Political figures

Renzo Piano (Italian: Renzo Piano, September 14, 1937 -), Italian architect. Winner of the 20th Pritzker Prize in 1998. For his contribution to the protection of the ancient city of Genoa, he was also selected as a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador.

Bernard Sanders (English: Bernard Sanders, September 8, 1941 -), American politician, currently the senior federal senator of Vermont, holding this position since 2007. He is the longest-serving independent in U.S. congressional history, but has maintained close ties to the Democratic Party, caucusing with House and Senate Democrats for most of his congressional career and seeking the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016 and 2020. Ideologically, Sanders is a democratic socialist and is considered one of the key leaders of the modern American progressive movement. Sanders was born into a working-class Jewish family in New York, attended Brooklyn College, and graduated from the University of Chicago in 1964. While in school, he was active in the civil rights movement and was a protest organizer for the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). After settling in Vermont in 1968, he participated in political activities as an independent candidate several times in the 1970s, but failed. In 1981, he was elected mayor of Burlington as an independent candidate and served three terms. Sanders was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1990, representing a statewide district in Vermont. In 1991, he co-founded the Congressional Progressive Caucus with five other members of the House of Representatives. Sanders was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2006 after serving in the House of Representatives for 16 years. Sanders was re-elected in 2012, 2018 and 2024. He served as Chairman of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee from 2013 to 2015, Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee from 2021 to 2023, and Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee from 2023 to 2025. He is the senior senator and veteran figure in Vermont's congressional delegation. Sanders ran for the Democratic presidential nomination twice, in 2016 and 2020, finishing second both times. His 2016 campaign garnered enthusiasm from grassroots supporters and money from small donors, helping him win 23 primaries and caucuses. In 2020, his strong performance in the early primaries and caucuses made him the front-runner among many Democratic candidates. After the 2020 primaries, he became a close ally of Joe Biden. Sanders has spoken out against the Trump administration since Donald Trump was re-elected as president in 2024, and

Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell (English: Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, May 18, 1872 - February 2, 1970) was a British philosopher, mathematician and logician who was committed to the popularization and popularization of philosophy. A former professor of philosophy at Trinity College, Cambridge, he wrote many books, including the classic A History of Western Philosophy. In the philosophy of mathematics, he adopts Frege's logicist stance, believing that mathematics can be reduced to logic, and that philosophy can be formally systematized like logic, and advocates logical atomism. In July 1920, Russell applied for a one-year leave and went to China and Japan to give lectures, which had a considerable influence on the Chinese academic community. In 1950, Russell won the Nobel Prize in Literature in recognition of his "most courageous gentleman in Western European thought, freedom of speech, outstanding energy, courage, wisdom and sensibility, who represents the original meaning and spirit of the Nobel Prize".

Eisaku Sato (Japanese: Sato Sakaeaku/sugar Esaku, Romanized: Satō Eisaku, March 27, 1901 - June 3, 1975), a Japanese politician and former Japanese Prime Minister (Prime Minister), was in power for 7 years and 8 months. He was once the Japanese Prime Minister with the longest consecutive term (only surpassed by Shinzo Abe in August 2020). His brother Kishi Nobusuke was also the Prime Minister. He is also the maternal uncle of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Nobusuke Kishi, Eisaku Sato, and Shinzo Abe are known as "three prime ministers from one family" and "three prime ministers from one family". In 1924, he graduated from the Faculty of Law of Tokyo Imperial University and began working in the Ministry of Railways. In 1946, he became the Director-General of the Railways, and in 1947, he became the Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Transport. Joined the Liberal Party (one of the predecessors of the Liberal Democratic Party) in 1948. When Yoshida Shigeru was the Prime Minister of the Cabinet, Yoshida expelled a large number of party members, and the bureaucratic faction gained power. In particular, Sato and Ikeda Yuuto were promoted many times. In 1948, he was appointed Chief Cabinet Secretary by Yoshida. In January 1949, he became a member of the House of Representatives (subsequently re-elected 11 times). In February 1949, he was appointed Chairman of the Political Consultative Committee of the Liberal Party. In the 1954 shipbuilding scandal, fortunately, the then Prime Minister Yoshida Shigeru asked Justice Minister Inukai Ken to activate the prosecutorial command and avoid arrest, but the Yoshida cabinet collapsed as a result. Japan during Sato's period was a golden age of rapid growth, and he achieved remarkable achievements during his tenure. In addition to the opening of the Tomei Expressway and Meishin Expressway connecting Tokyo and Kobe, the construction of the Sanyo Shinkansen was also approved. Compared with his predecessor Yuto Ikeda who focused on non-economic matters, Sato dealt with other more complex political issues, such as the left-wing student protest movement that was raging during the Vietnam War, and was successfully suppressed. In 1969, Japan's factory economy boomed, surpassing West Germany and becoming the second largest economy in the free world. In addition to maintaining an average economic growth rate of over 10%, Sato successfully regained the control of Okinawa from the United States through mediation and incorporated it into Japanese territory. It also improved the problems left over from history between Japan and South Korea. Then Eisaku Sato won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1974 for promoting Japan's denuclearization and promoting reconciliation in Asia. During the Sato era, Japan still tried its best to favor the Republic of China in diplomacy, opposed and obstructed the People's Republic of China. It was also the last Japanese prime minister to visit Taiwan during his term, and he was a well-known pro-Taiwan faction. However, due to the diplomatic impact of Nixon and the rapid rise of Tanaka Kakuei in his later period, Sato was unable to appoint his preferred successor, Takeo Fukuda.

