Key Figures
127 figures in archive
Ai Qing
艾青
1910–1996
Poet
Aleksei Kosygin
阿列克谢·柯西金
1904–1980
Chairman of the State Planning Committee, Gosplan (1959–1960)
Benny Tai
戴耀廷
1964–present
Legal Scholar
Bill Clinton
比尔·克林顿
1946–present
Governor of Arkansas (1979–1981, 1983–1992)
Bo Xilai
薄熙来
1949–present
Mayor of Dalian (1993–1999)
Cai Yuanpei
蔡元培
1868–1940
President of Peking University (1916–1927)
Carlo Urbani
卡洛·乌尔巴尼
1956–2003
WHO Public Health Officer in Hanoi (2000–2003)
Carrie Lam
林郑月娥
1957–present
Director of Social Welfare (2000–2003)
Charlene Barshefsky
夏琳·巴尔舍夫斯基
1950–present
Deputy United States Trade Representative (1993–1997)
Chen Duxiu
陈独秀
1879–1942
Editor of New Youth Magazine (1915–1920)
Chen Quanguo
陈全国
1955–present
Governor of Hebei Province (2010–2011)
Chen Yi
陈毅
1901–1972
Commander, 3rd Field Army (1949–1954)
Chen Yun
陈云
1905–1995
Chairman, Central Finance and Economics Committee (1949–1954)
Chiang Kai-shek
蒋介石
1887–1975
Commandant, Whampoa Military Academy (1924–1947)
Chris Patten
彭定康
1944–present
Member of Parliament for Bath (1979–1992)
Chu Anping
储安平
1909–1966
Editor-in-Chief, The Observer Weekly (1946–1948)
Deng Jiaxian
邓稼先
1924–1986
Director, Theoretical Department, Ninth Research Institute (1958–1970)
Deng Xiaoping
邓小平
1904–1997
General Secretary of the CCP Central Committee (1956–1966)
Deng Zihui
邓子恢
1896–1972
Director of the Central Rural Work Department (1953–1962)
Ding Ling
丁玲
1904–1986
Writer
Donald Trump
唐纳德·特朗普
1946–present
President of the United States (2017–2021)
Douglas MacArthur
道格拉斯·麦克阿瑟
1880–1964
Field Marshal of the Philippine Army (1935–1937)
Du Yuesheng
杜月笙
1888–1951
Leader of the Green Gang (青帮)
Du Yuming
杜聿明
1904–1981
Commander, 5th Army (1938–1942)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
德怀特·艾森豪威尔
1890–1969
Supreme Allied Commander, Europe (1943–1945)
Edmund Ho Hau Wah
何厚铧
1955–present
Managing Director and General Manager, Tai Fung Bank (1983–1999)
Fang Lizhi
方励之
1936–2012
Astrophysicist
Fu Zuoyi
傅作义
1895–1974
Chairman, Suiyuan Provincial Government (1931–1947)
He Yingqin
何应钦
1890–1987
Nationalist War Minister (1930–1944)
Henry Kissinger
亨利·基辛格
1923–2023
Professor, Harvard University (1954–1969)
Hu Jintao
胡锦涛
1942–present
Party Secretary of Guizhou (1985–1988)
Hu Shi
胡适
1891–1962
Professor, Peking University (from 1917)
Hu Yaobang
胡耀邦
1915–1989
General Secretary of the Secretariat, CCP Central Committee (1980–1981)
Hua Guofeng
华国锋
1921–2008
Premier of the State Council (1976–1980)
Huang Baitao
黄百韬
1900–1948
Commander, 25th Army (from 1943)
Huang Wei
黄维
1904–1989
Commander, 18th Army (1938–1939)
Jiang Qing
江青
1914–1991
First Deputy Director (Acting Director), Central Cultural Revolution Group (1966–1969)
Jiang Yanyong
蒋彦永
1931–2023
Chief of General Surgery, PLA General Hospital (301 Hospital)
Jiang Zemin
江泽民
1926–2022
Minister of the Electronics Industry (1983–1985)
Jimmy Lai
黎智英
1947–present
Founder, Giordano (1981)
John Rabe
约翰·拉贝
1882–1950
Siemens Representative, Nanjing (1908–1938)
Jorge Sampaio
若热·桑帕约
1939–2021
Mayor of Lisbon (1989–1995)
Joseph Stalin
斯大林
1878–1953
General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU (1922–1953)
Lee Teng-hui
李登辉
1923–2020
Mayor of Taipei (1978–1981)
Leonid Brezhnev
列昂尼德·勃列日涅夫
1906–1982
First Secretary, Communist Party of Moldavia (from 1950)
Leung Chun-ying
梁振英
1954–present
Convenor of Non-Official Members, Executive Council (1999–2011)
Li Dazhao
李大钊
