Chen Jiongming 陈炯明

Chen Jiongming (Chinese:陈炯明; Cantonese: Chàhn Gwíng-mìhng; 13 January 1878 –22 September 1933) was a revolutionary figure in the early periods of the *****************. Chen Jiongming was born in 1878 at Haifeng, Guangdong, China.

He was by training a lawyer and became a Qing legislator, a republican revolutionary, a military leader, a civil administrator and a federalist who sought to reconstruct China as a democratic republic. He joined the Chinese Revolutionary Alliance in 1909 and obtained the post of commander-in-chief of the Guangdong Army. He became the Military governor of Guangdong three times (1911–12, 1913, 1920–23) and civil governor of Guangdong from 1920 to 1922 and military governor of Guangxi from 1921 to 1922.