100 Notable alumni of
National Taiwan University
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National Taiwan University is 56th in the world, 9th in Asia, and 1st in Taiwan by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from National Taiwan 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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Tsai Ing-wen
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- 1974-1978 graduated with Bachelor of Laws
- Occupations
- juristlawyeruniversity teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Tsai Ing-wen is a Taiwanese politician and legal scholar who served as the seventh president of the Republic of China from 2016 to 2024. A member of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), she intermittently served as chair of the DPP from 2008 to 2012, 2014 to 2018, and 2020 to 2022. She was the first woman to hold the presidency in Taiwan's history.
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Lee Teng-hui
- Years
- 1923-2020 (aged 97)
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- 1946-1949 graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- agricultural economistpolitician
- Biography
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Lee Teng-hui was a Taiwanese statesman, economist, and agronomist who served as the president of the Republic of China and chairman of the Kuomintang from 1988 to 2000. He was the first president to be born in Taiwan, the last to be indirectly elected, and the first to be directly elected.
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Lai Ching-te
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- 1979-1983 graduated with bachelor's degree
- 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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Ko Wen-je
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- 1979-1986 graduated with bachelor's degree
- 1994-2002 graduated with doctorate
- Occupations
- physicianpoliticiansurgeon
- Biography
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Ko Wen-je, also known by his nickname, Ko P, is a Taiwanese politician, physician, and transplant surgeon who served as the 13th mayor of Taipei from 2014 to 2022. He founded the Taiwan People's Party (TPP) in 2019 and was the party's first chairman until 2025.
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Ma Ying-jeou
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- 1968-1972 graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- politicianlawyerjuristinterpreterspy
- Biography
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Ma Ying-jeou is a Taiwanese politician, lawyer, and legal scholar who served as the sixth president of the Republic of China from 2008 to 2016. A member of the Kuomintang (KMT), he was previously the mayor of Taipei from 1998 to 2006 and the chairman of the Kuomintang for two terms (2005–2007; 2009–2014).
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Chen Shui-bian
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- 1969-1974 graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- lawyerwriterpolitician
- Biography
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Chen Shui-bian is a Taiwanese politician and lawyer who served as the fifth president of the Republic of China from 2000 to 2008. Chen was the first president from the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), ending the Kuomintang's (KMT) 55 years of continuous rule in Taiwan. He is sometimes referred to by the nickname A-Bian (阿扁).
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Huang Kuo-chang
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- 1991-1995 graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- researcherlegal scholarlawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Huang Kuo-chang is a Taiwanese legal scholar and politician. A member of the Taiwan People’s Party (TPP), he has led the party's caucus in the Legislative Yuan since 2024, after being elected from its party list. He has served as the TPP’s chairman since 2025.
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Kao Chia-yu
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Kao Chia-yu is a Taiwanese politician and a member of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). She was elected to the National Assembly in 2005. Upon assuming office, she became the youngest person to ever be seated in that legislative body. Between 2010 and 2020, Kao was a Taipei City Councillor. She was elected to the Legislative Yuan in 2020.
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Chen Chi-mai
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- Graduated with master's degree
- Occupations
- university teacherphysicianpolitician
- Biography
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Chen Chi-mai, also known as Comay Chen, is a Taiwanese politician and physician who has served as the mayor of Kaohsiung since 2020. He has served as the spokesperson of the Democratic Progressive Party and the chief executive officer of its Policy Research and Coordinating Committee. A physician from Keelung, Chen started his political career by becoming member of the Legislative Yuan in 1996 and served as legislator for almost eight years before becoming the spokesperson of the Executive Yuan.
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Ann Kao
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- 2006-2008 graduated with master's degree
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Kao Hung-an, also known by her English name Ann, is a Taiwanese business executive, engineer, and politician. She worked for Foxconn until 2020, when she was elected to the Legislative Yuan as a member of the Taiwan People's Party (TPP). Partway through her legislative term, Kao was elected Mayor of Hsinchu during the 2022 local election cycle. On 26 July 2024, Kao was suspended from office and left the TPP due to corruption allegations.
