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Infante Dom Henrique: the prince who set the Age of Discovery in motion
Infante Dom Henrique (Henry the Navigator)
A son of King João I of Portugal and a central figure of the Age of Discovery, he sponsored expeditions down the West African coast and championed advances in navigation. Avenida do Infante D. Henrique on the Macau peninsula was named after him in 1939.
Jorge Álvares: the Portuguese navigator who reached the China coast in 1513
Jorge Álvares
A Portuguese navigator who reached the Pearl River estuary in 1513 and is regarded as among the first Portuguese to arrive in China by sea. He died near Tuen Mun on 8 July 1521. The Macau square 歐華利前地 (also rendered 區華利前地) carries his name.
Melchior Carneiro: the Jesuit bishop who founded the Holy House of Mercy in Macau
Melchior Carneiro
A Portuguese Jesuit and bishop, regarded as the first resident bishop in the Far East. He reached Macau in 1568 and the next year (1569) founded the Holy House of Mercy (Santa Casa da Misericórdia) — Macau's oldest charitable institution, still operating today, its house part of the World Heritage Historic Centre of Macau; he also founded a hospital for the poor and a leprosarium, laying the foundations of early medical and charitable care in Macau.
Luís de Camões: Portugal's national poet and the Macau garden that bears his name
Luís de Camões
Portugal's national poet and author of the epic Os Lusíadas (rendered in Macau as 葡國魂), regarded as a founding figure of Portuguese-language literature. Camões Garden in Macau is named after him; the well-loved story that he composed part of the epic in a grotto there is a legend, not documented fact.
Alessandro Valignano: the Jesuit Visitor to the East Indies who made Macau a mission gateway and founded St. Paul's College
Alessandro Valignano
An Italian Jesuit and Visitor of the Society's missions in the East Indies. He reached Macau in 1578 and made the city his command centre for Jesuit work across Asia. In 1594 he founded St. Paul's College in Macau, regarded as one of the earliest Western-style colleges in East Asia. Macau's role as the gateway of the Catholic China mission is largely his doing. He died and was buried in Macau in 1606.
Michele Ruggieri: a pioneer of the China mission who began in Macau and co-authored the first Portuguese-Chinese dictionary
Michele Ruggieri
An Italian Jesuit who arrived in Macau in 1579 to study Chinese language and customs, regarded as among the pioneers of the Jesuit China mission. With Matteo Ricci he co-authored the first Portuguese-Chinese dictionary, and at Zhaoqing he printed the first book written in Chinese by a European. His path into China began in Macau, an early testament to the city's role as a mission gateway.
Matteo Ricci: the Jesuit who entered China by way of Macau in 1582
Matteo Ricci
An Italian Jesuit who reached Macau in August 1582, studied Chinese language and customs there, and entered mainland China from 1583. His scholarly and missionary achievements — and his fame — belong mainly to the mainland (Zhaoqing, Nanjing, Beijing). This archive frames his Macau link through the gateway of his entry into China. He died in Beijing in 1610.
João Rodrigues "Tçuzu": the Jesuit interpreter who wrote the first grammar of Japanese and spent his last years in Macau
João Rodrigues
A Portuguese Jesuit, interpreter and linguist, nicknamed "Tçuzu" (the Interpreter) for his command of Japanese. He compiled the first printed grammar of the Japanese language, a milestone of early East-West linguistics. After leaving Japan in 1610 he lived in Macau for over twenty years, teaching at St Paul's College and taking part in Sino-Portuguese diplomacy, and died and was buried in Macau.
Wu Li: an early-Qing master painter who trained for the priesthood at Macau's St Paul's College
Wu Li
A master of early-Qing landscape painting — one of the "Six Masters" — who was also one of China's first Catholic poets and Jesuit priests. In 1681 he came to St Paul's College in Macau to study theology and Latin, and in 1688 was ordained at Nanjing as Simon-Xavier a Cunha, among the earliest Chinese Jesuit priests. His Macau years mark a distinctive chapter in the history of Chinese–Western cultural exchange.
Anders Ljungstedt: the Swedish merchant and diplomat who wrote the first history of Macau in English
Anders Ljungstedt
A Sweden-born merchant, diplomat and historian who lived in Macau for over thirty years. As Sweden's first consul-general in China, in 1832 he wrote the first history of Macau in English — An Historical Sketch of the Portuguese Settlements in China — and was the first to refute, with documents, the claim that China had formally ceded Macau to Portugal, founding English-language historiography of Macau.
George Chinnery: the English painter who spent his last decades in Macau and gave the Pearl River a face
George Chinnery
An English painter, born in London in 1774, who spent years in Madras and Calcutta before settling in Macau in 1825, where he lived until his death in 1852. He was the only Western painter resident in South China through the early-to-mid 19th century, recording Macau's streets, temples and the ordinary people of the Pearl River Delta in oils, watercolours and drawings. He is buried in Macau's Old Protestant Cemetery.
Robert Morrison: the first Protestant missionary to China, who compiled the first Chinese-English dictionary and the first Chinese Bible — and lies buried in Macau
Robert Morrison
An England-born missionary and sinologist sent by the London Missionary Society, who arrived in Macau in 1807 as the first Protestant missionary to China. Working from Macau and Canton, he single-handedly compiled the first Chinese-English dictionary, made the first complete translation of the Bible into Chinese, and served as a translator for the East India Company. He died in Canton in 1834 and is buried in the Old Protestant Cemetery in Macau.
Karl Gützlaff: the Prussian missionary based in Macau and the first Lutheran missionary to China
Karl Gützlaff
A Prussia-born Protestant missionary and sinologist, known in Chinese as Guo Shili (later Guo Shila). Among the most active missionaries in China after Robert Morrison, he was based in Macau from 1831 for mission work, translation and Chinese-language publishing; his wife ran a school and a home for blind children in Macau. Multilingual and a sometime interpreter for the British, his life spanned religion, language and early modern Sino-Western relations.
Ferreira do Amaral: the governor whose hardline rule left his name on a Macau square
João Maria Ferreira do Amaral
A Portuguese naval officer who governed Macau from 1846 to 1849, pursuing an aggressive expansionist policy. He was assassinated near the Barrier Gate in 1849. The square Praça de Ferreira do Amaral on the Macau peninsula carries his Portuguese name.
Auguste Borget: the French travelling painter who sketched Macau
Auguste Borget
A French Orientalist painter and traveller. During a journey around the world he stayed in China in 1838–1839, basing himself for several months mainly in Macau, where he associated with the English painter George Chinnery and produced many sketches and paintings of the Praia Grande, the A-Ma Temple and other scenes of Macau and southern China, later collected in albums such as Sketches of China and the Chinese.
Mesquita: the Macau-born officer of the 1849 Barrier Gate clash
Vicente Nicolau de Mesquita
A Macau-born Portuguese army officer who, after the 1849 Barrier Gate incident, led a small detachment in an assault on the Baisha Ridge fort and later rose to colonel. Avenida do Coronel Mesquita carries his rank in its name.
Lou Wa Siu (Lou Kau): from merchant wealth to Macau city memory
Lou Wa Siu
Late-Qing Macau's wealthiest merchant and holder of the fantan gambling tax-farm. From New Hui refugee to merchant prince, his residence — the Lou Kau Mansion — remains one of the most iconic Chinese houses in Macau's UNESCO Historic Centre.
Pedro Nolasco da Silva: a Macanese leader who bridged government, translation and education
Pedro Nolasco da Silva
One of the most influential Macanese of nineteenth-century Macau — interpreter, educator and sinologist. He rose to head the Chinese Bureau, took part in signing the 1887 Sino-Portuguese Treaty of Amity and Commerce, and served as president of the Leal Senado; he also founded a commercial school and wrote textbooks, becoming a founder of Macanese education.
Wenceslau de Moraes: the Portuguese writer who went from Macau harbour officer to chronicler of Japan
Wenceslau de Moraes
A Portuguese naval officer and writer. From 1888 to 1899 he was posted in Macau as a deputy harbour officer and taught at the seminary and the lyceum, beginning his Far East writing there. He later settled in Japan, becoming one of the Portuguese-speaking world's foremost interpreters of Japan — "the Portuguese Lafcadio Hearn".
Horta e Costa: a two-term governor and the avenue renamed for how it sounded
José Maria de Sousa Horta e Costa
A Portuguese colonial official who served twice as Governor of Macau (first term 1894–1897) and later as Governor of Portuguese India. The Macau avenue named after him was originally rendered 柯高 in Chinese but later changed to 高士德 because the earlier reading sounded unflattering in Cantonese.
Manuel da Silva Mendes: the Portuguese scholar, jurist, and Chinese-art collector who made Macau home
Manuel da Silva Mendes
Manuel da Silva Mendes (1867–1931) was a Portuguese scholar, lawyer, and collector of Chinese art who lived in Macau from 1901. He taught at the Liceu de Macau and twice served as interim rector, practised law, served as judge and prosecutor, and presided over the Leal Senado. An early systematic collector of Chinese art whose collection helped form the Luís de Camões Museum, he was also a pioneer in introducing Taoist thought and Chinese culture to the Portuguese-speaking world.
Camilo Pessanha: the Portuguese symbolist poet who spent half his life in Macau
Camilo Pessanha
A Portuguese symbolist poet, born in Coimbra in 1867, who came to Macau in 1894 to teach, headed the property registry from 1900, and died in Macau in 1926. His collection Clepsidra is a landmark of Portuguese symbolism. Rua de Camilo Pessanha — formerly 爐石塘街 — was named after him in 1926.
Kou Fong: from a 1902 teahouse to a century-old hand-made bakery on Rua do Cunha
Kou Fong
Founder of Fong Kei Bakery, named after him. Its predecessor was a teahouse already operating on Rua do Cunha in Taipa by 1902 (Guangxu 28); when the tea trade declined the family closed the teahouse and focused on hand-made traditional pastries. The fourth generation, Kou Chi Kei, took over in 2018, and the shop has been Michelin-recommended.
Rodrigo Rodrigues: the physician-governor who wrote on Macau's place in the East
Rodrigo José Rodrigues
A Portuguese military physician and politician, the 109th Governor of Macau (1923–1925). After leaving office he wrote Macau: The Portuguese Problem in the Far East. Avenida do Doutor Rodrigo Rodrigues on the peninsula is named after him.
Kou Ho Neng and the gaming map of early twentieth-century Macau
Kou Ho Neng
Macau's gambling monopolist for the first half of the 20th century. From 1937 his Tai Hing consortium held the concessions for fantan, pak-kop-piu, and san-piu — dominating Macau gaming for twenty-five years until Stanley Ho displaced him in 1962.
Fu Tak Iam and Tai Heng: the two-decade monopoly era of Macau gaming
Fu Tak Iam
The "King of Gambling" in Macau from the 1930s to 1960s. In 1937 he and Kou Ho Neng formed the Tai Heng Company, won the Macau gaming concession by annual tender, and dominated the industry for over two decades while expanding into shipping, real estate, and entertainment.
Gabriel Teixeira: the governor who steered neutral Macau through the Second World War
Gabriel Maurício Teixeira
A Portuguese soldier and colonial administrator, the 115th Governor of Macau (1940–1947). He governed neutral Macau through the Second World War, taking in vast numbers of refugees fleeing the fighting, managing famine, and negotiating with the Japanese to keep the small city stable; during his term he also abolished the opium monopoly. He later served as Governor-General of Portuguese Mozambique.
