Political figures

Charles Curtis, American politician, 31st Vice President. His father is white and his mother is Indian. He is the first vice president of Native American descent in the United States. During his childhood, he lived with his maternal grandmother on an Indian reservation until he was driven out when he was 13 years old and took refuge with his white paternal grandmother.

Charles Koch (English: Charles Koch, November 1, 1935 -) American businessman, politician, and philanthropist. In June 2018, he was ranked as the 8th richest person in the world, with an estimated net worth of $50.7 billion. In the 2019 list of the 400 richest people in the United States, he ranked 13th with assets of US$41 billion. Ranked 15th on the Forbes 400 richest Americans list released in September 2020, with assets of US$45 billion. In February 2023, he was ranked the 15th richest person in the world by the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, with an estimated net worth of $68.6 billion.

Maria Corazon Cojuangco Aquino (Filipino: Maria Corazon Cojuangco Aquino, pronounced: [kɔɾaˈsɔn kɔˈhwaŋkɔ aˈkino]; January 25, 1933 - August 1, 2009), also known as Coralong, Aquino, Chinese name Xu Nasang, Chinese media usually referred to as Mrs. Aquino, the 11th President of the Philippines, and the first democratically elected female president of the Philippines and Asia, serving from 1986 to 1992. Born in the wealthy Southern Fujian family "Xu Huange Family", her ancestral home is Hongjian Village, Tong'an County, Quanzhou Prefecture, Fujian Province (now part of Longhai District, Zhangzhou City); Ke Larong once claimed to be an "ordinary housewife." Her maiden name was Maria Corazon Sumulon Xu Huang; her son Benigno Aquino III (Chinese name Xu Jianhua) also served as president from June 30, 2010 to June 30, 2016; his daughter Keith Aquino is a Filipino actress. She is married to Senator Benigno Equino Jr., one of President Marcos' staunchest critics. She became an opposition leader after her husband was assassinated on August 21, 1983, upon returning to the Philippines from the United States. In late 1985, Ferdinand Marcos called for general elections, with Aquino running for president and former senator Salvador Laurel running for vice president. After the February 7, 1986 election, in which Marcos and his running mates were declared the winners, Aquino called for massive acts of civil disobedience amid accusations of electoral fraud. The turn of the Philippine Armed Forces and the support of the local Catholic hierarchy led to the People Power Revolution, which ousted Marcos. Aquino succeeded as president on February 25, 1986. As president, Aquino oversaw the promulgation of the 1987 Constitution, which limited the president's powers and re-established a bicameral Congress. Her government placed great emphasis and attention on civil liberties and human rights, as well as peace negotiations to address the ongoing communist insurgency and Islamist movements. Her economic policies are centered on restoring economic health and confidence and are committed to building a market-driven, socially responsible economy. In 1987, she became the first Filipino to win the prestigious Prize For Freedom. Several coup attempts were made against Aquino's government until the end of her term in 1992, and she also faced various natural disasters during her tenure. Fidel Ramos succeeds as president

Ke Xiping, a native of Anxi, Fujian, male, Chinese entrepreneur and politician.

Zelenopus (Ancient Greek: Ζηνόβιος) was a Greek sophist who taught rhetoric in Rome during the reign of Emperor Hadrian. .

Ryutaro Hashimoto (Japanese: Ryutaro Hashimoto / Hashimoto Ryutaro, Romanized: Hashimoto Ryūtarō, July 29, 1937—July 1, 2006), Japanese political figure, Prime Minister of Japan from 1996 to 1998.

Liang Qichao (February 23, 1873 - January 19, 1929), signed as Liang Chao, also known as Zhuoru, Hongyou and Ren Fu, also known as Ren Gong and the owner of the Yinbing Room, was a native of Chakeng Township, Chaojudu, Xinhui County, Guangzhou Prefecture, Guangdong Province, and was known as Liang Xinhui. Known as an "encyclopedic figure." In his youth, he collaborated with Kang Youwei to carry out the Reform Movement of 1898. After the failure, he went into exile in Japan and promoted the constitutional monarchy of the Qing Dynasty overseas. In the late Qing Dynasty, he first proposed the concept of the Chinese nation. After the establishment of the Republic of China, he once joined Yuan Shikai's government and served successively as the Chief of Justice and the Director of the Currency System. Later, he was dissatisfied with Yuan Shikai's proclaimed emperor and conspired with Cai E and others to launch a movement to protect the country and overthrow Yuan. He also opposed Zhang Xun's restoration of the monarchy and launched armed actions against Zhang. He once joined Duan Qirui's government as the chief financial officer and concurrently served as the supervisor of the General Administration of Salt Affairs. After retiring from politics, he advocated new culture, devoted himself to cultural and educational undertakings, and supported the May 4th Youth Patriotic Movement. He was one of the four mentors of the Tsinghua Institute of Chinese Studies and served as the director of the Capital Library.

