100 Notable alumni of
National Taiwan University
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National Taiwan University is 53rd 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
- university teacherpoliticianjuristlawyer
- Biography
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Tsai Ing-wen is a Taiwanese politician and legal scholar who served as the 7th president of the Republic of China (Taiwan) 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.
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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 politician and agricultural scientist who served as the 4th president of the Republic of China (Taiwan) under the 1947 Constitution and chairman of the Kuomintang (KMT) 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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Ko Wen-je
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- 1979-1986 graduated with bachelor's degree
- 1994-2002 graduated with doctorate
- Occupations
- politiciansurgeonphysician
- Biography
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Ko Wen-je, also known by his nickname, Ko P (Chinese: 柯P; pinyin: Kē Pī; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Koa Phi), is a Taiwanese politician and physician who served as the mayor of Taipei from 2014 to 2022. He founded the Taiwan People's Party (TPP), and served as its chairman from its founding in 2019 until 2025.
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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 and former physician who is currently serving as the 8th president of the Republic of China (Taiwan) since May 2024. He is the third member of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) to assume the office of president and the first whose predecessor was also a DPP member. He is also the third incumbent vice president to succeed to the presidency and the first to assume the office through election instead of immediate succession. He has also served as the chair of the DPP since 2023.
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Ma Ying-jeou
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- 1968-1972 graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- interpreterspypoliticianlawyerjurist
- Biography
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Ma Ying-jeou is a Taiwanese politician, lawyer, and legal scholar who served as the 6th 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 from 2005 to 2007 and from 2009 to 2014.
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Chen Shui-bian
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- 1969-1974 graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- writerpoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Chen Shui-bian is a Taiwanese former politician and lawyer who served as the 5th president of the Republic of China (Taiwan) 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
- politicianresearcherlawyer
- Biography
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Huang Kuo-chang is a Taiwanese politician, legal scholar, and activist. He was one of the leading figures of the 2014 Sunflower Student Movement and joined the New Power Party shortly afterwards. He served as leader of the party from 2015 to 2019, and represented New Taipei City of Xizhi District in the Legislative Yuan on behalf of the NPP between 2016 and 2020.
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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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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 who is currently the chairman of the Kuomintang (KMT).
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Chen Chi-mai
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- Graduated with master's degree
- Occupations
- physicianpoliticianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Chen Chi-mai, also known as Comay Chen, is a Taiwanese politician and the current mayor of Kaohsiung since August 24, 2020. He has served as 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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Ann Kao Hung-an is a Taiwanese business executive and politician. She earned bachelor's and master's degrees from National Taiwan Normal University and National Taiwan University, respectively, before working as a researcher for the Institute for Information Industry. The institute subsidized Kao's doctoral study at the University of Cincinnati. She then 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 removed from office and withdrew from the TPP due to corruption allegations.
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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
- politicianuniversity teacherepidemiologist
- Biography
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Chen Chien-jen OS KSG KHS is a Taiwanese epidemiologist and politician who served as vice president of the Republic of China from 2016 to 2020 and premier of the Republic of China (Taiwan) from 2023 to 2024 under President Tsai Ing-wen.
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Vivian Huang
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- Graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Vivian Huang Shan-shan is a Taiwanese politician and lawyer, currently affiliated with the Taiwan People's Party.
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Jaw Shaw-kong
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- Graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- media proprietorradio personalitytelevision presenterpoliticianpundit
- Biography
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Jaw Shaw-kong is a Taiwanese politician, media personality and entrepreneur.
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Hope Su
- 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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Alec Su
- Occupations
- television producerrecording artistfilm actorfilm directortelevision actor
- Biography
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Alec Su You-peng is a Taiwanese actor and singer.
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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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Wakin Chau
- Occupations
- recording artistsingeractorscreenwritersinger-songwriter
- 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, 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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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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Li Ao
- Occupations
- writerpoliticianhistorian
- Biography
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Li Ao was a Chinese-Taiwanese writer, historian and independent politician.
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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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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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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 politician who has been the mayor of Taoyuan City since 25 December 2022. He was premier of Taiwan from 1 February 2016 (de facto; 18 January 2016 as the acting premier) until 20 May 2016, 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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Lien Chan
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- 1953-1957 graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- politicianuniversity teacherdiplomat
- Biography
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Lien Chan is a Taiwanese political scientist and politician. He was the Chairman of the Taiwan Provincial Government from 1990 to 1993, Premier of the Republic of China from 1993 to 1997, Vice President of the Republic of China from 1996 to 2000, and was the Chairman of the Kuomintang (KMT) from 2000 to 2005, apart from various ministerial posts he had also held.
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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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Pai Hsien-yung
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Kenneth Hsien-yung Pai is a Chinese writer based in Taiwan 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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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 politician, political scientist, and former academic who is currently serving as Minister of Foreign Affairs since 20 May 2024 and has previously served as Secretary General to the President of Taiwan, from 31 January 2023 to 20 May 2024.