Ke Lin: the doctor who carried Kiang Wu Hospital into the modern era
Ke Lin
First director of Macau's Kiang Wu Hospital. Arriving in 1935, he served Kiang Wu as a volunteer Western-medicine doctor and from 1946 as its first director, modernising a traditional charitable hospital. Across seventeen years of practice in Macau he became one of the most consequential physicians — and patriotic community figures — of the modern era.
Yip Hon: from croupier to grandmaster, the real operator behind modern Macau gaming
Yip Hon
A central figure in modern Macau gaming. Rising from croupier to pit master — famed for reading dice by sound alone — Yip Hon co-founded STDM in 1961 with Stanley Ho, Henry Fok, and Teddy Yip, and was widely regarded as the consortium's true gaming operator.
Xian Xinghai: the Macau-born composer who turned an era into song
Xian Xinghai
Macau-born composer of the Yellow River Cantata. In a life cut short at 40, he wrote nearly three hundred works and earned the posthumous title "People's Musician".
Wong Kit San: the man who made the almond cake Macau’s taste on Rua do Tercena in 1935
Wong Kit San
Founder of Choi Heong Yuen Bakery. He opened the shop at No. 20 Rua do Tercena, Macau in 1935, built around the almond cake; his nephew Wong Wing Cheong later took over and refined the recipe, and in the 1980s the firm introduced Japanese automatic packaging machines that reshaped how Macau souvenirs were sold and presented.
Teddy Yip: STDM founder who put Macau on the world motor-racing map
Teddy Yip
An STDM co-founder and Stanley Ho's brother-in-law. A Chinese businessman born in the Dutch East Indies, he co-founded STDM in 1961 to win the gaming concession, and through Theodore Racing and the Macau Grand Prix put Macau on the world motor-racing map.
Luís Gonzaga Gomes: the Macanese sinologist and translator who chronicled Macau
Luís Gonzaga Gomes
Luís Gonzaga Gomes (1907–1976) was a Macanese sinologist, historian, translator, and teacher. Fluent in Cantonese and steeped in Chinese culture, he produced works such as the Bibliografia Macaense that remain essential references for the study of Macau's history, and he is regarded as a leading figure of Sino-Portuguese cultural exchange. A street and a school in Macau bear his name.
Leong Pei Wan: the centenarian educator, poet and calligrapher who bridged a Macao century
Leong Pei Wan
Leong Pei Wan (born Leong Long Kwong, 1907–2010), a native of Yongchun, Fujian, was an educator, poet, calligrapher and public figure who lived to 103. Educated in his youth at Waseda University in Japan, he founded and served as principal of Liming Senior Middle School in Quanzhou in 1930, and later led overseas Chinese schools in Indonesia and Malaysia and the National Coastal Frontier School. From 1966 he was assigned by Liao Chengzhi to handle returned-overseas-Chinese work in Macao, where he settled long-term, chairing the Macao Returned Overseas Chinese Association and leading cultural bodies such as the Macao Chinese Language Society and the Macao Cultural Research Association; in later life he revived Liming University as its board chairman and principal. A member of the 6th, 7th and 8th National CPPCC, he received the inaugural Macao SAR Silver Lotus Medal in 2002 and the Grand Lotus Medal of Honour in 2007.
Ho Yin: the broker of trust between business and civic life
Ho Yin
Founder of Tai Fung Bank and lifetime president of the Macau Chinese Chamber of Commerce. From the postwar era to the 1980s he was Macau's "uncrowned governor" — the indispensable broker between the Chinese community and Portuguese authorities.
Ho Man Kong: founder of the Macao Citizen Daily and Macau's first Chinese publisher of record
Ho Man Kong
A Macau newspaperman and novelist, Ho Man Kong founded the Macao Citizen Daily. A native of Shunde, Guangdong, born in 1909, he first worked in education, teaching at Macau's Chongshi and Catholic schools, before moving into journalism in the 1940s as an editor and writer at the New Voice Post (新聲報) and the People's Livelihood Post (民生報). On 15 August 1944, together with Choi Pui-chi, U Kei-ping, Chan Ha-chi, Lei Hang, and Pun Hou, he founded the Macao Citizen Daily, serving as publisher and as its publisher of record (督印) — the first Chinese to hold that role in Macau's press — with Chan Ha-chi as editor-in-chief. Founded amid the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Second World War, in a harsh political climate, the Citizen Daily held a firm stance and repeatedly stood against pro-Japanese press figures. He was also a well-known Macau novelist whose work enriched the city's fiction. He died in 2010, aged over 100.
Chui Tak Kei: the man who made Tung Sin Tong Macau's civic conscience
Chui Tak Kei
Longtime chairman of Tung Sin Tong, the century-old Chinese charitable society. A construction-and-property businessman who also served as Vice-President of the Legislative Assembly and on the municipal executive, he placed charity at the centre of a civic life that bridged business and public affairs — and founded the Chui family's public lineage.
Wong Wun Chi: one bamboo pole, one bowl of silver-thread noodles, from Shilong to Rua da Felicidade
Wong Wun Chi
Founder of Wong Chi Kei. A Dongguan native, he went to Guangzhou in the 1940s to learn bamboo-pole noodle-making from fellow townsman Wong King Tong; in 1946 he founded the business with his wife Lai Yuet Man in Shilong, Dongguan, and in 1959 moved the shop to No. 51 Rua da Felicidade in Macau, where his silver-thread noodles and shrimp-roe soup made the name famous across the territory through three generations.
Ma Man Kei and the business-politics network of transition-era Macau
Ma Man Kei
Vice-Chairman of the CPPCC and lifetime president of the Macau Chinese Chamber of Commerce. Across seven decades in business and politics, he was one of the defining patriotic merchants of the Macau handover era.
Melo Egídio: the general-governor who visited Beijing at the turn of the 1980s
Nuno Viriato Tavares de Melo Egídio
A Portuguese general and statesman who governed Macau from 1979 to 1981. During his tenure he made an invited visit to Beijing in 1980 and met Vice-Premier Deng Xiaoping to discuss Macau affairs and Sino-Portuguese relations. He later served as Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces.
Henry Fok: from Tanka boyhood to STDM majority shareholder and a pioneer of mainland investment
Henry Fok Ying Tung
Hong Kong industrialist and STDM's largest shareholder. Born into a Tanka family, he made his fortune postwar in real estate and sand dredging, co-founded STDM in 1961 as its biggest stakeholder, then became a leading early investor in mainland China and a major sports patron, serving in the CPPCC from 1980.
Lei Seng Chon: a founding builder of the Macao Daily, from patriotic newspaperman to Basic Law drafter
Lei Seng Chon
A Macau newspaperman, cultural figure, and association leader, Lei Seng Chon was one of the founding builders of the Macao Daily News. A native of Xinhui, Guangdong, born in Macau in 1926, he helped found the Macao Daily in 1958, starting as its manager and rising through deputy editor-in-chief, editor-in-chief, and publisher to chairman — steering Macau's largest-circulation Chinese daily for decades. A member of the China Writers Association and honorary president of the Macau Pen Club and the Macau Journalists Association, he was also deeply involved in national and Macau constitutional affairs: a deputy to the 9th National People's Congress, a member of the 8th and 9th National CPPCC, a member of the Basic Law Drafting Committee, a member of the Macao SAR Preparatory Committee, and Vice-Director of the NPC Standing Committee's Macao Basic Law Committee. He received the Golden Lotus Medal (2002), the Grand Lotus Medal of Honour (2009), and an honorary Doctorate of Humanities from the University of Macau (2011). He died in Macau on 30 December 2015, aged 90.
Carlos Melancia: the engineer-governor whose tenure ended in resignation
Carlos Montez Melancia
A Portuguese engineer and politician who became Governor of Macau in 1987 and advanced infrastructure including the new airport. He resigned in 1990 amid a controversy over an airport consultancy contract, with Rocha Vieira succeeding him in 1991; he was later acquitted in the courts.
Ng Fok: the Macao industrialist behind the President Hotel and Macao's buses
Ng Fok
Ng Fok is a Macao industrialist — Chairman of the Hotel Presidente, Chairman of the Wu Fok Group, and Chairman of the Macau Public Bus company (TCM). Born in 1928 in Macao, his interests span hospitality, public transport, shipping, real estate and construction, and the airport concession: his businesses include the Hotel Presidente, Macau Public Bus, Macau Dragon shipping, and Macau Real Estate and Construction, and he served as an executive director of the Macao International Airport concession company. Beyond business, he was an establishment participant from Macao's Handover transition — a member and Standing Committee member of the CPPCC National Committee (8th–9th terms), Deputy Director of the Macao SAR Preparatory Committee, and a Standing Committee member of the Basic Law Consultative Committee and Vice Chairman of the Basic Law Promotion Association.
Domingos Lam: the first Chinese bishop of the Diocese of Macau, who led the see across the 1999 handover
Domingos Lam Ka Tseung
The first Chinese-born bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Macau. Appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Macau in 1987, he succeeded the last Portuguese bishop, Arquimínio Rodrigues da Costa, in October 1988 and retired in 2003. He led the diocese for fifteen years, including across the 1999 transition of Macau from Portuguese to Chinese administration. He died in 2009, aged 81.
Carlos d'Assumpção: the Macanese leader who chaired the Legislative Assembly for sixteen years
Carlos d'Assumpção
Carlos d'Assumpção (1929–1992) was a Macanese lawyer and political leader. From 1976 until his death in 1992 he served as President of the Legislative Assembly of Macau — sixteen years in the chair. He co-founded the Association for the Defense of Macau Interests (1974) and sat on the drafting committee for the Macau Basic Law. The NAPE thoroughfare Alameda Dr. Carlos d'Assumpção (宋玉生廣場) bears his name.
Pinto Machado: the physician-professor who served a brief governorship
Joaquim Germano Pinto Machado Correia da Silva
A Portuguese medical professor and politician who became Governor of Macau in May 1986, serving about a year until 1987. His brief tenure fell in the early transition period around the Sino-Portuguese Joint Declaration. He returned to academia after leaving office.
Almeida e Costa: the rear-admiral governor of the early 1980s
Vasco Fernando Leote de Almeida e Costa
A Portuguese rear admiral who governed Macau from 1981 to 1986. Before his posting he had served as Minister of Internal Administration and briefly as interim Prime Minister of Portugal in 1976. His tenure advanced the modernisation of Macau.
Sheldon Adelson: the American titan who transplanted the Las Vegas integrated-resort formula onto the Cotai Strip
Sheldon Adelson
Founder, Chairman & CEO of Las Vegas Sands. Born to a poor immigrant family in Boston, he created the COMDEX computer expo in 1979, bought the Las Vegas Sands hotel for about US$128 million in 1988, and opened The Venetian Las Vegas in 1999. Awarded a Macao gaming concession in 2002, he opened Sands Macao in 2004 and The Venetian Macao in 2007, pioneering the reclaimed-land "Cotai Strip" and transplanting the American integrated-resort model wholesale to Macao.
Lei Pang Chu: editor-in-chief of Macao Daily and a seeder of Macau literature
Lei Pang Chu
A Macau newspaperman and writer, editor-in-chief of the Macao Daily News. A native of Meixian, Guangdong, born in Macau, he was a man of both prose and poetry whose learning ranged across Lingnan history, Macau lore, painting and calligraphy connoisseurship, and literary criticism. The Cultural Affairs Bureau called him "a seeder and promoter of Macau literature". He served on the Cultural Committee, the Cultural Advisory Committee and the Macao Orchestra Advisory Committee, was a member of the China Writers Association and a deputy to the 10th National People's Congress, and died in Hong Kong on 30 October 2014.
