1. Wang Lun: He was the magistrate of Jing County during the Yuankai period of Tang Dynasty. He was a good friend of the famous poet Li Bai. Li Bai wrote "A Gift to Wang Lun".
2. Wang Zao: a writer of the Song Dynasty, a native of Dexing, Raozhou.
3. Wang Boyan: Prime Minister in the early Southern Song Dynasty, he was a treacherous minister. During the Song Huizong period, he implemented humiliating conditions such as ceding land, paying tribute, and claiming vassal status.
4. Wang Yuanliang: a poet, lyricist, and court harpist in the late Southern Song Dynasty. Most of his poems were about things before and after the country's demise.
5. Wang Dayuan: a private businessman and navigator in the Yuan Dynasty.
6. Wang Daokun: Ming Dynasty writer and political figure.
7. Wang Wan: a prose writer in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. Together with Hou Fangyu and Wei Xi, he is known as the "Three Great Essayists in the Early Qing Dynasty".
8. Wang Shishen: A famous painter and calligrapher in the Qing Dynasty, one of the "Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou", good at painting plum blossoms.
9. Wang Zhong: A scholar from the Qing Dynasty, a native of Yangzhou, Jiangsu.