The most famous person named Meng is Mencius. Mencius was a thinker, politician and educator in the Warring States period. His ancestral home was Zou County (now southeast of Zou County, Shandong Province). He is also known as "Yasheng". His theory had a great influence on later Song Confucianism. During the Warring States period, there was also Meng Sheng, a giant of Mohism, and Meng Zhi, a warrior who was said to be able to "pull out the horn". You in the Western Han Dynasty was the pioneer of "Meng Xue" in Yi Studies. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, there was a Meng Guang who was "cited" as her husband.

During the Three Kingdoms period, the State of Wu had a filial mother named Meng Zong and bamboo shoots, and Meng Huo, the leader of Shu and Han Yi people.

During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, a number of Meng people emerged who dared to resist feudal rule, such as Meng Rang, Meng Haigong, the leader of peasant uprising, and General Huang Chao, who was brave and good at fighting. In the Tang Dynasty, there were famous poets Meng Haoran, Meng Yunqing and Meng Jiao, whose poems were well-known. And Meng Jian, a hydraulic scientist.

Meng Gong, a famous general in Southern Song Dynasty. At the end of Yuan Dynasty, there was Meng Haima, the general of Xiangyang Red Scarf Army. In the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, there was a playwright Meng Chengshun. In modern times, there were Meng Sen, a historian of Ming and Qing Dynasties, Meng Xiancheng, an educator, Meng Mude, a pharmacist, Meng Jimao, one of the founders of orthopedic surgery in China, Meng Tai, a national model worker, Meng Xianmin, a member of the Geology Department of China Academy of Sciences, and Meng Shaonong, a member of the Technical Department of China Academy of Sciences.