List of Famous people born in Tainan, Taiwan

Chen Shui-bian

First Name Chen
Last Name Shui-bian
Born on October 12, 1950 (age 73)
Born in Taiwan, Tainan

Chen Shui-bian is a retired Taiwanese politician and lawyer who served as the fifth president of the Republic of China (Taiwan) from 2000 to 2008. Chen is the first president from the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) which ended the Kuomintang's (KMT) 55 years of continuous rule in Taiwan. He is colloquially referred to as A-Bian (阿扁).

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Crowd Lu

First Name Crowd
Born on July 15, 1985 (age 38)
Born in Taiwan, Tainan

Crowd Lu is a Taiwanese singer-songwriter and actor. He is also referred to as Vitas Lu after making a parody of the song Opera No. 2 by the Russian singer Vitas, having the ability to hit the same high notes. Due to a serious car accident in his first year at Tamkang University, Lu learned to play guitar during his hospitalization. The following year, Lu won first prize for musical composition and solo performance and proceeded to once again take the gold in composition and become the crowd favorite at National Chengchi University.

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Cheng I-ching

First Name Cheng
Last Name I-ching
Born on February 15, 1992 (age 32)
Born in Taiwan, Tainan

Cheng I-ching is a Taiwanese table tennis player. She competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the women's singles event, in which she was eliminated in the quarterfinals by Li Xiaoxia, and as part of the Chinese Taipei team in the women's team event.

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Lin Fei-Fan

First Name Lin
Last Name Fei-Fan
Born on May 19, 1988 (age 35)
Born in Taiwan, Tainan

Lin Fei-fan is a Taiwanese activist who led the Sunflower Student Movement in 2014, against the Cross-Strait Service Trade Agreement. He joined the Democratic Progressive Party as the party's deputy secretary-general in 2019.

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Hsing Hui

First Name Hsing
Last Name Hui
Born on December 10, 1975 (age 48)
Born in Taiwan, Tainan

Lai Ching-yin, known professionally by her stage name Hsing Hui, is a Taiwanese actress. She is known for her roles in the television series Fiery Thunderbolt, Taiwan Tornado, Golden Ferris Wheel, My Family My Love, Lee Family Reunion, The Heart of Woman and Ordinary Love.

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Kuo Kuo-wen

First Name Kuo
Last Name Kuo-wen
Born on March 11, 1967 (age 57)
Born in Taiwan, Tainan

Kuo Kuo-wen or Robert Kuo is a Taiwanese politician. He has served as secretary-general of the Taiwan Confederation of Trade Unions and Taiwan Labor Front, as well as a member of the Tainan City Council. He was appointed deputy minister of labor in 2016, and left the position in 2017. He was elected to the Legislative Yuan in March 2019.

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Wu Shu-chen

First Name Wu
Last Name Shu-chen
Born on July 11, 1953 (age 70)
Born in Taiwan, Tainan

Wu Shu-chen (Chinese: 吳淑珍; pinyin: Wú Shúzhēn; Wade–Giles: Wu2 Shu2-chen1; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Ngô Siok-tin; born 11 July 1953 in Tainan County, Taiwan) is a Taiwanese politician. She served one term in the Legislative Yuan from 1987 to 1990. As the wife of President Chen Shui-bian, Wu was the First Lady of the Republic of China from 2000 to 2008. She is the only First Lady of Taiwan to have been charged and convicted of a crime; she was sentenced to a one-year prison term for perjury regarding political corruption during her husband's tenure as President. Her sentence has however been increased to 17 and a half years, same as her husband.

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Kao Ching-yuen

First Name Kao
Last Name Ching-yuen
Born on May 24, 1929
Died on March 23, 2016 (aged 86)
Born in Taiwan, Tainan

Kao Ching-yuen was a Taiwanese businessman. Kao was born to a poor family in Gakkō Village, Hokumon District, Tainan Prefecture, Japanese-era Taiwan. Kao began working upon graduating from elementary school. He got into Taiwan Spinning (台南紡織), a textile processing company in 1954, and became a manager later. Kao left Taiwan Spinning in 1966.

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Su Huan-chih

First Name Su
Last Name Huan-chih
Born on July 20, 1956 (age 67)
Born in Taiwan, Tainan

Su Huan-chih (Chinese: 蘇煥智; pinyin: Sū Huànzhì; Wade–Giles: Su1 Huan4-chih4; born July 20, 1956) was the magistrate of Tainan County from 2001 to 2010, until Tainan County's merger into Tainan City. Born in a rural township in southern Taiwan, Su graduated from National Taiwan University. He passed the bar examination in 1986 and started his career as a lawyer.

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Huang Ta-chou

First Name Huang
Last Name Ta-chou
Born on February 7, 1936 (age 88)
Born in Taiwan, Tainan

Huang Ta-chou, also known as Thomas Huang, is a Taiwanese politician who served as mayor of Taipei between 1990 and 1994. He chaired the Chinese Taipei Olympic committee from 1998 to 2006.

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