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Zhou Lingzhao (May 2, 1919 - January 3, 2023), a native of Pingjiang, Hunan, was a painter and designer in the People's Republic of China.

Chow Chung-cheng (English: Chow Chung-cheng, July 20, 1908 - August 31, 1996) whose real name was Zhou Lianquan, was later changed to Zhou Zhongzheng. He is a German-Chinese artist. Known for his embroidery art and autobiographical writings.

Zhou Zuoren (January 16, 1885 - May 6, 1967), whose original name was Kui Shou (later changed to Kui Shou), also known as Xing Piao, also known as Qiming, Qimeng, Qimeng, pen name Yashou, Zhongmi, Qiming, and nicknamed Zhitang , Yaotang, etc., the name of the study is Ku Yuzhai, male, from Shaoxing, Zhejiang, modern Chinese essayist, literary theorist, critic, poet, translator, Japan expert, pioneer of Chinese folklore, representative of the New Culture Movement. The younger brother of Lu Xun (Zhou Shuren) and the elder brother of Zhou Jianren. He has successively served as professor and director of the Department of Oriental Literature at National Peking University, and director and visiting professor of the Department of New Literature at Yenching University. During the New Culture Movement, he was an important fan author of "New Youth" and served as the editor-in-chief of Xinchao News Agency. After the May 4th Movement, he initiated the establishment of the "Literary Research Association" with Zheng Zhenduo, Shen Yanbing, Ye Shaojun, Xu Dishan and others; and co-founded the "Yusi" weekly with Lu Xun, Lin Yutang, Sun Fuyuan and others, serving as editor-in-chief and main contributor.

Zhou Yuchen (June 28, 2012 -), an actor from mainland China, will star in the 2024 movie "Kids Are Not Stupid 3" directed by Tony Leung. Zhou Yuchen was born in Shanghai and entered the entertainment industry when he was 5 years old. In 2023, Zhou Yuchen's mother helped him sign up for the actor selection audition of "Kids Are Not Stupid 3" through social media, and later got the role. He played Wang Zihao, a primary school student who transferred from Shanghai to Singapore in the film. .

Zhou Guanyu (May 30, 1999 -) is a Chinese racing driver. He has served as the reserve driver of the Cadillac F1 team in Formula One since 2026. He played for the Sauber team in Formula One from 2022 to 2024. He is also the only Chinese driver to have participated in a Formula One race so far, and the first Chinese driver to score points in his debut in Formula One. Zhou Guanyu competed in the Italian Formula 4 Championship and the All-German Automobile Club Formula 4 for Prema Racing in 2015, and then competed in the FIA ​​European Formula 3 Championship for Motorsport Park Racing and Prema Racing in 2016 and 2017 respectively. , and from 2019 to 2021, he raced in Formula 2 for the UNI-Masters Team, and won the annual third place in the 2021 Formula 2 Championship. He served as a training driver at the Ferrari Driver Academy from 2014 to 2018, until joining the Renault Sport Academy in 2019 and serving as a development driver for the DS TECHEETAH Formula E team. In the 2020 and 2021 seasons, he served as a test driver for the Renault F1 Team and its successor team Alpine Team.

Wakin "Emil" Chau Wah-Kin (English: Wakin "Emil" Chau Wah-Kin; December 22, 1960 -), a male singer-songwriter, music producer and actor from Hong Kong and Taiwan. He is one of the most influential Chinese singers in the 1990s, and is known as the "King of National Songs", "Taiwan's Four Heavenly Kings", and Hong Kong's "King Killer". He has served as a mentor for two seasons of the "Chinese Good Songs" series and a mentor for "The Voice of China 2023".

Chow Kwen-lim, BBS, MBE, JP (English: Chow Kwen-lim, May 10, 1927 - September 17, 2016), native of Lunjiao, Shunde, Guangdong, entrepreneur in Mainland China and Hong Kong, founder and chairman of Chow Sang Sang Group, a Hong Kong jewelry and gold bank. He was a member of the Sham Shui Po District Council, Prime Minister and Permanent Honorary Prime Minister of Lok Sin Tong in Kowloon, Prime Minister of Po Leung Kuk, and a trustee of New Asia College of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Zhou was born in a rural family. His father, Zhou Fangpu, was a medical practitioner. In 1948, he and his brother began to operate "Chow Sang Sang Gold Shop" in Macau, specializing in jewelry, jade, gold and silver jewelry. In the 1970s, Chow Sang Sang Gold Shop was reorganized into Chow Sang Sang Group Co., Ltd., became a listed company, and opened many branches in Hong Kong and mainland China. Until now, Chow Sang Sang Group occupies an important position in the jewelry retail industry in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao. Zhou Junlian was married during his lifetime and had 4 children with his wife Ruan.

