Political figures

Wang Renshu (September 8, 1901 - July 25, 1972), pen name Ba Ren et al., male, was born in Fenghua, Zhejiang, a modern Chinese writer, literary critic, and historian.

Wang Zuo (1853-1931), also known as Jiguan, was a native of Fenghui Town, Shangyu, Zhejiang Province. He was a scholar and political figure in the late Qing Dynasty.

Wang Jiayou (April 2, 1925 -), male, native of Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, political figure of the People's Republic of China.

Wang Hongzhi (September 1969-), male, Han nationality, political figure of the People's Republic of China, member of the Communist Party of China. Graduated from the Department of Electrical Engineering of Tsinghua University, with a university degree and a master's degree in business administration, and is a professor-level senior engineer. He is currently a member of the Party Leadership Group of the National Development and Reform Commission, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Director of the National Energy Administration.

Wang Zhizhen (July 6, 1942 -), born in Shanghai, originally from Wuxian County, Jiangsu Province, is a political figure of the People's Republic of China, a former deputy national leader, and a Chinese biochemistry and molecular biologist.

Wang Enduo (November 1944-), Chinese biochemistry and molecular biologist. Researcher at the Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Wang Changlin (January 1967 -), male, Han nationality, native of Chongqing, graduated from Wuhan University of Technology, postgraduate degree, Master of Engineering, member of the Communist Party of China, researcher. He is currently a member of the Proposal Committee of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, a member of the Party Leadership Group and Deputy Director (part-time) of the National Development and Reform Commission.

Wang Xin (1960-), a native of Tianjin, Han nationality, a politician of the People's Republic of China, director of the General Office of China Datang Corporation, a member of the Communist Party of China, and a representative of the Heilongjiang region at the 11th National People's Congress. Graduated from North China Electric Power College majoring in thermal dynamics. He has served as a deputy to the National People's Congress since 2008.

Wang Yusuo (March 11, 1964 -), native of Bazhou, Hebei, Han nationality, politician of the People's Republic of China, member of the 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, chairman of Xinao Gas. He joined the China Democratic National Construction Association and served as a member of the Standing Committee of the 11th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, vice president of the China Private Chamber of Commerce, and vice chairman of the Hebei Federation of Industry and Commerce. In 2008, he was elected as a member of the Standing Committee of the 11th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, representing the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce, and was assigned to the 21st Group. And serves as a special committee member of the Economic Committee.

Wang Xiang (1887 - August 16, 1953), originally named Juncai, later changed to Junyuan, nicknamed Yiyu, male, was a native of Shouyang County, Pingding Prefecture, Shanxi Province, a politician and businessman in the Republic of China, and later served as the governor of Shanxi Province under Wang Jingwei's regime.

Mary Todd Lincoln (English: Mary Todd Lincoln, December 13, 1818 - July 16, 1882), the wife of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, and the daughter of a banker.

Marcia Louise Fudge (English: Marcia Louise Fudge; October 29, 1952 -), American politician, Democratic Party. From 2008 to 2021, he served as a federal representative for Ohio's 11th Congressional District and was also the chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus of the 113th Congress. Serves as U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 2021 to 2024. In 2020, U.S. President Joe Biden nominated Fauci to serve as U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. On March 10, 2021, the U.S. Senate officially approved Fauci’s nomination.

Janet Napolitano (English: Janet Napolitano, November 29, 1957 -) is an American politician and lawyer who has served as president of the University of California, Secretary of Homeland Security, Governor of Arizona, and President of the National Governors Association. She is also the third female governor of the state. Time Magazine once ranked her among the five most outstanding governors in the United States.

Janet Louise Yellen (English: Janet Louise Yellen, born August 13, 1946) is an American Jewish economist who served as the 78th U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and Chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board. Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, and Professor at the Haas School of Business. Born in Brooklyn, New York, United States. Before serving as Vice Chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, Yellen served as President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, and was nominated by President Bill Clinton to serve as the 18th U.S. President’s Council of Economic Advisers. On October 9, 2013, President Obama nominated Yellen to succeed Bernanke as Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. She took office on February 3, 2014, becoming the first female chairperson of the Federal Reserve in its 100-year history. In December 2020, President Joe Biden announced the nomination of Yellen as the new Secretary of the Treasury before taking office, and she took office on January 25, 2021. She is the first female Secretary of the Treasury in U.S. history. .

Richard Olney (September 15, 1835 - April 8, 1917) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the U.S. Attorney General and the U.S. Secretary of State.

