List of National Taiwan University people

The list of National Taiwan University people includes alumni and prominent faculty and staff.

University chancellors

• Tien, Chang-lin (田長霖): the 8th Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley
• Henry T. Yang (楊祖佑): the 5th Chancellor of the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Academia

• Benjamin Hsiao (BS, chemical engineering 1980): chief research officer and vice-president for research at Stony Brook University, Fellow of the American Physical Society, Fellow of the American Chemical Society, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science[1]
• Larry Hsien Ping Lang (郎咸平): chair professor of finance at The Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Ruey-Shiung Lin (林瑞雄): Professor Emeritus of Public health, National Taiwan University
• Jiun-Huei Proty Wu: physics professor and Deputy Vice President for International Affairs, National Taiwan University

Engineering

• Wen Chi Chen (陳文琦): president and CEO of VIA Technologies
• Min H. Kao (高民環): co-founder of Garmin Corporation, the GPS manufacturer
• Barry Lam: (林百里): founder and chair of Quanta Computer, the leading laptop producer worldwide
• John Shen: executive of Globalization Services, IBM China Development Laboratory
• Rick Tsai (蔡力行): president and CEO of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company

Physical sciences, mathematics, and engineering

• Ching-Li Chai (翟敬立): Professor of Mathematics, University of Pennsylvania
• Sun-Yung Alice Chang (张圣容): Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University
• Chen-Yu Chi (齊震宇): Junior Fellow, Harvard University
• Wu-Chung Hsiang (項武忠): Professor of Mathematics, Princeton University
• Wu-Yi Hsiang (項武義): Professor of Mathematics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
• Benjamin Hsiao (BS, Chemical Engineering 1980) : Chief Research Officer and Vice-President for Research at Stony Brook University, Fellow of the American Physical Society, Fellow of the American Chemical Society, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science[2]
• Chun-Hway Hsueh: ISI high-cited researcher in materials science; Distinguished R&D Staff, Metals & Ceramics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• Jin Au Kong (孔金甌): Professor of Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Lee Si-Chen (李嗣涔): semiconductor researcher; IEEE Fellow, 2002; Professor of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University; President of National Taiwan University (2005 – )
• Fan Chung (金芳蓉): Professor of Mathematics at the University of California, San Diego
• Yuan-Tseh Lee (李遠哲): Nobel Prize in chemistry, 1986; Professor Emeritus of Physical Chemistry, National Taiwan University
• Winnie Li (李文卿): Professor of Mathematics at Pennsylvania State University, Chern Prize (ICCM) recipient
• Chang-Shou Lin (林長壽): Director, Taida Institute of Mathematical Sciences (TIMS), Fellow of Academia Sinica
• Ching-Liang Lin (Chinese: 林清凉; 1931–2019): Professor of Physics, National Taiwan University
• Tai-Ping Liu (劉太平): Director, Institute of Mathematics, Academia Sinica
• Ho-Kwang Mao (毛河光): Balzan Prize, 2005; Gregori Aminoff Prize, 2005; Roebling Medal, 2005; Staff, Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington
• Chiang-Chung Mei (梅強中): Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Teresa H. Meng(孟懷縈): Reid Weaver Dennis Professor of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University; Founder of Atheros Communications, Inc.
• Shen-su Sun (孫賢鉥): geochemist
• Simon Min Sze (施敏): pioneer in MOSFET; IEEE J J Ebers Award, 1991
• Yu-Chong Tai (戴聿昌): pioneer in microelectromechanical system (MEMS); Professor of Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology
• Chenming Calvin Hu (胡正明):pioneer in FinFET; Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the electronic engineering and computer science department of the University of California, Berkeley.
• Kuan-Chong Ting : Professor and Head, Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• Tsay Ting-kuei (蔡丁貴), Professor of Civil Engineering, National Taiwan University since 1990[3]
• Chin-Lung Wang (王金龍): National Endowed Chair Professor and Professor of Mathematics, National Taiwan University
• Weng I. Wang (王文一): Professor of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University
• Chi-Huey Wong (翁啟惠): Professor of Chemistry, the Scripps Research Institute; President of Academia Sinica (in Taiwan)
• C.F. Jeff Wu (吳建福): Coca-Cola Chair in Engineering Statistics, Georgia Institute of Technology; Member, National Academy of Engineering, USA
• Andrew Yao (姚期智): Turing Award 2000; Professor, Princeton University; Professor, Tsinghua University, Beijing (2004 – )
• Horng-Tzer Yau (姚鴻澤): MacArthur Fellowship, 2000; Professor of Mathematics, Harvard University
• Nai-Chang Yeh (葉乃裳): Professor of Physics, California Institute of Technology

