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
- lawyerjuristpoliticianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Tsai Ing-wen is a Taiwanese politician who has been serving as president of the Republic of China (Taiwan) since 2016. A member of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), Tsai is the first female president of Taiwan and the second (after Chen Shui-bian) to be born in Taiwan after the end of the Chinese Civil War in 1949. She served as chair of the DPP from 2020 to 2022, from 2014 to 2018, and from 2008 to 2012. Her second presidential term will expire and she will be succeeded by her vice president William Lai on 20 May 2024.
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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
- politicianagricultural economist
- Biography
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Lee Teng-hui was a Taiwanese statesman and agriculturist who served as 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. During his presidency, Lee oversaw the end of martial law and the full democratization of the ROC, advocated the Taiwanese localization movement, and led an ambitious foreign policy agenda to gain allies around the world. Nicknamed "Mr. Democracy", Lee was credited as the president who completed Taiwan's democratic transition.
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Ma Ying-jeou
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- 1968-1972 graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- lawyerpoliticianspyinterpreterjurist
- Biography
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Ma Ying-jeou is a Taiwanese politician who served as president of the Republic of China from 2008 to 2016. Previously, he served as justice minister from 1993 to 1996 and mayor of Taipei from 1998 to 2006. He served as chairman of the Kuomintang (KMT) from 2005 to 2007 and from 2009 to 2014.
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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
- physiciansurgeonpolitician
- Biography
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Ko Wen-je is a Taiwanese politician and physician who served as the mayor of Taipei from 2014 to 2022. He has been the chairman of the Taiwan People's Party (TPP) since founding it in 2019.
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Chen Shui-bian
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- 1969-1974 graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- politicianwriterlawyer
- Biography
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Chen Shui-bian is a Taiwanese former politician and lawyer who served as the president of the Republic of China (Taiwan) from 2000 to 2008. Chen was the first president from the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) which ended the Kuomintang's (KMT) 55 years of continuous rule in Taiwan. He is colloquially referred to as A-Bian (阿扁).
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Lai Ching-te
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- 1979-1983 graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- physicianpolitician
- Biography
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Lai Ching-te, also known as William Lai, is a Taiwanese politician and former physician who is the current vice president and president-elect of Taiwan, having won the 2024 presidential election. His inauguration will be held on 20 May 2024. He is due to be the third incumbent vice president of Taiwan to become president, and the first to assume the office through election instead of a predecessor's death.
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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
- politicianacademic
- 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
- university teacherpoliticianphysician
- Biography
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Chen Chi-mai is a Taiwanese politician and the current Mayor of Kaoshiung 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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Huang Kuo-chang
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- 1991-1995 graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- researcherpoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Huang Kuo-chang is a Taiwanese politician, activist, legal scholar, researcher and writer. He is one of the lead figures of the 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. In 2023, he joined the Taiwan People's Party (TPP), and in the 2024 election he was elected to the Legislative Yuan on the TPP party list.
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Hope Su
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in jurisprudence
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- 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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Chen Chien-jen
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- 1969-1973 graduated with bachelor's degree
- 1973-1977 graduated with master's degree
- Occupations
- Premier of the Republic of China
- Biography
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Chen Chien-jen OS KSG KHS is a Taiwanese epidemiologist and politician who has served as the premier of the Republic of China (Taiwan) since 2023. He joined the Chen Shui-bian presidential administration in 2003 as leader of the Department of Health, serving through 2005. He later headed the National Science Council between 2006 and 2008. Chen then served as a vice president of Academia Sinica from 2011 to 2015. Later that year, Chen joined Tsai Ing-wen on the Democratic Progressive Party presidential ticket and served as Vice President of Taiwan from 2016 to 2020. Chen joined the DPP in 2022 and was appointed premier in January 2023.
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Alec Su
- Occupations
- film directorfilm actorrecording artisttelevision produceractor
- Biography
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Alec Su You-peng is a Taiwanese actor, singer, television producer, and film director.
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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. Partway through her legislative term, Kao was elected Mayor of Hsinchu during the 2022 local election cycle.
