Pang Chien-kuo (Chinese: 龐建國; pinyin: Páng Jiànguó; 19 August 1953 – 11 January 2022) was a Taiwanese sociologist and politician.

[2][3] His grandfather was a member of Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary society Tongmenghui and participated in the Yellow Flower Mound Uprising.

[7] Before pursuing political office, Pang was an associate researcher within Academia Sinica's Institute of Ethnology.

[11] After stepping down from the legislature, Pang served as an adviser to the Straits Exchange Foundation,[12] subsequently accepting a professorship at Chinese Culture University, within the Graduate Institute of National Development and Mainland China.

"[16][18] Worried about the hardships of the people and the future of Taiwan, he had been deeply saddened by the huge defeats of the KMT in the referendum a month earlier and in the recall election of Freddy Lim and legislator by-election two days earlier, and had been distraught by the on-going de-Sinicization pushed forward by the ruling DPP.