This is a list of famous people from Jiangsu in chronological order. Note that modern-day Jiangsu Province dates from the seventeenth century, so most of the people in this list would not recognise it.
| Zhou Enlai (1898–1976) |
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| Hu Jintao (born 1942) Current President of the People's Republic of China. | Jiang Zemin (born 1926) Former President of the People's Republic of China. |
Xu Beihong (1895 – 1953), painter.
Mei Lanfang (1894 – 1961), Beijing opera actor.
Xiang Yu (232 – 202 BC), warlord at the end of Qin Dynasty.
The Han Dynasty generals Han Xin , Xiao He and Cao Shen.
Gu Kaizhi (348 – 409), painter.
Emperor Wu of Song (363 – 422), first emperor of the Song Dynasty (420-479).
Fan Zhongyan (989 – 1052), Song Dynasty politician, poet.
Shen Kuo (1031 – 1095), Song Dynasty scientist, general, and statesman.
Xu Xiake (1586 – 1641), travel writer.
Wu Cheng'en (died 1582), author of Journey to the West.
Zheng Banqiao (1693 – 1765), poet, painter, scholar.