48 Notable alumni of
National Cheng Kung University
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National Cheng Kung University is 653rd in the world, 133rd in Asia, and 10th in Taiwan by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 48 notable alumni from National Cheng Kung University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Lai Ching-te
- Occupations
- politicianphysician
- Biography
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Lai Ching-te, also known as William Lai, is a Taiwanese politician, physician, and nephrologist who has served as the eighth president of the Republic of China since 2024. A member of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), he has been the party's chairman since 2023.
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Cheng Nan-jung
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Cheng Nan-jung was a Taiwanese publisher and pro-democracy activist. He was the founder of the Freedom Era Weekly. He is most known internationally for setting himself on fire in support of freedom of speech.
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Pai Hsien-yung
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Kenneth Hsien-yung Pai is a Taiwanese writer who has been described as a "melancholy pioneer". He was born in Guilin, Guangxi at the cusp of the Second Sino-Japanese War. Pai's father was the Kuomintang (KMT) general Bai Chongxi (Pai Chung-hsi), whom he later described as a "stern, Confucian father" with "some soft spots in his heart." Pai was diagnosed with tuberculosis at the age of seven, during which time he would have to live in a separate house from his siblings (of which he would have a total of nine). He lived with his family in Chongqing, Shanghai, and Nanjing before moving to the British-controlled Hong Kong in 1948 as CPC forces turned the tide of the Chinese Civil War. In 1952, Pai and his family resettled in Taiwan, where the KMT had relocated the Republic of China after defeat by the Communists in 1949.
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Lung Ying-tai
- Enrolled in National Cheng Kung University
- 1970-1974 graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- university teacherwriterpolitician
- Biography
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Lung Ying-tai is a Taiwanese writer and public intellectual. She has written more than 30 books. Lung served as Taiwan's first Minister of Culture from 2012 to 2014 under the Ma Ying-jeou administration.
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Lin Fei-fan
- Enrolled in National Cheng Kung University
- 2008-2011 graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- social activistLGBTQ rights activist
- Biography
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Lin Fei-fan is a Taiwanese politician and activist currently serving as deputy secretary-general of Taiwan's National Security Council. Lin was one of the leaders of the Sunflower Student Movement. He joined the Democratic Progressive Party as deputy secretary-general in 2019.
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Samuel C. C. Ting
- Occupations
- physicistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Chao Chung Ting, also known by his English name Samuel, is a Taiwanese-American particle physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1976 with Burton Richter for discovering the subatomic J/ψ particle. He is the Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
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Lee Hong-yuan
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Lee Hong-yuan is a Taiwanese civil engineer, environmental engineer, and politician. He was the Minister of the Interior from 2012 to 2014, and previously the Minister of the Public Construction Commission from 2011 to 2012.
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Hsu Hsin-ying
- Enrolled in National Cheng Kung University
- Graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Hsu Hsin-ying is a Taiwanese politician and civil engineer. Prior to joining the Kuomintang (KMT) in 2009, Hsu was an independent. She left the KMT to found the Minkuotang (MKT) in 2015. In 2019, the MKT was absorbed by the Congress Party Alliance. Hsu rejoined the Kuomintang in 2022, and was reelected in the 2024 legislative election.
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Wu Po-hsiung
- Years
- 1939-.. (age 87)
- Enrolled in National Cheng Kung University
- 1958-1962 graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Wu Po-hsiung is a Taiwanese politician served as the mayor of Taipei from 1988 to 1990 and as the chairman of the Kuomintang from 2007 to 2009. Previously, he was also interior minister (1984–1988) and secretary-general to the president (1991–1996). Wu was nominated as honorary chairman of the Kuomintang when he was succeeded by Ma Ying-jeou as the chairman of the Kuomintang.
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Ho Hsin-chun
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Ho Hsin-chun is a Taiwanese politician. A member of the Democratic Progressive Party, she has served on the Legislative Yuan since 2012.
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Lai Shyh-bao
- Enrolled in National Cheng Kung University
- Graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- university teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Lai Shyh-bao is a Taiwanese engineer and politician currently serving as a member of the Legislative Yuan. A member of the Kuomintang (KMT), he has served on the party's Central Standing Committee and in the National Assembly.
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Mao Chi-kuo
- Occupations
- university teachereconomistpolitician
- Biography
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Mao Chi-kuo is a Taiwanese engineering professor and politician. A member of the Kuomintang (KMT), he served as the premier of the Republic of China from 2014 to 2016 and was previously the president of the Executive Yuan from 2014 to 2016.
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Wang Chien-shien
- Years
- 1938-.. (age 88)
- Enrolled in National Cheng Kung University
- 1957-1961 graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Wang Chien-shien is a Taiwanese politician who is the founder of the New Party. He was finance minister of the Republic of China from 1990 to 1992 and is the chairman of the Chinese Management Association (CMA) (since 1990). Wang was the President of the Control Yuan from August 2008 to August 2014.
