Gong Zu Juzi, a native of Gushi, was one of the 72 disciples of Confucius. In the 27th year of Tang Kaiyuan (739), he was given the title of "Qi Sibo", and in the 9th year of Ming Jiajing (1530), he was also named "the son of the sage Gong Zu".

Chun Shen Jun, a native of Huangchuan, was Ling Yin of the State of Chu during the Warring States Period, one of the four sons of the Warring States Period, and the ancestor of Jiangnan culture. At the beginning of the performance celebrating the successful bid for the Shanghai World Expo, he sang "Comfort Shen Jun in Spring" to commemorate him.

Sima Guang, a native of Guangshan, was a famous prime minister in Song Dynasty. He wrote "Learning from each other", which has made great contributions to the history circle in China.

Ma Zuchang, a native of Huangchuan, was a senior official of the Yuan Dynasty and an assistant to the Tang Dynasty. He is good at poetry and prose, such as Reeling Silk, Treadmill, Two Hehuang Stories, Sending a Book Garden to Beijing, Lamenting a Woman, and Eight Poems Living in a Stone Field.

He Jingming, a native of Xinyang, whose real name is Zhongmo, whose real name is old woman with grey hair, whose real name is Dafu Mountain, was a 19-year-old scholar, and was awarded the Chinese Book Sheren. He was an important figure in the "Four Masters" of Ming Dynasty and the leader of the famous "First Seven Scholars".

Liu Hui, a native of Huangchuan, was a minister in the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty. He was expelled from Beijing for impeaching Xia Yan, and then resigned and returned to his hometown to give lectures. He is called "Mr. Songyang". There are 40 articles in General Theory, with 20 volumes of poems, fu, preface and notes, which have been handed down from generation to generation.

Su Kunsheng, a native of Gushi, was a famous singer in the late Ming Dynasty, and was called "the best in the world in Nanqu".

Zheng Chenggong-According to the genealogy, his ancestral home is Gwangju Gushi, and he is a national hero in China. National hero-Zheng Chenggong

Xu Hu, a native of Guangshan, was a minister of the Qing Dynasty and one of the presidents in the history of the Ming Dynasty. He has served as assistant minister of the Ministry of War and right assistant minister of the Ministry of Rites, and went straight to Shangshufang. He wrote many books in his life, the most representative of which is the Book of Changes, which still has great research value.

Xiong Jinge, a businessman, was a minister in the late Qing Dynasty. A scholar in the same column as Zhang Zhidong, he once founded the Northern Hubei Bulletin.

Qin Shusheng, a native of Gushi, was a famous calligrapher and historian in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China.

Lin, a native of Shangcheng, Henan Province, was the founder and first president of Henan Preparatory School for Studying in the United States, the predecessor of Henan University.

Cheng Tan, a native of Xinxian County, is the creator of "Eight Attention Songs of the Three Discipline of the Red Army", and later served as the vice minister of the Ministry of Supervision, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Communications.

Wang Shiwei, a native of Huangchuan, is a famous writer, who has written Wild Lily and Politicians and Artists.

Sun Haibo, a native of Huangchuan, is one of the most famous ancient philologists in China. The Oracle Dictionary compiled by him contains 1006 Oracle characters through textual research, which occupies a leading position in the study of pre-Qin history and Oracle Bone Inscriptions's teaching.

Ye Nan (Chen Zuohua), a native of Xinyang, is a director of the Chinese Writers Association, a director of the Chinese Film Association and a vice president of the Film Literature Society.

Baihua (Chen Youhua), a native of Xinyang, is a famous film playwright and poet in China. Representative works include Mountain Bell, Horse Band, Dawn, Falling Sky, Peacock Princess, The Last Noble, etc.

Youguang Tu, a native of Guangshan, is a famous philosopher and educator. He is currently a doctoral supervisor at Huazhong University of Science and Technology. He is the author of History of Philosophy of Chu State, History of Higher Education in China, Civilization and Localization of Universities, etc.

Xu Shuzhi, a native of Guangshan, is a famous painter in China, honorary president of Xinjiang Painting Academy, consultant of People's Daily Shenzhou Painting and Calligraphy Institute, and invited honorary president of China Shaolin Painting and Calligraphy Research Association.

Zhang Zongzi, a native of Guangshan, is a famous American writer. His works are scattered in domestic, Hong Kong, Taiwan and overseas newspapers and a variety of overseas writers' anthologies, and a large number of translations are published. In 2004, he published a collection of essays, Fishing in the River of Time, and in 2007, he published a book, Time.

Liu Cixin, a young writer in Luoshan, is the main representative of contemporary and Cenozoic sci-fi works in China, and a member of China Popular Science Writers Association.

Yang Xiaomin, a native of Gushi, is a famous writer and director of the personnel department of CCTV. His representative works include essays Jiangnan and Huizhou. Among them, Shyness won the second Lu Xun Literature Prize.