Wang Shouren: a native of Yuyao, Ningbo, a master of psychology and a great philosopher of subjective idealism; It is said that Chiang Kai-shek Yu Shinan, the greatest philosopher after the ancient Song Dynasty in China, was born in Yuyao, Ningbo, and was a great calligrapher in the early Tang Dynasty.

Yan Ziling: A native of Yuyao, Ningbo, was a great hermit in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.

Fang Xiaoru: A native of Ninghai County, Ningbo, a university student in the early Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Shunshui: A native of Yuyao, Ningbo, was a Japanese Buddhist during the Tokugawa shogunate.

Huang Zongxi, a native of Yuyao, Ningbo, was one of the three great thinkers in the late Ming Dynasty.

Huang Zongyan, Huang Zonghui and Huang Baijia were famous scholars in the early Qing Dynasty.

Quan: Yinxian, Ningbo, a famous historian in Qing Dynasty.

Fan Qin: Shangshu of Ming Dynasty, great bibliophile, founder of Tianyi Pavilion.

Zhang Kejiu: Yuan Qingyuan Road (now Yinxian) was a poet and a master of Sanqu in Yuan Dynasty.

Wan Sitong: A native of Yinxian, Ningbo, a great historian and a reviser of Sikuquanshu.

Shao, a native of Yuyao, Ningbo, was a famous historian during the Qianlong period, and he wrote The Complete Book of Four Kus.

Zhao Shigang, a native of Yinxian County, Ningbo, was a painter, engraver and master of seal cutting in the late Qing Dynasty.

Zhang Cang Water: Patriotic General. Jiang Menglin, a native of Yinxian, Ningbo, Minister of Nanming, writer, poet: a native of Yuyao, Ningbo, educator, former president of Peking University, president of Zhejiang University and educator.