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William Wei
- Occupations
- singerfilm actorsongwriter
- Biography
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Wei Li-an, known professionally as WeiBird, is a Taiwanese Mandopop and folk-rock singer-songwriter. He has released six studio albums, one live album and two EPs. Wei won the Golden Melody Award for Best New Singer in 2011 and Best Composer in 2015.
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Huang Shan-shan
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- Graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- 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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Wakin Chau
- Occupations
- singer-songwriterscreenwriteractorsingerrecording 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, 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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Li Ao
- Occupations
- historianpoliticianwriter
- Biography
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Li Ao was a Chinese-Taiwanese writer, essayist, social commentator, historian and independent politician.
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Jaw Shaw-kong
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- Graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- politiciantelevision presenterradio personalitymedia proprietorpundit
- Biography
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Jaw Shaw-kong is a Taiwanese politician, media personality and entrepreuner.
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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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Chang San-cheng
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- 1972-1976 graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- politicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Chang San-cheng 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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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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Lien Chan
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- 1953-1957 graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- diplomatuniversity teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Lien Chan is a Taiwanese 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. Lien ran for the President of the Republic of China on behalf of the Kuomintang twice in 2000 and 2004, but both lost to Chen Shui-bian of the Democratic Progressive Party. Upon his retirement as KMT Chairman in August 2005, he was given the title Honorary Chairman of KMT. He is highly credited after holding a groundbreaking visit to Mainland China in his capacity as the Chairman of the Kuomintang to meet with the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Hu Jintao on 29 April 2005, the first meeting between the two party leaders after the end of Chinese Civil War in 1949, which subsequently helped thaw the long-stalled cross-strait relations.
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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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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 and former academic who is the Secretary General to the President of Taiwan, serving since 31 January 2023. A member of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), he served as mayor of Taichung City from 2014 to 2018.
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Sisy Chen
- Occupations
- writerpoliticianpolitical punditcolumnisttelevision presenter
- Biography
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Sisy Chen or Chen Wen-hsien 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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Wu Den-yih
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- 1966-1970 graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- politicianhistorian
- 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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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 is the current Vice Premier of the Republic of China (Taiwan). 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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Bowie Tsang
- Occupations
- writertelevision actorsingerfilm actoractor
- 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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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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Annette Lu
- Years
- 1944-.. (age 80)
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- 1963-1967 graduated with bachelor's degree
- Studied in 1967-1968
- Occupations
- women's rights activistpoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Annette Lu Hsiu-lien is a Taiwanese politician. A feminist active in the tangwai movement, she joined the Democratic Progressive Party in 1990, and was elected to the Legislative Yuan in 1992. Subsequently, she served as Taoyuan County Magistrate between 1997 and 2000, and was the Vice President of the Republic of China from 2000 to 2008, under President Chen Shui-bian. Lu announced her intentions to run for the presidency on 6 March 2007, but withdrew to support eventual DPP nominee Frank Hsieh. Lu ran again in 2012, but withdrew for a second time, ceding the nomination to DPP chairwoman Tsai Ing-wen. She lost the party's Taipei mayoral nomination to Pasuya Yao in 2018, and stated that she would leave the party. However, by the time Lu announced in September 2019 that she would contest the 2020 presidential election on behalf of the Formosa Alliance, she was still a member of the Democratic Progressive Party.
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Lin Ching-yi
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- Graduated with master's degree
- Occupations
- physicianobstetrician-gynecologistpolitician
- Biography
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Lin Ching-yi is a Taiwanese physician and politician. 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 88)
- Occupations
- chemistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Yuan Tseh Lee is a Taiwanese chemist. He is a Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. 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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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. 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 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. Hsieh is currently the head of the Representative of Taiwan to Japan.
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Yu Kwang-chung
- Occupations
- writerpoet
- 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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Justin Yifu Lin
- Occupations
- politicianuniversity teachereconomistinternational forum participantsoldier
- 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 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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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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Jess Lee Kar Wei
- Occupations
- singer
- Biography
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Jess Lee Kar Wei, is a Chinese Malaysian singer.
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Robert Tsao
- Years
- 1947-.. (age 77)
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- 1965-1969 graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Robert Tsao Hsing-cheng is a Taiwanese businessman best known as the founder of United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC). He is a fine arts critic and collector.
