A dataset of centennial celebrities in Hangzhou (1912–2012)

This period spanned the entire process of the collapse of the imperial system, the flames of the War of Resistance Against Japan, and the transition from a planned economy to a market economy, and the celebrity group was a concrete carrier of the spirit of the times.

Therefore, this article takes celebrities from various industries in Hangzhou over the past century (1912-2012) as the research object, collects first-hand information from relevant literature and classics such as biographies and local chronicles, processes it digitally, and verifies their achievements, identity tags, and industry attributes based on their biographies. On the basis of Excel data, an XML data format is extracted, which includes 516 celebrity data records with 20 fields.