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Kobe Tai: (born January 15, 1972) Former porn actress. Mother Taiwanese, father Japanese, adopted by an American family at the age of five months, given the name Carla Scott Carter. She entered the adult film industry at the age of 24 in 1996 and appeared in over 70 adult films over seven years. She was ranked 1st of The Top 50 Hottest Asian Porn Stars of All Time by
Complex magazine in 2011.
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Momofuku Ando: (安藤 百福; March 5, 1910 – January 5, 2007) Inventor of instant noodles and founder of
Nissin Foods in 1948 and the
Cup Noodle brand in 1971. He was born Gô͘ Pek-hok (吳百福) in
Chiayi County but was raised in
Tainan, Taiwan by his grandparents after his parents died. He became a naturalized Japanese in 1966 and chose his name from an amalgamation of his given name and his Japanese wife's family name. He saw his calling in post-WWII when the Japanese Ministry of Health tried to persuade people to eat wheat bread imported from the United States, reasoning that the local noodle industry was too small and unstable to satisfy supply needs. Ando was motivated and inspired by his belief that world peace would come when everyone had enough to eat. He experimented, developed and perfected his flash fry technique. The first product marketed was
Chikin Ramen in 1958. He died from heart failure at the age of 96 at a hospital in Ikeda, Osaka, Japan.
Takeshi Kaneshiro: (金城 武 Jin Chengwu; born October 11, 1973) Actor, singer and model. Mother Taiwanese, father Okinawan, holds dual citizenship. He was born and raised in Taipei, attended
Taipei American School. Debuted as a singer in 1992 under the name Aniki and began acting career in 1993. He works mainly in Taiwan and Hong Kong but has also worked in Japan, China and for Hollywood. He speaks Mandarin, Hokkien, Japanese, Cantonese and English. He has done voice over work for the Chinese renditions of
Disney's Aladdin (when Genie sings), and as
Buzz Lightyear in
Toy Story 2 and
Toy Story 3.
Lisa Su: (蘇姿豐 Su Tzu-feng / Su Zifeng; born November X, 1969) CEO and President of
AMD, previously worked at
Texas Instruments,
IBM, and
Freescale Semiconductor. She was born in
Tainan, Taiwan to a statistician father and accountant mother. Her family including her brother immigrated to the United States when she was 2 and they were encouraged to study maths and science by their parents. She studied at
Bronx High School of Science and graduated in 1986 and enrolled in Electrical Engineering at
MIT. She was named Executive of the Year by
EE Times in 2014 and one of the World’s Greatest Leaders in 2017 by
Fortune Magazine.
Jerry Yang: (楊致遠 Yang Chih-Yuan; Yang Zhiyuan; born November 6, 1968) Internet entrepreneur, programmer, co-founder and former CEO of
Yahoo!. He was born in Taipei to a Professor of English mother. His father died when he was 2. His mother took him and his brother and immigrated to the United States where their extended family helped look after them while his mother taught English to other immigrants. Jerry remembers his first word in English was "shoe". He earned his BSc and MSc in Electrical Engineering from
Stanford University in only four years. Jerry is credited for making the best investment an American company has ever made in China worth USD 17 billion when he invested in a 40% stake in
Alibaba valued at USD 1 billion at the time, and bought the assets of Yahoo! China valued at USD 700 million.
Vanness Wu: (吴建豪 Wu Chien-Hao / Wu Jianhao; born August 7, 1978) actor, entertainer, singer, director and producer. He is most well known for being a member of the boyband
F4 and worked with Korean singer
Kangta from
H.O.T. He was born in
Santa Monica, California and moved to Taiwan at the age of 21. He is a
polyglot and is fluent in English, Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean, Japanese and Spanish. He featured on
Beyoncé's single
Crazy In Love in 2003, made his acting debuted in 2004 and has appeared in several films and Taiwanese drama, most notably
Meteor Garden and
Autumn's Concerto. He became a judge on
Asia's Got Talent alongside
David Foster,
Anggun, and
Mel C (
Spice Girls).
