Political figures

Takahashi Korekiyo (Japanese: Takahashi Korekiyo/Takahashi , Romanized: Takahashi Korekiyo, September 19, 1854 - February 26, 1936), was a native of Shibachumonzen Town, Toshima County, Toshima County, Higashiyama Road, Japan (now Shibamon Gate, Minato-ku, Tokyo). He served as Prime Minister and Minister of Finance.

Gao Zhengyue (January 1951-), born in Luquan, Hebei Province, is a politician and diplomat of the People's Republic of China.

Gao Jin Sumei (Atayal: Ciwas Ali, Chinese transliteration: Jiwas Ali, September 21, 1965 -), formerly known as Jin Sumei, is a Taiwanese politician and former artist. He has served as a legislator for the Mountain Aboriginal Electoral District since 2002. Gao Jin Sumei's acting career began around 1984: she made her debut in the China Television program "Great Wonder". He entered politics in 2001 and was later elected as a legislator for the mountain aboriginal electoral district as a non-party member. After 2012, he became the only representative of the non-party Solidarity Alliance in the Legislative Yuan. Starting from 2020, due to factors such as Lin Bingkun, chairman of the Non-Party Solidarity Alliance, announced his retirement, he resumed his political career as a non-party member and joined the Chinese Kuomintang Legislative Yuan caucus to participate in the operation of the caucus.

Gao E, politician and diplomat of the People's Republic of China. In 1981, he succeeded Sun Shengwei as the Ambassador of the People's Republic of China to Sri Lanka and the Ambassador to the Maldives. In 1984, Zhou Shanyan took over.

Gao Yu (June 1961-), male, native of Yanchuan, Shaanxi Province, political figure of the People's Republic of China.

Wei Xueren (1899-1987), courtesy name Leshan, was born in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province and was an expert in audio-visual education in China.

Wei Wei (March 6, 1920 - August 24, 2008), formerly known as Wei Hongjie, used the pen name Hong Yangshu, male, from Zhengzhou, Henan, a Chinese writer, journalist, poet, and member of the Communist Party of China. He served as a deputy to the first to the third National People's Congress, an honorary member of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, a consultant to the Chinese Writers Association, vice president of the China-North Korea Friendship Association, and president of the Chinese Liberated Areas Literature Research Association. Graduated from Yan'an Anti-Japanese Military and Political University. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, he joined the Eighth Route Army. During the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea, he went to the Korean front line, lived and fought with the volunteer soldiers, and published a large number of literary and artistic communications. Among them, "Who is the Cutest Person" was included in the second volume of the seventh-grade Chinese textbook of the People's Education Press and gained a certain degree of popularity.

Rudolph William Louis "Rudy" Giuliani (English: Rudolph William Louis "Rudy" Giuliani; May 28, 1944 -; also translated as Giuliani), an American Republican politician, lawyer, prosecutor and businessman. Giuliani was once a Republican moderate. Initially serving as a federal prosecutor, he prosecuted many high-profile criminal leaders. He then served as mayor of New York City for eight years from 1994 to 2001. During his tenure as mayor, he worked to reduce crime rates and improve the quality of urban life. As mayor during the September 11, 2011, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, Giuliani became known around the world for his outstanding leadership from the ground up. He was named Time magazine's Person of the Year in 2001 and received a KBE from Queen Elizabeth II. His command performance during the 9/11 incident also earned him the nickname "America's Mayor." Since retiring as mayor of New York City, Giuliani has also founded a highly successful partnership securities advisory firm. In January 2007, he officially announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination in the 2008 presidential election, but announced his withdrawal on January 30, 2008. He has become a loyal supporter of Trump since 2016. In April 2018, Giuliani joined U.S. President Donald Trump's legal team.

Sayyid Rūhollāh Musavi Khomeinī (Persian: سید روحاللّه مصطفوی موسوی خمینی) , May 17, 1900 - June 3, 1989), the Grand Ayatollah of Iran's Shiite Islam, the political and spiritual leader of the Iranian Islamic Revolution in 1979, and served as the supreme leader of Iran from then until 1989. He is known as Imam Khomeini within Iran and among his international supporters, and by others as Ayatollah Khomeini. Khomeini was the Marza (Grand Ayatollah) of the Twelve Imams of Shia Islam, but is best known for his political role. In his writings and sermons, he expanded the "guardianship of al-Faqih" (guardianship of jurists) advocated by the Ussuri sect of the Twelve Imams, which is the theocratic rule of Islamic jurists. In 1979, Iran's Islamic Revolution overthrew the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. After that, Khomeini became the country's supreme leader, the country's highest political and religious leader. Khomeini is known as a "widely supported and charismatic leader", and some Shiite scholars regard him as a "fighter for the revival of Islam." In the Muslim world abroad, he is described as "the virtual image of Islam in Western popular culture." In 1979, he was named a Person of the Year by Time magazine. He is famous for supporting the hostages during the Iran hostage crisis and for issuing the order to kill the British-Indian writer Salman Rushdie.