He Yizhen (November 14, 1910 - July 31, 2008), a native of Lingshi, Shanxi, was a Chinese physicist. Her husband is Ge Tingsui.

Datuk Seri Stanley Ho, GBM, GML, GBS, GLM, OBE, CStJ, SPMP, SPMT, a native of Bao'an, Guangdong, a wealthy businessman from Hong Kong and Macau, the former richest man in Macau, and a former member of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. He ran a Macau entertainment and gambling company before the opening of Macau's gaming patent rights. He dominated the Macau gaming industry and was described by the media as the "King of Gambling." The Hong Kong Shun Tak Group's business is deeply involved in shipping, real estate, hotels, entertainment and other industries.

Tong Guangsheng (1928-February 18, 2014), a native of Guangdong, was a political figure in the People's Republic of China. He entered the Guangdong Provincial Fisheries Research Institute in his early years and served as deputy director of the Revolutionary Committee of the institute in 1973. Later, he served as the commander of the Nanhai District Fishery Headquarters of the Ministry of Agriculture and the director of the Nanhai District Fishery Administration Branch of the Ministry of Agriculture. Died on February 18, 2014.

Kurusu Saburō (Japanese: Kurusu Saburō, March 6, 1886 - April 7, 1954) was a Japanese career diplomat. From 1939 to November 1941, he served as Japan's ambassador to Germany, and on September 27, 1940, as Japan's representative, he signed the "Triple Alliance Treaty" with the foreign ministers of Germany and Italy. Later, in 1941, he was sent to the United States by the Tojo Cabinet as a special envoy to participate in peace negotiations with the United States. At the same time, the Tojo Cabinet also planned to launch an attack on the United States if the negotiations failed.

Paul Lafargue (French: Paul Lafargue; 1842-November 25, 1911), one of the founders of the French Workers' Party.

Fu Jun (1957-), male, Han nationality, entrepreneur and politician of the People's Republic of China, member of the Communist Party of China, former vice chairman of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce, chairman and president of the board of directors of Xinhualian Group, and member of the 11th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

Fu Xuezhang (1939-), a native of Xiping, Henan, is a politician and diplomat of the People's Republic of China.

Fu Yuefen (1878-1951), courtesy name Zhixiang and nickname Juanjing, was born in Yongfeng Yili, Jiangxia County, Wuchang Prefecture, Hubei Province. He was a political figure, historian and poet in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China.

Fu Xishou (January 1931 - March 25, 2015), male, native of Beijing, political figure of the People's Republic of China. He once served as governor of the People's Government of Anhui Province and member of the Standing Committee of the Eighth and Ninth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

Jeff Landry (December 23, 1970 -) is an American politician who is currently the governor of Louisiana and serves as Greenland envoy. From 2011 to 2013, he was an elected member of the United States House of Representatives from Louisiana's 3rd electoral district. His party affiliation is the Republican Party. Landry served in the U.S. Army. He is also a member of the Tea Party movement.

