There are many famous people in Taizhou history. In the Tang Dynasty, there was a calligraphy critic Zhang Huaiguan, who wrote Shuduan, Shuyi and Shuju, and was good at calligraphy. Calligraphy is "upright and upright, and calligraphy can be compared with danger and Chu, and grass wants to walk alone for hundreds of years".
Hu Yuan, a famous educator in Song Dynasty, and Shi Naian, a writer at the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty, wrote the classic water margin. By the Ming Dynasty, the philosopher Wang Gen expounded the theory of "respecting the body and establishing the foundation" and the theory of "kingliness" with the idea of social improvement, and gradually formed the Taizhou School.
in the Qing dynasty, there were Chen Houyao, a famous astronomer, Liu Jingting, a storyteller, Zheng Banqiao, one of the eight eccentrics in Yangzhou, Ren Dachun, a pioneer of Yangzhou School, Liu Xizai, a famous literary critic, Huang Longshi, a chess player, and Huang Baonian, a master of Taigu School.
There are famous geologist Ding Wenjiang, famous patriotic industrialist Liu Guojun, outstanding female educator Wu Yifang, famous playwright Ding Xilin, Peking Opera performance artist Mei Lanfang, famous literary historian and biographer Zhu Dongrun, etc.