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Eric Chu
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- 1979-1983 graduated with bachelor's degree in business management
- Occupations
- academicpolitician
- Biography
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Eric Li-luan Chu is a Taiwanese politician, statistician, and academic who served as the chairman of the Kuomintang from 2015 to 2016 and from 2021 to 2025.
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Jaw Shaw-kong
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- Graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- television presenterpoliticianpunditmedia proprietorradio personality
- Biography
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Jaw Shaw-kong is a Taiwanese politician, media personality and entrepreneur.
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Vivian Huang
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- Graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Huang Shan-shan, also known by her English name Vivian Huang, is a Taiwanese politician and lawyer currently affiliated with the Taiwan People's Party.
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Su Tseng-chang
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in jurisprudence
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Su Tseng-chang is a Taiwanese politician who served as premier of the Republic of China (Taiwan) from 2006 to 2007 and again from 2019 to 2023. He was the chairman of the Democratic Progressive Party in 2005 and from 2012 to 2014. Su served as Chief of Staff to President Chen Shui-bian in 2004. He is currently the longest-serving Democratic Progressive premier in history.
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Miao Poya
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Miao Poya is a Taiwanese politician and activist for humanitarianism, anti-death penalty, social feminism, LGBT rights and Taiwanese independence, also known for being one of Taiwan's first-ever openly lesbian council members. She was elected as councillor representing Taipei City District 6 during the 2018 local elections.
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Chen Chien-jen
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- 1969-1973 graduated with bachelor's degree
- 1973-1977 graduated with master's degree
- Occupations
- university teacherepidemiologistpolitician
- Biography
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Chen Chien-jen OS KSG KHS is a Taiwanese epidemiologist, geneticist, and politician who served as Vice President of the Republic of China from 2016 to 2020 and Premier of the Republic of China from 2023 to 2024.
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Alec Su
- Occupations
- film actorfilm directortelevision actorsingeractor
- Biography
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Alec Su You-peng is a Taiwanese actor and singer.
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Li Ao
- Occupations
- historianwriterpolitician
- Biography
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Li Ao, also spelled Lee Ao, was a Taiwanese writer, politician, and public intellectual. He wrote more than 100 books, primarily on historical and political topics, and developed a reputation as a confrontational political firebrand.
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Wakin Chau
- Occupations
- actorscreenwritersinger-songwritersongwriterrecording artist
- Biography
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Wakin Chau, better known by his stage name Emil Chau during the 1980s and 1990s, is a Hong Kong-born Taiwanese singer and actor, popular throughout Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, Mainland China, and parts of Southeast Asia (Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Vietnam). As of 2007, he has released more than 40 albums.
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William Wei
- Occupations
- film actorsingersongwriter
- Biography
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Wei Li-an, known professionally as WeiBird, is a Taiwanese singer-songwriter. He has released six studio albums, one live album and two extended plays. Wei won the Golden Melody Award for Best New Singer in 2011 and Best Composer in 2015.
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Koichi Kato
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Koichi Kato was a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party who held a seat in the House of Representatives in the National Diet for 13 terms between 1972 and 2012. Kato was elected to several districts in Yamagata Prefecture and served as the Director-General of the Japan Defense Agency from 1984 to 1986 and Chief Cabinet Secretary from 1991 to 1992. Kato was a leading member of the Kōchikai faction of the LDP aligned with Prime Ministers Masayoshi Ōhira, Zenkō Suzuki, and Kiichi Miyazawa. Kato lost his seat at the December 2012 general election, and his daughter Ayuko Kato was elected to the seat at the 2014 general election.
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Cheng Li-wun
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- Graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Cheng Li-wun is a Taiwanese politician and lawyer. A member of the Kuomintang (KMT), she has been the party's chairperson since November 2025.
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Simon Chang
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- 1972-1976 graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- university teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Chang San-cheng, also known by his English name Simon Chang, is a Taiwanese civil engineer, academic, and politician who has served as the mayor of Taoyuan City since 2022. He previously served as premier of Taiwan from 1 February 2016 to 20 May 2016 after being appointed by President Ma Ying-jeou. Before assuming the premiership, he had served as vice premier from 8 December 2014 under the Mao Chi-kuo cabinet. Chang was the first nonpartisan premier of Taiwan.