Lau Sin Peng: the Macao educator who archived a city's schooling in a 48-year career and a History of Macao Education
Lau Sin Peng
A veteran Macao educator and historian of education. Born in 1934 in Zhongshan, Guangdong, she moved to Macao in 1950 and devoted more than forty-eight years to Macao's Chinese-language education. From 1984 to 2000 she was principal of the Commercial Night Secondary School attached to the Macao Chinese General Chamber of Commerce, and long served as President of the Macao Chinese Educators Association, a standing member of the Macao Education Committee, and a member of the MSAR Preparatory Committee. Through part-time study from 1985 to 1993 she earned a master's degree in education from South China Normal University in Guangzhou. She is the author of A History of Macao Education (People's Education Press, 2002) and Traces of a Century: A Chronicle of 20th-Century Macao Education, systematic works on the local lineage of Macao schooling; she received the Macao SAR Medal of Merit – Education in 2001.
Mio Pang Fei: the modern-art pioneer who founded "Neo-Orientalism" in Macau
Mio Pang Fei
A modern artist born in Shanghai who put down roots in Macau and is regarded as a pioneer of Macau modern art. After moving to Macau in 1982 he developed "Neo-Orientalism", fusing Eastern tradition with Western contemporary techniques, and in 2015 was chosen by the Macao Museum of Art to represent Macau at the 56th Venice Biennale.
Rocha Vieira: the last Portuguese Governor of Macau, who oversaw the 1999 handover
Vasco Joaquim Rocha Vieira
A general of the Portuguese Army who governed Macau from 1991 to 1999, the last Portuguese Governor of Macau. His tenure spanned the transition period and concluded with the handover of Macau on 20 December 1999.
Xu Ao'ao: the solar physicist who built a decade of Macau University of Science and Technology
Xu Ao'ao
The 2nd President of the Macau University of Science and Technology (2002–2012), Xu Ao'ao is an astronomer and higher-education leader. Born in 1940 in Changzhou, Jiangsu, he graduated from the astronomy department of Nanjing University in 1962 and stayed on to teach, working for decades in solar physics, space physics, and plasma physics; he later became a professor and doctoral supervisor in astronomy and served as provost and vice-president of Nanjing University. In 2002 he became President of MUST, succeeding founding president Chow Lai-ko, and over the next decade helped grow the comprehensive university — founded in 2000 — in disciplinary strength and scale, stepping down in 2012 and later serving as adviser to the MUST chancellor. He was a member of the 9th and 10th National CPPCC.
Garcia Leandro: the post-Carnation-Revolution governor who drafted the Organic Statute
José Eduardo Martinho Garcia Leandro
A Portuguese lieutenant-general who became Governor of Macau (1974–1979) after the 1974 Carnation Revolution. During his tenure he drew up the Organic Statute of Macau, approved by Portuguese legislation in 1976, which reclassified Macau as a "Chinese territory under Portuguese administration".
Susana Chou: the businesswoman who became the first President of the Macao SAR Legislative Assembly
Susana Chou
Susana Chou was the first President of the Legislative Assembly of the Macao SAR, holding the post across three consecutive terms from 1999 to 2009. Born into a Shanghai industrialist family and resident in Macao from 1968, she won a seat in Portuguese Macao's first direct Legislative Assembly election in 1976 and served across both the Portuguese and SAR eras. One of the city's best-known women in business and among its earliest localised legislators, she later served as a Standing Committee member of the CPPCC and deputy director of the Basic Law Committee, and received the Grand Lotus Medal of Honour in 2003.
Au Chong Kit: the Delta Asia banker who carried a family bank from Macao to the Hong Kong gold market
Au Chong Kit
Au Chong Kit (Stanley Au) is a Macao banker — Chairman of the Delta Asia Financial Group and owner of Banco Delta Asia. Born on 28 August 1941 in Macao with ancestry in Xinhui, Guangdong, he is the son of Au Wing-ngok, who founded the bank's predecessor in 1935. Au graduated from Macao's Yuet Wah College in 1958, moved to Hong Kong in 1959 to work in foreign exchange and gold investment, and in 1974 became one of the first Hong Kong dealers to open Loco London gold/silver trading — earning recognition as an outstanding financier from the Financial Times and a German finance magazine. In 1993 the group was formally restructured as the Delta Asia Financial Group, with commercial banking, investment banking and insurance operations across Macao and Hong Kong. A leader of Macao's SME sector, he founded the Macau SME Federation; he stood in the 1999 Chief Executive election, served in the Provisional and full Legislative Assembly, and has long served on the CPPCC National Committee.
Steve Wynn: the resort architect who wrote the "Las Vegas of the East" vision into Macao
Steve Wynn
Founder of Wynn Resorts. A legendary American gaming-and-resort developer who reshaped the Las Vegas Strip with The Mirage, Bellagio and others, he brought major investment to Macao around 2004 under a vision of a "Las Vegas of the East." Wynn Macau opened in September 2006, and the 57-storey Encore tower was added in 2010 — an integrated mix of gaming, hotel, dining, spa and luxury retail. He stepped down from his company in 2018, but the resorts he built on Macao's outer harbour remain landmarks.
José Lai Hung-seng: the first Macau-born Bishop of Macau (2003–2016)
José Lai Hung-seng
Bishop Emeritus of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Macau and the first bishop of the diocese born in Macau. Ordained a priest in Macau in 1972. He became Bishop of Macau on 30 June 2003, succeeding the retiring Bishop Domingos Lam, and in 2016 resigned for health reasons with the acceptance of Pope Francis, succeeded by Bishop Stephen Lee. This archive cites public record only.
Jorge Fão: the community leader who speaks for the Macanese and retired civil servants
Jorge Fão
Jorge Fão (b. 1947) is a Macanese community leader and former legislator. He was among the founders of the Macau Civil Servants Association (ATFPM) in 1987 and served as its president; in 2001 he founded the Association for Retirees and Pensioners of Macau (APOMAC) and chairs its General Assembly. That same year he was elected to the Legislative Assembly for one term. He has long advocated for the Macanese community and retired civil servants.
Francis Tam Pak Yuen: Macao's first Secretary for Economy and Finance — fifteen years across two Chief Executives
Francis Tam Pak Yuen
Macao's first Secretary for Economy and Finance (20 December 1999 – 19 December 2014) and among the longest-serving holders of a single principal-official portfolio in the post-Handover era. Born in May 1949 in Macao, he was schooled in Macao and Hong Kong (St Francis of Assisi's College), studied business administration in the United Kingdom, and earned a Chinese-law diploma and an MBA from the University of East Asia in Macao. A businessman by background — Vice-Chairman of the Macau Manufacturers Association and a board member of the Macau Chinese Chamber of Commerce — he was named to the SAR Preparatory and Nominating Committees before the Handover and served on the 9th and 10th CPPCC National Committees. His portfolio covered finance, taxation, banking, gaming, labour, and economic development through the 2002 gaming-liberalisation, the 2005 Banco Delta Asia affair, and the boom that pushed Macao's gaming revenue past Las Vegas. He was succeeded by Lionel Leong Vai Tac in 2014 and holds the Grand Lotus / Gold Lotus honour.
Stephen Shin: the Macau-born director of The Great Conqueror's Concubine
Stephen Shin
A Macau-born Hong Kong film director and producer. He directed films such as The Black Cat and the epic The Great Conqueror's Concubine (with Gong Li), and produced Jackie Chan's Hollywood breakthrough Rumble in the Bronx — an important behind-the-scenes figure of 1980s–90s Hong Kong cinema.
Liu Chak Wan: from New Era buses to a university, the Macao industrialist who reinvents every decade
Liu Chak Wan
Liu Chak Wan is a Macao industrialist — Chairman of the Kangze Group, Chairman of the Macau University of Science and Technology (MUST) Foundation Executive Committee, and a leader of the Kiang Wu Hospital Charitable Association. Born in 1950 in Hong Kong's New Territories with ancestry in Yongding, Fujian, he graduated from Hong Kong Baptist College in English (1974), then moved to Macao to run his father-in-law's trading firm, expanding from garments and trading into public transport (New Era Public Bus), technology, property and finance — earning a reputation as a businessman who "reinvents himself every decade." His most public undertaking is the co-founding of MUST in 2000, where he long served as University Supervisor and Foundation chairman. He has sat on the CPPCC National Committee (8th–13th terms), served on its Standing Committee (11th–12th), and been a member of the Macao SAR Executive Council since 1999.
Xu Jiankang: the Macau-based founder of Powerlong Group
Xu Jiankang
A Fujian-born, Macau-based entrepreneur, founder and chairman of Powerlong Group. He developed his business from Macau from around 1980, then founded Powerlong, building commercial property and mixed-use complexes in mainland China and listing in Hong Kong; his fortune has placed him on the Forbes billionaire list, and he has served as a member of the CPPCC.
Eddie Wong: the Macau architect behind university campuses and the East Asian Games venues
Eddie Wong
A Macau-born architect whose work has shaped the face of contemporary Macau. He led the design of the Macau University of Science and Technology campus, the Macau Olympic Sports Centre built for the 2005 East Asian Games, and the International School of Macao, among others; he served for years as president of the Architects Association of Macau and received the Medal of Professional Merit twice.
Wei Zhao: the computer scientist who moved the University of Macau onto its Hengqin campus
Wei Zhao
The 8th Rector of the University of Macau (2008–2017), Wei Zhao is a computer scientist. He earned a B.S. in physics from Shaanxi Normal University (1982), then an M.S. (1983) and PhD (1986) in computer science from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Before Macau he chaired the computer-science department and served as senior associate vice president for research at Texas A&M University, and was dean of science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. As Rector he led the construction of the new Hengqin campus and the 2014 relocation, transforming UM from a local institution into a comprehensive university with Asian influence; he is an IEEE Fellow (2001). He stepped down at the end of 2017 and joined the American University of Sharjah as Chief Research Officer in 2018; the termination of his contract briefly became a public controversy and was the subject of a government-ordered investigation.
Jenny Tseng: the Macau-born diva who defined a Cantopop era
Jenny Tseng
A Macau-born Mandarin and Cantonese pop singer who reigned over the Hong Kong and Taiwan charts in the 1970s and 80s. A six-time winner at Hong Kong's Top Ten Chinese Gold Songs Awards, she remains best known for television theme songs and Cantopop standards still sung today.
Maria Cordero: the Macau-born "Fat Mama" whose voice ran through generations of Hong Kong
Maria Cordero
A Macanese singer, actress and cooking-show host born in Macau, affectionately known as "Fat Mama" (肥媽). Her powerful, soaring voice made her a Hong Kong Cantopop star in the 1980s — earning the nickname "Hong Kong's big lungs" — and she appeared in many films before becoming a beloved cross-generational cooking-show host from the 2000s.
Louie Castro: the Macau-born Macanese hailed as one of Hong Kong TV's first teen idols
Louie Castro
A Macau-born Macanese singer, actor and radio host of Portuguese-Chinese descent. He emerged in 1974 via TVB's talent show Sharp Night and became one of the first teen idols of 1970s Hong Kong TV culture, later working in film, on the variety show Enjoy Yourself Tonight, and as a radio DJ.
Lam Bun-Ching: the Macau-born composer who won the Prix de Rome
Lam Bun-Ching
A Macau-born composer, pianist and conductor based in the United States, among the leading figures of contemporary Chinese-American art music. She won the Prix de Rome in 1991 and held a Guggenheim Fellowship; her work appears on the Grammy-winning Hilary Hahn album In 27 Pieces, and she was the Macao Orchestra's Composer-in-Residence from 2008 to 2016.
Chui Sai Cheong: a long-serving indirectly elected legislator and community leader
Chui Sai Cheong
Chui Sai Cheong is a former member of the Legislative Assembly of the Macao SAR, having held an indirectly elected professional-constituency seat from the SAR's establishment in 1999. He served as the Assembly's First Secretary (2009–2017) and as Vice-President (2017–2025). He did not stand in the 2025 election, and his tenure ended with the seventh-term Assembly in October 2025. An accountant by training and the elder brother of former Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On, he has long been active in Macao's professional and community associations and was among the longest-serving members of the SAR legislature.
Andrew Stow: the British pharmacist who turned the Portuguese egg tart into a taste of Macau
Andrew Stow
The British pharmacist who created Macau's Portuguese egg tart. He moved to Macau in 1979 and in 1989 opened Lord Stow's Bakery in Coloane village, adapting Portugal's pastéis de nata into a creamier, caramel-topped "Macau egg tart" — making the tart one of the city's most iconic tastes.
Stephen Lee Bun-sang: Bishop of Macau since 2016
Stephen Lee Bun-sang
The current Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Macau, in office since 2016. Born in Hong Kong, he is a numerary of Opus Dei. Ordained a priest in 1988, he became Auxiliary Bishop of Hong Kong in 2014. In January 2016 Pope Francis appointed him Bishop of Macau, and he was installed on 23 January that year during a Mass marking the 440th anniversary of the diocese. This archive cites public record only.
Raimundo Arrais do Rosário: the Macanese engineer who bridged Portuguese and SAR rule — ten years running Transport and Public Works
Raimundo Arrais do Rosário
Secretary for Transport and Public Works of the Macao SAR (20 December 2014 – 19 December 2024), the infrastructure chief of Fernando Chui Sai On's second term and Ho Iat Seng's cabinet. Born in August 1956 in Portuguese Macau, a Macanese, he holds a civil-engineering degree from the University of Porto and completed a postgraduate programme in soil mechanics at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. He joined the civil service in 1979 and served the Portuguese administration until 1990 as technician, department head, deputy secretary, and Secretary of the Secretariat for Transport and Public Works; he was a Legislative Assembly member from 1992 to 1999. From 1999 to 2014 he headed the Macao Economic and Trade Offices in Lisbon, in Brussels (EU), and in Geneva (WTO). As Secretary for Transport and Public Works from December 2014 he oversaw land, urban planning, housing, transport, public works, and public utilities for ten years. He also served on the Basic Law Drafting Committee and the SAR Preparatory Committee.
José Pereira Coutinho: the Macanese legislator who leads the public servants association
José Pereira Coutinho
José Pereira Coutinho (b. 1957) is a Macanese legislator and association leader. Since 1998 he has been president of the Macau Civil Servants Association (ATFPM), the territory's largest body defending the interests of public servants. First directly elected to the Legislative Assembly in 2005 and re-elected since, he is known for advocating the rights of civil servants and trade-union association.
Ng Kuok Cheong: a directly elected legislator across seven terms since 1992
Ng Kuok Cheong
António Ng Kuok Cheong is a directly elected member of the Legislative Assembly of Macau, first elected in 1992 and returned across seven consecutive terms — spanning the Portuguese and SAR eras — until 2021, making him one of the most senior pro-democracy legislators in Macao. An economics graduate who worked in banking early in his career, he became founding chairman of the New Macau Association and long campaigned for full universal suffrage for the Legislative Assembly and the Chief Executive, while questioning public finance and government policy.
Liu Liang: Macau's first national-academy academician and a Chinese-medicine scientist
Liu Liang
A scientist of Chinese medicine and pharmacology, former president of the Macau University of Science and Technology (MUST). In 2019 he was elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering — the first national-academy academician produced in Macau — with a profound impact on Chinese-medicine research and higher education in Macau; he is also a Fellow of the US National Academy of Inventors.
Leonel Alves: the Macanese lawyer and veteran legislator who spanned the handover
Leonel Alberto Alves
Leonel Alberto Alves (b. 1957) is a Macanese lawyer and politician. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Macau from 1984 until 2017 — across the 1999 handover — and was First Secretary of the Assembly. He was deputy director of the Macau Basic Law Consultative Committee, a member of the SAR Preparatory Committee and the first Government Selection Committee, joined the Executive Council in 2005 (reappointed under the new government in 2024), and became a member of the national CPPCC in 2008.
Clara Law: the Macau-born auteur who took her films to the world
Clara Law
A Macau-born film director and screenwriter, a leading figure of the Hong Kong New Wave's second generation who later settled in Australia. Her Autumn Moon won the Golden Leopard at Locarno in 1992, Floating Life was Australia's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and she won Best Director at the 2021 Golden Horse Awards for Drifting Petals — among the most internationally recognised filmmakers from Macau.
Cheong U: from first Commissioner Against Corruption to Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture — two decades of post-Handover integrity and welfare
Cheong U
Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture of the Macao SAR (20 December 2009 – 20 December 2014), after serving as the SAR's first Commissioner Against Corruption (20 December 1999 – 20 December 2009). Born in 1957 and a public-administration professional, he holds a bachelor's degree in administration from the University of Macau (formerly the University of East Asia) and a Master of Public Administration from Zhongshan University in Guangzhou. Before the Handover he sat on Macao's Municipal Council and the Islands Municipal Council, was deputy secretary-general of the Macau Association of Public Administration, and served on the Selection Committee for the first SAR government. He was a principal official for fifteen years across the Edmund Ho and Fernando Chui administrations — ten as integrity chief, five running the social-and-culture portfolio covering education, health, culture, sport, social welfare, and tourism.
Au Kam San: from teacher to a directly elected legislator across five consecutive terms
Au Kam San
Au Kam San is a directly elected member of the Legislative Assembly of the Macao SAR, returned for five consecutive terms from 2001 to 2021 — one of the longest-serving pro-democracy legislators in Macao. A teacher by background and a municipal councillor before the handover, he was an early co-founder of the New Macau Association and has long focused on electoral reform, universal suffrage and civil rights, contesting elections under the banners of the New Macau Association and later the New Democratic Macau Association.
Vincent Wan: from a Macau metalware apprentice to a hard-man fixture of Hong Kong screens
Vincent Wan
A Macau-born Hong Kong actor (original name 尹志成). Discovered by director Ringo Lam in the late 1980s, he played tough, hard-edged roles across many Hong Kong films and series, with credits including the Young and Dangerous films (as Ben Hon), Ebola Syndrome, and Infernal Affairs III.
Ung Vai Meng: the artist who became the founding director of the Macao Museum of Art and head of the Cultural Affairs Bureau
Ung Vai Meng
A Macau-born artist and cultural administrator. An award-winning visual artist, he also served as the founding director of the Macao Museum of Art (1999–2008) and as President of the Cultural Affairs Bureau (2010–2017), shaping Macau's art development and cultural policy; he returned to his own art after retiring.
Chan Meng Kam: from Fujianese immigrant to businessman-legislator
Chan Meng Kam
Chan Meng Kam is a Macao businessman and former directly elected member of the Legislative Assembly, returned for three consecutive terms from 2005 to 2017. Born in Jinjiang, Fujian, he moved to Macao as a teenager and founded the Golden Dragon Group in 1990, building businesses across supermarkets, hotels and trading to become a prominent Macao entrepreneur. He contested direct elections under the United Citizens Association of Macau (ACUM), long representing the Fujianese community, and held roles including CPPCC member and various community-association posts.
Alexis Tam Chon Weng: from Chief Executive's Office to Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture — a 33-year bilingual welfare hand
Alexis Tam Chon Weng
Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture of the Macao SAR (20 December 2014 – 19 December 2019) and the welfare-portfolio head of Fernando Chui Sai On's second-term cabinet. Born in July 1962 in Myanmar, he spent 33 years in the Macao civil service. He holds a BBA from National Chengchi University, an LL.B. from the China University of Political Science and Law, a master's in international business and entrepreneurship from the University of Glasgow, and a PhD in business administration from Nankai University. He was Chief of Chief Executive Fernando Chui's Office from December 2009 to December 2014, then Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture from December 2014 — overseeing education, health, culture, sport, social welfare, and tourism. After leaving office in December 2019 he was appointed head of the Macao Economic and Trade delegations in Lisbon (from 1 January 2020), Brussels (EU) and Geneva, and retired in December 2022, ending a 33-year public-service career; Lúcia Abrantes dos Santos succeeded him as acting head of the delegations.
Ming-Na Wen: the Macau-born actress who carried Coloane to Hollywood
Ming-Na Wen
Ming-Na Wen, born in Coloane, Macau in 1963, is a Chinese-American actress and voice actor and one of the most internationally recognised people born in Macau. She voiced the title role in Disney's animated *Mulan*, starred in the medical drama *ER*, played Melinda May in Marvel's *Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.*, and the bounty hunter Fennec Shand in the *Star Wars* series *The Mandalorian*. She was named a Disney Legend in 2019 and received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2023.
Alex Fong: from Macau to a rugged Hong Kong screen career
Alex Fong
A Macau-born Hong Kong actor (original name 符力, ancestral home in Hainan). After joining TVB in 1992 he moved into film, playing tough, hard-edged roles across many Hong Kong productions and establishing himself as a dependable character actor.
Yonghua Song: from British power-systems engineering to the rectorship of the University of Macau
Yonghua Song
The 9th Rector of the University of Macau, in office since 9 January 2018. A power-systems engineer who earned his PhD from the China Electric Power Research Institute in 1989, Song spent two decades teaching and serving as a pro-vice-chancellor across British universities (Brunel, Bristol, Bath, Liverpool), was Assistant President of Tsinghua University from 2009, and from November 2012 to December 2017 served as Executive Vice President of Zhejiang University, founding its International Campus in Haining. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (2004), an IEEE Fellow (2008), and a Member of Academia Europaea (2019); his research concerns the safe and efficient operation of low-carbon power systems. He received the Macao SAR Medal of Merit – Education in 2023.
Song Man Lei: the first woman to head Macau's highest court
Song Man Lei
A Macau judge who became President of the Court of Final Appeal in December 2024 — the first woman to head Macau's highest court. She has worked in Macau's judiciary since 1996, served as a judge of the Court of Final Appeal, and presided over major cases, including that of former Prosecutor-General Ho Chio Meng.
Noel Leung: from Macau to TVB's "Queen of Costume Drama"
Noel Leung
A Macau-born Hong Kong actress, second runner-up at the 1990 Miss Hong Kong pageant and a TVB artist from that year. Prolific in 1990s costume dramas, she became known as the "Queen of Costume Drama", with credits including The Duke of Mount Deer and Fate of the Last Empire.
Leong Chan Kuong: from a street peanut-candy cart to Macau’s biggest souvenir brand
Leong Chan Kuong
Founder of Koi Kei Bakery. He started selling peanut and ginger candy from a street cart, opened his first shop in 1997, and rode the post-handover mainland tourism boom to build Koi Kei into Macau’s leading souvenir brand, with roughly 70% market share.
Lei Wai Nong: from the Printing Bureau to Secretary for Economy and Finance — the SAR's finance chief through COVID and the gaming reset
Lei Wai Nong
Secretary for Economy and Finance of the Macao SAR (20 December 2019 – 19 December 2024) and the finance chief of Ho Iat Seng's cabinet. Born in 1969 in Zhangzhou, Fujian, with ancestral roots in Taishan, Guangdong, he was educated at St Joseph's Diocesan School, took a computer-science diploma at the Macau Polytechnic Institute, and holds dual bachelor's degrees in Government and Public Administration and in Chinese Law plus a master's in social sciences from the University of Macau. He joined the civil service in 1992 and served as Director of the Printing Bureau (2009), Vice-Chair of the Civil Administration Bureau Management Committee (2009–2018), and Vice-Chair of the Municipal Affairs Bureau Management Committee (2019). As Secretary for Economy and Finance from December 2019 he oversaw finance, taxation, banking, gaming, and economic development, and concurrently chaired the Executive Committee under the Guangdong-Macao Hengqin Cooperation Zone Management Committee (from September 2021). His tenure spanned the COVID-19 economic shock and relief measures and the 2022 gaming-concession reset. He stepped down in December 2024, succeeded by Tai Kin Ip, and then became a full-time member of the Macau Foundation's Administrative Committee.
Michelle Reis: the Macau-born Miss Hong Kong who became a screen icon
Michelle Reis
A Macau-born Macanese actress who in 1988 won both the Miss Hong Kong title and the inaugural Miss Chinese International crown. Celebrated as one of the most beautiful pageant winners, she went on to a prominent film career in 1990s Hong Kong cinema.
Tong Io Cheng: the Macau legal scholar who helped draft the Land Law
Tong Io Cheng
A Macau legal scholar and Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Macau. Educated in Macau, he specialises in civil law and the Macau legal system, helped draft Macau's Land Law, and serves as a member of the Macau Basic Law Committee of the National People's Congress — one of Macau's home-grown legal authorities.
Soi Cheang: the Macau-born director who took Hong Kong genre cinema to Cannes and Berlin
Soi Cheang
A Macau-born Hong Kong film director known for stylish, hard-edged genre cinema. His films include Accident, Motorway, SPL II, Limbo, Mad Fate and Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In, with selections at Cannes, Berlin and Venice, and two Hong Kong Film Award wins for Best Director.
Julio Acconci: lead voice of the rock duo Soler and a Macau-born artist who moves between music, acting and painting
Julio Acconci
A Macau-born singer, actor and painter who, with his twin brother Dino Acconci, formed the rock duo Soler (known in Taiwan as 太陽系). The pair debuted in Hong Kong in 2005 and won a Best New Group gold award. Son of an Italian architect based in Macau and a Karen (Myanmar) mother, he also acts and holds solo painting exhibitions, and has been called "Macao's Renaissance man".
Dino Acconci: guitarist of the rock duo Soler and a Macau-born musician with a global reach
Dino Acconci
A Macau-born singer and guitarist who, with his twin brother Julio Acconci, formed the rock duo Soler (known in Taiwan as 太陽系). The pair debuted in Hong Kong in 2005 and won a Best New Group gold award. Son of an Italian architect based in Macau and a Karen (Myanmar) mother, he is multilingual and in recent years has been based in Canada, continuing to perform internationally.
Agnes Lam: the communication scholar and poet who became an academic-legislator
Agnes Lam
Agnes Lam Iok Fong is a Macao scholar, poet and former directly elected member of the Legislative Assembly (2017–2021). An associate professor in the Department of Communication and assistant dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Macau, she researches the history of Macao's Chinese- and Portuguese-language press. Running under Macau Civic Power on her third attempt, she won a directly elected seat in 2017 — one of the few legislators in Macao drawn from academia — and focused in office on education, culture, media and urban development.
Filipe de Souza: the first local driver to win the Macau Guia Race
Filipe de Souza
Filipe de Souza (full name Filipe Clemente de Souza; also spelled "de Sousa") is a Macanese touring car driver, born 26 October 1976 in Macau. On 19 November 2022 he won race 1 of the Macau Guia Race (TCR Asia Challenge) in an Audi RS3 LMS, becoming the first Macanese/local driver to win the Macau Guia Race; he led an Audi 1-2-3 ahead of Hu Heng and Cheong Chi On. He competed in the Asian rounds of the FIA World Touring Car Championship (2011–2014 and 2017) and in 2014 won the WTCC Asia Trophy in a Liqui Moly Team Engstler BMW 320 TC. He has been a long-time competitor in the Macau Touring Car Championship since 2003 (best result third in 2009).
André Couto: the first Macanese driver to win the Macau Grand Prix F3 race
André Couto
André Couto (安德烈·高度) is a Macanese racing driver, born 14 December 1976 in Lisbon, Portugal, and moved to Macau aged four. In 2000 he won the Macau Grand Prix Formula 3 race, becoming the first Macanese driver to win the event — after pole-sitters Narain Karthikeyan and Takuma Sato crashed in leg one, Couto, driving for Opel Team BSR, took the lead and the win. In 2015 he won the Japanese Super GT GT300 drivers' championship with Katsumasa Chiyo, the first foreign driver to take the GT300 title. He also contested the International Formula 3000 series (1998–2000) and the FIA World Touring Car Championship (2005–2012), and in 2024 won the Lamborghini Super Trofeo Asia Pro-Am title.
Terence Siufay: from a Macau group to a Hong Kong singer-songwriter
Terence Siufay
A Macau-born Hong Kong singer and actor, born 徐智勇 and known by the stage name "Siufay". He started in a Macau group, C-PLUS, before moving to Hong Kong in 2007, signing with Gold Label and winning a JSG newcomer award, with songs including "A Song" (一首歌).
Jun Kung: a drummer, singer-songwriter and producer of Macanese heritage
Jun Kung
Jun Kung (恭碩良), full name Joventino Couto Remotigue, born in 1977 in Hong Kong, is a drummer, singer-songwriter and music producer of Macanese (Portuguese-Macau) heritage on his mother's side; he spent part of his childhood / primary-school years in Macau. He is an acclaimed session and touring drummer who has worked with major Cantopop artists (e.g. Jacky Cheung 張學友, Eason Chan 陳奕迅) and built his own singing career, and has received Hong Kong music honours including a best-original-song recognition. (Important: he was born in Hong Kong, not Macau; his Macau tie is his Macanese mother and partial childhood in Macau.)
Pui-In Mak: the first Macao native elected an IEEE Fellow
Pui-In Mak
A Macau-born microelectronics scholar and engineer, professor at the University of Macau. Working on integrated circuits and radio-frequency chips, in 2019 he became the first Macao native elected an IEEE Fellow; he is also a Fellow of the IET and the Royal Society of Chemistry and a Foreign Academician of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences.
Gaile Lok: the Macau-born model who became a Hong Kong fashion fixture
Gaile Lok
A Macau-born Hong Kong model and actress (birth name 黎嘉儀), of mixed Chinese-Vietnamese descent. She became a prominent figure in 2000s Hong Kong fashion and appeared in films, with a high public profile.
Chita: the Macau-born singer-songwriter and lyricist
Chita
A Macau-born singer-songwriter and lyricist known as CHITA. She wrote lyrics for acts such as Twins (including "十八變"), won the Ultimate Song Chart Best New Female Singer gold in 2009, and has appeared at the CCTV Spring Festival Gala — a woman songwriter who went from Macau into the Hong Kong music industry.
Lio Kuokman: the Macau-born conductor on the international stage
Lio Kuokman
A Macau-born conductor and pianist, Music Director and Principal Conductor of the Macao Orchestra and a former Resident Conductor of the Hong Kong Philharmonic. A prizewinner at the 2014 Svetlanov International Conducting Competition in Russia, he was the first Chinese conductor to serve as an assistant conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, and is active on the international stage.
Paula Carion: the Macanese karateka who won multiple Asian Games medals for Macau
Paula Carion
A Macau-born Macanese karateka from the Carion family, one of Macau's oldest. She won the women's kumite gold at the 2005 East Asian Games hosted in Macau and took kumite bronze at three Asian Games (2006, 2010, 2014), among the most decorated karate athletes for Macau; she received a government honorary title in 2014 and works as a court translator.
Nick Ngai: a Macau singer-songwriter known as the "Prince of Macau Love Songs"
Nick Ngai
Nick Ngai (倪力, born 25 November 1983 in Macau) is a Macau singer-songwriter and Macau permanent resident, known as the "Prince of Macau Love Songs" (澳門情歌王子). He debuted in Macau in 2004 and released his first single "沙發" in 2005; his 2009 song "Marjoice" swept four prizes at the 7th Macau Broadcasting (澳廣視) awards, including best composition and the gold-song award. In 2012 he moved into the Hong Kong market, signing with Gold Typhoon (金牌大風) and releasing the EP "人生·力情." "Marjoice" was later reworked in 2016 as "風起了," covered by Hong Kong singer Hins Cheung (張敬軒). He was profiled in 2018 for the 20th anniversary of Macau's handover.
Hyper Lo: the singer-songwriter and host rooted in Macau
Hyper Lo
A Macau-born and -raised singer-songwriter and host, a member of the group MFM. He started in Macau's inter-school and songwriting contests, broke into the Hong Kong market with the 2013 single "蠢人", and has performed at the CCTV Spring Festival Gala. As a genuinely Macau-based local artist, he is one of the representative figures of Macau pop music.
Ao Ieong Seong: Macau's first female Commissioner Against Corruption
Ao Ieong Seong
A Macau-born official, Commissioner Against Corruption of Macau, and the first woman to hold the post. She has long served in Macau's public sector, with a background in law and oversight; her appointment marks a further step for Macau women into the senior levels of public governance.
Leong Man Teng: the Macao designer-painter who stitches painting into fashion through GELÉE
Leong Man Teng
Leong Man Teng (also using the English name Esther Leong), born in Macao in 1985, is a fashion designer and painter and the founder of the personal label GELÉE. She holds a BFA and an MFA (Western painting) from National Taiwan Normal University and trained in fashion design and manufacture at the Macao Productivity and Technology Transfer Center (CPTTM). She founded GELÉE in 2014, naming it after the French word for "jelly," with a focus on avant-garde, artistic womenswear. As a working painter she folds her own garment designs into her canvases, moving between art and utility — one of the few Macao creatives equally at home in fashion and painting.
Un Sio San: the Macau-born poet on the international stage
Un Sio San
A Macau-born contemporary poet and writer regarded as one of Macau's leading younger poets. Educated at Peking University and the University of Toronto, she is the author of several collections including Exile in the Blossom Time, Naked Picnic and Evolution of Love, and a multiple winner of the Macao Literature Award and cross-strait poetry prizes, with work featured at international poetry festivals.
Rodolfo Ávila: the Macau driver who won the 2021 TCR China title
Rodolfo Ávila
Rodolfo Ávila is a Macanese racing driver representing Macau, born 19 February 1987 in Lisbon. In 2021 he won the TCR China Touring Car Championship with Team MG XPower, having been runner-up in the series the previous year (2020). He has a strong early record: he won the Asian Formula Renault Challenge in 2003 and the Asia SuperCar Challenge in 2008. He made his Macau Grand Prix F3 debut in 2004 and in 2007 was the top-finishing Macau driver in the F3 race. In Porsche Carrera Cup Asia he recorded several strong finishes (second in 2011). Note: he has not won the Macau Grand Prix outright; his best Macau result was as the top-finishing Macau driver in F3.
Season Lao: the Macau-born artist whose lens went from an old Macau courtyard to the snows of Hokkaido
Season Lao
A Macau-born contemporary photographer known for minimalist images of snow, fog and empty space. A graduate of the Macao Polytechnic, he drew attention in 2009 with work documenting Macau's old buildings, then settled in Hokkaido and Kyoto to make his art, with works held by the Macao Museum of Art and the Asian Art Museum in Nice, among others.
Jia Rui: the wushu master who won Macau its first-ever Asian Games gold
Jia Rui
A wushu taolu athlete for Macau, China specialising in changquan, daoshu and gunshu. At the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games he won the men's daoshu/gunshu all-round gold — the first Asian Games gold medal in Macau's history — and is a multiple World Wushu Championships gold medallist.
