Chiu Ching-yi, current director of the Taipei Representative Office in Singapore, was from the fourth graduating class of Keelung City High. While he was in school, he had to sell breakfast pastries to scrounge together tuition, because his family was very poor.
而現任我國駐新加坡台北代表處代表的邱進益，是「市中」第四屆校友，求學時也因為家貧必須賣燒餅油條來湊學費。