31.1667° N, 121.4666° E
XUHUI
Most Famous People Born in Xuhui, China
- Notable people
- 977
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- Median birth year
- 1951
- Most distinctive
- Chess 6.0×
The old French Concession of Shanghai has become something like China's preparatory academy for precision disciplines — a Chess, Badminton and Swimmer bench all running several times the global baseline, plus an unusually thick Physicist count. Tree-lined lanes, old villas and a quiet pipeline from piano lessons to Olympic squads.
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Xuhui during each.
Notable Births by Decade
Click a decade to filter the list below. Peak: 1980s with 146 notable births.
What Xuhui Is Known For
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Football is Xuhui's biggest profession — 11% of all notables (110).
Xuhui over-indexes on chess — 6.0× the global rate.
Xuhui under-produces politician — only 0.6× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Xuhui's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
- Sports
- Film & TV
- Politics & Law
- Science
- Writing
- Music
- Other
Wong Kar-wai
Born 1958
J. G. Ballard
1930 - 2009
Soong Mei-ling
1897 - 2003
Joan Chen
Born 1961
Yao Ming
Born 1981
Charles K. Kao
1933 - 2018
Tsung-Dao Lee
Born 1926
Hu Shih
1891 - 1962
Soong Ching-ling
1893 - 1981
Qian Xuesen
1911 - 2009
Eileen Chang
1920 - 1995
Terence Young (director)
1915 - 1994
Li Peng
1928 - 2019
Edward Yang
1947 - 2007
Angelababy
Born 1989
Han Han
Born 1982
Xu Guangqi
1562 - 1633
Tsai Chin (actress)
Born 1936
Sun Li (actress)
Born 1982
Cheng Pei-pei
Born 1946
G.E.M.
Born 1991
Harry Wu
1937 - 2016
David Chiang
Born 1947
Chen Danqing
Born 1953
Tung Chee-hwa
Born 1937
Edmond H. Fischer
Born 1920
Shannon Lucid
Born 1943
T. V. Soong
1891 - 1971
Qiu Xiaolong
Born 1953
Roy Chiao
1927 - 1999
Chang Cheh
1923 - 2002
Ingrid Noll
Born 1935
Qiao Shi
1924 - 2015
Jimmy Wang Yu
Born 1943
Andrew Yao
Born 1946
Geling Yan
Born 1958
Wang Xiaoshuai
Born 1966
Jacques Mayol
1927 - 2001
Olga Georges-Picot
1940 - 1997
Ruan Lingyu
1910 - 1935
Peter H. Raven
Born 1936
Vivian Wu
Born 1966
Mark di Suvero
Born 1933
Kenneth Tsang
Born 1938
Dan Vadis
1938 - 1987
Nina Li Chi
Born 1961
Lou Ye
Born 1965
Danny Lee (actor)
Born 1952
Wu Wenjun
1919 - 2017
Anchee Min
Born 1957
Gert Voss
1941 - 2014
Ignatius Kung Pin-Mei
1901 - 2000
Rebecca Pan
Born 1931
Joseph Zen
Born 1932
Huang Shengyi
Born 1983
Fou Ts'ong
Born 1934
An Wang
1920 - 1990
Hu Die
1908 - 1989
Rin Kaiho
Born 1942
Ding Zilin
Born 1936
Ming Xi
Born 1990
Pauline Chan Bo-Lin
1973 - 2002
Paul Chun
Born 1945
Zhang Chongren
1907 - 1998
Huang Ju
1938 - 2007
Hu Ge
Born 1982
Michael Chow (restaurateur)
Born 1939
Liu Yichang
1918 - 2018
Lou Tseng-Tsiang
1871 - 1949
Feng Shaofeng
Born 1978
Mike Medavoy
Born 1941
Walasse Ting
1929 - 2010
Bright Sheng
Born 1955
Wang Huning
Born 1955
Zhang Wentian
1900 - 1976
Zhu Jianhua
Born 1963
Ngok Wah
1942 - 2018
Wu Minxia
Born 1985
Yan Huiqing
1877 - 1950
Fei Mu
1906 - 1951
Laurence Tribe
Born 1941
Cai Chusheng
1906 - 1968
Chen Zhen (artist)
1955 - 2000
Sharla Cheung
Born 1967
Wang Zhiwen
Born 1966
Mary Hayley Bell
1911 - 2005
John Gillespie Magee Jr.
