Being home to numerous cultural celebrities, Ningbo owns Wang Yangming, a philosopher and sage of "Yangming School", Huang Zongxi, an influential scholar of history, Zhang Cangshui, a national hero whose spirits are still inspiring, Zhou Xinfang, a master of Beijing Opera, Yan Fu and Rou Shi, both well-known writers in 20th-century China, Sha Menghai, a significant calligrapher and Pan Tianshou, a well-known painter. Besides, Ningbo is also the hometown of business tycoons such as Sir Yue-Kong Pao, Sir Run-Run Shaw, K.C. Wong, Ying Changqi, etc. Of all the members of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering, over eighty are Ningbo locals. And there are five small asteroids bearing the name of people born in Ningbo.