Xie Lingyun (365-433), appointed chief of Yongjia Prefecture in A.D. 422, founder of the Landscape Poetry School in Chinese history of literature. His famous poems are mostly in praise of Wenzhou’s landscape.

    Wang Shipeng （1112-1171）, born in Yueqing County (in today’s Wenzhou) in Southern Song Dynasty.  

     Four Talents in Yongjia (in the Song Dynasty), poets from today’s Wenzhou in Zhejiang Province, Chna, and founders of new poem school in Southern Song Dynasty, whose poems are characterized by simple, plain and life-based.  

     
    Ye Shi (1150-1223), born in Rui’an (in today’s Wenzhou), philosopher and litterateur of the Southern Song Dynasty.

     Liu Ji (1311-1375), styled himself Bowen, born in Qintian of Chuzhou (now under the jurisdiction of Wenzhou), is a meritorious founder of Ming Dynasty and renowned for assisting Zhu Yuanzhang in founding the Ming Dynasty. He is a distinguished statesman, ideologist and litterateur in Chinese history.

     Sun Yirang (1848-1908), born in Rui’an of Wenzhou, Confucian classicist and textual researcher of the Qing Dynasty. He has left many works including “Examples of Inscriptions on oracle bones”, the earliest writing of its kind.

     Zhang Cong （1475-1539）, born in Longwan, Wenzhou, a president of a royal council in the rein of Emperor Jia Jing in the Ming Dynasty, known as “President Zhang”

     Xia Chengtao (1900-1986), , noted expert in ci poetry, is known as the pioneer and founder of modern ci poetry and enjoyed  fame all around the world.

     Xia Nai （1910-1985）, an archeologist and academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He devoted the entirety of his life to archaeology research.

     Su Buqing （1902-2003）, born in Pingyang, mathematician and educator. He was granted several national prizes and once elected  president of Shanghai Fudan University.