List of Hong Kong people

This is a list of noted or famous people from Hong Kong. (The list is sorted by when they died; those who are alive, are farther down the list.)

• Leslie Cheung (d. 2003), singer, actor
• Henry Fok (d. 2006), businessman
• Run Run Shaw (邵逸夫; d. 2014), movie producer, businessman
• Charles K. Kao (高錕; d. 2018), engineer and physicist
• Ringo Lam Leng-tung (林嶺東; d. 2018), film director
• David Akers-Jones (鍾逸傑爵士; d. 2019), British colonial administrator
• Stanley Ho (何鴻燊; d. 2020), entrepreneur, businessman
• Allen Lee (李鵬飛; d. 2020), politician

• Nancy Kwan (1939-), actress
• Donald Tsang (曾蔭權; 1944-), was Chief Executive of Hong Kong
• Jackie Chan (成龍; 1954-), actor
• Leung Chun-ying (梁振英; 1954-), was Chief Executive of Hong Kong
• Chow Yun-fat (周潤發; 1955-), actor
• Lilian Lee (李碧華; 1959-), writer of novels (Farewell My Concubine and Rouge)
• Jacky Cheung (張學友; 1961-), singer, actor
• Donnie Yen (甄子丹; 1963-), actor, martial artist, film director
• Maggie Cheung (Cheung Man Yuk) (1964-), actress
• Aaron Kwok (1965-), singer, dancer and actor
• Sandy Lam (林憶蓮; 1966-), singer
• Faye Wong (王菲; 1969-), actress, singer, songwriter
• Kelly Chen (陳慧琳; 1972-), singer, actress, TV presenter, movie director, model
• Herman Li (1976-), musician, power metal guitarist
• Cecilia Cheung (張柏芝; 1980-), singer, actress
• Nicholas Tse (1980-), actor, singer
• Edward Leung (梁天琦; 1991-), politician and activist
• Nathan Law (羅冠聰; 1993-, activist and politician
• Jackson Wang (1994-), rapper, singer and dancer
• Agnes Chow (周庭; 1996-), politician, social activist
• Joshua Wong (黃之鋒; 1996-), politician, activist

Moved to Hong Kong

• Xu Xu, aka Hsu Yu (徐訏; d. 1980), writer (novelist)

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