Key Figures
233 figures in archive
Ai Qing
艾青
1910–1996
Poet
Aleksei Kosygin
阿列克谢·柯西金
1904–1980
Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union
Ali Shamkhani
阿里·沙姆哈尼
1955–2026
Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council
B. Santosh Babu
桑托什·巴布
1983–2020
Commanding officer of the Indian Army's 16 Bihar battalion, killed in the 2020 Galwan Valley clash and posthumously awarded the Maha Vir Chakra
Bai Chongxi
白崇禧
1893–1966
First Minister of National Defense of the Republic of China
Benny Tai
戴耀廷
1964–present
Legal scholar, University of Hong Kong
Bill Clinton
比尔·克林顿
1946–present
President of the United States
Bo Gu
博古
1907–1946
Head of the CCP Provisional Central Committee
Bo Xilai
薄熙来
1949–present
Politburo member; Party Secretary of Chongqing
Bo Yibo
薄一波
1908–2007
Vice-Premier; Vice-Chairman of the Central Advisory Commission
Cai E
蔡锷
1882–present
Commander of the First Army of the National Protection Army; military governor of Yunnan
Cai Yuanpei
蔡元培
1868–1940
President of Peking University
Cao Diqiu
曹荻秋
1909–1976
Mayor of Shanghai
Carlo Urbani
卡洛·乌尔巴尼
1956–2003
WHO Public Health Officer
Carrie Lam
林郑月娥
1957–present
Chief Executive of Hong Kong
Charlene Barshefsky
夏琳·巴尔舍夫斯基
1950–present
United States Trade Representative
Charles de Gaulle
夏尔·戴高乐
1890–1970
President of the French Fifth Republic
Chen Boda
陈伯达
1904–1989
Head of the Central Cultural Revolution Group
Chen Cheng
陈诚
1898–1965
Vice President and Premier of the Republic of China
Chen Duxiu
陈独秀
1879–1942
Co-founder and first General Secretary of the CCP
Chen Pixian
陈丕显
1916–1995
First Secretary, Shanghai Municipal Party Committee
Chen Quanguo
陈全国
1955–present
Party Secretary, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
Chen Shui-bian
陈水扁
1950–present
President of the Republic of China (2000–2008)
Chen Yi
陈毅
1901–1972
Marshal of the PLA; Foreign Minister
Chen Yi (Ch'en I)
陈仪
1883–1950
Chief Executive of Taiwan Province (1945–1947)
Chen Yun
陈云
1905–1995
Vice Premier; Politburo Standing Committee member
Chen Yunlin
陈云林
1941–present
Director of the Taiwan Affairs Office (1996–2008); President of the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (2008–2013)
Chi Qun
迟群
1932–1999
Party Secretary of Tsinghua University
Chiang Ching-kuo
蒋经国
1910–1988
President of the Republic of China (6th–7th terms)
Chiang Kai-shek
蒋介石
1887–1975
President of the Republic of China; Director-General of the Kuomintang
Chiang Pin-kung
江丙坤
1932–2018
Taiwanese economics minister and legislative vice speaker; Straits Exchange Foundation chairman (2008–2012)
Chris Patten
彭定康
1944–present
Last Governor of Hong Kong
Chu Anping
储安平
1909–1966
Editor of The Observer; Editor-in-Chief of Guangming Daily
Deng Jiaxian
邓稼先
1924–1986
Nuclear physicist; President, China Academy of Engineering Physics
Deng Liqun
邓力群
1915–2015
Head of the CCP Propaganda Department
Deng Xiaoping
邓小平
1904–1997
Paramount leader of China (1978–1989)
Deng Yingchao
邓颖超
1904–1992
Chairwoman of the CPPCC National Committee; Second Secretary of the CCP Central Commission for Discipline Inspection
Deng Zihui
邓子恢
1896–1972
Vice Premier; Head, CCP Rural Work Department
Ding Ling
丁玲
1904–1986
Writer; Vice Chair, Chinese Writers Association
Donald Trump
唐纳德·特朗普
1946–present
President of the United States
Douglas MacArthur
道格拉斯·麦克阿瑟
1880–1964
Commander, United Nations Command; Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers in Japan
Du Yuesheng
杜月笙
1888–1951
Leader of the Shanghai Green Gang
Du Yuming
杜聿明
1904–1981
Commander, 5th Army; Deputy Commander, Xuzhou Bandit Suppression Headquarters
Duan Qirui
段祺瑞
1865–present
Anhui clique leader; Beiyang premier and Provisional Chief Executive
Dwight D. Eisenhower
德怀特·艾森豪威尔
1890–1969
President of the United States
Ebrahim Raisi
易卜拉欣·莱希
1960–2024