1922 - 1941
Tiffany Tang
Born 1983
Qigang Chen
Born 1951
Jenova Chen
Born 1981
Fan Ho
1931 - 2016
Li Li-hua
1924 - 2017
Alina Li
Born 1993
Betty Loh Ti
1937 - 1968
Mian Mian
Born 1970
Charles Wang
1944 - 2018
Du Juan
Born 1982
Zhu Xiao-Mei
Born 1949
Albert Allen Bartlett
1923 - 2013
Anson Chan
Born 1940
Ma Kai
Born 1946
Ju Wenjun
Born 1991
Chen Zhu
Born 1953
Chung Kai-lai
1917 - 2009
Wang Danfeng
1924 - 2018
Ying Chen
Born 1961
Sun Wen (footballer)
Born 1973
Yan Pei-Ming
Born 1960
Luo Zilin
Born 1987
Emma Eames
1865 - 1952
Victor Chang
1936 - 1991
Lydia Shum
1945 - 2008
Henry O
Born 1927
Thierry Jordan
Born 1943
Yumiko Cheng
Born 1981
Ku Feng
Born 1930
Zheng Junli
1911 - 1969
Chow Ching Lie
Born 1936
Misha Dichter
Born 1945
Xue Hanqin
Born 1955
Muhai Tang
Born 1949
Lap-Chee Tsui
Born 1950
Ng See-yuen
Born 1944
Sun Xiang
Born 1982
Chen Jieru
1906 - 1971
Lu Yi (actor)
Born 1976
Bette Bao Lord
Born 1938
Xie Hui (footballer)
Born 1975
Du Yun
Born 1977
Miyuki Hatoyama
Born 1943
Wu Xueqian
1921 - 2008
Lu Ying
Born 1989
Ma Qinghua
Born 1987
Xu Zheng (actor)
Born 1972
Xia Meng
1933 - 2016
Wang Liqin
Born 1978
Wang Yihan
Born 1988
Hiro (photographer)
Born 1930
Zheng Zhengqiu
1889 - 1935
Tai Tsun Wu
Born 1933
Ni Hua
Born 1983
Ni Xialian
Born 1963
Wang Yun-wu
1888 - 1979
Francis Mankiewicz
1944 - 1993
Fan Zhiyi
Born 1970
Yang Jiechi
Born 1950
Chang Ch'ung-ho
1914 - 2015
Qin Yi
Born 1922
Yan Junling
Born 1991
Xu Lijia
Born 1987
Chen Zude
1944 - 2012
Mona Fong
1934 - 2017
Le Jingyi
Born 1975
Cai Hesen
1895 - 1931
Emi Suzuki
Born 1985
Qiu Xigui
Born 1935
Xi Xi
Born 1938
Chen Liangyu
Born 1946
Hu Hesheng
Born 1928
Cai Huikang
Born 1989
Chin Han (actor, born 1946)
Born 1946
Gu Wenda
Born 1955
Francis Hsu
1920 - 1973
Wei-Liang Chow
1911 - 1995
Alice Becker-Ho
Born 1941
Tang Yi
Born 1993
Te Wei
1915 - 2010
Yōko Yaguchi
1921 - 1985
Yi Shu
Born 1946
Li Ching (actress)
1948 - 2018
Ye Xiaogang
Born 1955
Pan Guang
Born 1947
Chen Deming
Born 1949
Pang Jiaying
Born 1985
Yuen-Ron Shen
Born 1935
Octave Levenspiel
1926 - 2017
Ralph Pappier
1914 - 1998
Thomas Huang
1936 - 2020
Guanyu Zhou
Born 1999
Haochen Zhang
Born 1990
Edward Judd
1932 - 2009
Jiawei Han
Born 1949
Yuanyuan Tan
Born 1977
Rui Naiwei
Born 1963
Ronald Hamowy
1937 - 2012
Ho Meng Hua
1923 - 2009
Victor Dzau
Born 1946
Ye Li
Born 1981
Xie Wenjun
Born 1990
Li Hsing
Born 1930
Wan Gang
Born 1952
Shi Jiayi
Born 1983
Denton Welch
1915 - 1948
Yu Tao
Born 1981
Yan Yikuan
Born 1979
Ho-Kwang Mao
