Many figures working in academic circles also emerged from The Kao-hsiunger, such as Hsu Cheng-chang, the editor of a Taiwanese dictionary; National Taiwan University professor Wu Hung-i, who is researching ancient poetry; and historian Huang Chun-chieh, researcher into Taiwan's agriculture and history of ideas.
此外，許多在學術界服務或對本土文化迭有貢獻的學者，如致力編寫台語辭典的許成章、研究上古詩詞文學的台大教授吳弘一，研究台灣農業、思想史的歷史學者黃俊傑等，也都是「雄中人」。