The Most Famous People from China
Top 100 of 112 ranked · September 2026 · See today's live standing →
First issue under methodology v5.70. Movement begins with the next issue frozen under the same version.
The Most Famous People from China is the September 2026 edition of the ranking, frozen and published by iFAMOUS, the monthly journal of the iFANN Global Fame Rankings.
| Rank | Name | Score | Live |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Jackie Chan celebrityAlive | 25.9 | iFANN → |
| 2 |  Bruce Lee celebrity | 24.0 | iFANN → |
| 3 |  Xi Jinping politicianAlive | 22.5 | iFANN → |
| 4 |  Mao Zedong politician | 21.4 | iFANN → |
| 5 |  Jet Li celebrityAlive | 19.1 | iFANN → |
| 6 |  Deng Xiaoping politician | 13.8 | iFANN → |
| 7 |  Sun Tzu celebrity | 13.4 | iFANN → |
| 8 |  Jack Ma celebrityAlive | 13.3 | iFANN → |
| 9 |  Wong Kar-wai celebrityAlive | 12.7 | iFANN → |
| 10 |  Jiang Zemin politician | 11.9 | iFANN → |
| 11 |  Toshirō Mifune celebrity | 11.5 | iFANN → |
| 12 |  Donnie Yen celebrityAlive | 11.3 | iFANN → |
| 13 |  Zhang Ziyi celebrityAlive | 11.1 | iFANN → |
| 14 |  Hu Jintao politicianAlive | 11.0 | iFANN → |
| 15 |  Wu Zetian celebrity | 11.0 | iFANN → |
| 16 |  Faye Wong celebrityAlive | 10.7 | iFANN → |
| 17 |  Zhou Enlai politician | 10.6 | iFANN → |
| 18 |  Puyi celebrity | 10.3 | iFANN → |
| 19 |  John Woo celebrityAlive | 10.2 | iFANN → |
| 20 |  Liu Yifei celebrityAlive | 10.1 | iFANN → |
| 21 |  Li Qiang politicianAlive | 10.0 | iFANN → |
| 22 |  Peng Liyuan politicianAlive | 10.0 | iFANN → |
| 23 |  Xiao Zhan celebrityAlive | 9.9 | iFANN → |
| 24 |  Simu Liu celebrityAlive | 9.9 | iFANN → |
| 25 |  Fan Bingbing celebrityAlive | 9.9 | iFANN → |
| 26 |  Andy Lau public figureAlive | 9.6 | iFANN → |
| 27 |  Dilraba Dilmurat celebrityAlive | 9.5 | iFANN → |
| 28 |  Chow Yun-fat celebrityAlive | 9.3 | iFANN → |
| 29 |  Zheng Qinwen celebrityAlive | 9.3 | iFANN → |
| 30 |  Liu Shaoqi politician | 9.2 | iFANN → |
| 31 |  Chloé Zhao celebrityAlive | 9.0 | iFANN → |
| 32 |  Emperor Taizong of Tang celebrity | 8.9 | iFANN → |
| 33 |  Gemma Chan celebrityAlive | 8.9 | iFANN → |
| 34 |  Zhao Lusi celebrityAlive | 8.8 | iFANN → |
| 35 |  Eileen Gu celebrityAlive | 8.7 | iFANN → |
| 36 |  Gong Li celebrityAlive | 8.4 | iFANN → |
| 37 |  Li Keqiang politician | 8.3 | iFANN → |
| 38 |  Zhao Ziyang politician | 8.2 | iFANN → |
| 39 |  Changpeng Zhao celebrityAlive | 8.0 | iFANN → |
| 40 |  Jiang Qing politician | 7.9 | iFANN → |
| 41 |  Hua Guofeng politician | 7.7 | iFANN → |
| 42 |  Ningning celebrityAlive | 7.5 | iFANN → |
| 43 |  Leslie Cheung celebrity | 7.5 | iFANN → |
| 44 |  Bai Lu celebrityAlive | 7.4 | iFANN → |
| 45 |  Lin Biao politician | 7.0 | iFANN → |
| 46 |  Zhu Rongji politicianAlive | 7.0 | iFANN → |
| 47 |  Wen Jiabao politicianAlive | 7.0 | iFANN → |
| 48 |  Dylan Wang celebrityAlive | 7.0 | iFANN → |
| 49 |  Hu Yaobang politician | 6.9 | iFANN → |
| 50 |  Liu Wen celebrityAlive | 6.8 | iFANN → |
| 51 |  Jiang Xueqin celebrityAlive | 6.4 | iFANN → |
| 52 |  Xi Zhongxun politician | 6.3 | iFANN → |
| 53 |  Israel Epstein politician | 6.2 | iFANN → |
| 54 |  Ding Junhui celebrityAlive | 6.2 | iFANN → |