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Wang Kwo-tsai
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Wang Kwo-tsai is a Taiwanese engineer who served as the Minister of Transportation and Communications from 2021 to 2024. He had also served as the Political Deputy Minister of Transportation and Communications between 2016 and 2021.
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C. Y. Lee
- Enrolled in National Cheng Kung University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Architecture
- Occupations
- artistarchitect
- Biography
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Chu-yuan Lee (Chinese: 李祖原; pinyin: Lǐ Zǔyuán; Wade–Giles: Li Tsu-yuan; born 30 December 1938) is a Taiwanese architect best known for designing the skyscraper Taipei 101.
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Lin I-chin
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Lin I-chin is a Taiwanese politician.
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Kuo Kuo-wen
- Enrolled in National Cheng Kung University
- Graduated with doctorate
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Kuo Kuo-wen, also known by the English name Robert Kuo, is a Taiwanese political scientist and politician. He has served as a member of the Legislative Yuan since 2019. From 2016 to 2017, he was a deputy minister of labor. Previously, he was the secretary-general to the Taiwan Confederation of Trade Unions and a member of the Tainan City Council.
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Wu Maw-kuen
- Occupations
- physicist
- Biography
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Maw-Kuen Wu is a Taiwanese physicist specializing in superconductivity, low-temperature physics, and high-pressure physics. He was a professor of physics at University of Alabama in Huntsville, Columbia University, and National Tsing Hua University, the Director of the Institute of Physics at Academia Sinica, the President of National Dong Hwa University, and is currently a distinguished research fellow of the Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, and international member of National Academy of Sciences.
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Tsay Ting-kuei
- Occupations
- civil servantsocial activist
- Biography
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Tsay Ting-kuei is a Taiwanese civil engineer and political activist. He is a professor of engineering at National Taiwan University, where he has conducted research in areas including coastal engineering and computational hydraulics. In politics, he served in various positions in the Chen Shui-bian administration in the mid-2000s, and rose to greater prominence for his protests in support of the Taiwan independence movement.
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Yu Wo
- Occupations
- children's writermanhuajiawriter
- Biography
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Yu Wo, born Chen Wenxuan (陳玟瑄), is a Taiwanese light novelist, best known for creating 1/2 Prince.
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Lin Hsin-i
- Occupations
- businesspersonpolitician
- Biography
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Lin Hsin-i is a Taiwanese businessman and politician. He served in the Democratic Progressive Party administration as Minister of Economic Affairs between 2000 and 2002, then as Vice Premier between 2002 and 2004.
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Chen Liang-gee
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Chen Liang-gee is a Taiwanese engineer who served as Minister of Science and Technology from 8 February 2017 to 20 May 2020.
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Chu Ching-wu
- Occupations
- justice of the peacephysicist
- Biography
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Paul Ching Wu Chu is a Taiwanese-American physicist specializing in superconductivity, magnetism, and dielectrics. He is a professor of physics and T.L.L. Temple Chair of Science in the Physics Department at the University of Houston College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics. He was the president of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology from 2001 to 2009. In 1987, he was one of the first scientists to demonstrate high-temperature superconductivity.
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Su Nan-cheng
- Years
- 1936-2014 (aged 78)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Su Nan-cheng was a Taiwanese politician and Senior Advisor to ROC President Chen Shui-bian. He was a mayor of Tainan, serving from 1977 to 1985, and an appointed mayor of Kaohsiung, serving from 1985 to 1990. He was the speaker of the ROC National Assembly in 1999. Su was in the Kuomintang and was part of the faction that supported the Taiwanese localization movement. He was expelled from the KMT twice: first in 1972 for violating a party resolution and running for Tainan City Mayor as an independent; second in 1999 for forwarding a term-extension amendment in the National Assembly against party orders. In 2003, Su openly supported DPP candidate Chen Shui-bian in the 2004 presidential election.
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Jason Chen
- Years
- 1960-.. (age 66)
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Chen Chun-shen, also known in English as Jason Chen, is a Taiwanese businessman who is the current chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of the Taiwanese electronics company Acer Inc.
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Teng Chia-chi
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Teng Chia-chi is a Taiwanese politician. He was Deputy Mayor of Taipei from 25 December 2014 to 15 October 2019.
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Cheng Tzu-tsai
- Years
- 1936-.. (age 90)
- Enrolled in National Cheng Kung University
- Graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- painterpolitical activistpolitician
- Biography
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Cheng Tzu-tsai is a Taiwanese architect and political dissident who conspired with others in the 1970 assassination attempt of Chiang Ching-kuo, the son of Chiang Kai-shek, in New York City.
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Chen Hsiung-wen
- Occupations
- civil servant
- Biography
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Chen Hsiung-wen, also known by his English name Sherman Chen, is a Taiwanese engineer and politician. He was the Minister of Labor from 20 August 2014 until 20 May 2016.