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Lin Chih-chien
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- Studied in 2013-2017
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Lin Chih-chien is a Taiwanese politician. He was the mayor of Hsinchu City from 25 December 2014 to 8 July 2022.
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Lien Chan
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- 1953-1957 graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- diplomatpoliticianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Lien Chan is a Taiwanese political scientist and politician. A member of the Kuomintang (KMT), he nominally governed Taiwan as the head of the Taiwan Provincial Government from 1990 to 1993 and served as Premier of the Republic of China from 1993 to 1997, Vice President of the Republic of China from 1996 to 2000, and Chairman of the Kuomintang from 2000 to 2005.
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Cheng Wen-tsan
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- 1986-1990 graduated with bachelor's degree
- Studied in 2011
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Cheng Wen-tsan is a Taiwanese politician who has served as the vice premier of the Republic of China (Taiwan) from 2023 to 2024 and chairman of the Straits Exchange Foundation briefly in 2024. A member of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), he was the first mayor of the newly established Taoyuan special municipality, serving from 2014 to 2022.
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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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Lin Chia-lung
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- Graduated with bachelor's degree
- Graduated with master's degree
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Lin Chia-lung is a Taiwanese political scientist and politician who has served as Minister of Foreign Affairs since 2024. He previously served as the Secretary General to the President from 2023 to 2024.
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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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Julian Kuo
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Kuo Jeng-liang, also known by his English name Julian Kuo, is a Taiwanese political scientist and politician who first served in the Legislative Yuan from 2002 to 2008 and was reappointed to the office from 2016 to 2020.
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Bowie Tsang
- Occupations
- singertelevision actorwriteractorfilm actor
- Biography
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Bowie Tsang Po Yee is a Hong Kong-Taiwanese television host, singer, actress, and writer. She is the daughter of Eric Tsang.
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Annette Lu
- Years
- 1944-.. (age 82)
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- 1963-1967 graduated with bachelor's degree
- Studied in 1967-1968
- Occupations
- women's rights activistlawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Lu Hsiu-lien, also known by her English name Annette, is a Taiwanese politician and lawyer. A feminist active in the Tangwai movement, she joined the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) in 1990 and was elected to the Legislative Yuan in 1992. Subsequently, she served as Taoyuan County Magistrate between 1997 and 2000, and was vice president of the Republic of China (Taiwan) from 2000 to 2008, under President Chen Shui-bian.
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Wu Den-yih
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- 1966-1970 graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- historianpolitician
- Biography
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Wu Den-yih is a Taiwanese politician. He graduated from National Taiwan University and worked as a journalist before beginning a career in politics with a 1973 appointment to the Taipei City Council. Wu was then elected Magistrate of Nantou County, serving from 1981 to 1989. Following two terms as magistrate, he was named Mayor of Kaohsiung in 1990. Wu remained mayor until 1998, having won the office in a 1994 direct election. He then served two full terms in the Legislative Yuan from 2002 to 2008. Shortly after winning a third term in the legislature, Wu was named Premier of the Republic of China in 2009. He served until 2012, when he and Ma Ying-jeou formed the Kuomintang (KMT) presidential ticket. Wu served as the tenth vice president of the Republic of China, stepping down in 2016. In May 2017, he was elected party chairman. Wu stepped down from the position in January 2020. Previously, Wu had served the KMT as secretary-general from 2007 to 2009, first vice chairman in 2014, and as acting chairman in 2014 and 2015.
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Shih Ming-teh
- Years
- 1941-2024 (aged 83)
- Occupations
- human rights defendersocial activistpolitician
- Biography
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Shih Ming-teh, commonly known as Nori Shih, was a Taiwanese politician and human rights activist. He was once a political prisoner for 25-and-a-half years.
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Frank Hsieh
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- Graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Frank Hsieh Chang-ting is a Taiwanese politician and former defense attorney who served as Ambassador of Taiwan to Japan from 2016 to 2024. A cofounder of the Democratic Progressive Party, he has served on the Taipei City Council, the Legislative Yuan, as the mayor of Kaohsiung City, and as the Premier of Taiwan (President of the Executive Yuan) under president Chen Shui-bian. Hsieh was the DPP nominee in the 2008 presidential election and was defeated by Ma Ying-jeou.