| 55 |  Zhang Zhilei celebrityAlive | 6.1 | iFANN → |
| 56 |  Ju Wenjun celebrityAlive | 6.0 | iFANN → |
| 57 |  Joshua Wong politicianAlive | 5.7 | iFANN → |
| 58 |  Bo Xilai politicianAlive | 5.7 | iFANN → |
| 59 |  Li Peng politician | 5.5 | iFANN → |
| 60 |  Ba Jin politician | 5.5 | iFANN → |
| 61 |  Qi Baishi politician | 5.4 | iFANN → |
| 62 |  Yang Liwei celebrityAlive | 5.3 | iFANN → |
| 63 |  Tung Chee-hwa politicianAlive | 5.2 | iFANN → |
| 64 |  Liu Yuning celebrityAlive | 5.1 | iFANN → |
| 65 |  Xu Xin celebrityAlive | 4.9 | iFANN → |
| 66 |  Zhou Xuan celebrity | 4.8 | iFANN → |
| 67 |  Jackson Yee celebrityAlive | 4.7 | iFANN → |
| 68 |  Ni Ni celebrityAlive | 4.7 | iFANN → |
| 69 |  Ding Ling politician | 4.7 | iFANN → |
| 70 |  Mei Lanfang politician | 4.6 | iFANN → |
| 71 |  Han Han internet personalityAlive | 4.5 | iFANN → |
| 72 |  Ann Hui celebrityAlive | 4.2 | iFANN → |
| 73 |  Chen Long celebrityAlive | 4.0 | iFANN → |
| 74 |  Joseph Zen celebrityAlive | 3.9 | iFANN → |
| 75 |  Robin Li celebrityAlive | 3.8 | iFANN → |
| 76 |  He Pingping celebrity | 3.8 | iFANN → |
| 77 |  Yundi celebrityAlive | 3.8 | iFANN → |
| 78 |  Rebiya Kadeer politicianAlive | 3.8 | iFANN → |
| 79 |  Wang Feifei celebrityAlive | 3.8 | iFANN → |
| 80 |  Chen Guangcheng public figureAlive | 3.7 | iFANN → |
| 81 |  Yuan Longping celebrity | 3.7 | iFANN → |
| 82 |  Chen Meng celebrityAlive | 3.6 | iFANN → |
| 83 |  Lü Xiaojun celebrityAlive | 3.6 | iFANN → |
| 84 |  Dong Biwu politician | 3.6 | iFANN → |
| 85 |  Zheng Zhi celebrityAlive | 3.5 | iFANN → |
| 86 |  Elkeson celebrityAlive | 3.5 | iFANN → |
| 87 |  Song Yadong celebrityAlive | 3.4 | iFANN → |
| 88 |  Tyias Browning celebrityAlive | 3.4 | iFANN → |
| 89 |  Shao Jiayi celebrityAlive | 3.3 | iFANN → |
| 90 |  Wei Jingsheng celebrityAlive | 3.2 | iFANN → |
| 91 |  Nathan Law politicianAlive | 3.2 | iFANN → |
| 92 |  Ogyen Trinley Dorje celebrityAlive | 3.2 | iFANN → |
| 93 |  Chenle celebrityAlive | 3.2 | iFANN → |
| 94 |  Sun Wen celebrityAlive | 3.2 | iFANN → |
| 95 |  Han Suyin celebrity | 3.1 | iFANN → |
| 96 |  Fan Zhiyi celebrityAlive | 3.0 | iFANN → |
| 97 |  Lang Ping celebrityAlive | 2.9 | iFANN → |
| 98 |  Peng Zhen politician | 2.8 | iFANN → |
| 99 |  Pan Yuliang celebrity | 2.8 | iFANN → |
| 100 |  Yang Jiechi politicianAlive | 2.7 | iFANN → |
About this list
This list ranks people from China by their overall worldwide fame rather than local attention, as assessed for September 2026: the top 100 of 112 names, frozen as the permanent record of that edition. This is the standard reading: everyone, living or dead, on one scale. 68 of the 100 listed are living; the Alive reading restricts the same ranking to living people.
Jackie Chan is No. 1 on this list for September 2026. Behind Jackie Chan come Bruce Lee and Xi Jinping.
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 China
China 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.
Powered by iFANN
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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"Jackie Chan, No. 1 on The Most Famous People from China", iFAMOUS No. 2 (September 2026), ifamous.org