Zhou Heping (1949-), male, was born in Shahe, Hebei Province. He once served as a middle school teacher and principal, deputy secretary of the Party Committee of Ren County in Hebei Province and Yun County in Hubei Province, director of the Ministry of National Personnel, and director of the National Library of China (deputy ministerial level). He is currently a part-time professor at Nanjing University and Wuhan University, and an honorary director of the National Library of China.

Chow Kwok-yin is a Hong Kong male singer-songwriter, musician and actor, the lead singer and guitarist of the band Zarahn. In 2004, he made his debut as a solo artist with the album "Zhou Guoxian's EP of the same name". In 2021, he won the "Hong Kong Film Directors Guild Annual Award for Best Actor" for his role as Chow Tin Yan in the movie "One Second Boxing Champion" and in 2022, he won the 40th Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Original Film Song for his movie theme song "The Original Intention of Time".

Zhou Tzuyu (English: TZUYU, Korean: Tzuyu, Japanese: Tzuyu, June 14, 1999 -) is a Taiwanese female singer who developed in South Korea. She is currently a member of the girl group TWICE under JYP Entertainment and serves as the lead dancer, sub-vocalist and maknae in the team. On September 6, 2024, he started his personal career with his first personal mini album "abouTZU".

Zhou Xuexi (January 12, 1866 - September 26, 1947), whose courtesy name was Ji Zhi and whose name was Zhi'an, was a native of Jiande (present-day Dongzhi), Anhui Province. He was an industrialist, politician and public figure in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. Yuan Shikai's staff. The founder of Kailuan Mining Bureau, Qixin Cement Company, Huaxin Textile Company, and Yaohua Glass Company. The first president of Shandong University. The son of Zhou Fu, the governor of Liangjiang in the Qing Dynasty.

Zhou Enlai (March 5, 1898 - January 8, 1976), also known as Xiangyu and nicknamed Dayuan, was originally from Shaoxing, Zhejiang, and was born in Huai'an, Jiangsu. Chinese proletarian revolutionist, statesman, militarist and diplomat, main leader of the Communist Party of China and the People's Republic of China, and one of the founders of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. The pen names or pseudonyms that have been used include Feifei, Fei, Wu Hao, Wu, Zhou Shaoshan, Shaoshan, Guansheng, Guan, Weisi, Chen Kuan, Hu Bicheng, Zhao Lai, Zhou Xiang, Li Zhifan, Damei, Hu Gong, Moskwen, etc.

Vivian Chow (English: Vivian Chow; November 10, 1967 -), Hong Kong singer-songwriter, actor, music producer, host, writer and designer. She entered the industry in the 1980s and is one of the few female artists in Hong Kong who has worked in singing, film, television and broadcasting at the same time. In the 1990s, it became popular in many Asian regions such as Hong Kong, Macao, China, Taiwan, Singapore, and Malaysia, and even went to Japan for development. She has the reputation of "the head of the jade girl".

Stephen Chow, known as "The Star", is a Hong Kong comedian, director, producer, and screenwriter. He started with comedy works, and later gradually became a director and producer, forming a unique humor style and creative system.

Zhou Jie (August 5, 1970 -), male, native of Shandong, born in Xi'an, Shaanxi, is a Chinese actor, singer, and entrepreneur.

Pakho Chau Pak-ho (English: Pakho Chau Pak-ho, November 12, 1984 -) is a Hong Kong male singer, actor, and music producer. He was a male singer under Xingmeng Entertainment and Zhongxingtang and an artist under TVB New Media Group. Pakho Chau has worked as a model, swimming coach, piano teacher, clothing brand owner, and engineer in Chen Guangrong's recording studio. He began to work as a part-time model under Starz Track when he was 18 years old. In 2007, he officially signed with Warner Music and made his debut as a singer. In 2016, Pakho Chau founded his own brand CATXMAN, and in the same year, he married his girlfriend of eight years in Phuket Island, Thailand. In 2017, he switched to Xingmeng Entertainment. Pakho Chau won the "Newtown Hottest Male Singer" award for the first time in 2012 at the "Newtown Hottest Awards". Later, in 2014, he won the "Golden Music Male Singer Gold Award" for the first time in the "Children Music Chart Awards Ceremony", becoming the first male singer who debuted in Cantonese pop music in the 2000s to win the award. He also won the "Children Music Chart Awards Ceremony" and the "Children Music Chart Singer-Songwriter Gold Award". He held two solo concerts at the Hung Hom Stadium. Later, in 2019, he won the "Most Popular Male Singer" and "Most Popular TV Song" at the "2019 Golden Melody Awards" for the first time in a row with "Let Love Fly High", and also won the "Best Male Singer" at the "Golden Melody Awards"; and he won the "Most Popular TV Male Character" and "Most Popular TV Song" at the "Thousands of Stars Awards 2019" for the first time in a row with Miriam Yeung in the drama "Versatile Wife". Later, he won the "Top Ten Chinese Golden Melody Male Singer Gold Award" for the first time in 2020 at the "Top Ten Chinese Golden Melody Awards Concert". Therefore, he collected all the male singer awards from Hong Kong Channel 4 in 2020. In 2021, Pakho Chau will serve as the mentor of the TVB singing talent show "Legend of Dreams".