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Julian Kuo
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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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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Sisy Chen
- Occupations
- television presentercolumnistpolitical punditpoliticianwriter
- Biography
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Sisy Chen or Chen Wen-chien is a Taiwanese journalist, television commentator, writer and former politician. She hosts Sisy's World News, a weekly newscast at the Chung T'ien Television and UFO Dinner, a daily radio talk show at UFO Radio. She was an independent member of the Legislative Yuan from February 1, 2002 to January 31, 2005. Since 2005, she also hosted a political talk show on the Phoenix Television, Jie Ma Chen Wen Qian which focuses on exposing the flaws of Taiwan's democratic system.
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Bowie Tsang
- Occupations
- actorfilm actorsingertelevision actorwriter
- Biography
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Bowie Tsang Po Yee is a Taiwanese television host, singer, actress, and writer. She is also known by her nickname Ah-Po (Chinese: 阿寶; pinyin: Ā Bǎo).
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Annette Lu
- Years
- 1944-.. (age 81)
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- 1963-1967 graduated with bachelor's degree
- Studied in 1967-1968
- Occupations
- politicianwomen's rights activistlawyer
- Biography
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Annette Lu Hsiu-lien 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 one four-year term as 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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Lin Ching-yi
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- Graduated with master's degree
- Occupations
- politicianobstetrician-gynecologistphysician
- Biography
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Lin Ching-yi is a Taiwanese physician 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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Shih Ming-teh
- Years
- 1941-2024 (aged 83)
- Occupations
- politicianhuman rights activistsocial activist
- Biography
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Shih Ming-teh, commonly known as Nori Shih, was a Taiwanese statesman and human rights defender. 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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Yuan T. Lee
- Years
- 1936-.. (age 89)
- Occupations
- chemistuniversity teacherNobel Prize winner
- Biography
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Yuan Tseh Lee is a Taiwanese chemist. He is a professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley and honorary director of the Nagoya University Institute for Advanced Study along with Ryoji Noyori. He was the first Taiwanese Nobel Prize laureate who, along with the Hungarian-Canadian John C. Polanyi and American Dudley R. Herschbach, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1986 "for their contributions to the dynamics of chemical elementary processes".
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Robert Tsao
- Years
- 1947-.. (age 78)
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- 1965-1969 graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- art collectorbusinessperson
- Biography
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Robert Tsao Hsing-cheng is a Taiwanese billionaire businessman best known as the founder of United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC). He is a fine arts critic and collector.
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Justin Yifu Lin
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Justin Yifu Lin is a Taiwanese-born Chinese economist and professor of economics at Peking University. He served as the Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of the World Bank from 2008 to 2012. He has been appointed as China's State Council Counsellor 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 as a councillor of Taipei City Council since 2018. She was elected councillor representing Taipei City District 6 during the local elections, and is one of the first openly LGBT people voted into local legislatures in Taiwanese history.
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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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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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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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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 Kuomintang Politician, current non-divisional Legislator. The ancestral home is Yunnan, and once served as former spokeswoman for the Kuomintang in the Republic of China., Democratic Progressive Party Deputy Director of Youth Department, National Assembly Representative, Speaker of the Executive Yuan, the 7th term non-divisional Legislator, Kuomintang Central Committee Deputy Chief Executive of the Policy Committee, Kuomintang Central Committee Chairman of the Cultural Communication. She was previously a member of the Democratic Progressive Party, but she switched sides, citing disappointment with the DPP.
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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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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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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 Kuomintang and People First Party legislator of the Republic of China (Taiwan) known for his pro-CCP unification views. He has also been a member of the New Party.
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Monster
- Occupations
- singermusician
- Biography
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Monster or Wen Shang-yi, is one of the two guitarists and leader of the Taiwanese rock band, Mayday. Monster became interested in music and the guitar while studying at the Affiliated Senior High School of National Taiwan Normal University where he also met three other Mayday members Ashin, Stone and Masa. He later became vice-president of the guitar society in high school and president of the Rock and Roll society at National Taiwan University during his university days.
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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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Wellington Koo Li-hsiung 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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Koo Kwang-ming
- Years
- 1926-2023 (aged 97)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Koo Kwang-ming was a Taiwanese statesman, businessman, and independence activist.
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Hau Lung-pin
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Hau Lung-pin is a Taiwanese politician and chemist. 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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Shen Fu-hsiung
- Years
- 1939-.. (age 86)
- Occupations
- politicianphysician
- Biography
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Shen Fu-hsiung is a Taiwanese physician and politician.
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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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Rosalia Wu
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- Graduated with Executive Master in Public Administration
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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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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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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Claire Wang
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- Graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Claire Wang or Wang Wan-yu 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 of 2023.
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Samuel Yin
- Occupations
- businesspersonengineer
- Biography
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Samuel Yen-Liang 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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Cheng Li-chun
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- 1988-1992 graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- university teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Cheng Li-chun is a Taiwanese politician who is the vice premier of Taiwan since 2024. Before her vice premiership, she served as the minister of Culture from 2016 to 2020.
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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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Andrea Chen
- Occupations
- modelactortelevision actor
- Biography
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Andrea Chen is a Taiwanese actress and model. She graduated from National Taiwan University.