Chu Anping (November 5, 1909 - disappeared in September 1966), a native of Yixing, Jiangsu Province, was a modern Chinese scholar and intellectual. Member of China Democratic League and member of Jiusan Society. Born into a distinguished family, he studied in the UK and later served as a professor at Fudan University. A famous critic during the Republic of China, he was the president and editor-in-chief of "Observation". He was accused of leaking military secrets, which led to the magazine being seized. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he served as manager of Xinhua Bookstore, editor-in-chief of Guangming Daily, and deputy director of the Propaganda Department of Jiusan Society. In 1957, in response to the policy of "letting a hundred flowers bloom and a hundred schools of thought contend", he published the article "Some Opinions to Chairman Mao and Premier Zhou" (i.e., "Party in the World"). Mao Zedong was dissatisfied with this and issued a rebuttal, and quickly launched an anti-rightist movement. Chu Anping was knocked down as a typical rightist, and his family and many related people were implicated. In 1966, during the Cultural Revolution, Chu Anping was persecuted and disappeared, and was later pronounced dead. After 1978, 550,000 rightists were rehabilitated, but Chu Anping is still one of the "five major rightists" at the central level who refuse to be corrected.

Kwame Nkrumah (English: Kwame Nkrumah, September 21, 1909 - April 27, 1972), also translated as Kwame Nkrumah, was a Ghanaian politician and revolutionary. He led the British Gold Coast to independence in 1957. He was the first Prime Minister of Ghana and the President of Ghana. He was the leader of the African independence movement and one of the main advocates of Pan-Africanism. Kwame Nkrumah was one of the founders of the Organization of African Unity (later renamed the African Union) and received the Lenin Peace Prize in 1962. Nkrumah studied abroad for 12 years, developed his own political theory (later known as Nkrumahism), and established organizations with other diasporic Pan-Africanists. He later returned to the British Gold Coast to promote Ghana's independence. He founded the Congress People's Party, which quickly rose to prominence due to its unprecedented appeal to voters. He became Prime Minister of British Ghana in 1952, a position he retained when Ghana declared independence from the British colony in 1957. In 1960, Ghana adopted a new constitution and elected Nkrumah as its first president. Nkrumah's governance was both nationalistic and socialist, trying to achieve the country's industrialization and economic development through socialist policies. Therefore, the government funded domestic industrial and energy plans, developed a strong national education system, and promoted national culture and Pan-African culture. Ghana, under the leadership of Nkrumah, was an important country in Africa during the decolonization period. His political ideology is known as Nkrumahism. Nkrumah suffered a military coup in 1966 and was later deposed by the National Liberation Council supported by Britain and the United States. Nkrumah later lived in Guinea for a long time and eventually died in Romania.

Kshama Sawant (English: Kshama Sawant; October 17, 1973 -) is an Indian-American politician and economist in the United States. She served as a member of the Seattle City Council from 2014 to 2024. From 2008 to May 2024, she was a member of the Trotskyist party Socialist Alternative and is so far the only member of the party to be elected to public office. As of 2021, she is also a member of the Democratic Socialists of America. Sawant was born into a middle-class Tamil family in Pune, India, and grew up in Mumbai. Her mother was a principal and her father was a civil engineer who was killed by a drunk driver when she was 13 years old. In 1994, she graduated from Mumbai University with a bachelor's degree in computer science. Later, she moved to the United States with her husband, Microsoft software engineer Vivek Sawant. After working as a programmer for a year and a half, she decided to turn her attention to economics. In 2003, she received her PhD in Economics from North Carolina State University. The title of her graduation thesis is "Old Labor Supply in Rural Underdeveloped Economies." After moving to Seattle, she taught at Seattle University and the University of Washington at Tacoma, and was an adjunct professor at Seattle Central College and a visiting assistant professor at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. In 2012, she ran unsuccessfully for the Washington State House of Representatives and was successfully elected to the Seattle City Council in 2013. She was the first socialist to win a municipal election in Seattle since Anna Louise Strong was elected to the school board in 1916. In the city council recall election on December 7, 2021, she barely retained her position with a slim margin of 310 votes (0.76%). This was the first recall election held in Seattle since 1975. In January 2023, Sawant announced that she would not seek re-election and would instead work on the Socialist Alternative "Workers Fight Back" movement aimed at organizing unions.

Kristalina Ivanova Georgieva-Kinova (Bulgarian: Кристалина Иванова Георгиева-Кинова, Romanized: Kristalina Ivanova Georgieva-Kinova; née Georgieva; born August 13, 1953) is a Bulgarian economist. He has served as Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund since 2019. He served as CEO of the World Bank from 2017 to 2019.