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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
- economistpolitician
- Biography
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Chiu Yi 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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Lin Fei-fan
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- In 2017 graduated with master's degree
- Occupations
- LGBTQI+ rights activistsocial activist
- Biography
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Lin Fei-fan is a Taiwanese activist who led the Sunflower Student Movement in 2014, against the Cross-Strait Service Trade Agreement. He joined the Democratic Progressive Party as the party's deputy secretary-general in 2019.
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Huang Wei-cher
- 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. 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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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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Monster
- Occupations
- musiciansinger
- 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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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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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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Shih Ming-teh
- Years
- 1941-2024 (aged 83)
- Occupations
- politiciansocial activisthuman rights 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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Hau Lung-pin
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Hau Lung-pin is a Taiwanese 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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Shen Fu-hsiung
- Years
- 1939-.. (age 85)
- Occupations
- physicianpolitician
- 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 currently serves as the minister of Economic Affairs. Prior to her ministership, she also served as the deputy and vice minister of the Ministry of Economic Affairs.
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Samuel Yin
- Occupations
- engineerbusinessperson
- 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.
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Chi-Huey Wong
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- In 1977 graduated with Master of Science in biochemistry
- Occupations
- biochemistbiologistuniversity teacherchemist
- 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, California in the department of chemistry. 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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Chyi Yu
- Occupations
- singerrecording artist
- 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
- actormodeltelevision actor
- Biography
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Andrea Chen is a Taiwanese actress and model. She graduated from National Taiwan University.
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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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Wellington Koo
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- 1976-1980 graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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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.
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Cheng Yun-peng
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in civil engineering
- Occupations
- politicianbusinessperson
- Biography
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Cheng Yun-peng is a Taiwanese politician 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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Huang Chieh
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- 2011-2015 graduated with bachelor's degree in public health and sociology
- Occupations
- reporterpolitician
- 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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Shen Hsin-ling
- Years
- 1989-.. (age 35)
- 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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Peng Ming-min
- Years
- 1923-2022 (aged 99)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Peng Ming-min was a notable Taiwanese democracy activist, advocate of Taiwan independence, 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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Cheng Li-chun
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- 1988-1992 graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- politicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Cheng Li-chun is a Taiwanese politician who served as the Minister of Culture from 2016 to 2020.
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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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Chen Ding-nan
- Years
- 1943-2006 (aged 63)
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- 1962-1966 graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- magistratepoliticianenvironmentalist
- Biography
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Chen Ding-nan, sometimes transliterated Chen Ting-nan or referred to as David Chen, was an environmentalist, Taiwanese statesmen and Minister of Justice noted for his efforts to fight corruption and characterized 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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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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Lee Ying-yuan
- Occupations
- politiciangeneral secretary
- Biography
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Lee Ying-yuan was a Taiwanese 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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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 teacherpoliticianpolitical scientist
- Biography
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Chen Ming-tong is a Taiwanese politician and currently the Director-General of the National Security Bureau. He was the Minister of the Mainland Affairs Council from 2018 to 2021 and 2007 to 2008.
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Andrew Yao
- Occupations
- university teachercomputer scientist
- 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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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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Joanna Lei
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Chien Joanna Lei is a Taiwanese politician.
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Yaung Chih-liang
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- In 1972 graduated with master's degree
- Occupations
- television actorwriterpoliticianuniversity teacher
- 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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Chou Chun-mi
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in jurisprudence
- Occupations
- politicianjudgelawyer
- 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 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 had served as the Interior Minister of Taiwan since January 2023 under the Chen Chien-jen cabinet. Before his ministership, he served as the mayor of Keelung City between 2014 and 2022, and he also served as the acting chairman of the Democratic Progressive Party from November 2018 to January 2019.
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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
- politicianlawyer
- 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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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 director-general in May 2023.
