Toisan Cantonese was Sir Stamford Raffles' ship carpenter who was the first man to land on modern-day Singapore and led the way in posting the East India Company's flag on Singapore Island. Ching Shih, a female pirate leader brothel owner Cheng I, pirate and husband of Ching Shih Ah Pak, pirate chieftain who defeated Portuguese pirates Liu Chang, the last emperor of the Southern Han Kingdom Yuan Chonghuan, a Chinese general and hero from Ming dynasty who defeated and ward off the Manchu invasion Sun Yat-sen, born in Zhongshan, Guangdong; Chinese revolutionary and founder of the Republic of China Deng Shichang, admiral and one of the first modern naval officers in China in the late Qing dynasty Tse Tsan-tai, early Chinese revolutionary of the late Qing dynasty Kang Youwei was a Chinese scholar, noted calligrapher and prominent political thinker and reformer of the late Qing dynasty. Liang Qichao was a Chinese scholar, journalist, philosopher and reformist who lived during the Qing dynasty and Republic of China. Henry Lee Hau Shik, first Finance Minister of the Federation of Malaya and the only major leader of the independence movement not born in Malaya. Jiang Guangnai, general and statesman in the Republic of China and the People's Republic of China who successfully defended Shanghai City from the Japanese invasion in the 28 January Incident of 1932 Entertainers Anna May Wong, the first Chinese American and Asian female international movie star Anita Mui, singer and actress, dubbed as the "Madonna of the East". Harry Shum Jr., actor James Wong Howe, leading Hollywood cinematographer in the 1930s–40s and ten-time Academy Award nominee Lai Man-Wai, the father of Hong Kong cinema Stephen Chow, His mother is Cantonese but his grandfather is from Ningbo. He is actor and film director known for the comedy blockbusters Shaolin Soccer and Kung Fu Hustle. John Woo, influential film director Tony Leung Chiu-wai, award-winning actor known for his collaborations with Wong Kar-wai, including In The Mood For Love Andy Lau, one of Hong Kong's most commercially successful singers and actors since the mid-1980s Gigi Lai, actress and Cantopop singer Aaron Kwok, dancer and singer since the early 1990s Amy Kwok, actress and Miss Hong Kong 1991 Eason Chan, well-known Cantopop singer Rainie Yang, Taiwanese singer Vivian Chow, Cantopop singer and actress Fish Leong, Malaysian Chinese singer Kris Wu, Chinese Canadian actor and singer, former member of K-pop boy band EXO. Jackson