| 评论家 | píng lùn jiā | critic / reviewer |  |
| 批评家 | pī píng jiā | critic | |
| 批评者 | pī píng zhě | critic / detractor | |
| 巴特 | Bā tè | Barth or Barthes (name) / Roland Barthes (1915-1980), French critic and semiotician | |
| 魏征 | Wèi Zhēng | Wei Zheng (580-643), Tang politician and historian, notorious as a critic, editor of History of the Sui Dynasty 隋書|隋书 | |
| 袁枚 | Yuán Méi | Yuan Mei (1716-1798), famous Qing poet and critic, one of Three great poets of the Qianlong era 乾嘉三大家 | |
| 夏衍 | Xià Yǎn | Xia Yan (1900-1995), Chinese writer, playwright, socialist critic and movie pioneer | |
| 伊斯曼 | Yī sī màn | Eastman (name) / George Eastman (1854-1932), US inventor and founder of Kodak 柯達|柯达[Ke1 da2] / Max F. Eastman (1883-1969), US socialist writer, subsequently severe critic of USSR | |
| 袁静 | Yuán Jìng | Yuan Jing (1911-1999), writer, dramatist and film critic | |
| 克里斯蒂娃 | Kè lǐ sī dì wá | Julia Kristeva (1941-), Bulgarian-French psychoanalyst, philosopher and literary critic | |
| 陆机 | Lù Jī | Lu Ji (261-303), Chinese writer and literary critic | |
| 黎智英 | Lí Zhì Yīng | Lai Chee-ying, aka Jimmy Lai (1947-), Hong Kong media tycoon, prominent critic of the CCP and supporter of the pro-democracy camp 民主派[Min2zhu3pai4] | |