Life sciences

• Chuan-Chiung Chang (張傳烱): co-discoverer of bungarotoxin; Professor Emeritus of Pharmacology, National Taiwan University
• Ding-Shinn Chen, M.D. (陳定信): authority on hepatitis B and hepatocellular carcinoma; Dean, NTU College of Medicine; Foreign Member, National Academy of Sciences, USA
• Lan-Bo Chen (陳良博): Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School
• Pei-Jer Chen, M.D. (陳培哲): authority on hepatitis D virus; Howard Hughes Medical Institute International Research Scholar; Professor of Medicine, NTU
• Wei-Jao Chen, M.D. (陳維昭): President, NTU, 1993–2005; pioneer in surgical separation of ischiopagus tripus conjoined twins
• Yuan-Tsong Chen, M.D. (陳垣崇): inventor of Myozyme, the first EMEA- and U.S. Food and Drug Administration-approved treatment for Pompe disease (approved in 2006); Director, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica; former Chief and professor, the Pediatrics Division of Medical Genetics, Duke University Medical Center
• Yao-Tseng Chen, M.D.: Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College
• Yu-Ray Chen, M.D. (陳昱瑞): President, International Society of Craniofacial Surgery, 1999–2000
• Shu Chien, M.D. (錢煦): University Professor, University of California; President, the American Physiological Society, 1990–1; President Elect, the Biomedical Engineering Society, USA, 2005-6
• Tuan-Hua David Ho (賀端華): ISI (Institute for Scientific Information) highly cited researcher in plant and animal science; UNESCO Professorship, 2004; Director and Distinguished Research Fellow, Institute of Botany, Academia Sinica, 2003–2008, Currently a Professor in the Biology Department Washington University in St. Louis.
• Fushih Pan, PhD: Plastic Surgeon, Developer of the MIRA Procedure
• Ru-Chih Chow Huang (黃周汝吉): American Women in Science, 1985; Professor of Biology, Johns Hopkins University
• Tao-shih Hsieh (謝道時): Professor of Biochemistry, Duke University Medical Center
• Su-Ming Hsu, M.D. (許世明): ISI highly cited researcher in clinical medicine (cited more than 10,000 times between 1981 and 1992); Professor of Pathology, NTU
• Lily Y. Jan (葉公杼): Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, Professor of Physiology and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco
• Yuh Nung Jan (詹裕農): Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, Professor of Molecular Physiology, University of California, San Francisco
• Selina Chen-Kiang: Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College
• George Kuo, Co-discoverer of Hepatitis C
• Michael M. C. Lai, M.D. (賴明詔): President, National Cheng Kung University, 2007–2011; Vice President, Academia Sinica, 2003–2007; Distinguished Professor of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, University of Southern California; Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, 1990–2003
• Chen-Yuan Lee, M.D. (李鎮源): co-discoverer of bungarotoxin; Redi Award, 1976; Former President, International Society on Toxinology
• Tun-Hou Lee (李惇厚): Professor of Virology, Harvard School of Public Health
• Ching-Hon Pui, M.D.: Chair, Department of Oncology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital; ISI highly cited researcher in clinical medicine
• Vivian E. Shih, M.D.: Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
• Ming T. Tsuang, M.D. (莊明哲): University Professor, University of California; Director, Institute of Behavioral Genomics, University of California, San Diego; Director, Harvard Institute of Psychiatric Epidemiology and Genetics
• Ching-Chung Wang (王正中): Professor of Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco
• James C. Wang (王倬): discoverer of topoisomerase; Chair (1983–1985) and Professor (1977–2005), Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University
• Judy Chou (周慧泉): PH.D. Yale University; Senior Vice President & Head of Biotech, Bayer Pharmaceuticals.
• Tzyy Choou Wu, M.D.: Professor of Pathology, Professor of Oncology, and Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions; Professor of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins University
• Jang Yen Wu (吳政彥): ISI highly cited researcher in neuroscience; Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Senior Schmidt Fellow, Department of Biomedical Science, Florida Atlantic University
• Fun-Sun Frank Yao, M.D.: Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology, Weill Cornell Medical College

Politics

• Chang Chau-hsiung, M.D. (張昭雄): vice-chairman, People First Party, 2000–
• Chang Po-ya (張博雅), M.P.H.: Minister of Health, R.O.C., 1979–1986
• General Chen Chao-min, M.B.A. (陳肇敏): Commander-in-Chief, R.O.C. Air Force, 1998–2002; Deputy Defense Minister, R.O.C., 2002–
• Chen Ding-nan (陳定南): Minister of Justice, R.O.C., 2000–2005
• Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁): Mayor of Taipei, 1994–1998; President of R.O.C., 2000–2008
• Fredrick Chien (錢復): Minister of Foreign Affairs, R.O.C., 1990-1996; President of Control Yuan 1999–2005
• Huang Kuo-chang (黃國昌): Chairperson of the New Power Party, Taiwan, 2015–
• Chen, Sisy (陳文茜): famous talk show host in Taiwan
• Frank Hsieh (謝長廷): Mayor of Kaohsiung, 1998–2005; Premier of R.O.C., 2005–2006
• Joe Hung (洪健昭): journalist (Central News Agency), translator and diplomat, Representative of Taiwan to Italy, 1993–2000[4]
• Kao Chia-yu (高嘉瑜): Councillor of the 11th to 13th Taipei City Council; 14th President of NTU Student Association
• Lee Teng-hui (李登輝): President of R.O.C., 1988–2000
• Lien Chan (連戰): Vice President of R.O.C., 1996–2000
• Lin Yang-kang (林洋港): President, Judicial Yuan, R.O.C., 1987–1994
• Lin Yi-hsiung (林義雄): chairman, Democratic Progressive Party, 1998–2000
• Lu, Annette (呂秀蓮): Vice President of R.O.C., 2000–2008
• Li Ao (李敖): A writer, social commentator, historian, independent scholar and politician in the Republic of China (Taiwan).
• Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九): President of R.O.C., 2008–2016
• Peng Ming-min (彭明敏): former Chair and professor, Department of Political Science, NTU; political activist for Taiwan independence
• Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌): Premier of R.O.C., 2006–2007
• Shen Fu-hsiung, M.D. (沈富雄): Member, Legislative Yuan, R.O.C., 1992–2004; former Associate Professor, University of Washington, Seattle; former Director, Hemodialysis Unit, Seattle Veterans Administration Hospital
• Wu Den-yih (吳敦義): Mayor of Kaohsiung, 1990–1998; Member, Legislative Yuan, 2002– ; Secretary-General of the KMT Central Committee, 2007–; Premier of R.O.C., 2009–
• Chen Changwen: president of Red Cross Society of the Republic of China and the secretary of Straits Exchange Foundation.