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Han Pao-teh
- Years
- 1934-2014 (aged 80)
- Enrolled in National Cheng Kung University
- In 1958 graduated with bachelor's degree in architectural engineering
- Occupations
- artistarchitect
- Biography
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Han Pao-teh was a Taiwanese architect, educator, scholar, writer, museum curator and calligrapher.
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Ou Chin-der
- Years
- 1944-.. (age 82)
- Occupations
- civil engineer
- Biography
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Ou Chin-der is a Taiwanese civil engineer.
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Chang Chia-juch
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Chang Chia-juch is a Taiwanese engineer and politician who was the Minister of Economic Affairs of Taiwan from 2013 to 2014.
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Mike Frerichs
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Michael W. Frerichs is an American politician serving his third term as the State Treasurer of Illinois, after taking office on January 12, 2015. Before being elected treasurer, he was a Democratic member of the Illinois Senate, representing the 52nd District from 2007 until 2015. The district, located in Champaign and Vermilion counties, includes all or parts of Champaign, Danville, Georgetown, Gifford, Rantoul, Thomasboro, and Urbana.
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Chang Chun-Yen
- Occupations
- electrical engineer
- Biography
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Chang Chun-yen was a Taiwanese academic administrator and electrical engineer who served as the president of National Chiao Tung University (NCTU).
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Hsu Jan-yau
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Hsu Jan-yau is a Taiwanese politician and current chairman of the Taiwan Stock Exchange.
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Chen Wei-zen
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Chen Wei-zen or Chen Wei-jen, is a Taiwanese architect who was the Minister of the Interior from 2014 to 2016.
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Hwung Hwung-hweng
- Years
- 1946-2019 (aged 73)
- Occupations
- hydraulic engineer
- Biography
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Hwung Hwung-hweng was a Taiwanese civil engineer, hydraulic engineer, and academic. He was the president of National Cheng Kung University from 2011 to 2015 and served as chairman of the Aviation Safety Council from 2015 to 2018 and minister of the Ocean Affairs Council from 2018 to 2019.
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Lin Hung-chih
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Lin Hung-chih is a Taiwanese politician.
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Jimmy Kuo
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Kuo Chun-ming, also known by his English name Jimmy Kuo, is a Taiwanese politician.
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Chang Tzi-chin
- Years
- 1949-.. (age 77)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Chang Tzi-chin is a Taiwanese politician. He served as the Minister of the Environmental Protection Administration from 14 January 2019 to 21 August 2023.
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Chu Fong-chi
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Chu Fong-chi is a Taiwanese politician who served in the Legislative Yuan from 1990 to 2012.
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Hsu Ching-yuan
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Hsu Ching-yuan is a former Taiwanese politician. Huang served as a member of the Taitung County Council. During his career he ran as a Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) representative, an independent, and a People First Party (PFP) candidate while also forming an alliance with and campaigning for the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). He rose to become Taitung County Magistrate from 2001 to 2005 before quitting in the middle of his reelection campaign in 2005 and disappearing from public life. It is believed he left Taiwan to live in Canada.
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Li Wo-shi
- Enrolled in National Cheng Kung University
- Graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- civil servantpolitician
- Biography
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Lee Wo-shih is a Taiwanese political scientist and politician. He was the Magistrate of Kinmen County from 20 December 2009 until 25 December 2014.
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Kang L. Wang
- Years
- 1941-.. (age 85)
- Enrolled in National Cheng Kung University
- In 1964 graduated with Bachelor of Science
- Occupations
- researcherengineerphysicist
- Biography
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Kang Lung Wang is a Taiwanese physicist and electrical engineer specializing in nanotechnology, semiconductors, and quantum systems. He is the Raytheon Chair in Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he leads its Device Research Laboratory. He was previously a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
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Chen Yen-po
- Occupations
- official
- Biography
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Chen Yen-po is a Taiwanese politician who has served as the deputy minister of Transportation and Communications since 2024 and acts as minister from August to September 2024.
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Chang Yu-hern
- Years
- 1954-.. (age 72)
- Occupations
- traffic researcher
- Biography
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Chang Yu-hern is a Taiwanese engineer and educator. He served as Chairman of the Aviation Safety Council between 2010 and 2015.
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Chen Chieh-ju
- Years
- 1937-.. (age 89)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Chen Chieh-ju is a Taiwanese politician.
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Chuang Yin-ching
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- epidemiologist
- Biography
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Kenneth Chuang Yin-ching is a Taiwanese epidemiologist. As of January 2020, he leads the Taiwan Centers for Disease Control (TCDC) Communicable Disease Control Medical Network.
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Mark Li
- Years
- 1955-.. (age 71)
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Mark Li is a Taiwanese politician. A member of the Kuomintang, he served in the Legislative Yuan from 2008 to 2012.