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Lin Ching-yi
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- Graduated with master's degree
- Occupations
- physicianpoliticianobstetrician-gynecologist
- Biography
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Lin Ching-yi is a Taiwanese health economist, obstetrician, gynaecologist, and politician who currently serves as deputy health and welfare minister. She was first elected to the Legislative Yuan in 2016 then re-elected in 2022 by by-election.
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Yuan T. Lee
- Years
- 1936-.. (age 90)
- Occupations
- university teacherNobel Prize winnerchemist
- Biography
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Yuan Tseh Lee is a Taiwanese physical chemist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1986 for his contributions to the development of reaction dynamics.
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Justin Yifu Lin
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Justin Yifu Lin is a Chinese economist and professor of economics at Peking University. He served as the chief economist of the World Bank from 2008 to 2012, and was also the World Bank's senior vice president during that time. He has served as a State Council Counsellor of China since September 2013.
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Lin Ying-meng
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- Graduated with master's degree
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Lin Ying-meng is a Taiwanese politician. She has served since 2018 as a councillor of the Taipei City Council, where she represents Taipei City District 6. She is one of the first openly LGBT people in Taiwanese history to have been voted into local legislatures.
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Chiang Hsiao-yung
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Chiang Hsiao-yung was a politician of the Republic of China.
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Lin Fei-fan
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- In 2017 graduated with master'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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Jess Lee
- Occupations
- singer
- Biography
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Jess Lee Kar Wei is a Malaysian Chinese female singer. In 2010, she participated in the seventh One Million Star hosted by Taiwan Central Television. On January 30, 2011, she became the first Malaysian winner of Chinese Million Star. At the same time, she achieved the most perfect scores in the history of the program and four consecutive perfect scores. records, and obtained a recording contract with Warner Music Taiwan, releasing her first album in the same year. She is known for her high-pitched singing voice and wide vocal range, earning her the nickname "Iron Lung Queen".
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Huang Wei-che
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in agronomy
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Huang Wei-che is a Taiwanese politician and medical researcher. He was a member of the Legislative Yuan from 2005 to 2018. Huang is the incumbent Mayor of Tainan since 25 December 2018 after winning the title during the 2018 local elections on 24 November 2018.
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Monster
- Occupations
- singermusician
- Biography
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Wen Shang-yi, known by his stage name Monster, is a Taiwanese singer, songwriter, and musician. He is of the two guitarists and leader of the Taiwanese rock band, Mayday.
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Yu Kwang-chung
- Occupations
- poetwriter
- Biography
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Yu Kwang-chung, also romanised as Yu Guangzhong, was a Taiwanese writer, poet, educator and critic.
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Rosalia Wu
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- Graduated with Executive Master in Public Administration
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Wu Szu-yao, also known by her English name Rosalia Wu, is a Taiwanese politician. Elected to the Taipei City Council in 2006, she served until 2016, when she won election to the Legislative Yuan.
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Chiu Yi
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- Graduated with doctorate
- Graduated with master's degree
- Graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Chiu Yi is a Taiwanese economist and politician. He is a former member of the Kuomintang and People First Party, and a member of the Legislative Yuan from 2002 to 2012. He was known for his pro-CCP unification views. He has also been a member of the New Party.
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Wellington Koo
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- 1976-1980 graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Koo Li-hsiung, also known by his English name Wellington Koo, is a Taiwanese lawyer and politician. During his legal career, Koo represented several politicians. His own political career began with a term on the National Assembly, followed by an unsuccessful campaign for the Taipei mayoralty in 2013. In 2016, he was elected a legislator at large representing the Democratic Progressive Party. Koo left the Legislative Yuan to lead the Ill-gotten Party Assets Settlement Committee. In 2017, he became chairman of the Financial Supervisory Commission. Koo was appointed secretary-general of the National Security Council in 2020. Koo served in the role until 2024, when he was appointed Minister of National Defense.
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Puma Shen
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- 1998-2002 graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- writersocial activistuniversity teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Shen Pao-yang, also known by his English name Puma Shen, is a Taiwanese criminologist, lawyer, and politician. As a member of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), he was elected to the Legislative Yuan and became a member on 1 February 2024. His areas of focus include human rights, criminal policy, youth issues, and information warfare.