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Hsu Yung-ming
- Occupations
- political scientistpolitician
- 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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Wang Ju-hsuan
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Laws
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- 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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David Lee
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- 1969-1973 graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- politiciandiplomat
- Biography
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David Lee Ta-wei is a Taiwanese politician and diplomat who is the chairman of Straits Exchange Foundation since 31 January 2023. He formerly served as the chairman of the Straits Exchange Foundation in 2020, the Secretary-General of the National Security Council of Taiwan in 2018-2020, the Minister of Foreign Affairs from 20 May 2016 to 26 February 2018, and the Secretary-General to the President since 3 August 2020 to 31 January 2023.
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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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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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Tu Tsung-ming
- Occupations
- university teacherpharmacologist
- Biography
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Tu Tsung-ming, was the first Doctor of Medical Sciences (equivalent to Ph.D.) of Taiwan. He was born in Tamsui in 1893, trained as a physician at Taiwan Governor's Medical School, and received his doctorate degree from Kyoto Imperial University (now Kyoto University) in 1922. He became the first Taiwanese professor in Japan's pre-1945 imperial university system, at Taihoku Imperial University (now National Taiwan University). His pharmacology research lab was the cradle of medical research in Taiwan. The laboratory did pioneering research on methods to treat opium addiction, on the toxicology of snake venom, and on the pharmacology of traditional Chinese medicine.
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Su Huan-chih
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- Graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- 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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R. C. T. Lee
- Occupations
- engineercomputer scientist
- Biography
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R. C. T. Lee, 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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Chen Chi-chung
- Occupations
- agricultural economistpolitician
- 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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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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Mark Chen
- Years
- 1935-.. (age 89)
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- 1954-1959 graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- politiciandiplomat
- Biography
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Mark Tang-shan/Tan-sun Chen is a Taiwanese politician, former 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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Lee Si-Chen
- Occupations
- researcherengineer
- 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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Jiang Yi-huah
- Occupations
- politicianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Jiang Yi-huah is a Taiwanese politician and former Premier of Taiwan (ROC). On 29 November 2014, he tendered his resignation and was succeeded by Mao Chi-kuo on 8 December 2014.
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Chiu Tai-san
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- 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 the Mainland Affairs Council as a vice chairman, and later as deputy mayor of Kaohsiung under Chen Chu. After leaving politics for a teaching position, Chiu was named the deputy mayor of Taoyuan 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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Su Chiao-hui
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- Graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- 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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Kuan Bi-ling
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- Graduated with Doctor
- Occupations
- politicianuniversity teacher
- 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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Daisy L. Hung
- Years
- 1947-.. (age 77)
- 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.
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Chen I-hsin
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- Graduated with bachelor's degree
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Chen I-hsin or Charles Chen is a Taiwanese politician.
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Chung Chao-cheng
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- Studied Department of Chinese Language and Literature
- Occupations
- writerteacher
- Biography
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Chung Chao-cheng was a Taiwanese novelist and Hakka native born in the Hsinchu Prefecture during the Japanese rule period (now part of Lungtan District, Taoyuan City). Revered as the "Mother of Taiwanese Literature" in Taiwan, he is also frequently mentioned alongside Taiwanese writer Yeh Shih-tao, collectively known as "North Chung, South Yeh".
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Chiou I-jen
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Chiou I-jen, born May 9, 1950, is a Taiwanese politician who was the vice premier of the Republic of China between 17 May 2007 and 6 May 2008.
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Lee Shying-jow
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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Lee Shying-jow or Lee Hsiang-chou is a Taiwanese general and diplomat. He is the incumbent Ambassador to Denmark, and was formerly the 4th Commanding General of the Republic of China Army (ROCA), 8th Deputy Minister of National Defense (MND), the 15th Director-General of the National Security Bureau (NSB) and the 2nd Minister of the Veterans Affairs Council (VAC).
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Chang Po-ya
- Years
- 1942-.. (age 82)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Chang Po-ya is a Taiwanese politician who is the founder of the Non-Partisan Solidarity Union, a political party in Taiwan.
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Do-ol
- Enrolled in National Taiwan University
- Graduated with master's degree
- Occupations
- professorscreenwriterauthorpractitioner of Korean medicinejournalist
- Biography
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Kim Yong-ok is a South Korean philosopher. His art name is Do-ol. His name is sometimes rendered as To-ol Kim Young-oak.
