In the period the faculty members included such scholars and scientists as Zu Chongzhi (祖沖之), Ge Hong (葛洪), Wang Xizhi (王羲之), and students included such figures as Xiao Daocheng, Emperor Gao of Southern Qi who studied in School of Confucian Studies, and Zhong Rong, a founding scholar of poetics who graduated from division of literature.
Zu Gengzhi (480-525), sometimes referred to as Zu Geng, Chinese official and mathematician, son of Zu Chongzhi