Liang Shuming (October 18, 1893 - June 23, 1988). His original name was Huanding and his courtesy name was Shouming. He once used the pen names Shou Ming, Shao Min, and Shu Ming, and later became known as Shu Ming. Male, a native of Beijing, he is a modern Chinese thinker, philosopher, educator, one of the early representatives of modern New Confucianism, a social activist, and a patriotic democrat. At the same time, he is also a social transformation practitioner who spares no effort to promote rural construction. His native place is Kaifeng, Henan, and he traveled to Guilin, Guangxi in the mid-Qing Dynasty. His ancestor is Hu Gechi, the sixth son of the Yuan Shizu, and he is a descendant of the Liang King who was granted the title of the Yuan Dynasty. His mother Zhang Ying came from the Zhang Yaozeng family in Xizhou, Dali, Yunnan.

Liang Hongzhi (1882-November 9, 1946), also known as Yusou, was a Chinese political figure and poet. One of the main figures of the Reform Government of the Republic of China and the National Government of Wang Jingwei, a puppet regime established with Japan's support, he was executed for traitorous crimes after World War II.

Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, OM, FRS (English: Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, August 30, 1871 - October 19, 1937), a New Zealand physicist, is known as the "father of nuclear physics" and "the greatest experimental physicist after Faraday". Rutherford first proposed the concept of radioactive half-life, demonstrating that radioactivity involves the transition from one element to another. He also classified radioactive materials into alpha rays and beta rays according to their penetrating capabilities, and confirmed that the former were helium ions. He won the 1908 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his "research on the transformation of elements and radiochemistry". Rutherford led the team to successfully prove that there is a nucleus at the center of the atom and create the Rutherford model. He was the first to successfully split atoms in the nuclear reaction between nitrogen and alpha particles. He also discovered the proton in the same experiment and named it. Element No. 104 was named "furnace" in his honor.

Ouyang Shan (December 1908 - September 26, 2000), whose original name was Yang Fengqi, and whose pen names were Fanniao, Luo Xi, Long Gonggong, etc., was male, a native of Jingzhou, Hubei Province, and a modern Chinese writer. His representative work is "The Romance of a Generation". He has served as Chairman of the Guangdong Branch of the Chinese Writers Association, Chairman of the Guangdong Provincial Federation of Literary and Art Circles, and Vice Chairman of the Chinese Writers Association.

William Jefferson Clinton (English: William Jefferson Clinton; August 19, 1946 -), commonly known as Bill Clinton (English: Bill Clinton), is an American lawyer and politician, a Democratic Party. He has served as the governor of Arkansas for a long time (1979-1981, 1983-1992) and the 42nd President of the United States (1993-2001). His wife is former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. They married in 1975 and have a daughter, Chelsea Clinton. Clinton was born and raised in Arkansas. He graduated from Georgetown University in 1968 and then attended Yale Law School, where he met his future wife, Hillary Rodham. After law school, Clinton returned to Arkansas, where he was elected state attorney general and later served two non-consecutive terms as governor of Arkansas. As governor, he reformed the state's education system and served as president of the National Governors Association. In 1992, Clinton was elected president as the candidate of the "New Democratic Party", defeating then-Republican President George H.W. Bush and independent candidate Ross Perot. He became the first baby boomer president and the youngest to serve two terms. During the Clinton administration, the United States experienced its longest peacetime economic expansion in history. He signed NAFTA, the Brady Pistol Violence Prevention Act, failed to pass his national health care overhaul, and accepted a controversial compromise policy that would have allowed gay service members to serve openly. In the mid-1990s, following the Democratic defeat in the 1994 midterm elections, Clinton's ideology began to shift and domestic policies became more conservative. He supported and signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act and Republican-led financial deregulation measures, while still supporting liberal policies such as the state Children's Health Insurance Program. He appointed Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer to the U.S. Supreme Court. In terms of foreign policy, Clinton ordered U.S. military intervention in the Bosnian and Kosovo wars, culminating in the signing of the Dayton Peace Agreement. He also called for NATO expansion in Eastern Europe, with many former Warsaw Pact members joining during his presidency. Clinton's Middle East foreign policy included signing the Iraq Liberation Act, which provided aid to groups opposing Saddam Hussein. He also participated in

William Blaine "Bill" Richardson III (English: William Blaine "Bill" Richardson III, November 15, 1947 - September 1, 2023), an American Democratic politician, served as a member of the United States House of Representatives, the United States Ambassador to the United Nations, the United States Secretary of Energy, and the Governor of New Mexico. He once competed for the Democratic candidate nomination in the 2008 US presidential election, but announced his withdrawal on January 9, 2008. On December 2, 2008, he was nominated by then President Barack Obama to serve as Secretary of Commerce. On January 4, 2009, Richardson resigned from the nomination of President-elect Obama as Secretary of Commerce after being investigated by the New Mexico Department of Justice for accepting bribes. Richardson has been nominated four times for the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts through diplomatic channels to successfully free numerous U.S. personnel and other wrongfully detained individuals around the world.