President of Iran
Edgar Faure
埃德加·富尔
1908–1988
French prime minister (1952, 1955–1956) whose 1963 mission to Beijing for de Gaulle paved the way for Sino-French relations
Edmund Ho Hau Wah
何厚铧
1955–present
First Chief Executive of Macau
Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud
费萨尔·本·法尔汉
1974–present
Foreign Minister of Saudi Arabia
Fang Lizhi
方励之
1936–2012
Astrophysicist; First Vice President, University of Science and Technology of China
Feng Yuxiang
冯玉祥
1882–1948
Leader of the Northwest Army; a founder of the Revolutionary Committee of the Kuomintang
Fu Zuoyi
傅作义
1895–1974
Commander-in-Chief for North China; later Minister of Water Resources
Gao Gang
高岗
1905–1954
Vice-Chairman of the Central People's Government; Chairman of the State Planning Commission
He Long
贺龙
1896–1969
Marshal of the People's Republic of China
He Yingqin
何应钦
1890–1987
Minister of Military Affairs, Nationalist Government
Henry Kissinger
亨利·基辛格
1923–2023
US Secretary of State
Hu Feng
胡风
1902–1985
Literary theorist and poet
Hu Jintao
胡锦涛
1942–present
General Secretary of the CCP and President of China
Hu Qiaomu
胡乔木
1912–1992
President, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Politburo member
Hu Shi
胡适
1891–1962
President of Peking University; President of Academia Sinica
Hu Yaobang
胡耀邦
1915–1989
General Secretary of the CCP
Hua Guofeng
华国锋
1921–2008
Chairman of the CCP and Premier
Huang Baitao
黄百韬
1900–1948
Commander, 7th Army Group
Huang Wei
黄维
1904–1989
Commander, 12th Army Group
Huang Xing
黄兴
1874–present
Military leader of the 1911 Revolution; Minister of the Army, Nanjing Provisional Government
Huang Yongsheng
黄永胜
1910–1983
Chief of the General Staff of the PLA; Head of the Central Military Commission Administrative Group
James Soong
宋楚瑜
1942–present
Taiwan's first popularly elected provincial governor and founding chairman of the People First Party
Jawaharlal Nehru
贾瓦哈拉尔·尼赫鲁
1889–1964
Prime Minister of India
Jiang Qing
江青
1914–1991
First Deputy Head, Central Cultural Revolution Group; Politburo member
Jiang Yanyong
蒋彦永
1931–2023
Head of General Surgery, PLA General Hospital
Jiang Zemin
江泽民
1926–2022
General Secretary of the CCP and President of China
Jimmy Carter
吉米·卡特
1924–2024
39th President of the United States
Jimmy Lai
黎智英
1947–present
Founder of Next Digital and Apple Daily
Joe Biden
乔·拜登
1942–present
President of the United States
John Rabe
约翰·拉贝
1882–1950
Chairman, Nanking Safety Zone Committee
Jorge Sampaio
若热·桑帕约
1939–2021
President of Portugal
Joseph Stalin
斯大林
1878–1953
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Kang Sheng
康生
1898–1975
Vice Chairman of the CCP
Koo Chen-fu
辜振甫
1917–2005
Chairman of the Straits Exchange Foundation (1991–2004)
Kōmoto Daisaku
河本大作
1882–1955
Senior staff officer of Japan’s Kwantung Army; planner of the 1928 Huanggutun Incident
Lai Ching-te
赖清德
1959–present
Leader of Taiwan (from 2024)
Lao She
老舍
1899–1966
Novelist and playwright
Lee Teng-hui
李登辉
1923–2020
President of the Republic of China
Leonid Brezhnev
列昂尼德·勃列日涅夫
1906–1982
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Leung Chun-ying
梁振英
1954–present
Chief Executive of Hong Kong
Li Dazhao
李大钊
1889–1927
Co-founder of the Chinese Communist Party
Li Fuchun
李富春
1900–1975
Vice Premier; Chairman, State Planning Commission
Li Hongzhi
李洪志
1951–present
Founder of Falun Gong
Li Kenong
李克农
1899–1962
Head of the Central Investigation Department; PLA General
Li Keqiang
李克强
1955–2023
Premier of the State Council (2013–2023)
Li Lanqing
李岚清
1932–present
Vice Premier of the State Council
Li Lisan
李立三
1899–1967
Labour movement leader; first PRC Minister of Labour
Li Peng
李鹏
1928–2019
Premier of the State Council
Li Qiang
李强
1959–present
Premier of the State Council
Li Shangfu
李尚福
1958–present
Minister of National Defense of China