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Hau Lung-pin
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Hau Lung-pin is a Taiwanese chemist and politician. As a member of the New Party, he was elected to the Legislative Yuan in 1995, and resigned his seat to lead the Environmental Protection Administration in 2001. Hau stepped down from the EPA in 2003 and served as Mayor of Taipei from 2006 to 2014. He joined the Kuomintang (KMT) in 2006 and has served as vice chairman of the party in 2014 and from 2016 to 2020.
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Koo Kwang-ming
- Years
- 1926-2023 (aged 97)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Koo Kwang-ming was a Taiwanese businessman and independence activist.
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Claire Wang
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- Graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Wang Wan-yu, also known by her English name Claire Wang, is a Taiwanese politician. Following the murder of her daughter in March 2016, Wang was named to the Presidential Office Organizing Committee for National Conferences on Judicial Reforms. She subsequently joined the New Power Party and won a seat on the Legislative Yuan in 2020. Currently, she serves as NPP party chairperson since March 2023.
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Shen Fu-hsiung
- Years
- 1939-.. (age 87)
- Occupations
- politicianphysician
- Biography
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Shen Fu-hsiung is a Taiwanese physician, nephrologist, and politician.
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Wang Yi-chuan
- Occupations
- university teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Wang Yi-chuan, also known by his English name Ivan Wang, is a Taiwanese civil engineer, transportation engineer, and politician who has served as a member of the Legislative Yuan since December 2024.
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Wang Mei-hua
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Wang Mei-hua is a Taiwanese politician and lawyer who served as the Minister of Economic Affairs of Taiwan from 2020 to 2024. Prior to her ministership, she also served as the deputy and vice minister of the ministry.
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Cheng Li-chiun
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- 1988-1992 graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- university teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Cheng Li-chiun is a Taiwanese politician who has served as the vice premier of the Republic of China since 2024. Before her vice premiership, she served as the minister of Culture from 2016 to 2020.
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Cheng Yun-peng
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in civil engineering
- Occupations
- businesspersonpolitician
- Biography
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Cheng Yun-peng is a Taiwanese politician. He was a member of the Legislative Yuan from 2005 to 2008, and elected to the office between 2016 and 2024.
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Samuel Yin
- Occupations
- businesspersonengineer
- Biography
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Yin Yen-Liang, also known by his English name Samuel Yin, is a Taiwanese billionaire businessman and philanthropist. He is best known for the establishment of the Tang Prize, and as chairman of the Ruentex Financial Group. He is also the president of the Guanghua School of Management at Peking University.
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Lin Yi-hsiung
- Years
- 1941-.. (age 85)
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- 1960-1964 graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Lin Yi-hsiung is a Taiwanese politician and lawyer. He was a major leader of the democratization movement in Taiwan. He was first exposed to politics in 1976 while serving as attorney for Kuo Yu-hsin (1908–1985) who sued the ruling Kuomintang for electoral fraud. Lin was elected a member of Taiwan Provincial Consultative Council in Kuo's old electorate in 1977.
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Huang Chieh
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- 2011-2015 graduated with bachelor's degree in sociology and public health
- Occupations
- politicianreporter
- Biography
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Huang Jie is a Taiwanese politician and a former member of the New Power Party. She was elected to the Kaohsiung City Council in 2018, representing Fongshan District. Huang is known for questioning the policies of former Kaohsiung mayor Han Kuo-yu. In the 2024 Taiwanese legislative election, she was elected to the Legislative Yuan as a candidate of the Democratic Progressive Party to represent the sixth constituency of Kaohsiung, making her the first openly gay member of the chamber.
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Chyi Yu
- Occupations
- recording artistsinger
- Biography
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Chyi Yu or Qi Yu is a Taiwanese singer best known for her 1979 hit "The Olive Tree" (橄欖樹). She won the 9th Golden Melody Award for Best Female Vocalist Mandarin. She is the elder sister of singer-songwriter Chyi Chin. She is a religious Buddhist and a vegetarian.