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Lin Yi-hsiung
- Years
- 1941-.. (age 84)
- 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 KMT party for electoral fraud. Lin was elected a member of Taiwan Provincial Consultative Council in Kuo's old electorate in 1977.
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Chi-Huey Wong
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- In 1977 graduated with Master of Science in biochemistry
- Occupations
- university teacherbiologistbiochemistchemist
- Biography
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Chi-Huey Wong is a Taiwanese-American biochemist. He is currently the Scripps Family Chair Professor at the Scripps Research Institute. He is a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences, as awarded the 2014 Wolf Prize in Chemistry and 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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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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Chen Ding-nan
- Years
- 1943-2006 (aged 63)
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- 1962-1966 graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- politicianmagistrateenvironmentalist
- 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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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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Wang Yi-chuan
- Occupations
- university teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Wang Yi-chuan is a Taiwanese politician.
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Ju Gau-jeng
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Ju Gau-jeng was a Taiwanese 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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Shen Hsin-ling
- Years
- 1989-.. (age 36)
- 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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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 is the Secretary-General of the Democratic Progressive Party since June 2024. 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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Andrew Yao
- Occupations
- computer scientistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Andrew Chi-Chih Yao is a Chinese computer scientist 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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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 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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Lee Ying-yuan
- Occupations
- general secretarypolitician
- Biography
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Lee Ying-yuan was a Taiwanese politician and health economist. 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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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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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
- politicianuniversity teacherpolitical scientist
- 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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Joanna Lei
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Chien Joanna Lei is a Taiwanese politician.
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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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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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Chou Chun-mi
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in jurisprudence
- Occupations
- judgepoliticianlawyer
- 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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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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Puma Shen
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- 1998-2002 graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- university teacherpoliticianwritersocial activist
- Biography
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Shen Pao-yang, also known by his English name Puma Shen, is a Taiwanese politician, lawyer, and criminologist. 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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Yaung Chih-liang
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- In 1972 graduated with master's degree
- Occupations
- university teacherpoliticianwritertelevision actor
- Biography
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Yaung Chih-liang is a Taiwanese politician. He was the Minister of the Department of Health of the Executive Yuan from 2009 to 2011.
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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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Tu Tsung-ming
- Occupations
- pharmacologistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Tu Tsung-ming was a Taiwanese pharmacologist and educator and Taiwan's first Doctor of Medical Sciences (equivalent to Ph.D.).
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Wang Ju-hsuan
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Laws
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Wang Ju-hsuan, also known as Jennifer Wang, is a Taiwanese lawyer and politician. She was the Minister of the Council of Labor Affairs from 2008 to 2012. In 2015, Wang was selected as Eric Chu's running mate on the Kuomintang (KMT) ticket for the 2016 Republic of China presidential election, which they eventually lost.
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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 politician and a member of the Democratic Progressive Party. She is the incumbent Minister of Ocean Affairs Council, assumed office under the Chen Chien-jen cabinet in 2023. Serving as a member of the Legislative Yuan between 2005 and 2023.
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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 politician and lawyer who is currently a member of the Legislative Yuan.
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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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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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Mark Chen
- Years
- 1935-.. (age 90)
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- 1954-1959 graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Mark Tang-shan/Tan-sun 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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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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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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David Lee
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- 1969-1973 graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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David Lee Ta-wei 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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Jiang Yi-huah
- Occupations
- university teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Jiang Yi-huah is a Taiwanese politician and former Premier of the Republic of China (Taiwan). On 29 November 2014, he tendered his resignation and was succeeded by Mao Chi-kuo on 8 December 2014.
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Lee Si-Chen
- Occupations
- engineerresearcher
- Biography
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Lee Si-chen, is a Taiwanese engineer specializing in semiconductors, a researcher in amorphous silicon in the early development in Taiwan, and an IEEE Fellow. He has been a professor of electrical engineering since 1982 and the president of National Taiwan University from 2005 to 2013.
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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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Ye Yuan-chih
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- Graduated with master's degree
- Graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- Member of the Legislative Yuanpoliticianpundit
- 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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Chen Chi-chung
- Occupations
- politicianagricultural economist
- Biography
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Chen Chi-chung is a Taiwanese politician. He is the Minister of Agriculture of Taiwan since 1 August 2023, having served as the Minister of the Council of Agriculture between 14 January 2019 to 31 July 2023.
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R. C. T. Lee
- Occupations
- computer scientistengineer
- Biography
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Lee Chia-Tung, also known as Richard C. T. Lee, received his B.Sc. degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering of National Taiwan University and Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from University of California, Berkeley.
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Sondhi Limthongkul
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- Studied mechanical engineering
- Occupations
- editorpoliticianjournalisttelevision presentercolumnist
- 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). He was elected leader of the New Politics Party (NPP).
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Daisy L. Hung
- Years
- 1947-.. (age 78)
- Occupations
- scientist
- Biography
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Daisy Lan Hung is a Taiwanese psychologist. She is the founding director of the Institute of Neuroscience at the National Central University in Taiwan. Her research areas are involved with cognitive psychology, psycholinguistics, neuropsychology and neurolinguistics. In addition to conducting research, Hung also translates scientific works, educates children on reading habits and lectures on her research topics.