Li Wenliang
李文亮
1986–2020
Ophthalmologist, Wuhan Central Hospital
Li Xiannian
李先念
1909–1992
President of the People's Republic of China (1983–1988)
Li Yuanhong
黎元洪
1864–1928
Military governor of Hubei after the Wuchang Uprising; twice President of the Republic of China
Li Zongren
李宗仁
1891–1969
Acting President of the Republic of China
Li Zuopeng
李作鹏
1914–2009
Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the PLA; First Political Commissar of the Navy
Liang Qichao
梁启超
1873–1929
A leader of the 1898 reform movement; thinker, journalist and Progressive Party leader
Liang Shuming
梁漱溟
1893–1988
Philosopher; founder of the Rural Reconstruction Movement
Liang Wenfeng
梁文锋
1985–present
Founder of DeepSeek
Liao Chengzhi
廖承志
1908–1983
President, China–Japan Friendship Association
Liao Yaoxiang
廖耀湘
1906–1968
Commander, New 6th Army and 9th Army Group
Liao Zhongkai
廖仲恺
1877–1925
Leader of the Kuomintang left and party representative at the Whampoa Military Academy; assassinated in Canton in 1925
Lien Chan
连战
1936–present
Vice President of the Republic of China (1996–2000); Kuomintang chairman (2000–2005)
Lin Biao
林彪
1907–1971
Vice Chairman of the CCP; Minister of National Defense
Lin Liguo
林立果
1945–1971
Deputy Director of the PLA Air Force Headquarters General Office and Deputy Head of its Operations Department
Liu Bocheng
刘伯承
1892–1986
Marshal of the PLA; Commander, Second Field Army
Liu He
刘鹤
1952–present
Vice Premier of the State Council
Liu Shaoqi
刘少奇
1898–1969
President of the People's Republic of China
Liu Xiaobo
刘晓波
1955–2017
Writer; 2010 Nobel Peace Prize laureate
Liu Yalou
刘亚楼
1910–1965
Commander of the PLA Air Force
Long Yongtu
龙永图
1942–present
China's chief negotiator for WTO accession
Lu Dingyi
陆定一
1906–1996
Head of the CCP Central Propaganda Department (1945–1952, 1954–1966)
Luo Gan
罗干
1935–present
Politburo Standing Committee member; Secretary, Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission
Luo Ronghuan
罗荣桓
1902–1963
Marshal of the PLA
Luo Ruiqing
罗瑞卿
1906–1978
First Minister of Public Security; Chief of the General Staff
Ma Ying-jeou
马英九
1950–present
President of the Republic of China (2008–2016)
Mao Yuanxin
毛远新
1941–present
Vice Chairman, Liaoning Revolutionary Committee; Mao Zedong's liaison to the Politburo
Mao Zedong
毛泽东
1893–1976
Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party
Margaret Chan
陈冯富珍
1947–present
Director-General of the World Health Organization
Margaret Thatcher
玛格丽特·撒切尔
1925–2013
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Mark Wayne Clark
马克·克拉克
1896–1984
Commander, United Nations Command
Meng Xuenong
孟学农
1949–present
Mayor of Beijing; Governor of Shanxi
Mikhail Borodin
米哈伊尔·鲍罗廷
1884–1951
Comintern agent; Soviet political adviser to Sun Yat-sen and the Kuomintang (1923–1927)
Mikhail Gorbachev
米哈伊尔·戈尔巴乔夫
1931–2022
General Secretary of the CPSU; President of the Soviet Union
Minnie Vautrin
明妮·魏特琳
1886–1941
Dean of Studies, Ginling College
Musaad bin Mohammed Al-Aiban
穆萨伊德·本·穆罕默德·艾班
Saudi Minister of State and National Security Adviser
Nancy Pelosi
南希·佩洛西
1940–present
Speaker of the US House of Representatives
Narendra Modi
纳伦德拉·莫迪
1950–present
Prime Minister of India
Ngabo Ngawang Jigme
阿沛·阿旺晋美
1910–2009
Vice Chairman, NPC Standing Committee; Chairman, Tibet Autonomous Region
Nie Er
聂耳
1912–1935
Composer of the March of the Volunteers
Nie Rongzhen
聂荣臻
1899–1992
Marshal of the PLA; head of defense science and technology
Nikita Khrushchev
尼基塔·赫鲁晓夫
1894–1971
First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Otto Braun (Li De)
李德
1900–1974
Comintern military adviser to the CCP
Peng Dehuai
彭德怀
1898–1974
Marshal of the PLA; Minister of National Defense
Peng Shuai
彭帅
1986–present
Chinese tennis player and former women's doubles world No. 1
Peng Zhen
彭真
1902–1997