Linda Lingle (English: Linda Lingle, June 4, 1953 -), formerly known as Linda Cutter (English: Linda Cutter), is an American politician and Republican. He served as the 6th Governor of Hawaii from 2002 to 2010. Linda Lingle is the first female governor of Hawaii.

Ryan Keith Zinke (English: Ryan Keith Zinke; November 1, 1961 -), American politician, Republican. From 2015 to 2017, he was a federal representative elected from a single electoral district in Montana. Before becoming a member of Congress, Zinke served as a member of the Montana State Senate and a retired lieutenant colonel of the U.S. Navy. He graduated from the University of San Diego. From March 1, 2017 to January 2, 2019, he served as Secretary of the Department of the Interior of the United States.

Valéry Marie René Georges Giscard d'Estaing (French: Valéry Marie René Georges Giscard d'Estaing; February 2, 1926 - December 2, 2020) was a French economist, politician, and former President of France. He is known as the father of the EU constitution and the father of the modern euro.

Ganku (January 1924 - July 25, 1993), male, Zhuang nationality, a native of Fusui, Guangxi, a political figure of the Communist Party of China and the People's Republic of China, and a former deputy national leader. He once served as Chairman of the Standing Committee of the People's Congress of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, representative of the 7th and 8th National People's Congress, vice chairman of the 8th National People's Congress Standing Committee, and representative of the 13th and 14th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.

Tanaka Kakuei (Japanese: Tanaka Kakuei/Tanaka Hakuei, Romanized: Tanaka Kakuei; May 4, 1918 - December 16, 1993), a Japanese politician and architect who served successively as a member of the House of Representatives (16 terms), Minister of Posts (12th generation), Minister of Finance (67th-69th generation), Minister of International Trade and Industry (33rd generation), and Prime Minister of the Cabinet (64th and 65th generations). In September 1972 (Showa 47), two months after taking office as Prime Minister, he officially visited the People's Republic of China, held talks with the leaders of the People's Republic of China and established diplomatic relations. Relations between the two parties began to normalize. In terms of internal affairs, his political achievements include "On the Transformation of the Japanese Islands" and other major policies. Tanaka Kakuei is the first prime minister in Japanese history who has not received a university education. Therefore, he is called the "Prime Minister of the Common People" by the Japanese people. His political career was involved in several scandals. Especially in 1974, he was forced to step down due to the exposure of Tanaka's gold veins. In 1976, he was arrested and quit the Liberal Democratic Party due to his involvement in the Lockheed incident. However, his popularity was not bad, and he could maintain the influence of the Tanaka faction until the late 1980s. Retired from politics in 1990.

Nobutaka Machimura (October 17, 1944 - June 1, 2015) was a Japanese politician who served as the 75th Speaker of the House of Representatives. Nobutaka Machimura was born in Numazu City, Shizuoka Prefecture, and his native place is Ebetsu City, Hokkaido. He attended Setagaya Elementary School Affiliated to Tokyo Gakugei University, Setagaya Junior High School Affiliated to Tokyo Gakugei University, and Tokyo Hibiya High School, and graduated from the Faculty of Economics of the University of Tokyo in 1969. While studying at the University of Tokyo, he went to the United States as an exchange student to study at Wesleyan University. He is a key figure in the town and village faction of the Liberal Democratic Party. His father is a former member of the Japanese House of Representatives, Senate and Hokkaido Governor Machimura Kanego, and the former Japanese Senate President Fumihei Hara is his elder brother. He ran for election to the House of Representatives eight times and was successfully elected. In 1969, after graduating from university, he joined the Japanese government's Ministry of International Trade and Industry. In 1974, he worked at the Land and Resources Agency, and in 1969, he worked at the Japan External Trade Organization. In 1983, he was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time. He later served as Parliamentary Secretary of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, and served as Minister of Education for the first time in the second Hashimoto reform cabinet. Later, he served as Parliamentary Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs in the Keizo Obuchi Cabinet. He has served as Japan's Foreign Minister since September 27, 2004. During his tenure, he successfully signed a border dispute treaty with Russia on the four northern islands (Southern Kuril Islands), and investigated the Japanese abductions by North Korea in the 1970s and 1980s. On April 17, 2005, he visited China at a time when Sino-Japanese relations were at a low ebb. In September 2007, he became Chief Cabinet Secretary. He served as Speaker of the House of Representatives on December 24, 2014. In April 2015, he resigned as Speaker due to health reasons. He died in Tokyo on June 1 of the same year at the age of 70.