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Peng Ming-min
- Years
- 1923-2022 (aged 99)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Peng Ming-min was a Taiwanese democracy activist, advocate of Taiwan independence, legal scholar, and politician. Arrested for sedition in 1964 for printing a manifesto advocating democracy in his native Taiwan, he escaped to Sweden, before taking a post as a university teacher in the United States. After 22 years in exile he returned to become the Democratic Progressive Party's first presidential candidate in Taiwan's first direct presidential election in 1996.
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Chi-Huey Wong
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- In 1977 graduated with Master of Science in biochemistry
- Occupations
- biologistbiochemistchemistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Chi-Huey Wong is a Taiwanese-American biochemist who is the Scripps Family Chair Professor at the Scripps Research Institute. He is a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences, and was awarded the 2014 Wolf Prize in Chemistry and the 2015 RSC Robert Robinson Award. Wong is also the holder of more than 100 patents and publisher of 700 more scholarly academic research papers under his name.
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Chen Yu-jen
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- 1991-1995 graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Chen Yu-jen, also known as Jessica Chen, is a Taiwanese politician and lawyer who serves as a Member of the Legislative Yuan. She was previously a member of the Kinmen County Council.
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Chen Ding-nan
- Years
- 1943-2006 (aged 63)
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- 1962-1966 graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- environmentalistpoliticianmagistrate
- Biography
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Chen Ding-nan, sometimes transliterated Chen Ting-nan or referred to as David Chen, was a Taiwanese politician, lawyer, and environmentalist who served as Minister of Justice and was known as a leader of the country's anti-nuclear movement. Due to the 9–13 July 2002 state visit to the United States of America Chen became the first Taiwan government official since 1979 (when the United States cut its official diplomatic relations with Taiwan) to have been invited into the White House.
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Tuan Yi-kang
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- Graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Tuan Yi-kang is a Taiwanese politician. A former leader of the Democratic Progressive Party's now-abolished New Tide faction, he has served on the party's Central Standing Committee, the Taipei City Council and the Legislative Yuan.
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Andrea Chen
- Occupations
- actortelevision actormodel
- Biography
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Andrea Chen is a Taiwanese actress and model. She graduated from National Taiwan University.
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Ju Gau-jeng
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Ju Gau-jeng was a Taiwanese lawyer and politician who served in the Legislative Yuan from 1987 to 1999. He was known for his combative personality, and helped found two political parties.
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Andrew Yao
- Occupations
- computer scientistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Andrew Chi-Chih Yao is a Chinese computer scientist, theoretical physicist, and computational theorist. He is currently a professor and the dean of Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences (IIIS) at Tsinghua University. Yao used the minimax theorem to prove what is now known as Yao's principle.
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Hung Mong-kai
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- Graduated with master's degree
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Hung Mong-kai is a Taiwanese politician who sits in the Legislative Yuan, representing the New Taipei City Constituency I.
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Lin Yu-chang
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- Graduated with master's degree
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Lin Yu-chang is a Taiwanese politician who served as the Secretary-General of the Democratic Progressive Party from June 2024 until his resignation in July 2025. Previously, he served as the Minister of the Interior from January 2023 to May 2024, Mayor of Keelung City from December 2014 to December 2022, and he also shortly served as the acting Chairman of the Democratic Progressive Party from November 2018 to January 2019.
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Shen Hsin-ling
- Years
- 1989-.. (age 37)
- Occupations
- social activist
- Biography
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Dr. Shen Hsin-Ling, Shen Hsin-Ling is a charity activist from Taiwan known for her work in setting up websites to help farmers to sell their products and free educational websites for students. Shen received the Presidential Education Award in Taiwan in July 2011 and she was named one of the Ten Outstanding Young People in October 2010. She received the Presidential Innovation Award in 2016 and twice received the Presidential Education Award.
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Lee Ying-yuan
- Occupations
- general secretarypolitician
- Biography
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Lee Ying-yuan was a Taiwanese health economist and politician. He was elected to the Legislative Yuan in 1995 and stepped down in 2000. In 2005, Lee was appointed the Minister of Council of Labor Affairs, which he led until 2007. Lee has also served as Secretary-General of the Executive Yuan and the Democratic Progressive Party, and was reelected to the Legislative Yuan in 2012. He was appointed the Minister of Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) in 2016. He left the EPA in 2018, and subsequently served as Taiwan's representative to Thailand from 2020 to 2021.