Chairman of the NPC Standing Committee (1983–1988)
Puyi
溥仪
1906–1967
Last Emperor of the Qing dynasty (Xuantong)
Qi Fabao
祁发宝
1978–present
PLA border-defence regimental commander, severely wounded in the 2020 Galwan Valley clash and named a "Hero Regimental Commander for Defending the Border"
Qian Xuesen
钱学森
1911–2009
Aerodynamicist; a principal founder of China's missile and space programmes
Qiao Guanhua
乔冠华
1913–1983
Foreign Minister
Qin Gang
秦刚
1966–present
Minister of Foreign Affairs of China
Qiu Huizuo
邱会作
1914–2002
Director of the PLA General Logistics Department; Deputy Chief of the General Staff
Ran Guangqi
冉广岐
1927–2023
Party Secretary, Qinglong Manchu Autonomous County, Hebei
Rao Shushi
饶漱石
1903–1975
First Secretary of the CCP East China Bureau; Head of the Central Organisation Department
Richard Nixon
理查德·尼克松
1913–1994
President of the United States
Robert Lighthizer
罗伯特·莱特希泽
1947–present
United States Trade Representative
Ronald Reagan
罗纳德·里根
1911–2004
President of the United States
S. Jaishankar
苏杰生
1955–present
External Affairs Minister of India
Sergey Brin
谢尔盖·布林
1973–present
Co-founder of Google
Shao Yunhuan
邵云环
1951–1999
Xinhua correspondent in Belgrade
Shi Guangsheng
石广生
1939–present
Minister of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation
Song Binbin
宋彬彬
1947–2024
Vice Chair, Revolutionary Committee of Teachers and Students, Girls' Middle School attached to Beijing Normal University
Song Jiaoren
宋教仁
1882–present
Acting chairman of the Nationalist Party (1912–1913)
Song Qingling
宋庆龄
1893–1981
Vice President and Honorary President of the PRC
Song Zheyuan
宋哲元
1885–1940
Commander, 29th Army; Chairman, Hebei–Chahar Political Council
Soong Mei-ling
宋美龄
1898–2003
First Lady of the Republic of China
Su Yu
粟裕
1907–1984
PLA Senior General; Chief of the General Staff
Sun Chunlan
孙春兰
1950–present
Vice Premier of the State Council
Sun Jiadong
孙家栋
1929–present
Aerospace engineer; led Dongfanghong-1's overall design and was first chief designer of BeiDou and the lunar program
Sun Yat-sen
孙中山
1866–1925
Provisional President of the Republic of China; Leader of the Kuomintang
T.V. Soong
宋子文
1894–1971
Premier (President of the Executive Yuan), Nationalist Government
Tan Pingshan
谭平山
1886–1956
A founder of the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang
Tan Zhenlin
谭震林
1902–1983
Vice Premier of the State Council
Tan Zuoren
谭作人
1959–present
Environmental activist
Tanaka Kakuei
田中角荣
1918–1993
Prime Minister of Japan (1972–1974)
Tang Jiaxuan
唐家璇
1938–present
Foreign Minister and State Councilor
Tang Shaoyi
唐绍仪
1862–1938
Northern plenipotentiary at the 1911 peace talks; first Premier of the Republic of China
Tang Shengzhi
唐生智
1889–1970
Commander, Nanjing Garrison
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
谭德塞
1965–present
Director-General of the World Health Organization
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama
第十四世达赖喇嘛
1935–present
Spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism
Tian Han
田汉
1898–1968
Playwright; lyricist of the March of the Volunteers
Tsai Ing-wen
蔡英文
1956–present
President of the Republic of China (2016–2024)
Tung Chee-hwa
董建华
1937–2026
First Chief Executive of Hong Kong
Vasco Rocha Vieira
韦奇立
1939–2025
Last Governor of Macau
Vladimir Putin
弗拉基米尔·普京
1952–present
President of Russia
Wan Li
万里
1916–2015
Chairman, NPC Standing Committee
Wang Daohan
汪道涵
1915–2005
First President of the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits
Wang Guangmei
王光美
1921–2006
Wife of Liu Shaoqi
Wang Hongwen
王洪文
1935–1992
Vice Chairman of the CCP; member of the Gang of Four
Wang Jiaxiang
王稼祥
1906–1974
First Head of the CCP International Liaison Department
Wang Jingwei
汪精卫
1883–1944
Head of the Japanese-backed Nanjing Nationalist Government
Wang Lequan
王乐泉