Piyush "Bobby" Jindal is an Indian-American and former governor of Louisiana. From 2005 to 2008, he also ran for the U.S. House of Representatives in Louisiana's 1st Congressional District and was successfully elected.

Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (Russian: Борис Николаевич Ельцин, Romanized: Boris Nikolayevich Yel'tsin, February 1, 1931 - April 23, 2007) was a Soviet and Russian politician and the first President of Russia, serving from 1991 to 1999. Previously, he served as an alternate member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, first secretary of the Moscow Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and chairman of the Supreme Soviet of Russia. In 1990, Yeltsin was elected Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of Russia. In 1991, he was elected President of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic in the election, becoming the first democratically elected head of state in Russian history. In December of the same year, he contributed to the disintegration of the Soviet Union and replaced it with Russia as the main successor. Yeltsin is a controversial politician who rose to prominence during the Soviet Communist years for vowing to fight corruption, but his regime has been plagued by corruption scandals and other inconsistencies. For example, although he verbally adhered to liberalism and democracy, he questioned and banned some top leaders of the Soviet Communist Party who used force during the August 19th Incident, but he was also involved in destroying the democratic system during the Russian constitutional crisis in 1993. In the end, he used force to suppress dissidents. Later, in 1996, Yeltsin was re-elected as president in a controversial election. On December 31, 1999, he announced his resignation a few hours before entering the year 2000. He bypassed the voters and handed power to Putin to promote this succession. At that time, the people across the country were shocked by his decision to leave suddenly. After the then Prime Minister Vladimir Putin became acting president and was successfully elected, Yeltsin's political career came to an end. After Putin took office, he also treated his promoter judicially. Yeltsin has largely kept a low profile since his resignation, occasionally publicly criticizing his successor. Yeltsin died of congestive heart failure on April 23, 2007. However, when he was in power, he vigorously promoted values ​​such as privatization and market economy, and successfully gained the West's tolerance for his arbitrary approach. At the same time, he adopted the "shock therapy" piloted in some countries at the time to bring Russia to capitalism as soon as possible. However, this move was improperly followed and the Russian economy was on the verge of collapse. In order to regain support, the government condoned the expansion of local forces, making the rule of law reforms difficult to implement and full of injustice. They jointly kidnapped crony groups. In addition, his role, words and deeds in the disintegration of the Soviet Union once encouraged ethnic groups within the Russian Federation.

Hatoyama Ichiro (Hatoyama Ichiro, January 1, 1883 - March 7, 1959) was a native of Higashigogencho, Ushigome-ku, Tokyo (now Higashigogencho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo). He served as Prime Minister of Japan and President of the Liberal Democratic Party.

Kunio Hatoyama (September 13, 1948 - June 21, 2016), a Japanese politician, a native of Tokyo, graduated from the Faculty of Law of the University of Tokyo. He was a powerful figure in the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan and served as a member of the House of Representatives, Minister of General Affairs, Minister of Education, Minister of Labor and Minister of Justice.

Richard Michael DeWine (English: Richard Michael DeWine; January 5, 1947 -) is a Republican American politician and the current governor of Ohio. He served as a U.S. representative for Ohio's 10th congressional district from 1983 to 1991 and a member of the Ohio Senate from 1995 to 2007. In 2023, during his tenure as governor of Ohio, the East Palestine train derailment occurred.

Huang Mengfei (1895-October 9, 1969), formerly known as Zongpei, with the courtesy name Shuren and the nickname Guyun, was a native of Jixi County, Anhui Province. A politician, educator, and entrepreneur of the Republic of China, and later a politician of the People's Republic of China. He devoted himself to the national revolution in his early years and served successively as executive member of the Anhui Provincial Party Headquarters of the Kuomintang, brief secretary and counselor of the Ministry of Social Affairs. In 1948, he was elected to the first legislative session. In 1949, he and 53 legislators jointly announced their separation from the Kuomintang regime. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he served as chairman of the Wuhu Federation of Industry and Commerce, member of the Standing Committee of the Anhui Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and deputy chairman of the Anhui Provincial Committee of China Democratic National Construction Association. Died of illness in 1969.