Humanities and social sciences

• Kwang-chih Chang (張光直): Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University
• Peter Chen (陳品山): originator of the Entity-Relationship Model
• Leo Ou-fan Lee (李歐梵): Professor of Chinese Literature, Harvard University; Fellow of Academia Sinica
• Russell Leong: Professor of English and Asian-American studies, University of California, Los Angeles
• Li Ji: father of Chinese archeology
• Lin Wenyue(林文月): prominent prose writer; translator of classical and modern Japanese literature; Professor of Chinese Literature, NTU
• Pai Hsien-yung (白先勇): prominent novelist; Professor of Chinese Literature, University of California, Santa Barbara
• George C. Tiao (刁錦寰): Professor of Econometrics and Statistics, University of Chicago
• David Der-wei Wang(王德威): critic of contemporary Sinophone literature, Edward C. Henderson Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Harvard University; Fellow of Academia Sinica
• Angela Yang: President of Chinese American Librarians Association from 1992 to 1993, multicultural and outreach services librarian
• Yu Ying-shih (余英時): Professor of Chinese Studies, Professor of History and East Asian Studies, Princeton University

Business

• Felice Chen: Former managing director and Co-Head of Investment Banking for UBS Investment Bank in Taipei
• Robert Chiu: managing director, Head of Telecommunications, Media and Technology investment banking at Nomura
• John Chou (周鴻成): Chief Actuary and Senior Vice President of Liberty National Life Insurance Co., the founding division of Torchmark Corporation
• Koo Chen-fu (辜振甫): Former Chairman of the Koos Group of companies
• T.J. Huang (黃宗仁): Founder and Managing Partner of AsiaVest Partners, one of the leading venture capital firms in the Far East
• Steven Hung: Chairman of Waterland Financial Holding Co., Ltd.
• Fred Pai: Chairman of Central Insurance Co. and brother of Wayne Pai, founder and former chairman of Polaris Financial Group
• Chang Yi Wang: Chairperson and CEO of the United Biomedical, Inc. (UBI) Group of companies.
• Judy H Chou (周慧泉): President and CEO of AltruBio Inc. named The Most Influential Women in San Francisco Bay Area.

Entertainment

• Chen Kuangyi: (陳匡怡) actress and model
• Wakin Chau (周華健): singer; majored in mathematics
• Alec Su (蘇有朋): actor and singer; majored in mechanical engineering (did not graduate)
• Tsai Lan-chin (蔡藍欽): singer and songwriter (1964–1987)(did not graduate)
• William Wei (韋禮安): singer; majored in foreign languages[5][6]
• Wen Tzang Yi (溫尚翊): guitarist and band leader of Mayday (1994–1999)(did not graduate)
• Smire Weng(翁滋蔓): TV show host and actress in Taiwan

References

1. "Benjamin S. Hsiao Named Vice President for Research at Stony Brook University". Archived from the original on 12 July 2012. Retrieved 12 July 2012.
2. "Benjamin S. Hsiao Named Vice President for Research at Stony Brook University". Archived from the original on 12 July 2012. Retrieved 12 July 2012.
3. "蔡丁貴立院旁紮營1988天" [Tsay Ting-kuei camps outside Legislative Yuan building for 1988 days]. Sing Tao Daily Canada Edition. 12 April 2014. Archived from the original on 16 April 2014. Retrieved 14 April 2014.
4. "Late journalist-diplomat Joe Hung remembered as man of erudition and veracity". Eye on Taiwan Media. 6 March 2018. Archived from the original on 14 March 2018. Retrieved 14 March 2018.
5. 王郁惠 (6 June 2010). 韋禮安當歌手 博士爸媽支持. 聯合報 (in Chinese). Taipei. Retrieved 17 July 2011.
6. Huang, Andrew C.C. (18 December 2009). "MUSIC: Standing on the shoulders of idols". Taipei Times. p. 15. Retrieved 16 July 2011.