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Ye Yuan-chih
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- Graduated with master's degree
- Graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- punditMember of the Legislative Yuanpolitician
- Biography
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Yeh Yuan-chih is a Taiwanese politician and educator who serves as a Member of the Legislative Yuan. He was previously a member of New Taipei City Council and has been a lecturer at the Taipei National University of the Arts.
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Joanna Lei
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Chien Joanna Lei is a Taiwanese politician and communicologist who served as a member of the Legislative Yuan from 2005 to 2008.
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Chou Chun-mi
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in jurisprudence
- Occupations
- lawyerjudgepolitician
- Biography
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Chou Chun-mi is a Taiwanese politician and lawyer who is currently Magistrate of Pingtung County, serving since 2022. A member of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), she served in the Legislative Yuan from 2016 until 2022.
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Pan Men-an
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Pan Men-an is a Taiwanese politician. He was the magistrate of Pingtung County from 25 December 2014 to 25 December 2022. He joined the campaign team of the 2024 presidential candidate of Democratic Progressive Party, and assumed the role as the Secretary-General to the President in May 2023.
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Wu Pei-yi
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- 2005-2009 graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- statesperson
- Biography
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Wu Pei-yi is a Taiwanese politician. She served on the Taipei City Council from 2018 to 2024, when she was elected to the Legislative Yuan.
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Hsu Yung-ming
- Occupations
- politicianpolitical scientist
- Biography
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Hsu Yung-ming is a Taiwanese political scientist, pollster, and politician. He represented the New Power Party within the Legislative Yuan from 2016 to 2020. In August 2019, he began serving as NPP chairman. Following his removal from the post in August 2020, Hsu withdrew from the party.
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Chen Ming-tong
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- 1975-1979 graduated with bachelor's degree in political science
- 1979-1981 graduated with master's degree in political science
- 1984-1990 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in political science
- Occupations
- university teacherpolitical scientistpolitician
- Biography
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Chen Ming-tong is a Taiwanese political scientist and politician who served as the director-general of the National Security Bureau from 2021 to 2023 and the minister of the Mainland Affairs Council from 2018 to 2021 and 2007 to 2008.
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Lin Yang-kang
- Years
- 1927-2013 (aged 86)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Lin Yang-kang was a Taiwanese politician. He was born at Sun Moon Lake during the Japanese rule of Taiwan. Some thought he might be Chiang Ching-kuo's successor as head of the Kuomintang (KMT), but after failing to win the KMT's nomination for president in 1996, he became an independent. Lin rejoined the party in 2005, and died in 2013.
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Luo Ying-shay
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Luo Ying-shay was a Taiwanese politician who served as the Minister of Justice from 30 September 2013 until 20 May 2016.
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Hung Sun-han
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Hung Sun-han is a Taiwanese politician.
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Yaung Chih-liang
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- In 1972 graduated with master's degree
- Occupations
- writertelevision actoruniversity teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Yaung Chih-liang is a Taiwanese physician and public health specialist. He was the Minister of the Department of Health of the Executive Yuan from 2009 to 2011.
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Tu Tsung-ming
- Occupations
- pharmacologistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Tu Tsung-ming was a Taiwanese pharmacologist and educator who was the first Taiwanese person to earn a Doctor of Medical Sciences (equivalent to Ph.D.).
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Su Chiao-hui
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- Graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Su Chiao-hui is a Taiwanese lawyer, legal scholar, and politician who is currently a member of the Legislative Yuan.
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Kuan Bi-ling
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- Graduated with Doctor
- Occupations
- university teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Kuan Bi-ling is a Taiwanese political scientist, lawyer, and politician who is a member of the Democratic Progressive Party. She is the incumbent Minister of Ocean Affairs Council, having assumed office under the Chen Chien-jen cabinet in 2023. She previously served as a member of the Legislative Yuan between 2005 and 2023, winning three consecutive elections, including the highly competitive 2008 legislative election after the introduction of the single-member district system which halved the total seats from 225 to 113.