Bai Jingfu (May 1945 - April 29, 2026) was born in Fengrun, Hebei Province. Politician of the People's Republic of China. Bai Jingfu graduated from the Law Department of Jilin University. In 1982, he served as director of Qitaihe City Public Security Bureau. In 1985, he was promoted to Secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Committee of the Heilongjiang Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China. In 1988, he served as director of the Heilongjiang Provincial Public Security Department. In August 1991, he was appointed as Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Public Security of the People's Republic of China and with the title of Deputy Chief Superintendent. In March 2005, he was appointed as Executive Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Public Security. In 2008, he served as a member of the 17th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, a member of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, and a deputy chairman of the Internal Affairs and Judiciary Committee of the National People's Congress.

Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg (English: Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg, /ˈbuːtəˌdʒɛdʒ/; January 19, 1982 -) is an American Democratic politician who served as the 19th U.S. Secretary of Transportation and the mayor of South Bend, Indiana. His husband is a high school teacher. In December 2020, President-elect Joe Biden announced the nomination of Buttigieg as Secretary of Transportation in the Biden administration; on February 2 of the following year, the Senate approved Buttigieg's appointment through a voting confirmation process, and he officially took office later, becoming the first cabinet chief in U.S. history to openly identify as an LGBTQ person. Buttigieg graduated from Harvard University and Oxford University, where he received a Rhodes Scholarship. In 2007, he began working at the management consulting firm McKinsey for three years. From 2009 to 2017, he served as an intelligence officer in the U.S. Naval Reserve with the rank of lieutenant. In 2014, he was drafted and deployed to Afghanistan for seven months to fight in the war. Before being elected mayor of South Bend in 2011, Buttigieg participated in Democratic candidate campaigns and ran as a Democratic candidate for Indiana Treasurer in 2010, but ultimately lost. Buttigieg publicly came out as gay in 2015 while serving as mayor of South Bend. He married teacher and author Chasten Glatzman in June 2018. Buttigieg declined to seek a third term as mayor. Buttigieg participated in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary and officially launched his campaign on April 14, 2019. He became the first openly gay Democratic presidential candidate. Despite low initial expectations, he gained significant support after participating in multiple town hall meetings and televised debates in mid-2019. Buttigieg narrowly won the Iowa caucuses and placed second in the New Hampshire primary. With his victory in Iowa, he became the first openly gay candidate to win a presidential primary or caucus. Buttigieg dropped out of the race on March 1, 2020, and announced his support for Joe Biden the next day. In December 2020, President-elect Biden nominated Buttigieg as Secretary of Transportation. On February 2, 2021, his nomination was confirmed with 86 votes in favor and 13 votes against, making him the first openly gay cabinet secretary in U.S. history. Buttigieg was 38 when he was nominated

Peter I (Russian: Пётр Первый; June 9, 1672 [May 30 in the Julian calendar] - February 8, 1725 [January 28 in the Julian calendar]), full name Peter Alexeyevich Romanov (Russian: Пётр Алексе́евич Романов), Tsar (1682-1725) and Emperor (1721-1725) of Russia. During his reign, he implemented European-style reforms to modernize Russia and made St. Petersburg its capital. Known as "Peter the Great" (Russian: Пётр Вели́кий); the Holy Synod and the Privy Council awarded him the title "Father of the Fatherland" (Отец Отечество) in 1721. Much of Peter's reign was spent in protracted wars with the Ottoman and Swedish empires. He established the Russian Imperial Navy and after winning the Great Northern War, he annexed a large amount of territory on the east coast of the Baltic Sea and officially upgraded the tsarist state to an empire. Internally, he launched a cultural revolution to replace Russia's traditional and medieval social and political system with modernization, scientificization, Westernization, and new systems influenced by radical Enlightenment ideas. In December 1699, he introduced the Julian calendar; in 1703, he founded Russia's first newspaper, the St. Petersburg News, and promoted the "civilian font" in the Russian alphabet reform. He also founded St. Petersburg on the banks of the Neva River and later moved the capital from Moscow to St. Petersburg in 1712. The city maintained its status as the capital until 1918. He has a keen interest in plants, animals, minerals, as well as deformed creatures and various natural anomalies, which he collects in his cabinet of curiosities. He encouraged the study of deformities and tried to dispel the superstitious fear of "monsters" among the people. In addition, he actively promoted the industrialization and higher education development of the Russian Empire. In 1724, the Russian Academy of Sciences and St. Petersburg State University were established one after another, and scholars such as Christian Wolff were invited to teach and conduct research. Peter's most important historical status lies in his modernization reforms of Russia, which quickly transformed Russia into one of the European powers. His administrative reforms, including the establishment of the Senate in 1711, the system of ministries and colleges in 1717, and the official list system in 1722, all had a profound impact on Russia. Many of the systems of Russia's government today can trace their roots back to the reign of Peter the Great.