Billy Chow (English: Billy Chow, August 24, 1958 -), a world boxing champion and action film actor, nicknamed "Tiger", was born in Calgary, Canada. He started learning karate when he was about 5 years old, and martial arts when he was 11 years old. He later became famous in the American and Canadian kickboxing competitions, and won the Canadian lightweight kickboxing championship in 1982. He has a professional record of 43 wins and 8 losses, 31 technical knockouts (KOs), and has never been KOed. He won the WKA Kickboxing World Championship in 1985. Since the mid-1980s, he has participated in several Hong Kong kung fu films and acted as a martial arts instructor. He often played the role of a fashionable and modern villain thug from the Hua Qing Gang. He returned to boxing in 2003 at the age of 45. On May 30, 2007, he won the gold belt by KOing Thailand's southern boxing champion Na Chai in the "International Muay Thai Gold Belt Macau Charity Competition" held in Macau. Although his acting performance is not as good as that of other martial arts superstars, the Zhou Billy Boxing Gym he opened is an iconic fighting training venue in Hong Kong and has an international reputation.

Zhou Haiying (September 27, 1929 - April 7, 2011), a native of Shaoxing, Zhejiang, was born in Shanghai. He was a writer, photographer, and radio expert. The only son born to Zhou Shuren (Lu Xun) and his partner Xu Guangping, he is the author of books such as "Lu Xun and Me for Seventy Years".

Kathy Chau Hoi-mei (English: Kathy Chau Hoi-mei; December 6, 1966 - December 11, 2023), known as "Haiwei", was a Hong Kong actress and program host. Zhou Haimei is a Manchu, and her full name is Gualjia Martata. She made her debut after losing the Miss Hong Kong beauty pageant in 1985. She was a popular actress on the front line of TVB from the 1980s to the 1990s. She later went to mainland China to develop and settled in Beijing, where she even had her own studio. He died of a heart attack in Beijing on December 11, 2023, at the age of 57.

Chow Yun-fat, SBS, known as "Fa Ge", is a Hong Kong actor and singer. In the 1970s, he participated in many TV series on TVB and later in movies. He won the Best Actor at the Hong Kong Film Awards three times and the Best Actor at the Taiwan Golden Horse Awards twice for "A Better Tomorrow", "The Legend of Dragon Tiger" and "A Lang's Story". In 1976, he signed an exclusive film contract with Xie Li Film Discovery, which was the third largest film company in Hong Kong after Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest. In the 1980s, he collaborated with many actresses in TV series and movies. Among them, his on-screen couple scenes with Chiu Ya-chi, Cheng Yuling and Chung Chu-hong were impressive. His representative works include the TV series "Shanghai" and the movies "A Better Tomorrow" and "God of Gamblers". Among them, "The Bloody Heroes" with director John Woo attracted attention in the West. The movies he starred in in the early 1990s were all very well-known, and he was on par with Jackie Chan and Stephen Chow. The three of them were collectively known as the "Double Monarchs". In 1995, he became one of the first Hong Kong actors to develop in Hollywood, starring in "Anna and the King" and "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".

Zhou Shen (September 29, 1992 -) is a male singer and music producer from mainland China. He was born in Shaoyang, Hunan, grew up in Guiyang, Guizhou, and graduated from the Lviv National Conservatory of Music in Ukraine. He made his official debut in "The Voice of China Season 3" in 2014. His representative songs include "Big Fish", "China Under the Lights", "Little Happy", "Light", etc. He is famous for his clear voice, changeable vocals and singing style that combines bel canto and pop.

Zhou Yangyue (English: Queen, September 25, 2007 -) Shenzhen child star, singer, child actor, child star trained by Shenzhen Star Concept, has participated in TV series and musicals, and has participated in many variety shows. In October 2017, she starred in the remake of "Dream of Red Mansions" in the Hunan TV drama channel's "Xiaoxigu" column, and attracted the attention of the audience for her role as Lin Daiyu.

Zhou Lie (May 1954-) is a Chinese linguist and educator.

Chrissie Chau Sau-na (English: Chrissie Chau Sau-na; May 22, 1985 -) is a Hong Kong actress and model. She was born in Chaozhou City, Guangdong Province. She immigrated to Hong Kong at the age of 10. She made her debut in 2009 and was nominated for the "Best Actress" at the Hong Kong Film Awards twice with "29+1" in 2018 and "Mada Lena" in 2022.