Bigan (gān) (?—?), surnamed Zi, was born in Moyi (now Weihui, Henan Province) of the Yin Shang Dynasty, and was a member of the royal family of the Yin Shang Dynasty. He was the prime minister of the Shang Dynasty, the son of King Wen Ding of the Shang Dynasty, and the uncle of King Zhou. He was one of the three loyal ministers. In the Analects of Confucius, he called Wang Ziweizi, Wangzi Jizi, and Wangzi Bigan the "Three Rens of Yin". They were regarded as the ancestors and gods of wealth of the Lin surname.

Pythagoras (Greek: Πυθαγόρας, 570 BC - 495 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher, mathematician, and music theorist, and the founder of Pythagoreanism. Pythagoras believed that mathematics could explain everything in the world, and was obsessed with numbers to the point of worship; he also believed that all truths could be reflected and confirmed by proportions, squares, and right triangles: for example, he believed that the square number "100" meant "justice." Pythagoreanism refers to the esoteric and metaphysical ideological doctrines he and his followers held. They were all deeply influenced by mathematics, such as the numerology of life, rainbow numerology, and life blueprint numerology.

Claudia Mo Man-ching (English: Claudia Mo Man-ching, January 18, 1957 -) is a Hong Kong democratic politician and former media worker. Her ancestral home is Ningbo, Zhejiang. She was born in Hong Kong. After the Form 5 examination, she went to Canada to study, and later returned to Hong Kong to work as a reporter. He is a former member of the Civic Party, a member of the Legislative Council of the Kowloon West Constituency of Hong Kong and the convener of the Democratic Party Conference. He was also a part-time lecturer in the Department of Politics and Administration of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. In 2012, Mo Mengjing represented the Civic Party in the 2012 Hong Kong Legislative Council election and was successfully elected in the direct election of the Kowloon West region. During her tenure, she and Fan Guowei advocated that the government take back the authority to approve one-way permits, believing that this would alleviate the welfare burden caused by the substantial increase in what it called "new immigrants with low education". In the 2016 Hong Kong Legislative Council election, Mao was successfully re-elected in the same constituency with the fourth highest number of votes (32,323 votes). On November 14 of the same year, due to differences with the Civic Party on local issues, filibuster and other issues, she officially quit the Civic Party and served as a member of the Legislative Council as a local member of Hong Kong. Mao Mengjing's political position is considered to be self-determination: she supports Hong Kong nativism and opposes mainlandization phenomena such as the use of mainland Chinese terms. In 2013, Mao questioned the Hong Kong government's donation to the Ya'an earthquake in Sichuan, saying that the Chinese government had "bankruptcy of trust" and that the donation was "beneficial to those corrupt officials" and he did not want the Hong Kong government to "generate the Hong Kong people's tax dollars." In 2016, during the Legislative Council inquiry, Mao excitedly accused the primary school textbooks of "brainwashing education" and the content of "We are all Chinese" and the content was "scary to death." However, he also emphasizes the "pragmatic localism" line. Although he agrees that Hong Kong people should have the right to self-determination, he does not support Hong Kong independence and use force to deal with conflicts between China and Hong Kong. His political views are somewhat different from those of the localists. In early 2021, he was sentenced to 50 months in prison for violating Hong Kong's national security law for participating in the pro-democracy primaries for the 2020 Hong Kong Legislative Council election. On April 29, 2025, Mao Mengjing was released from prison after serving his sentence.

Maura Tracy Healey (English: Maura Tracy Healey; February 8, 1971 -), American Democratic politician and lawyer. He once served as the Attorney General of Massachusetts. He was elected in the 2022 U.S. election and took office as the Governor of Massachusetts the following year. Became the first openly gay governor of Massachusetts and the second female governor of Massachusetts.

Mao Zedong (December 26, 1893 - September 9, 1976), courtesy name Runzhi, was born in Xiangtan, Hunan Province. He was a modern Chinese Marxist-Leninist theorist, revolutionist, politician, military strategist and poet. He became the supreme leader of the Communist Party of China in 1943 and the supreme leader of the People's Republic of China in 1949. He was one of the founders of the Communist Party of China, the Chinese People's Liberation Army and the People's Republic of China.

Hamilton Fish (English: Hamilton Fish, August 3, 1808 - September 7, 1893), American politician, served as Secretary of State and Governor of New York State. During his tenure, he promoted the signing of the "Washington Treaty" between the United States and Britain, which brought lasting peace to the two countries.

