Lista de Personas Famosas nacidas en Sinkiang

Ilham Tohti es un economista chino, catedrático y crítico del gobierno. Su etnia es Uigur.

Rebiya Kadeer es una prominente empresaria y activista política uigur, originaria de la región noroccidental de Xinjiang en la República Popular China. Actualmente reside en los Estados Unidos.

Yu Menglong, también conocido como Alan Yu, es un actor, cantante y director chino, mejor conocido por haber interpretado al Príncipe en la serie Go Princess Go y a Bai Zhen en la serie Eternal Love.

Madina Memet, es una actriz china.

Mihrigul Tursun or Mehrigul Tursun, is a former Uyghur detainee in one of the re-education camps in Xinjiang, China. Tursun said that she was taken into custody several times, including at one of a network of political "re-education camps" and that one of her sons died under mysterious circumstances while she was in the custody of Chinese authorities in 2015. Hua Chunying of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China denied Tursun's allegations and gave the Ministry's own account of events.

Osman Batyr, the son of Islambay, was born in Koktokay County, Altay Prefecture, Xinjiang, China.

Nur Bekri is a former Chinese politician of Uyghur ethnicity, best known for his term as Chairman of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, a vast region in Northwestern China, between 2008 and 2014. Between 2014 and 2018, he was Vice-Chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission and Director of the National Energy Administration, with rank equivalent of a minister. Bekri was one of the highest ranked ethnic minority officials in the Chinese government.

Duan Yihong is a Chinese actor best known for his role as Yuan Lang in Soldiers Sortie (2006), Long Wenzhang in My Chief and My Regiment (2009), and Hei Wa in White Deer Plain (2011).

Li Yapeng is a Chinese actor. He starred in two CCTV television adaptations of Louis Cha's wuxia novels; playing Linghu Chong in the 2000 series, Laughing in the Wind, and Guo Jing in the 2003 series The Legend of the Condor Heroes. In 2010 Yapeng announced his retirement from acting.

Mukhtar Abraruly Kul-Mukhammed is a Kazakh politician who served as the First Deputy Chairman of Nur Otan from 2016 to 2018, adviser to the President of Kazakhstan from 2015 to 2016, 2014 to 2015, and 2003 to 2014, Minister of Culture and Information from 2013 to 2014, State Secretary of Kazakhstan from 2012 to 2013, Minister of Culture from 2008 to 2012, akim of Kyzylorda Region from 2007 to 2008, Akorda Press Secretary from 2004 to 2007, and the Minister of Culture, Information and Public Accord from 2001 to 2004.