Kodama Yoshio (Japanese: Shio Koto/echo Yoshio, Romanized: Kodama Yoshio; February 18, 1911 - January 17, 1984), a Japanese right-wing activist, self-proclaimed CIA agent, and consultant to the violent group Inagawa Kai. He served as the leader of the "Kodama Agency" in Shanghai during World War II. After the war, he got rich under the cover of the CIA during the Korean War. He donated money to establish the Liberal Democratic Party. He was the leader of Japan's underworld from the postwar period to the 1970s. He and Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka were both sentenced to death in the Lockheed political donation incident.

Nathan Deal (English: Nathan Deal; August 25, 1942 -) is an American politician. Nathan Deal has served as the 82nd Governor of Georgia since 2011. Nathan Deal was elected to the House of Representatives as a Democrat in 1992, but switched to the Republican Party in 1995. In 2010, Deal was elected governor of Georgia for the first time.

Feng Yuanjun (September 4, 1900 - June 17, 1974), whose original name was Shulan, whose pseudonym was Defu, and whose pen names were Ms. Gan, Shuluan, Daqi, Wu Yi, and Yi An, was born in Tanghe, Henan. She was a modern Chinese writer, a historian of Chinese classical literature, and a first-class professor.

Feng Shenhong (November 1972-), male, Han nationality, native of Xichong, Sichuan, political figure of the People's Republic of China. He currently serves as deputy secretary of the Party Leadership Group, vice chairman, secretary of the secretariat and secretary of the party committee of the China Association for Science and Technology.

Keith Maurice Ellison (English: Keith Maurice Ellison, August 4, 1963 -) is an American lawyer and politician of African descent. He is currently the Attorney General of Minnesota and a former federal representative. He was elected to represent the 5th District (the district where Minneapolis, the largest city in Minnesota) is located. He is a member of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmers-Labor Party. He is the first Islamic congressman in the history of the United States and the first African-American congressman in the history of Minnesota. Born into a Catholic family, he converted to Islam while attending Wayne State University.

Ernesto "Che" Guevara (Spanish: Ernesto "Che" Guevara; May 14, 1928 - October 9, 1967), nicknamed El Che or Che, was born in Rosario, Argentina. He was one of the core figures of the Cuban revolution, an international communist revolutionary, military theorist, doctor, writer, and guerrilla leader. As a young medical student, Guevara enthusiastically rode his motorcycle and traveled throughout Latin America, shocked by the ubiquity of poverty he witnessed firsthand. What he saw and heard during these travels led him to conclude that deep-rooted social inequality everywhere was the result of state monopoly capitalism, neocolonialism and imperialism, and that the only remedy was world revolution. This belief inspired him to intervene in Guatemala's social reforms under President Jacobo Arbenz Guzman; Arbenz was eventually overthrown in the 1954 Guatemala coup, secretly instigated by the CIA, ending Guatemala's extraordinary social changes at the time. Later, Guevara met Raul Castro and Fidel Castro in Mexico City, joined their July 26 Movement, embraced the ideal of overthrowing the pro-American dictator Fulgencio Batista, and landed in Cuba on the Granma. Guevara soon rose to prominence in the rebel army, was promoted to colonel commander, and played a key role in the guerrilla war against Batista's dictatorship. After the success of the Cuban Revolution in 1959, he was granted Cuban citizenship. Guevara played an important role in the Cuban revolutionary government, including retrialing and executing war criminals, presiding over land reform as Minister of Industry, serving as chairman of the National Bank, director of instruction of the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces, member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Cuban Socialist Revolutionary Unity Party, and traveling across the globe as a diplomat promoting Cuban socialism. The militia troops trained by Guevara also repelled American mercenaries during the Bay of Pigs invasion and brought Soviet nuclear ballistic missiles to Cuba, which subsequently triggered the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. In addition, he is also a writer and diarist with sharp writing and rich creations. He is the author of the far-reaching military theory work "Guerrilla Warfare" and the travel diary "Motorcycle Diary" about his travels in America when he was young. Guevara left Cuba in 1965 and went to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Bolivia to fight guerrilla wars against imperialism. There are different explanations for why he left Cuba. The mainstream view is that he left Cuba voluntarily to continue