Aka Chio: the Super Girls leader who started out from Macau
Aka Chio
A Macau-born Hong Kong singer and actress, a member and leader of the girl group Super Girls (debuted 2012, disbanded 2022). She has also acted in TV dramas, presented entertainment news on Cable TV, and pursued a solo singing career in recent years.
Tracy Choi: the Macau woman director behind Sisterhood
Tracy Choi
A Macau-born and -raised film director and producer, among the most prominent women filmmakers in contemporary Macau. Her film Sisterhood (2017), set in Macau, won the Audience Choice Award at the Macao international film festival and earned Hong Kong Film Award nominations, bringing a local Macau story to the big screen.
Isabella Leong: the Macau-born Eurasian star crowned in Portugal
Isabella Leong
A Macau-born Macanese actress and singer of English-Portuguese-Chinese descent who built her career in Hong Kong. In 2007 she won Best Actress at Portugal's Fantasporto film festival for the film Isabella — a rare Hong Kong star honoured at a Portuguese-language festival.
Jeffrey Fok: a Macau YouTuber, model and actor who moved from hotel work to the screen
Jeffrey Fok
Jeffrey Fok (stage name "霍哥哥") is a Macau YouTuber, model and actor, born 24 February 1989. He graduated from the Macao Institute for Tourism Studies (hotel management) and worked in hotel housekeeping before content creation. He later joined Manner (微辣文化) as an artist and departed in 2023. His channel "Jeffrey Fok霍哥哥" has been active since 2017 with vlogs, livestreams and cooking. Channel figures: about 251,000 subscribers / 94.49M total views (as of 31 July 2023); the ranking page lists it at about 259,000 (rank #6, as of 24 Feb 2026). He earned a YouTube Silver Play Button (100k) in 2019, has appeared in films and ViuTV programs (2019–2025), and relocated to Hong Kong.
Sou Soi Lam: the karateka who won Macau's best Asian Games karate result
Sou Soi Lam
A karateka representing Macau, China, specialising in women's individual kata. At the 2018 Jakarta Asian Games she won silver in women's kata — Macau's best-ever Asian Games result in karate — and has competed at the World Karate Championships and the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games.
Kuok-Wai Lio: the Macau-born concert pianist on the international stage
Kuok-Wai Lio
A Macau-born classical pianist, a graduate of the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia under Gary Graffman. He received the Avery Fisher Career Grant in 2013 and has collaborated with leading musicians such as András Schiff, active on the international concert stage.
Iong Kim Fai: the Macau hurdler who won Lusophony Games gold
Iong Kim Fai
A Macau-born athlete in the 110m hurdles. He won the 110m hurdles gold at the 2014 Lusophony Games in Goa — a rare multi-sport-Games gold for Macau — and holds the Macau 110m hurdles record (14.23), with several appearances at the World Athletics Championships. After retiring he coaches athletics in Macau.
Choi Sut Ian: the diver who won Macau's first Asian Games medal in the sport
Choi Sut Ian
A Macau-born diver specialising in the women's 3m springboard and 3m synchro. At the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games she won bronze in the women's 3m springboard — Macau's first-ever Asian Games medal in diving (and in an aquatic sport) — and medalled several times at the East Asian Games. She was part of Macau's first diving training programme and graduated in journalism from the University of Macau.
Josie Ho Ka Weng: a Macau singer and educator of Macanese / Portuguese-Chinese heritage
Josie Ho Ka Weng
Josie Ho Ka Weng (何嘉穎, born 3 September 1991 in Macau) is a Macau singer and educator of Portuguese and Chinese (Macanese) heritage and a Macau permanent resident. She placed fourth on Hong Kong's The Voice 4 (超級巨聲4, 2014) and represented Hong Kong in the 2014 TVB Global Chinese New Talent Singing Competition. She graduated from the University of Macau in Portuguese Studies and earned a master's in Portuguese language and culture, and teaches at São José (聖若瑟) secondary school. She performed the English version of the Macau Tourism Office's "Experience Macau" and contributed to the Macau Grand Prix theme. (This archive refers to the Macau singer 何嘉穎, who is not the Hong Kong actress "Josie Ho 何超儀.")
Tramy Lui: TICK.DESIGN creative director, iF Design Award winner, illustrator behind Swatch and UNIQLO collaborations
Tramy Lui
Tramy Lui (雷欣宜) is a Macao illustrator and graphic designer, co-founder and creative director of the studio TICK.DESIGN. A graduate of the Macao Polytechnic Institute in advertising and graphic design, she works across illustration, branding, packaging and event visuals, founding TICK.DESIGN with her sister Katy Lui in 2015. The studio won an iF Design Award in 2021 for the "MEET" handover poster exhibition, and she has produced collaboration illustrations for international brands including Swatch and UNIQLO. She describes herself as the first painter for Louis Vuitton in Macao — one of the representative figures of Macao's new-generation design scene.
Huang Junhua: the two-time world champion of Macau nanquan
Huang Junhua
A wushu taolu athlete for Macau, China specialising in the southern events — nanquan, nandao and nangun. A two-time World Wushu Championships gold medallist (nangun 2015, nandao 2017), he won the men's nanquan/nangun all-round gold at the 2018 Jakarta Asian Games, Macau's second-ever Asian Games gold.
Kuok Kin Hang: the karateka behind Macau's first National Games medal and first National Games gold
Kuok Kin Hang
Kuok Kin Hang (born 1992) is a Macau karate kata athlete, captain and anchor of the Macau karate team. At the 2021 14th National Games he won bronze in men's individual kata — the first National Games medal ever won by a Macau athlete — and at the 2023 Hangzhou Asian Games he took two silvers, in men's individual kata and team kata. At the 2025 15th National Games, competing on home soil in Macau, he and team-mates Cheang Pei Lok and Fong Man Hou won the men's team kata gold, Macau's first-ever National Games gold medal.
Li Yi: Macau's first female Asian Games gold medallist
Li Yi
A wushu taolu athlete for Macau, China specialising in changquan, jianshu and qiangshu. At the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games she won the women's changquan gold — becoming the first woman to win an Asian Games gold for Macau — and is a multiple World Wushu Championships gold medallist, honoured with the Silver Lotus Medal.
Au Yeung Chong Hou (Carl): a Macau comedian, actor and YouTuber
Au Yeung Chong Hou (Carl)
Au Yeung Chong Hou (stage name "豪Dee") is a Macau comedian, actor and YouTuber, born 26 November 1993, a Macau permanent resident who graduated from the University of Macau in 2016 (Business Administration / Marketing). In the same year after graduation, he joined Manner (微辣文化) — introduced via Chan Hong Weng (雞Wing) — and became known as "Manner's number one." His channel "豪Dee" has been active since 2017; about 169,000 subscribers / 24.29M views (as of 31 July 2023); the ranking page lists about 162,000 (rank #10 among Macau channels) as of 24 Feb 2026. He won "Best Newcomer" at the 3rd MOVIE6 Public Choice Film Awards (Jan 2019) for 《恭喜八婆》, and earned a YouTube Silver Play Button (100k). He left Manner in 2023 and joined the Guangzhou-based 街坊喜劇 comedy troupe.
Puinam: a Macau YouTuber, model and DJ
Puinam
Puinam (full name Ip Pui Nam / 葉佩男) is a Macau permanent resident, working as a model, YouTuber and DJ, born 12 September 1994. Her channel "佩男Puinam" launched in 2019 and had about 161,000 subscribers / 17.28M total views (as of 24 Feb 2023), earning a YouTube Silver Play Button (100k). She was represented by Manner (微辣文化) from 2019 to 2021, then moved to an independent studio collaborating with Manner on a per-project basis. She has hosted ViuTV programs including 《帶你到主場》 (2020) and 《為食家族》 (2022).
Chan Hong Weng (Chicken Wing): a Macau actor and YouTuber, an early Manner member
Chan Hong Weng (Chicken Wing)
Chan Hong Weng (stage name "Chicken Wing" / 雞WING) is a Macau actor and YouTuber, born 3 May 1994, a graduate of City University of Macau and described as one of the earliest members of Manner (微辣文化). His channel "雞WING" has run since 2009; figures vary by date — about 183,000 subscribers / 62.1M views (as of 24 Feb 2023); the ranking page lists about 172,000 (rank #8 among Macau channels) as of 24 Feb 2026. He earned a YouTube Silver Play Button (100k), appeared as himself in the 2019 film 《恭喜八婆》, and featured in several 2022 ViuTV programs.
Zhu Yuling: former world No. 1 table tennis player, now representing Macau, China
Zhu Yuling
A table tennis player born in Sichuan, China, a former mainstay of China's national team who rose to world No. 1. During her China career she won multiple Asian Championships and World Tour titles. From 2024 she gained Macau residency through a talent-admission scheme and began representing Macau, China internationally, bringing top-tier strength to Macau table tennis.
Andy Chang: 2022 Macau Grand Prix F4 winner, completing a three-year local sweep
Andy Chang
Andy Chang (鄭頴聰; full name Wing Chung Chang) is a retired Macau racing driver, born 26 October 1996 in Macau. On 20 November 2022 he won the Macau Grand Prix Formula 4 race in a Mygale M14-F4, beating Hong Kong's 16-year-old Gerrard Xie and two-time champion Charles Leong. He had previously finished second in the Macau Grand Prix F4 race in both 2020 and 2021 (behind Charles Leong), meaning local Macau drivers won the Macau Grand Prix single-seater main event three years running from 2020 to 2022. In 2021 he won the F4 Chinese Championship. Earlier he raced in the British F3 International Series (2014) and the FIA Formula 3 European Championship (2015–2016).
Chao Man Hou: "Macau's Frog King", the first Macau man to reach an Asian Games swimming final
Chao Man Hou
A Macau-born swimmer specialising in breaststroke, nicknamed "Macau's Frog King". At the 2023 Hangzhou Asian Games he reached the men's breaststroke finals — the first Macau man to make an Asian Games swimming final — and has repeatedly broken Macau records. A University of Macau graduate, he has been a flag bearer for Macau's delegation.
Song Chi Kuan: 2023 World Wushu Championships sword champion and one of Macau's leading taolu athletes
Song Chi Kuan
A wushu taolu athlete for Macau, China specialising in changquan, jianshu and qiangshu. He became a world champion with the jianshu (sword) gold at the 2023 World Wushu Championships, took the men's changquan bronze at the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games — one of Macau's four medals at those Games — and added a changquan gold at the 2024 Taolu World Cup in Yokohama.
Hendery: the first Macau-born artist signed to SM Entertainment
Hendery
Hendery (Wong Kun-Hang), born in Macau in 1999, is a rapper and the first Macau-born artist under SM Entertainment. He was introduced as an SM Rookies member in 2018, debuted in 2019 with the Chinese boy group WayV, and formally joined NCT in 2020, serving as lead rapper of WayV and NCT U. Fluent in Cantonese, Mandarin, English and Korean, he is one of the new-generation figures born in Macau active on the international pop stage.
Jason Loi: a Macau-born singer and drummer, member of the boy band ROVER
Jason Loi
Jason Loi (雷濠權, born 2 February 2000, raised in Macau) is a Macau-born singer and drummer, a member of the ViuTV / MakerVille boy band ROVER. Born and raised in Macau, he studied fashion design at a Macau university; he began jazz drums young and co-founded the Macau rock band "石裂符" in 2013. Before competing he was an on-screen member of the Macau YouTube channel "歡樂馬介休" (Happy Macao). In 2023 he competed (contestant #81) in Hong Kong's King Maker V (全民造星V), reaching the top 30. On 29 February 2024 he debuted as drummer, lead vocalist and co-leader of ROVER, with debut single "Break Free," active across Hong Kong and Macau while remaining a member of his original Macau band.