Helena Wong Pik-wan (English: Helena Wong Pik-wan, March 21, 1959 -), former member of the Legislative Council of the Kowloon West Constituency of Hong Kong and a former member of the Hong Kong Democratic Party. Wong Pik-wan lost the election in the Kowloon West Constituency in the 2020 democratic primary. She also made it clear at the press conference that she admitted defeat and would not run for the 2020 Legislative Council election. On January 6, 2021, he was arrested on suspicion of violating the Hong Kong Maintenance of National Security Law for his earlier participation in the Legislative Council primaries and was sentenced to 6 years and 6 months in prison.

William Wong Kam-fai, MH (English: William Wong Kam-fai, born June 18, 1960), is a member of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and an appointed member of the General Committee of the Hong Kong Scout Association. He is also the Associate Dean (Foreign Affairs) of the School of Engineering of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Professor of the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, Director of the Center for Innovation and Technology, Deputy Director of the University Entrepreneurship Research Center and Director of the Key Laboratory of High-Trust Software Technology of the Ministry of Education (Branch of the Chinese University of Hong Kong), a Chartered Engineer, and an Academician of the International Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). Served as a member of the Hong Kong Legislative Council (Election Committee).

Huang Zhen (August 1960 -), male, native of Yinxian County, Zhejiang Province, is an expert in China's power machinery engineering, professor and vice president of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, vice chairman of the Central Committee of the China Association for the Promotion of Democracy, and vice chairman of the Shanghai CPPCC.

Huang Ming (1958-), male, native of Taixing, Jiangsu Province, professor-level senior engineer. Huang Ming is currently the Vice Chairman of the International Solar Energy Society (ISES), a representative of the 10th and 11th National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China, Vice Chairman of the China Renewable Energy Society, Vice Chairman of the China Energy Conservation Association, Vice Chairman of the China Rural Energy Industry Association, and Chairman of Huangming Solar Energy Co., Ltd. He is the only National People’s Congress representative in China’s renewable energy industry and the main sponsor of China’s Renewable Energy Law. Huang Ming is a visionary, dedicated and passionate entrepreneur and changemaker in the field of solar thermal energy. He established Sun Valley in the Chinese city of Dezhou, a national and world example aimed at using solar energy as a viable alternative to "fossil fuels and nuclear energy." In 2005, Huang Ming played an important role in China's passage of its Renewable Energy Law, creating a model for the country of the role individuals can play in preventing worsening climate chaos.

Qi Baishi (January 1, 1864 - September 16, 1957), whose original name was Qi Chunzhi and whose courtesy name was Wei Qing, was named Lanting by his grandfather. His teacher named him Huang and his nickname was Bisheng. He was also nicknamed Old Man Jiping and Baishi Shanren. He was a native of Xiangtan, Hunan, and a traditional Chinese painting painter. Later generations often omitted the word "shanren", so it was often called "Baishi". Qi Baishi and Zhang Daqian were also called "Southern Zhang and Northern Qi".

Long Yingtai (February 13, 1952 -), who used the pen name Hu Meili, is a Taiwanese writer, literary scholar, and non-party political figure. A native of Daliao Township, Kaohsiung County (now Daliao District, Kaohsiung City), his native place is Hengshan, Hunan. Graduated from the Department of Foreign Languages ​​and Literature of National Cheng Kung University and a PhD in English and American Literature from Kansas State University. The first director of the Cultural Affairs Bureau and the first minister of the Ministry of Culture of the Taipei City Government. He also served in many universities in the United States, Germany, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. In 1985, he published his debut novel "Long Ying Tai Criticism Novel", and later published essays, cultural criticism, novels, essays, documentary literature and other works, such as "Wild Fire Collection" and "Big Rivers and Seas 1949". His words and deeds have spread throughout the Chinese areas, including Taiwan, Singapore, Germany and other places. In order to "promote global awareness", the Long Yingtai Cultural Foundation was founded.

Gong Yuanxing (March 1952-), a native of Shanghai, is a politician and diplomat of the People's Republic of China.

Gong Peng (October 10, 1914 - September 20, 1970), female, formerly known as Gong Cisheng (also known as Gong Qingsheng) and Gong Weihang, was born in Hefei, Anhui, and was originally from Linchuan, Jiangxi. She was a diplomat of the People's Republic of China and a member of the Communist Party of China. Zhou Enlai's right-hand man.

Gong Fengchun (1908-December 1, 1978), whose original name was Yonglu and courtesy name Fuchou, was born in Shangyuanguan, Chenggu, Shaanxi, and was a political figure in modern China.