The list of National Taiwan University people includes alumni and prominent faculty and staff.
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.
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
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
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 1992-1993, multicultural and outreach services librarian
Yu Ying-shih (余英時): Professor of Chinese Studies, Professor of History and East Asian Studies, Princeton University
Physical sciences, mathematics, and engineering
Ching-Li Chai (翟敬立): Professor of Mathematics, University of Pennsylvania
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
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 - )
Yuan-Tseh Lee (李遠哲): Nobel Prize in chemistry, 1986; Professor Emeritus of Physical Chemistry, National Taiwan University
Chang-Shou Lin (林長壽): Director, Taida Institute of Mathematical Sciences (TIMS), Fellow of Academia Sinica
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.
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
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
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
YAO, Andrew (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
Chuan-Chiung Chang (張傳炯): 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, Ph. D.: 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–present; 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
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
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
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
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-
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.
Felice Chen: Former Managing Director and Co-Head of Investment Banking for UBS Investment Bank in Taipei
Wen Chi Chen (陳文琦): President and CEO of VIA Technologies
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.
Min H. Kao (高民環): Co-founder of Garmin Corporation, the GPS manufacturer
Barry Lam: (林百里): Founder and Chairman of Quanta Computer, the leading laptop producer worldwide
Fred Pai: Chairman of Central Insurance Co. and brother of Wayne Pai, founder and former chairman of Polaris Financial Group
John Shen: Executive of Globalization Services, IBM China Development Laboratory
Rick Tsai (蔡力行): President and CEO of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company
Chang Yi Wang: Chairperson and CEO of the United Biomedical, Inc. (UBI) Group of companies.
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
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
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