Charles Leong: the only local driver to win the Macau Grand Prix twice
Charles Leong
Charles Leong (梁瀚昭; registered name Hon Chio Leong) is a Macau racing driver, born 12 September 2001 in Macau. He won the Macau Grand Prix Formula 4 race in both 2020 and 2021, making him the only local driver to win the Macau Grand Prix twice (both in F4). In 2020 he took pole, the qualifying race and the main race. At the 2022 Macau Grand Prix F4 race he finished third (the winner was Andy Chang). In 2017 he was champion of both the F4 Chinese Championship and the Asian Formula Renault Series, and he previously competed in the FIA Formula 3 European Championship. In 2025 he won the Lamborghini Super Trofeo Asia Pro title with SJM Theodore Racing.
Chan Kin Wa: "Macau's fastest man", breaker of long-standing records
Chan Kin Wa
A Macau-born sprinter nicknamed "Macau's fastest man". He has rewritten the Macau records in the 100m, 200m and 60m, his 100m of 10.53 breaking a thirty-year-old Macau record. A University of Macau student, he is a leading figure of Macau's new generation of athletes.
Tiago Rodrigues: the young Macau driver who won the 2023 F4 Chinese Championship
Tiago Rodrigues
Tiago Rodrigues (帝雅戈·洛迪古斯; full name Tiago Golovko Rodrigues) is a Macanese racing driver, born 19 June 2007 in Macau. In 2023 he won the F4 Chinese Championship with Champ Motorsport (7 race wins, 2 poles) and was invited to the FIA Prize Giving Ceremony held that year in Baku. He made his Macau Grand Prix debut in the 2023 Formula 4 race, finishing sixth in the final; in 2024 he contested the Macau Grand Prix Formula Regional race and retired (DNF) after a collision at Lisboa bend. He credits his early inspiration to fellow Macau driver André Couto, whose racing simulator he first tried at age 13. In 2025 he is competing in the F4 Middle East Championship with Evans GP. Note: he has not won the Macau Grand Prix (best result sixth, F4 2023); his title is the F4 Chinese Championship, a separate series.
Vivian Chan: a Macau singer who moved from local talent shows into the Hong Kong scene
Vivian Chan
Vivian Chan (陳慧敏, born 3 April 1989 in Macau) is a Macau singer. She was runner-up in Macau's 澳廣視 "Sing擂台" and reached 10th place in Hong Kong's The Voice 2 (超級巨聲2, 2010). She made her formal Hong Kong debut in 2013 with the single "排隊" via Sun Entertainment Culture, and won a merit prize in the "Most Promising Newcomer" category at the 2013 Jade Solid Gold (勁歌金曲) awards. She released the albums "小人物" (2015) and "一粒嘢" (2017) and held her first solo concert at Hong Kong's MacPherson Stadium in 2017. She took a lead role in the 2018 Macau film "熱唱吧," founded "木船音樂工作室" in 2021, and serves as a vice-chair of the Macau Performing Arts Association.
Tai Kuan-in: founder of Hang Yau, the curry-fishball name near the Ruins of St Paul's
Tai Kuan-in
Per official records, Tai Kuan-in is the founder of Hang Yau (恆友), a curry-fishball name near the Ruins of St Paul's in Macau. Founded in 1993, Hang Yau is famous for curry fishball and curry crab-roe ball skewers around Travessa da Sé (大堂巷) and Largo de São Domingos (板樟堂), a popular street-food landmark near the Ruins of St Paul's. The founder's name "Tai Kuan-in" appears in the official merchant listing on "Macao Ideas," run by the Macao Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM); the second generation, Tai Ka-ho (戴嘉豪), is separately corroborated as a current operator. Hang Yau won Macau's "My Favourite Street Food" award in 2018 and a China Golden Horse food honour in 2019. Because the founder's name currently appears via only one publisher (two IPIM government pages), this archive keeps the claim modestly hedged.
Soler: a Macau rock band of Macanese-Italian twin brothers
Soler
Soler (Chinese name 太陽系) is a Macau rock band formed by Macanese-Italian twin brothers Dino Acconci (夏健龍) and Julio Acconci (夏利奧), both from Macau. The band debuted around 2005 and is known for energetic rock; it performed a theme associated with the 2005 East Asian Games, hosted in Macau. The band released several studio albums and won Hong Kong music awards (including recognition in the 新城 / 叱咤 radio-award circuit). The two brothers also have solo careers and each have an individual profile in this archive.
Rico Long: a Macau singer-songwriter who moved from behind the scenes to the stage
Rico Long
Rico Long (龍世傑) is a Macau singer-songwriter, born in Macau and a permanent resident, working as singer, composer and lyricist. He won early prizes including a gold/newcomer award at the 2005 "至愛新聽力" ceremony and a runner-up placing at the 5th Macau–Hong Kong–Zhuhai student singer competition. His signature song "說不出的" won the song gold award at the 9th 澳廣視 awards. He spent 2005–2015 primarily writing and composing for other artists before launching as a performer; in 2015 he released his debut album "固執先生" (12 tracks) and entered the Hong Kong radio market in 2014–2015. He works under the Macau labels Chessman Entertainment and 澳滌娛樂.
Pun Veng: founder of Pun Veng Kei and inventor of the reduced-egg golden-coin cookie
Pun Veng
Pun Veng (also romanized Pun Wing) is the founder of Pun Veng Kei (潘榮記), a long-running Macau souvenir shop named after him. Founded around the 1940s (the exact year is undocumented; described as "70-odd years" old as of around 2014), it was famous for fully handmade golden-coin cookies (金錢餅), especially Pun Veng's self-invented reduced-egg version (減蛋金錢餅) — made with egg yolks only, with no egg whites and no artificial flavouring. He had baked cakes at the bakery San Cheong Kei (新昌記) before setting up a stall near Senado Square, running the shop with his wife and son at No. 1 Travessa da Fortaleza (大炮台街) near the Ruins of St Paul's. Macau Post issued a stamp depicting "Uncle Pun Veng making golden coin cookies," and the Macao Government Tourism Office promoted it as a must-try local specialty. The shop closed in 2013.
Nathan Lam: co-founder of Manner (微辣文化), magician and YouTuber
Nathan Lam
Nathan Lam (stage name "加蔥") is one of the three co-founders of the Macau online-media company Manner (微辣文化). In August 2013 he co-founded Manner with Luk Chi Hou and Lei Wai Lon, working within the group as a magician/comedian, scriptwriter and host. He runs the personal YouTube channel "Nathan Lam 加蔥," which ranked #7 among Macau channels at about 175,000 subscribers (as of 24 Feb 2026). He departed Manner in July 2023.
Mok Yi: the namesake forebear of Macau's Mok Yi Kei dessert house on Rua do Cunha
Mok Yi
Mok Yi is the namesake forebear of Mok Yi Kei (莫義記), a long-running dessert house on Rua do Cunha (官也街) in Taipa, Macau — the shop name is taken directly from his name, and he was the father of third-generation successor Mok Pem Kuen (莫炳權). The business traces back to a 1938 roving hawker stall near Rua dos Clérigos (果欄街) on the Macau Peninsula, opening its fixed Rua do Cunha shop in 1954, and is famous today for fully handmade agar jelly (大菜糕), serradura (木糠布甸) and Musang King durian ice cream. Per the Economic and Technological Development Bureau (DSEDT) heritage-shop record, it is now run by the third generation, Mok Pem Kuen and Leong Kuai-chi (枝姐), and is featured in the MICHELIN Guide street-food category. Because the 1938 and earlier Taipa stalls belong to earlier generations, no precise personal founding year can be assigned to Mok Yi himself, and this archive does not guess at one.
Luk Chi Hou (Sixtycents): founder and CEO of Manner (微辣文化), who scaled Macau online creativity across the Greater Bay Area and Southeast Asia
Luk Chi Hou (Sixtycents)
Luk Chi Hou (stage name "Sixtycents" / 六毫子), born 11 May 1993 in Macau, is the founder and CEO of the Macau online-media company Manner (微辣文化). He began learning magic at 13 and won the close-up magic championship at the Macau Magic Festival at 14. In August 2013, aged 20, he co-founded Manner with about MOP/HKD 20,000 in start-up capital, alongside co-founders Lei Wai Lon and Nathan Lam, and serves as the company's creative lead — handling creation, song-parody lyrics and creative direction. He has received the Macau Youth Entrepreneur Award (2017) and an Asian Chinese Leaders award (2018). Under his leadership Manner grew into an entertainment group spanning the Greater Bay Area and Southeast Asia with 100+ staff; Macau and Hong Kong media have reported an eight-figure annual revenue (presented as "reported").
Lei Wai Lon (Jacky): co-founder of Manner (微辣文化), leading directing, photography and post-production
Lei Wai Lon (Jacky Lou)
Lei Wai Lon (stage name Jacky; branded "Jacky Lou" on the official team page) is one of the co-founders of the Macau online-media company Manner (微辣文化). In August 2013 he co-founded Manner with Luk Chi Hou and Nathan Lam, and is mainly responsible for directing, photography, editing/post-production and client liaison, as part of senior management. He is listed as "Jacky Lou" on Manner's official team page.
Lei Kai-iok: founder of Pastelaria Chui Heong and its charcoal-roasted almond cookies
Lei Kai-iok
Lei Kai-iok is the founder of Pastelaria Chui Heong (最香餅家), a long-running Macau souvenir bakery. Founded in 1957, it is famous for hand-pounded, charcoal-roasted almond cookies (杏仁餅) and is the only bakery in Macau still making almond cookies in a charcoal oven. It began as a pushcart and a front-shop-back-factory workshop on Rua dos Três Candeeiros (三層樓街); per Macau Memory, his wife Lai Oi-chan (黎愛珍) carried products to restaurants by shoulder-pole. In the 1980s the shop moved to its current Rua do Gamboa (夜呣街) premises in the St Lawrence district. The brand is now run by second-generation Lei Chi-iong (李志勇) and third-generation Lei Chun-ming (李俊明); it was named among the first batch of official "Macau Characteristic Old Shops" in 2019 and received a Tourism Merit Medal in 2023.
Kwong Lai-keng: founder of Lai Kei, Macau's oldest ice-cream parlour
Kwong Lai-keng
Kwong Lai-keng is the founder of Lai Kei Ice Cream (禮記雪糕), Macau's oldest ice-cream parlour. Founded in 1933, Lai Kei began as a roving pushcart vendor before settling into a fixed shop, relocating in the 1960s to its current Holland Garden (荷蘭園) premises on Avenida do Conselheiro Ferreira de Almeida — a nostalgic parlour woven into a generation's memories. Kwong personally developed red-bean ice pops, ice-cream bricks and sandwiches, and designed the iconic twin-braided-girl (孖辮妹) trademark still in use today. The 1970s–80s marked the peak of ice-parlour culture; the brand is now run by third-generation successor Kwong Wing-tsan. The name "Lai Kei" (禮記) comes from the founder's given name "Lai-keng"; the surname is Kwong (鄺).
Kuok Loi-hou: founder of Tai Lei Loi Kei, originator of Macau's pork chop bun
Kuok Loi-hou
Kuok Loi-hou is the founder of Tai Lei Loi Kei (大利來記; originally Tai Lei Loi Coffee Shop) in Taipa, Macau, regarded as the originator of Macau's pork chop bun. A rice merchant's daughter, a fishmonger's wife and a mother of nine, she opened the café around 1960, initially selling coffee, milk tea, wife cakes and 豬仔包 rolls. Per food-media accounts, the Island Municipal Council ordered some 200 relief buns a day, helping the café survive; she later added a pork chop in a Portuguese-style marinade to the roll, creating the pork chop bun, which rose to fame around the opening of the Macau–Taipa bridge in 1974. The brand name "Tai Lei Loi" echoes the "Loi" (來) in the founder's given name.
