List of Shanghainese and Lower Yangtze people in Hong Kong

Main article: Shanghainese people in Hong Kong

Politics

• Tanya Chan (born 1971 in Hong Kong), politician[1]
• Audrey Eu (born 1953 in Hong Kong), politician[2]
• Tung Chee-hwa, Chief Secretary for Administration
• Anson Chan, Hong Kong Chief Secretary, her father Fang Shin-hau was a banker and textile businessman who moved his family to the British colony of Hong Kong in 1948[3]
• Yang Ti-liang, former Chief Justice[4]
• Rita Fan, politician, daughter of Hsu Ta Tung[5]
• Carrie Lam (born 1957 in Hong Kong), HKSAR Chief Executive, ancestry in Zhoushan[6]
• Richard Lai, (1946 in Shanghai – 2008), politician, former member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, born to a family doing jewellery and property business before he moved to Hong Kong in 1950[7]
• Denny Huang (born in Shanghai, 1920), politician[8]
• Ann Tse-kai (born in Shanghai 1912 - 2000) a Hong Kong industrialist, legislator and sinologist.
• Cheng Kai-nam

Literature

• Claire Chao (born 1962 in Hong Kong), author[9]
• Liu Yichang ( 1918 in Shanghai –2018), or Lau Yee Cheung in Cantonese, writer, editor and publisher. He is considered the founder of Hong Kong's modern literature, ancestry in Zhenhai, Ningbo[10][11]
• Ni Kuang (born in Ningbo), novelist
• Jin Yong (Louis Cha Leung-yung, born in Haining, Zhejiang), novelist
• Yi Shu (Isabel Nee Yeh-Su, born in Shanghai), novelist, sister of Ni Kuang

Entertainment

• Edison Chen (born 1980 in Canada), actor and singer[12]
• Kelly Chen (born 1973 in Hong Kong), actor and singer[13]
• Joyce Cheng (born 1987 in Canada), actor, the daughter of Lydia Shum[14]
• Jacky Cheung (born 1961 in Hong Kong),[15] singer, one of the "Four Heavenly Kings" of Cantopop"
• Maggie Cheung (born 1964 in Hong Kong)[16]
• Deacon Chiu (born 1924 in Shanghai – 2015)[17]
• Niki Chow (born 1979 in Hong Kong), actress[18]
• David Chu (born 1944 in Hong Kong)[19]
• Judy Dan (born 1930 in Shanghai), actress[20]^[better source needed]
• Betty Loh Ti, born as Hsi Chung-i on 24 July 1937 into a prominent family from Pudong, the owner of the Xi Fu Ji (奚福記) Factory in Shanghai.[21]
• Jan Lamb, (born 1967) DJ, singer, and actor his father was a Shanghainese suit maker.^[citation needed] brother of Jerry Lamb
• Li Ching (actress) (1948 in Shanghai – 2018) as Li Guoying (Chinese: 李國瑛),[22]
• Kelly Lai Chen ( born Hsi Chungchien in Shanghai 1933 – 2018) was actor who appeared in more than 40 films in the 1950s and 1960s, and was best known for his portrayals of sensitive young men
• Teresa Carpio, Filipino father and Shanghainese mother[23]
• Jackson Wang (born 1994 in Hong Kong), singer and rapper based in South Korea[24]
• Tracy Ip (born 1981 in Hong Kong), actor and beauty pageant contestant
• Lydia Shum (born 1945 in Shanghai – 2008), actress and comedian ancestry in Ningbo[14]

Business

• Hsu Ta Tung, business magnate, father of Rita Fan
• Morris Chang (born 1931 in Ningbo), founder of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), lived in Hong Kong intermittently during his childhood
• Vincent Fang, (born 1943 in Shanghai), the leader of the Liberal Party of Hong Kong. He is a Hong Kong entrepreneur in the garment industry[25]
• Kenneth Fang (1938 in Shanghai - 2022), billionaire businessman and philanthropist, nicknamed the “King of Textiles”
• Z.Y. Fu (1919 in Shanghai - 2011), Chinese-American businessman[26]
• Tao Ho (1936 in Shanghai – 2019) architect, he was the designer of the Bauhinia emblem, ancestry in Guangdong[27]
• Norman Hsu, (1951 in Hong Kong – 2019) American businessman who is a convicted pyramid investment promoter
• Kung Yan-sum, (born 1943 in Shanghai), is the younger brother of Nina Wang Kung Yu-sum, the former Asia's richest woman and the late chairman of Chinachem Group, one of the biggest privately held property developer in Hong Kong.[28]
• Nina Wang, born Kung Yu Sum (Chinese: 龔如心; pinyin: Gōng Rúxīn) 1936[29] – 2007) was Asia's richest woman, with an estimated net worth of US$4.2 billion at the time of her death.[30]
• Teddy Wang, (born 1933 Shanghai -?) Chinese businessman and founder of the Chinachem Group who was kidnapped for ransom in 1990, and later declared legally dead. Ancestry in to Wenzhou.[31]
• Henry Fan (born 1948 in Shanghai), executive at Cathay Pacific, Ningbo ancestry[32][33]
• David Shou-Yeh Wong (born c. 1941 Ningbo), billionaire banker and philanthropist, founder Dah Sing Bank Limited.[34]
• Kwok family of the Wing On Group
• Yue-Kong Pao (born 1918 in Ningbo – 1991), shipping magnate
• Frank Tsao (born 1925 in Shanghai), shipping magnate (International Maritime Carriers [IMC Group]) and financier who later settled in Singapore. Tsao lived in Hong Kong for a few years after leaving mainland
• Tang Ping Yuan (born 1898 in Wuxi – 1971) a Hong Kong textile entrepreneur and politician.
• Y.L. Yang (Yang Yuanlong born in Shanghai), eminent textile industry figure, Wu County descent
• Peter Woo Kwong-ching (born in Shanghai), Former chairman of Wheelock and Company Limited and The Wharf Holdings Limited, Ningbo descent
• Douglas Woo, son of Peter Woo
• Chao Kuang Piu, Shanghai-born textile and later airline magnate, ancestry in Yin County, Ningbo
  • Silas Chou, fashion businessman, early investor in Michael Kors
  • Susana Chou, is a Macau politician who served as the President of the Legislative Assembly of Macau
    • Veronica Chou

Other

• Joseph Zen (born in Shanghai)
• Francis Hsu (1920, Shanghai – 1973), first Chinese bishop of the Roman Catholic Dioceses of Hong Kong[35]
• Andrew Gih (1901 in Shanghai–February 13, 1985) was a Chinese Protestant evangelist who cofounded the Bethel Worldwide Evangelistic Band in 1931 and founded the Evangelize China Fellowship in 1947,
• Du Yuesheng (born 1888 in Shanghai – 1951), triad leader
• Victor Dzau (born 1945 in Shanghai), scientist[36]
• Charles K. Kao (1933 in Shanghai – 2018) Nobel Laureate electrical engineer and physicist who pioneered the development and use of fibre optics in telecommunications, ancestry in Jinshan[37]
• Michele Reis (born 1970 in Hong Kong), Eurasian of Shanghainese descent through her mother.[38]

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