Hannibal Hamlin (English: August 27, 1809 - July 4, 1891) was the 15th Vice President of the United States in the administration of President Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War. He is the first Republican to serve as vice president. Before being elected vice president, Hamlin served as a representative and senator and as governor of Maine.

Jiang Zemin (August 17, 1926 - November 30, 2022), a native of Yangzhou, Jiangsu, was the former supreme leader of the Communist Party of China and the People's Republic of China, and a former state-level leader. In 1989, he became the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the core of the third generation of central leadership collective. He served as Chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China and Chairman of the State Military Commission from 1989 to 2005; and as Chairman of the People's Republic of China from 1993 to 2003. Jiang Zemin was born in Jiangdu County, Jiangsu Province (now Yangzhou City). In 1943, he was admitted to the Department of Electrical Engineering of the National Central University (Nanjing) from his hometown. He later transferred to the same department of the National Jiaotong University and graduated in 1947. While in college, he joined the Communist Party of China and began to participate in underground work and student movements. He joined the Communist Party of China in April 1946 and graduated from the Department of Electrical Engineering of National Chiao Tung University. After graduating from university, Jiang Zemin worked in a local grain and clothing factory in Shanghai. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he successively held positions such as section chief and deputy director in factories in the food, soap making, and electrical appliance industries. In 1954, he went north to Changchun to participate in the preparations for the establishment of the First Automobile Manufacturing Plant, and went to the Soviet Union for a one-year internship. After returning to China, he was successively promoted. Since the 1960s, he has successively held major leadership positions in research institutes affiliated to the First Ministry of Machinery Industry in Shanghai, Wuhan and other places. During the "Cultural Revolution", it came under attack. In 1970, he was transferred to the First Ministry of Machinery and was soon sent to Romania to lead the Chinese government's local construction projects. After returning to China, he worked in the Foreign Affairs Bureau of the First Ministry of Machinery for many years, during which he visited many countries around the world. After the reform and opening up, Jiang Zemin left the professional and technical department and joined the National Import and Export Administration Committee to engage in policy formulation and preparation of special economic zones. Since 1982, he has successively served as deputy minister and minister of the Ministry of Electronic Industry, and was elected as a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China during this period. Since 1985, he has served as deputy secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, mayor and secretary of the municipal committee. In November 1987, he was elected as a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee at the 13th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and became the leader of the party and the country. In June 1989, at the Fourth Plenary Session of the 13th CPC Central Committee, he replaced Zhao Ziyang and was elected as General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, establishing his core leadership position. In November of the same year, he was elected chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China and succeeded Deng Xiaoping in taking charge of the army. The following year, he was elected chairman of the Central Military Commission of the country. In 1993, he was elected President of the People's Republic of China, succeeding Yang Shangkun, and was subsequently re-elected for the above positions. In November 2002, he resigned as General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee

Chi Biqing (December 23, 1917 - November 17, 2007) was a native of Shangzhuang Village, Pingding County, Shanxi Province. Government official of the People's Republic of China, member of the 11th and 12th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, and member of the Central Advisory Committee. In his early years, he entered Taiyuan City Youren Middle School and participated in the student movement. He joined the Communist Party of China in July 1937. In 1948, he served as director of the Propaganda Department of the Jinzhong District Party Committee of the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Central Bureau; in 1949, he served as director of the Taiyuan Municipal Committee Office and deputy secretary of the Rural Working Committee. In 1955, he was deputy secretary of the Shanxi Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China and first secretary of the Taiyuan Municipal Committee. In 1957, he served as secretary of the Secretariat of the Shanxi Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China. In 1961, he was transferred to the Secretariat of the North China Bureau of the CPC Central Committee. In 1969, deputy director of Tianjin Revolutionary Committee. In 1975, he served as the second secretary of the Party Committee of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of the Communist Party of China. In 1978, he served as the second secretary of the Guizhou Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China and deputy director of the Provincial Revolutionary Committee. In 1980, he served as the First Secretary of the Guizhou Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China and the First Political Commissar of the Provincial Military Region.

Ikeda Hayato (Japanese: Ikeda Yongto/Ikeda Hayato, Romanized: Ikeda Hayato, December 3, 1899 - August 13, 1965), a native of Yoshina Village, Toyota County, Hiroshima Prefecture (today's Takehara City, Hiroshima Prefecture), Japan, Minister of International Trade and Industry, Minister of State, and Prime Minister of the Cabinet.

Thomas Joseph Ridge (English: Thomas Joseph Ridge, August 26, 1945 -), American politician, member of the Republican Party of the United States, served as a member of the United States House of Representatives (1983-1995), Governor of Pennsylvania (1995-2001), Homeland Security Advisor to the President of the United States (2001-2003), and the first United States Secretary of Homeland Security (2003-2005). After leaving politics, Rich served on the boards of The Home Depot Company and The Hershey Company and was employed as a senior consultant at Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu.