Modern times: Chen Yinque (master of Chinese studies), Fu Baoshi (representative painter of "New Landscape Painting"), Zhan Tianyou (father of Chinese railways), Fang Zhimin (revolutionary and strategist), Zhang Xun (northern warlord), Zhang (founder of China Botany), Hu Xiansu (founder of China Botany), Wu (founder of China Physics Research), and so on. Li Ruiqing (modern educator and painter), (one of the "Three Masters of Jinling" in the painting circle), Chen ("Four Childes of Reform" and the last traditional poet in China), (selected in the Dictionary of World Celebrities) and Gui Yongqing (general).
Contemporary: Yuan Longping (father of hybrid rice), Huang Jiasi (medical scientist), Ouyang Ziyuan (chief scientist of lunar exploration project), Gao Xingjian (Nobel Prize in Literature), Gu Long (famous martial arts novelist), (scholar), Shu Tong (calligrapher), Sheng Zhongguo (music conductor), Wang Dongxing, Zeng Qinghong, Wu Guanzheng, Li Jingquan, Duan Yongping (.