Kou Kam-chun: founder of Wing Kei Beef Offal, Macau's curried-offal house
Kou Kam-chun
Kou Kam-chun is the founder of Wing Kei Beef Offal (榮記牛雜) in Macau. A former worker at a sauce garden (醬園), he created his own secret sauce and from the 1930s sold beef offal as a carrying-pole hawker in Guangzhou alongside his wife Choi Kiu (蔡嬌); in 1953, owing to illness, he moved the family to Macau. Wing Kei is famous for slow-braised beef offal in a Macanese Portuguese-Indian-style curry, with branches in Taipa (官也街) and around Avenida de Almeida Ribeiro / the Ruins of St Paul's (新馬路/大三巴). His daughter Kou Ut-sim (高月嬋) took over as the second generation in 1980, and it is now run by third-generation Leong U-weng (梁宇榮). Note: despite the shared "Wing Kei" (榮記), Wing Kei Beef Offal is unrelated to the separate Wing Kei tofu-noodle shop (榮記荳腐麵食).
KAVH: a Macau male pop duo formed in 2009
KAVH
KAVH is a Macau two-member male duo formed in 2009; the name combines the members' names — 吳伽納 (Vanus Ng) and 羅嘉誠 (Henry Lo), both native-born Macau residents. Before reuniting, Henry Lo had moved to Hong Kong for songwriting and music work while Vanus Ng stayed in Macau as a soloist. The duo's debut single "Let Me Go" won the "favourite song" prize at the 2009 澳廣視 awards, and the follow-up "男孩情路逸事" won the same award in 2010. The duo released its debut EP "情•人 Lover" in March 2011 and has been active from 2009 to the present.
Eduardo de Carvalho: winner of the first Macau Grand Prix in 1954
Eduardo "Eddie" de Carvalho
Eduardo "Eddie" de Carvalho was the winner of the first Macau Grand Prix in 1954. The race was held on 30–31 October 1954, and he won driving a Triumph TR2 (#5), completing 51 laps in 4h 03m 19.10s at about 49 mph (~79 km/h); the event used a one-off Le Mans-style start. The Macau Grand Prix began in 1954 as a grassroots event organised by local motoring enthusiasts. His red Triumph TR2 is preserved at the Macao Grand Prix Museum. He was the only Portugal-associated winner until António Félix da Costa won in 2012. Per the official Macao Grand Prix Museum, his nationality is listed as Portuguese.
Byeian: a Macau independent animation YouTuber with self-made Cantonese animated comedy
Byeian
Byeian (English given name "Brian") is a Macau-based creator of Cantonese animated comedy. He launched his YouTube channel on 28 June 2011 with the debut video 《搵鬼睇Facebook》, and self-produces everything — script, animation, voice-over and editing — at roughly 8 hours of work per minute of finished animation. The channel "伯賴" has 330,000+ subscribers, ranked #2 among Macau channels (as of 24 Feb 2026). His popular video 《學生生涯一定會遇到的十個人》 reached about 1.5 million views, and the series 《搵鬼睇AV》 exceeded 900,000 views. He maintains paid channel membership and supplements income with educational video work for publishers. Byeian is not affiliated with Manner — an independent creator.
Chef Tam: the Cantonese master behind Macau's two-Michelin-star Chef Tam's Seasons
Tam Kwok Fung
Tam Kwok Fung (Chef Tam) is a Hong Kong-born Cantonese master chef whose career has been built largely in Macau, and the executive chef of Chef Tam's Seasons (譚卉) at Wynn Palace. He entered the trade in Hong Kong at sixteen, later led Chinese kitchens at The Peninsula and Mandarin Oriental in Bangkok, and settled in Macau from 2007. He built a two-Michelin-star reputation at Jade Dragon (City of Dreams) before moving to Wynn Palace in 2018. His eponymous restaurant, Chef Tam's Seasons, opened in 2023 around the twenty-four solar terms; it earned one Michelin star in its first year (Guide 2024), rose to two stars in 2025 and held them in the 2026 guide, and ranked No. 7 on Asia's 50 Best Restaurants 2026.
PlasticGuys: a Macau parody team that found a following through comedic cover songs
PlasticGuys
PlasticGuys (膠街架) is a Macau online creator team built around parody and comedy, formed in 2016 when a creator nicknamed "Nakamura" and a few friends started making videos after a video contest. The team is known for reworking Mandarin and pop hits into punchy Cantonese cover-parodies and for second-creation sketches; it has roughly 40,000 followers on Facebook, and one of its most popular clips drew over 1.36 million Facebook views. Run as a hobby with members holding day jobs, its motto is "do plastic things seriously," and its name is a Cantonese pun on the robot anime *The King of Braves GaoGaiGar*.
Lalaismi Wai: the designer who took Macao label POURQUOI to Paris TRANOÏ
Lalaismi Wai
Lalaismi Wai (韋展尚) is a Macao fashion designer and founder of the personal label POURQUOI. Trained in fashion design at Shih Chien University (Kaohsiung) and ESMOD Beijing, she named the brand after the French word for "why" and built it around playful, detail-rich made-to-order womenswear. In 2016 she brought the label to TRANOÏ during Paris Fashion Week, and she was repeatedly selected for the Cultural Affairs Bureau's fashion sample-making subsidy — one of the figures carrying Macao's new-generation fashion design onto an international stage.
Cordova Celestino Maria: the Macao menswear designer who named his label after his own Portuguese surname
Cordova Celestino Maria
Cordova Celestino Maria (Chinese name 高肇朗) is a Macao-born Portuguese-descent (Macanese) fashion designer who named his menswear label "Cordova" after his own Portuguese surname. After studying in Japan he trained on the Macao Productivity and Technology Transfer Center (CPTTM) fashion design and manufacture diploma, winning First Overall Winner and the Academic Award for his 2016 graduation collection "Kimono Now" before entering an incubation programme. His work follows a Japanese-influenced, black-and-white, avant-garde line, with a stated move toward made-to-measure tailoring; he was selected in two consecutive editions (2018 and the 7th edition, 2019) of the Cultural Affairs Bureau's fashion sample-making subsidy.
Kelvin Au Yeung: from "tail wok" to the helm of three-Michelin-star Jade Dragon
Kelvin Au Yeung
Kelvin Au Yeung is a Hong Kong-born Cantonese master chef and the Director of Culinary at Jade Dragon (譽瓏軒), the Cantonese fine-dining restaurant at City of Dreams, Macau. He entered the trade in Hong Kong at fifteen, starting as a "tail wok," later cooking at the Michelin-starred Island Tang, and moved to Macau in 2010. He joined Jade Dragon at its 2012 opening under founding chef Tam Kwok Fung, rose through the ranks to executive chef in 2017, and was promoted to Director of Culinary in 2021. Under his leadership Jade Dragon has held three Michelin stars every year since 2019 (an eighth consecutive year in the 2026 guide) and a Black Pearl three-diamond rating — the only Cantonese restaurant in Greater China to hold both top honours.
Happy Bacalhau: from "Florescent Men" to a leading Macau-Hong Kong variety YouTube team
Happy Bacalhau
Happy Bacalhau is a Macau-based, Hong Kong–and–Macau-spanning online variety-comedy creator team, operated by the production company Bacalhau Entretenimento Produção Limitada. It grew out of "Florescent Men" (花漾壯男), a local comedy troupe formed in 2008, and reorganised under the name Happy Bacalhau in October 2016, producing large-scale game-variety, travel and food videos on YouTube, Instagram and other platforms — its signature shows include *Really GAME* (真係GAME) and *Happy Travels* (歡樂旅旅旅). Its founding members include creative director Rico (Leng Weng Hou), and its YouTube channel passed 260,000 subscribers by late 2025. The name "Bacalhau" puns on Macau's salted-cod dish, echoing the team's slogan "be a happy salted fish."
Fong Man Hou: a karateka in the team kata squad that won Macau's first National Games gold
Fong Man Hou
Fong Man Hou is a Macau karate kata athlete and a Macao Polytechnic University student in the Bachelor of Sports Education programme. At the 2023 Hangzhou Asian Games he won men's team kata silver with team-mates Kuok Kin Hang and Cheang Pei Lok, and at the 2025 15th National Games the trio took men's amateur-group team kata gold on home soil in Macau — Macau's first-ever National Games gold and the delegation's first medal of those Games. Earlier, in 2019, he placed third in junior men's individual kata at the Asian Championships.
FIDA: a Mandarin-rock band from Macau active in Taiwan's indie scene
FIDA
FIDA (青原 FIDA) is a Mandarin-rock / pop-punk band from Macau, formed in 2019 by lead vocalist-guitarist Ferdie (stage name "Ching Yuen"/青原) and drummer Ivan, later based mainly in Taiwan and active in the Mandarin-language indie scene. The name "FIDA" comes from the initials of early members' English names, while the frontman's name "青原" became part of the band's name. In 2024 singer-songwriter Rachel (Lau Wan Ching), a former artist of Macau's Manner (微辣) agency, joined to form a male-female dual-vocalist line-up. In 2025 the band reached the social-group final of the Taoyuan Iron Rose (鐵玫瑰) Music Awards and won the "Rose Jury Award," and performed that year at festivals including Taiwan Festival and Wanderer Forest Music Festival.
Cheang Pei Lok: the youngest karateka in the team that won Macau's first National Games gold
Cheang Pei Lok
Cheang Pei Lok is a Macau karate kata athlete and University of Macau student, the youngest member of Macau's men's team kata squad. At the 2023 Hangzhou Asian Games he won men's team kata silver with team-mates Kuok Kin Hang and Fong Man Hou, and at the 2025 15th National Games the trio took men's amateur-group team kata gold on home soil in Macau — Macau's first-ever National Games gold and the delegation's first medal of those Games.
Antonieta Manhão: the Macanese chef who put a heritage cuisine into print
Antonieta Manhão
Antonieta F. Manhão (known as Chef Neta) is a Macau-born Macanese chef, cooking instructor and cookbook author dedicated to preserving and promoting Macanese cuisine. She teaches Macanese cuisine at the University of Tourism of Macau, runs her own cooking studio, and is a member of the Confraria da Gastronomia Macaense. Her cookbook, 《土生家嚐》 (Portuguese Receita di Casa, English Homemade Macanese Cuisine), published in 2025 by the International Institute of Macao, collects nineteen traditional Macanese home recipes in Chinese, Portuguese and English, and won two prizes — Best Trilingual Cookbook and Best Portuguese Cookbook — at the 31st Gourmand World Cookbook Awards (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) in 2025.
Margaret Wong: founder of Margaret's Café e Nata, the "Queen of Tarts" who took the egg tart to the world
Margaret Wong
Macau-born founder of Margaret's Café e Nata. She built the egg-tart business together with her former husband Andrew Stow, then ran Margaret's independently on the Macau Peninsula after their divorce, and licensed her recipe to KFC — spreading the Portuguese egg tart across China and Asia and earning the nickname "Queen of Tarts".
Cai Feilong: the fighter who won an Asian Games sanda silver for Macau
Cai Feilong
A wushu sanda athlete representing Macau, China, and a member of the Macau sanda team since 2017. At the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games (held in 2023) he took silver in the men's 75 kg sanda final, losing to an Iranian fighter — one of Macau's four medals at those Games and a landmark result for the territory in the combat discipline.