1889–1927
Co-founder of the Chinese Communist Party
Li Fuchun
李富春
1900–1975
Chairman, Northeast People's Government
Li Hongzhi
李洪志
1951–present
Founder of Falun Gong (Falun Dafa) (from 1992)
Li Kenong
李克农
1899–1962
Director, Intelligence Department of the Central Military Commission
Li Lanqing
李岚清
1932–present
Minister of Foreign Economic Relations and Trade (1990–1992)
Li Peng
李鹏
1928–2019
Vice Premier of the State Council (1983–1988; oversaw energy, transport, and major construction projects)
Li Wenliang
李文亮
1986–2020
Ophthalmologist, Wuhan Central Hospital (from 2014)
Liao Yaoxiang
廖耀湘
1906–1968
Lieutenant General, National Revolutionary Army
Lin Biao
林彪
1907–1971
Vice Premier of the State Council (from 1954)
Liu Bocheng
刘伯承
1892–1986
Chief of Staff, Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (during the Long March)
Liu He
刘鹤
1952–present
Executive Deputy Director, State Information Center (1998–2001)
Liu Shaoqi
刘少奇
1898–1969
Vice Chairman, All-China Federation of Trade Unions (from 1925)
Liu Xiaobo
刘晓波
1955–2017
Lecturer, Department of Chinese, Beijing Normal University (1984–1989; dismissed in 1989)
Liu Yalou
刘亚楼
1910–1965
Chief of Staff, Northeast Field Army (from 1948; previously Chief of Staff of the Northeast Self-Defense Army and Northeast Democratic Allied Army)
Long Yongtu
龙永图
1942–present
Assistant Minister, Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation (1994–1997)
Luo Gan
罗干
1935–present
Vice Chairman, All-China Federation of Trade Unions (from 1983)
Luo Ronghuan
罗荣桓
1902–1963
Political Commissar, 115th Division, Eighth Route Army; Secretary, CCP Shandong Sub-Bureau (1937–1945)
Mao Zedong
毛泽东
1893–1976
Founding member of the Chinese Communist Party (1921)
Margaret Chan
陈冯富珍
1947–present
Director of Health, Hong Kong (1994–2003; first woman to hold the post)
Margaret Thatcher
玛格丽特·撒切尔
1925–2013
Member of Parliament for Finchley (1959–1992)
Mark Wayne Clark
马克·克拉克
1896–1984
Commanding General, U.S. Fifth Army (1943–1944)
Meng Xuenong
孟学农
1949–present
Director, Beijing Administration for Industry and Commerce (1987–1993)
Minnie Vautrin
明妮·魏特琳
1886–1941
Acting President, Ginling Women's College, Nanjing (1919–1928)
Ngabo Ngawang Jigme
阿沛·阿旺晋美
1910–2009
Governor-General of Chamdo and additional Kalön of the Tibetan local government (from 1950)
Nie Er
聂耳
1912–1935
Member of the Chinese Communist Party (from 1933)
Nie Rongzhen
聂荣臻
1899–1992
Commander, North China Military Region (May 1948 – April 1955)
Nikita Khrushchev
尼基塔·赫鲁晓夫
1894–1971
First Secretary, Moscow City Committee (1935–1938)
Peng Dehuai
彭德怀
1898–1974
Commander, Fifth Red Army, and Commander-in-Chief, Third Red Army Corps (1928–1934)
Puyi
溥仪
1906–1967
Xuantong Emperor, Qing Dynasty (1908–1912)
Qiao Guanhua
乔冠华
1913–1983
Assistant Foreign Minister, then Vice Foreign Minister (1964–1974)
Richard Nixon
理查德·尼克松
1913–1994
US Representative for California (1947–1950)
Robert Lighthizer
罗伯特·莱特希泽
1947–present
First Deputy United States Trade Representative (1983–1985)
Sergey Brin
谢尔盖·布林
1973–present
Co-founder and President of Technology, Google (1998–2011)
Shao Yunhuan
邵云环
1951–1999
Translator and researcher on Yugoslav affairs, Xinhua Reference News editorial department (1975–1999)
Shi Guangsheng
石广生
1940–present
Vice Minister of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation (1993–1998)
Song Qingling
宋庆龄
1893–1981
Vice-Chairman of the Central People's Government (1949–1954)