1944–present
Party Secretary, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
Wang Lijun
王立军
1959–present
Chief of the Chongqing Public Security Bureau; Vice Mayor of Chongqing
Wang Qishan
王岐山
1948–present
Secretary, Central Commission for Discipline Inspection; Vice President of China
Wang Quanzhang
王全璋
1976–present
Rights lawyer, the last defendant tried in the “709” crackdown; sentenced in 2019 to four and a half years for subversion
Wang Ruoshui
王若水
1926–2002
Philosopher; Deputy Editor-in-Chief, People's Daily
Wang Yi
王毅
1953–present
Member of the CCP Politburo and Minister of Foreign Affairs
Wang Zhen
王震
1908–1993
Vice President of the People's Republic of China; Vice Premier
Wei Fenghe
魏凤和
1954–present
Minister of National Defense of China
Wei Jingsheng
魏京生
1950–present
Democracy Wall activist; author of The Fifth Modernization
Wei Lihuang
卫立煌
1897–1960
Commander-in-Chief, Chinese Expeditionary Force
Wen Jiabao
温家宝
1942–present
Premier of the State Council
Wu Faxian
吴法宪
1915–2004
Commander of the PLA Air Force; Deputy Chief of the General Staff
Wu Yi
吴仪
1938–present
Vice Premier of the State Council
Xi Jinping
习近平
1953–present
General Secretary of the CCP and President of China
Xi Zhongxun
习仲勋
1913–2002
Vice-Premier; Secretary of the CCP Central Secretariat
Xiao Gang
肖钢
1958–present
Chairman, China Securities Regulatory Commission
Xie Fuzhi
谢富治
1909–1972
Minister of Public Security; Vice Premier
Xie Jingyi
谢静宜
1935–2017
Secretary, Beijing Municipal Party Committee
Xu Jiayin
许家印
1958–present
Founder and chairman of Evergrande Group
Xu Xinghu
许杏虎
1968–1999
Guangming Daily correspondent in Yugoslavia
Yan Xishan
阎锡山
1883–1960
Shanxi leader and Premier of the Republic of China (1949–1950)
Yang Hucheng
杨虎城
1893–1949
Commander, 17th Route Army
Yang Liwei
杨利伟
1965–present
First Chinese astronaut in space, aboard Shenzhou 5 in 2003
Yang Shangkun
杨尚昆
1907–1998
President of the People's Republic of China (1988–1993)
Yao Wenyuan
姚文元
1931–2005
Politburo member; member of the Gang of Four
Ye Jianying
叶剑英
1897–1986
Marshal of the PLA; Chairman, NPC Standing Committee
Ye Qun
叶群
1917–1971
Member of the CCP Politburo; Director of Lin Biao's Office
Ye Ting
叶挺
1896–1946
Commander of the New Fourth Army
Yuan Shikai
袁世凯
1859–1916
President of the Republic of China
Zeng Liansong
曾联松
1917–1999
Designer of the Five-Star Red Flag
Zhang Chunqiao
张春桥
1917–2005
Vice Premier; member of the Gang of Four
Zhang Dejiang
张德江
1946–present
Chairman, NPC Standing Committee
Zhang Guotao
张国焘
1897–1979
Co-founder of the CCP; leader of the Fourth Front Red Army
Zhang Wenkang
张文康
1940–present
Minister of Health
Zhang Wentian
张闻天
1900–1976
Head of the CCP Central Committee after the Zunyi Conference
Zhang Xueliang
张学良
1901–2001
Commander, Northeastern Frontier Army
Zhang Xun
张勋
1854–1923
Late-Qing and early-Republican general; leader of the 1917 Qing restoration
Zhang Zhizhong
张治中
1890–1969
Chief Delegate, Nationalist Government peace delegation
Zhang Zuolin
张作霖
1875–1928
Fengtian clique leader; Generalissimo of the Beijing military government
Zhao Jiuzhang
赵九章
1907–1968
Meteorologist and space physicist; a founder of China's satellite program
Zhao Ziyang
赵紫阳
1919–2005
General Secretary of the CCP; Premier
Zhong Nanshan
钟南山
1936–present
Respiratory medicine specialist; Academician, Chinese Academy of Engineering
Zhou Enlai
周恩来
1898–1976
Premier of the State Council
Zhou Yang
周扬
1908–1989
Literary theorist; Deputy Head, CCP Propaganda Department
Zhou Yongkang
周永康
1942–present
Politburo Standing Committee member; Secretary, Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission
Zhu De
朱德
1886–1976
Commander-in-Chief and Marshal of the PLA
Zhu Rongji
朱镕基
1928–2026
Premier of the State Council
Zhu Ying
朱颖
1969–1999
Guangming Daily correspondent in Belgrade