Issue No. 2 · September 2026
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    Issue No. 2 · September 2026

    TWThe Most Famous People in Taiwan (Alive), September 2026Alive

    Top 34 of 34 ranked · September 2026 · See today's live standing →

    Living people only. The standard list, with everyone, is one click away.

    First issue under methodology v5.70. Movement begins with the next issue frozen under the same version.

    The Most Famous People in Taiwan (Alive), September 2026 is the September 2026 edition of the ranking, frozen and published by iFAMOUS, the monthly journal of the iFANN Global Fame Rankings.

    RankNameScore
    1
    Tsai Ing-wen
    TWpolitician
    15.5
    2
    Lai Ching-te
    TWpolitician
    13.7
    3
    Rosé
    NZcelebrity
    12.2
    4
    Chen Shui-bian
    TWpolitician
    12.2
    5
    Rainie Yang
    TWcelebrity
    11.4
    6
    Ang Lee
    TWcelebrity
    10.5
    7
    Chiang Wan-an
    TWpolitician
    10.0
    8
    Shu Qi
    TWcelebrity
    9.9
    99.7
    10
    Vivian Hsu
    TWcelebrity
    7.9
    11
    Lee Yang
    TWcelebrity
    7.8
    12
    Hsiao Bi-khim
    TWpolitician
    6.9
    13
    Chang San-cheng
    TWpolitician
    6.6
    14
    Cho Jung-tai
    TWpolitician
    6.5
    15
    Michelle Chen
    TWcelebrity
    6.4
    16
    Ella Chen
    TWcelebrity
    6.1
    17
    Fish Leong
    MYcelebrity
    6.0
    18
    Kao Chin Su-mei
    TWpolitician
    5.7
    19
    Ethan Juan
    TWcelebrity
    5.7
    20
    Chen Chi-mai
    TWpolitician
    5.6
    21
    Brigitte Lin
    TWcelebrity
    5.5
    22
    Cheng Li-wun
    TWpolitician
    5.5
    23
    Frank Hsieh
    TWpolitician
    5.1
    24
    Cheng Yen
    TWcelebrity
    4.9
    25
    James Soong
    TWpolitician
    4.6
    26
    Johnny Chiang
    TWpolitician
    4.4
    27
    Jimmy Lin
    TWcelebrity
    4.0
    28
    Ning Chang
    TWcelebrity
    4.0
    29
    Annie Chen
    TWcelebrity
    3.9
    30
    Huang Kuo-chang
    TWpolitician
    3.7
    31
    Lin Chia-lung
    TWpolitician
    3.6
    32
    Chen Bolin
    TWcelebrity
    3.2
    33
    Lu Shiow-yen
    TWpolitician
    3.2
    34
    Jody Chiang
    TWcelebrity
    2.9

    About this list

    This list ranks the most famous people connected to Taiwan as of September 2026, by overall fame rather than one month's attention: the top 34 of 34 names the rankings measured for Taiwan, frozen as the permanent record of that edition. This is the Alive reading: living people only. The standard reading ranks everyone, living or dead, on one scale, and is one click away.

    Tsai Ing-wen is No. 1 on this list for September 2026. Behind Tsai Ing-wen come Lai Ching-te and Rosé. Evidence coverage for this list is medium; positions near the bottom of the table may shift as coverage improves.

    What famous means here

    Fame, in iFAMOUS, is how widely the world knows a name: how recognisable a person's name, face or work is, and how well people know who they are. It is assessed from extensive historical and current public data, some of it reaching back more than twenty years, and it is not merit, talent, importance or popularity on iFANN. The rankings model real-world global fame, not internet fame; the data is the instrument, not the subject. Activity on iFANN itself is excluded.

    The month in the title is the date of this edition, not the period measured. The list is a snapshot of overall fame as it stood when the issue was frozen: a name does not lose its place because one month was quiet, and a trending moment alone does not put a name here. Trending attention is published separately on ifann.net.

    How the list was ranked

    The iFANN Global Fame Rankings combine worldwide Wikipedia readership across languages, worldwide news coverage and search interest anchored against stable reference names, with search history reaching back to 2004. A twelve-month baseline sits behind the current reading and short-lived surges are capped, so the list reflects durable recognition rather than one week of headlines. Rankings are computed daily on ifann.net and frozen on the second day of the following month as that month's issue; a published issue never changes.

    About Taiwan

    Taiwan is one of the countries and regions the journal ranks every month. Country lists use the same rankings and the same scale as The 100, so a name can be compared with its neighbours and against the world.

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    iFAMOUS is published by iFANN and powered by the iFANN Global Fame Rankings v5.70. Today's live standing for this list is on ifann.net; the journal freezes it once a month so it can be cited permanently.

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    Cite as
    "Tsai Ing-wen, No. 1 on The Most Famous People in Taiwan (Alive), September 2026", iFAMOUS No. 2 (September 2026), ifamous.org

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