Lives connected to places
- #1
Liu XiaoboChinese literary critic, writer, professor, and human rights activist (1955–2017)
- #2
Mo YanChinese novelist and screenwriter
- #3
Gao XingjianChinese novelist and playwright (1940- )
- #4
Jack MaChinese businessman
- #5
I. M. PeiChinese-American architect (1917–2019)
- #6
Tu YouyouChinese medical scientist
- #7
Chen-ning YangChinese physicist (1922–2025)
- #8
PuyiLast Emperor of Qing dynasty and Manchukuo (1906–1967)
- #9
Tsung-Dao LeeChinese-American physicist (1926–2024)
- #10
Li NaChinese tennis player
- #11
Li WenliangChinese ophthalmologist known for warning about the coronavirus in December 2019 (1986-2020)
- #12
Chien-Shiung WuChinese-American physicist (1912–1997)
- #13
Ding LirenChinese grandmaster and former World Chess Champion
- #14
Yao MingChinese basketball player
- #15
Chloe ZhaoChinese film director, screenwriter, and film producer
- #16
Tank Mananonymous man who stood in front of a column of Chinese tanks during the Tiananmen Square protests
- #17
Lin DanChinese badminton player
- #18
Benedict AndersonAmerican political scientist (1936-2015)
- #19
Lin YutangChinese inventor, novelist and philosopher (1895–1976)
- #20
Zhu ChenChinese-Qatari chess player