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

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

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

Humanities and social sciences

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.

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

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