Song Zheyuan
宋哲元
1885–1940
Commander, 29th Army of the National Revolutionary Army (1931–1937)
Soong Mei-ling
宋美龄
1898–2003
First Lady of the Republic of China (1927–1975)
Su Yu
粟裕
1907–1984
Commander, Central China Field Army (1945–1947)
Sun Chunlan
孙春兰
1950–present
Deputy Secretary, Liaoning Provincial Party Committee, and Party Secretary of Dalian (from 2001)
Sun Yat-sen
孙中山
1866–1925
Founder and Leader, Revive China Society and United League/Tongmenghui (1894–1912)
T.V. Soong
宋子文
1894–1971
President, Central Bank (Guangzhou) (from 1924)
Tan Zuoren
谭作人
1959–present
Citizen journalist
Tang Jiaxuan
唐家璇
1938–present
Assistant Foreign Minister (1991–1993)
Tang Shengzhi
唐生智
1890–1970
Commander, 8th Army, National Revolutionary Army (from 1926)
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
谭德塞
1965–present
Head, Tigray Regional Health Bureau (2001–2003)
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama
第十四世达赖喇嘛
1935–present
14th Dalai Lama (enthroned 1940)
Tian Han
田汉
1898–1968
Founder, Southern Society/Nanguo She (1922–1930)
Tung Chee-hwa
董建华
1937–present
Chairman and CEO, Orient Overseas Container Line (1979–1996)
Vasco Rocha Vieira
韦奇立
1939–present
Chief of Staff, Independent Territorial Command of Macau (1973–1974)
Wan Li
万里
1916–2015
Secretary, Beijing Municipal Party Committee, and First Deputy Mayor of Beijing (1958–1966)
Wang Hongwen
王洪文
1935–1992
Commander, Shanghai Workers' Revolutionary Rebel General Headquarters (from 1966)
Wang Jingwei
汪精卫
1883–1944
Head of the KMT Left-Wing Wuhan Government (1927)
Wang Lequan
王乐泉
1944–present
CCP official
Wang Lijun
王立军
1959–present
Police Chief and Party Secretary, Tieling, Liaoning
Wang Qishan
王岐山
1948–present
Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (2012–2017)
Wei Jingsheng
魏京生
1950–present
Dissident
Wei Lihuang
卫立煌
1897–1960
General, National Revolutionary Army
Wen Jiabao
温家宝
1942–present
Premier (2003–2013)
Wu Yi
吴仪
1938–present
Minister of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation (1993–2003)
Xi Jinping
习近平
1953–present
CCP General Secretary (2012–present)
Xiao Gang
肖钢
1958–present
Chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (2013–2016)
Xu Xinghu
许杏虎
1968–1999
Guangming Daily Correspondent in Belgrade
Yang Hucheng
杨虎城
1893–1949
Commander, 17th Route Army
Yao Wenyuan
姚文元
1931–2005
Member of the CCP Politburo
Ye Jianying
叶剑英
1897–1986
Marshal
Yuan Shikai
袁世凯
1859–1916
Provisional President of the Republic of China (1912–1913)
Zeng Liansong
曾联松
1917–1999
Economist
Zhang Chunqiao
张春桥
1917–2005
First Secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Committee
Zhang Dejiang
张德江
1946–present
Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (2013–2018)
Zhang Guotao
张国焘
1897–1979
CPC Co-founder
Zhang Wenkang
张文康
1940–present
Minister of Health of the People's Republic of China (1998–2003)
Zhang Xueliang
张学良
1901–2001
Commander-in-Chief, Northeastern Army
Zhang Zhizhong
张治中
1890–1969
General, National Revolutionary Army
Zhao Ziyang
赵紫阳
1919–2005
CCP General Secretary (1987–1989)
Zhong Nanshan
钟南山
1936–present
Pulmonologist
Zhou Enlai
周恩来
1898–1976
Premier of the State Council
Zhou Yongkang
周永康
1942–present
Politburo Standing Committee member (2007–2012)
Zhu De
朱德
1886–1976
Commander-in-Chief of the PLA
Zhu Rongji
朱镕基
1928–present
Premier of the State Council (1998–2003)
Zhu Ying
朱颖
1969–1999
Guangming Daily Correspondent in Belgrade