Born 1941
Qiao Renliang
1987 - 2016
Han Bangqing
1856 - 1894
Yang Ti-liang
Born 1929
Zhu Guanghu
Born 1949
Xu Zhen
Born 1977
Cheng Shifa
1921 - 2007
He Zhili
Born 1964
Tiger Hu
Born 1983
H. T. Kung
Born 1945
Zhuang Yong
Born 1972
Cheng Xiaoqing
1893 - 1976
Qi Hong
Born 1976
Tanny
Born 1948
Liu Xiao Ling Tong
Born 1959
Huang Xuechen
Born 1990
Huo Liang
Born 1989
Yao Min
1917 - 1967
Lin Xiling
1935 - 2009
Huang Yi (actress)
Born 1979
Fan Yilin
Born 1999
Ying Huang (soprano)
Born 1968
Qin Kanying
Born 1974
Cao Zhongrong
Born 1981
Chang Hao (Go player)
Born 1976
Gia-Fu Feng
1919 - 1985
Mao Jianqing
Born 1986
Ma Yunwen
Born 1986
Zheng Cao
1966 - 2013
Elijah Moshinsky
Born 1946
Xu Weizhou
Born 1994
Zhou Jianchao
Born 1988
Xu Gang (cyclist)
Born 1984
Nils R. Müller
1921 - 2007
Lan Yan
Born 1990
Chen Yanyan
1916 - 1999
Hu Ronghua
Born 1945
He Jifeng
Born 1943
Zou Jiahua
Born 1926
Mei Baojiu
1934 - 2016
Joseph Fan Zhongliang
1918 - 2014
Benjamin Clemens Stone
1933 - 1994
Lin Wenyue
Born 1933
Kym (singer)
Born 1983
Cora Miao
Born 1958
Liu Wei (basketball)
Born 1980
Wang Chen (badminton)
Born 1976
Yang Wenyi
Born 1972
Ru Zhijuan
1925 - 1998
Yi Zhou
Born 1978
Cheng Naishan
1946 - 2013
Wang Lei (chess player)
Born 1975
Gao Lei
Born 1992
Ni Zhifu
1933 - 2013
Zhang Weiwei (professor)
Born 1957
Nina Wang
1937 - 2007
Wu Chengying
Born 1975
Jean d'Esme
1894 - 1966
Leanne Li
Born 1984
Wang Lei (fencer)
Born 1981
Yu-Chi Ho
Born 1934
T. K. Ann
1912 - 2000
Joker Xue
Born 1983
Shang Wenjie
Born 1982
Liu Haiguang
Born 1963
Fei Qinyuan
Born 2001
Irina Dunn
Born 1948
Shien Biau Woo
Born 1937
Sze Yu
Born 1962
R. C. T. Lee
Born 1939
Cao Jianming
Born 1955
Elmer Fung
1948 - 2018
Cui Tiankai
Born 1952
Liu Dehai
1937 - 2020
Huang Wanli
1911 - 2001
Sho-Chieh Tsiang
1918 - 1993
Beda Chang
1905 - 1951
Ye Chong
Born 1969
Zhang Tianfu
1910 - 2017
Theodore H. H. Pian
1919 - 2009
Pat Carney
Born 1935
Rita Fan
Born 1942
Wang Pin
Born 1974
Wu Jiani
Born 1966
Wen Fong
1930 - 2018
Walter Russell Lambuth
1854 - 1921
Zhang Hanzhi
1935 - 2008
Chiang Hsiao-yung
1948 - 1996
Stephan Sulke
Born 1943
Shoucheng Zhang
1963 - 2018
Shen Si
Born 1973
Bernard Morin
1931 - 2018
Hong-Yee Chiu
Born 1932
Rupprecht Gerngroß
1915 - 1996
Zhu Qianwei
Born 1990
Raphael Tsu
Born 1925
Chang Hsiao-yen
Born 1948
Yuanling Yuan
Born 1994
Zhu Lin (badminton)
Born 1984
Han Ying-chieh
1927 - 1991
Kaiji Tang
Born 1984
Wang Jianzhong
Born 1933
He Zuoxiu
Born 1927
Ni Shiqun
Born 1997
Sun Ye
Born 1989