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Mark Chen
- Years
- 1935-.. (age 91)
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- 1954-1959 graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Chen Tan-sun, also known by his English name Mark Chen, is a Taiwanese politician and atmospheric scientist who served as Secretary-General of the Office of the President of Taiwan under former President Chen Shui-bian. He was also previously Foreign Minister of the ROC from 2004 to 2006 (the first Democratic Progressive Party member to occupy the position). Before returning to Taiwan, he worked for the United States Department of Commerce from 1973 to 1992, over 19 years.
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Su Huan-chih
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- Graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Su Huan-chih is a Taiwanese politician who 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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David Lee
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- 1969-1973 graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Lee Ta-wei, also known by his English name David Lee, is a Taiwanese politician and diplomat who is the chairman of Straits Exchange Foundation May to August 2020 and from January 2023 to May 2024. He formerly served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs from May 2016 to February 2018, Secretary-General of the National Security Council of Taiwan from February 2018 to May 2020, and the Secretary-General to the President since 3 August 2020 to 31 January 2023.
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Huang Hsin-chieh
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Huang Hsin-chieh was a Taiwanese politician, Taipei city council member, National Assembly representative, Legislative Yuan legislator, publisher of Formosa Magazine and Taiwan Political Theory magazine (台灣政論), senior Dangwai Leader, third chairperson of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), and senior adviser to the president of the Republic of China. He was born on August 20, 1928, during the period when Taiwan was under Japanese governance also known to the Japanese as the Japan governance period of Taiwan and was fluent in Japanese and Taiwanese. He married Chang Yueh-ching (張月卿) in 1954 and had four children and adopted sons. They lived in a modest residence on Chongqing N. Rd in Datong District, Taipei City for over three decades.
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Yang Chiu-hsing
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- 1974-1979 graduated with bachelor's degree
- In 1985 graduated with master's degree
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Yang Chiu-hsing is a Taiwanese politician. He was a Minister without Portfolio in the Executive Yuan and Magistrate of Kaohsiung County.
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Liu Shih-fang
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Liu Shyh-fang is a Taiwanese politician who currently serves as the Minister of the Interior since 2024.
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Jiang Yi-huah
- Occupations
- university teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Jiang Yi-huah is a Taiwanese political scientist and politician who served as the premier of the Republic of China from 2013 to 2014.
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Lee Si-Chen
- Occupations
- engineerresearcher
- Biography
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Lee Si-chen, is a Taiwanese electrical engineer and academic specializing in semiconductor and amorphous silicon research. From 2005 to 2013, he was the president of National Taiwan University, where he has been a professor of electrical engineering since 1982.
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Chiu Tai-san
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Chiu Tai-san is a Taiwanese lawyer and politician. He was a member of the Legislative Yuan from 1999 to 2004. He then served as the vice minister of the Mainland Affairs Council, and later as deputy mayor of Kaohsiung City under Chen Chu. After leaving politics for a teaching position, Chiu was named the deputy mayor of Taoyuan City under Cheng Wen-tsan in 2014. He resigned in 2016, and was appointed the minister of Justice later that year. Chiu stepped down from the justice ministry in 2018, and served on the National Security Council until 2019. In 2021, Chiu was appointed minister of the Mainland Affairs Council.
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Sondhi Limthongkul
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- Studied mechanical engineering
- Occupations
- journalisttelevision presentercolumnistwritermedia proprietor
- Biography
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Sondhi Limthongkul is a Thai media proprietor, conspiracy theorist, pro-Beijing anti-democracy reactionary activist, demagogue, and leader of the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD). In 2009, he was elected leader of the New Politics Party (NPP).
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Chen Chi-chung
- Occupations
- politicianagricultural economist
- Biography
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Chen Chi-chung is a Taiwanese economist. He was the Minister of Agriculture from August 2023 to September 2023. He was previously the Minister of the Council of Agriculture between 14 January 2019 to 31 July 2023.
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Chiou I-jen
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Chiou I-jen is a Taiwanese politician who was the vice premier of Taiwan between 17 May 2007 and 6 May 2008.
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R. C. T. Lee
- Occupations
- computer scientistengineer
- Biography
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Lee Chia-Tung, also known by his English name Richard C. T. Lee, is a Taiwanese electrical engineer.
