List of Shanghainese and Lower Yangtze people in Hong Kong explained

See 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
• Denny Huang (born in Shanghai, 1920), politician^[7]
• 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^[8]
• 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^{[9] [10]}
• 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^[11]
• Kelly Chen (born 1973 in Hong Kong), actor and singer^[12]
• Joyce Cheng (born 1987 in Canada), actor, the daughter of Lydia Shum^[13]
• Jacky Cheung (born 1961 in Hong Kong),^[14] singer, one of the "Four Heavenly Kings" of Cantopop"
• Maggie Cheung (born 1964 in Hong Kong)^[15]
• Deacon Chiu (born 1924 in Shanghai – 2015)^[16]
• Niki Chow (born 1979 in Hong Kong), actress^[17]
• David Chu (born 1944 in Hong Kong)^[18]
• Judy Dan (born 1930 in Shanghai), actress^[19]
• 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 (Chinese: 奚福記) Factory in Shanghai.^[20]
• Jan Lamb, (born 1967) DJ, singer, and actor his father was a Shanghainese suit maker. brother of Jerry Lamb
• Li Ching (actress) (1948 in Shanghai – 2018) as Li Guoying,^[21]
• 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^[22]
• Jackson Wang (born 1994 in Hong Kong), singer and rapper based in South Korea^[23]
• 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^[13]

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^[24]
• 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^[25]
• Tao Ho (1936 in Shanghai – 2019) architect, he was the designer of the Bauhinia emblem, ancestry in Guangdong^[26]
• 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.^[27]
• Nina Wang, born Kung Yu Sum 1936^[28] – 2007) was Asia's richest woman, with an estimated net worth of US$4.2 billion at the time of her death.^[29]
• 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.^[30]
• Henry Fan (born 1948 in Shanghai), executive at Cathay Pacific, Ningbo ancestry^{[31] [32]}
• David Shou-Yeh Wong (born c. 1941 Ningbo), billionaire banker and philanthropist, founder Dah Sing Bank Limited.^[33]
• 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^[34]
• 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^[35]
• 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^[36]
• Michele Reis (born 1970 in Hong Kong), Eurasian of Shanghainese descent through her mother.^[37]

Notes and References

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2. https://www.lcsd.gov.hk/CE/Museum/History/documents/54401/54612/g_1.pdf Hong Kong's History and Culture
3. Web site: Anson Chan: Why my mum was my biggest role model. 21 May 2015.
4. The Hon. Sir Ti Liang Yang, GBM, JP Curriculum Vitae, Hong Kong Red Cross, 2005
5. Web site: Rita FAN HSU Lai Tai - Biography - the Honorary Graduates - HKU Honorary Graduates.
6. News: Hong Kong's first female leader a 'tilted bridge' over troubled water. Reuters. July 2017. Wu. Venus.
7. News: 醫學博士黃夢花競選市政局議員. Kung Sheung Daily News. 6. 28 March 1967.
8. Book: 'Remembering Shanghai' A Memoir of Socialites, Scholars & Scoundrels.
9. News: Liu Yichang, author whose works inspired Wong Kar-wai films, dies at 99. Su. Xinqi. 9 June 2018. South China Morning Post. 10 June 2018.
10. News: zh-hans . https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_2184296 . zh:香港文学泰斗刘以鬯逝世，特区政府致哀：是文化界一大损失. Yue. Huairang. 9 June 2018. The Paper. 10 June 2018.
11. Web site: Archived copy . www.hongkonggay.info . 12 January 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160626194821/http://www.hongkonggay.info/archives/tag/%E9%99%B3%E6%BE%A4%E6%B0%91 . 26 June 2016 . dead.
12. Web site: 一对老夫妇自称与陈慧琳爷爷熟识 提供照片为证_影音娱乐_新浪网. ent.sina.com.cn.
13. http://sudden.atnext.com/images/next-photos/SuddenWeekly/656/160pixfolder/cover/1.jpg Sudden Weekly, Issue no. 656, 22 February 2008, cover page
14. Big5.cri.cn. "CRIonline." 五好男人張學友. Retrieved on 12 April 2009.
15. Web site: Style File: Maggie Cheung.
16. News: Former ATV boss Deacon Chiu dies, aged 90. 17 March 2015. Clifford. Lo. Amy. Nip. Samuel. Chan. South China Morning Post.
17. Web site: Niki Chow 周勵淇 - 女人的事業. October 2018.
18. http://www.cnki.com.cn/Article/CJFDTOTAL-WLYF199601011.htm. 肖连兵 [Xiao Lianbing]. 胡萌 [Hu Meng]. zh:面对'97回归——记港事顾问朱幼麟 . Facing the 1997 return of sovereignty: Hong Kong affairs advisor Chu Yu-lin. 未来与发展 [Future and Development] . 1. 1996. 19 April 2013.
19. http://hongkongsfirst.blogspot.com/p/welcome.html Reference to Judy Dan
20. Web site: Beauty in Myriad Shades: A Tribute to Betty Loh Ti on Her 80th Birth Anniversary. Hong Kong Film Archive. en-US. 2018-04-20.
21. Web site: Susan Shaw says Li Ching still has family in Shanghai. 5 March 2018 .
22. Web site: Carpio's way. 9 April 2004 .
23. Web site: 王嘉尔个人资料 王嘉尔妈妈周平. 7 January 2016. Todayonhistory.com. 29 June 2018. 28 April 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180428024914/http://top.todayonhistory.com/a/201601/28142.html. dead.
24. Web site: Kang Fang SBS, JP. Bloomberg Business.
25. Web site: School Benefactor Z.Y. Fu Dies . . 25 August 2011 . 23 April 2017 . 18 January 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180118031834/http://engineering.columbia.edu/school-benefactor-zy-fu-dies . dead .
26. Web site: 香港區旗區徽設計者何弢離世 終年83歲 ｜ 蘋果日報. Apple Daily 蘋果日報. 2021-02-04. 2021-03-23. https://web.archive.org/web/20210323103228/https://hk.appledaily.com/local/20190331/WIOD32EK5NKPESIVYZUO6MRDCM/. dead.
27. Web site: Kung Yan Sum - List of Registered Doctors . 2008-04-06 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080329012404/http://www.mchk.org.hk/doctor/res1-k14.htm . 2008-03-29 . dead .
28. 龔如心傳奇一生, Ming Pao; accessed 4 April 2007.
29. News:
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    . Forbes.com. 8 March 2007.
30. News: Flashback: the kidnapping of Hong Kong billionaire Teddy Wang. South China Morning Post. 2017-08-28.
31. Web site: Old-school ties with HK live on in Ningbo scions. 11 October 2008 .
32. Web site: Members Database. 6 May 2013.
33. Book: Big in Asia: 25 Strategies for Business Success . Michael . Backman. Charlotte . Butler. Palgrave-UK-USA. 1st . 2002.
34. News: Remembering Hong Kong's first Chinese bishop, Francis Hsu. 3 October 2019. Mercedes. Hutton. 6 December 2019. South China Morning Post.
35. 10.1016/S0140-6736(14)61073-4 . Victor Dzau: Change and controversy at the Institute of Medicine . The Lancet . 383 . 9936 . 2203 . 2014 . Watts . Geoff . 24976319 . 205973605 .
36. Kao, Charles K. (2013) [original Chinese translation published in 2005]. 潮平岸闊——高錕自傳 [A Time And A Tide: Charles K. Kao ─ A Memoir] (autobiography) (in Chinese). Translated by 許迪鏘 (First ed.). Joint Publishing (Hong Kong). .
37. Web site: Michele Reis. 9 January 2017.