Jolin Tsai: (蔡依林 Tsai I-ling / Cai Yilin; born August 7, 1978) singer, songwriter, dancer, actress and entrepreneur. She played a significant role in popularizing
dance music in China. Her music career kicked off at the age of 18 when she won an
MTV singing contest. She is one of the best selling artists in Asia and quickly became a teen idol. She has won six
Golden Melody Awards, an
MTV Asia Award and a
MTV Video Music Award.
Forbes reported in 2014 that Jolin is one of the highest paid Chinese celebrity with a net worth of NTD 2 billion.
Wu Bai: (伍佰 Wu Bai; born January 14, 1968) Wu Bai is the stage name of Wu Chun-lin (吳俊霖 Wu Junlin). Wu Bai was born in
Chiayi County to a retired
Taisugar worker, and a
betel nut vendor mother. He is considered one of the biggest Chinese rock stars in Asia and has written songs for
Andy Lau,
Emil Chau,
Karen Mok,
Tarcy Su and
Vivian Hsu. He was inspired in the 1970s when he listened to
Led Zeppelin and
Jimi Hendrix which was unusual at the time and he popularized guitar-oriented rock music in Taiwan in the 1990s when his band Wu Bai & China Blue gained widespread popularity.
Christina Chang: (born June 29, 1971) is a Taiwanese-American actress who has appeared in ten films and 47 TV Shows, eleven of which are recurring roles such as on
24,
CSI: Miami,
Desperate Housewives and
Nashville. She was born in Taipei to a Chinese-Filipino father and American mother. At 17 she moved to her mother's home state to study theater and film at the
University of Kansas. She's a graduate of
University of Washington.
Chang Fei: (張菲 Zhang Fei; born December 4, 1951) Chang Fei is the stage name of 張彥明 Chang Yan-Ming / Zhang Yanming, a singer and TV personality. Born in Taipei he was the host of
Variety Big Brother (2002-2011).
Chiang Kai-shek (October 31, 1887 – April 5, 1975)
Ma Ying-jeou (born July 13, 1950) has served two full consecutive four year terms as
President of the Republic of China from 2008-2016. His previous political roles include
Justice Minister (1993–96) and
Mayor of Taipei (1998–2006). He was also the Chairman of the
Kuomintang (KMT) between 2005–2007 and 2009–2014. He was also the Chairman of the Kuomintang (KMT) between 2005–2007 and 2009–2014. He became the first ROC Head of State to meet with a
Communist Party
General Secretary when he met
Xi Jinping in
Singapore in
November 2015. In 2014, the
Sunflower Student Movement, initiated by a coalition of students and civic groups in the
Legislative Yuan and later also the
Executive Yuan, was a student-mainly mass movement to protest Ma's
Cross-Strait Service Trade Agreement with mainland China.
Tsai Ing-wen (born August 31, 1956) is the first female
President of the Republic of China, and is noted for other firsts such as being unmarried, of
Hakka and
Paiwan aborigine descent, not served as
Mayor of Taipei and to not have held an elected executive post. She also made the first diplomatic telephone call since 1979 to congratulate
Donald Trump on his presidential victory to become
President of the United States. She was born in Taipei as the youngest of eleven children and studied law at
National Taiwan University,
Cornell Law School,
London School of Economics and has taught law at
Soochow University and
National Chengchi University. She has worked at the
Fair Trade Commission, Copyright Commission,
Mainland Affairs Council,
National Security Council and served as Vice Premier of the
Executive Yuan. She joined the
Democratic Progressive Party in 2004 and is its Chairperson, having served around eight years. She first ran for President in 2012 gaining 45.63% of votes but lost to
Ma Ying-jeou (51.60% votes). She supports
LGBT rights and endorses
same-sex marriage. Tsai is a notable cat lover, her two cats
Think Think and Ah Tsai appeared in her election campaign. She has since adopted three retired guide dogs.
Jerry Martinson (born December 2, 1942) Father George Gerald Martinson, S.J. (丁松筠 Ding Songjun) is an American Jesuit and TV personality (producer, actor, host) in Taiwan. He has worked at
Kuangchi Program Service in Taipei for more than four decades and is now its Vice President. He is the spokesperson for
Giraffe English (長頸鹿美語).
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