2008
Xia Changshi
1903 - 1996
Ma Junliang
Born 1998
James Lam
-
Liu Guangbiao
Born 1978
Wen Xiaoming
Born 1979
Robert M. M. Seto
Born 1936
Mabel Ping-Hua Lee
1896 - 1966
Mary Elizabeth McCracken
1911 - 1945
Kuang Haokun
Born 1995
Fan Haifu
Born 1933
Chen Weiming (footballer)
Born 1997
Chen Yanning
Born 1945
David Todd (haematologist)
1928 - 2017
Yang Pengfeng
Born 1979
Lew Hing
1858 - 1934
Ah Ken
1858 - 1896
Huang Feili
1917 - 2017
Zhaoming Wu
Born 1955
Bow Kum
1888 - 1909
Long Wenhao
Born 1997
Xu Dexin
Born 1987
Fang Wong
Born 1948
Cao Zhijie
Born 1983
Elizabeth Chong
Born 1931
Liu Wenxi
Born 1995
Jenny Ming
Born 1955
Huang Zhiyi
Born 1981
Yang Ziyi
Born 1995
Zhang Jiajie
Born 1997
Gao Jianbin
Born 1972
Su Rongzai
Born 1975
Chiu Ping Lok
1938 - 2009
Zhong Ke
Born 1995
David Redden
Born 1949
Quintín Quintana
Born 1850