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Richarlison de Andrade (Portuguese: Richarlison de Andrade, May 10, 1997 -) is a Brazilian male professional football player who serves as a forward and currently plays for the Premier League team Tottenham and the Brazilian national football team. His career began in 2015 at América Minillo and helped the team advance to the Brazilian League before moving to Fuminis. In two years, Richarlison played 67 games and scored 19 goals. He moved to England to join Watford in 2017 and Everton in 2018. He became the team's top scorer in the 2018-2019 season.

Richard H. Thaler (/ˈθeɪlər/; born September 12, 1945) is an American economist and the Ralph and Dorothy Keller Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He is one of the best-known theorists of behavioral finance. For his outstanding contributions to behavioral economics, he won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Economics.

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.

Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson is a British billionaire and entrepreneur, chairman of the Virgin Group, and an active advocate for the abolition of the death penalty.

Wilhelm Richard Wagner (German: Wilhelm Richard Wagner, pronunciation: [ˈvɪlˌhɛlm ˈʁɪçaʁt ˈvaːɡnɐ]; May 22, 1813 – February 13, 1883) was a German composer, theater director, essayist, and conductor. He is best known for his operas, but his mature works are often called musicals. Unlike most composers, Wagner wrote all the librettos for his stage works himself. He initially gained recognition for his works in the Romantic tradition of Carl Maria von Weber and Giacomo Meyerbeer, but later revolutionized the opera genre with the concept of holistic art, striving to integrate poetry, music, visual and dramatic elements. In this method of composition, the play unfolds as a continuously sung narrative, with the music growing naturally from the text rather than alternating between arias and recitatives. Wagner elaborated these ideas in a series of articles published between 1849 and 1852, and put them into practice most fully in the first half of the tetrad opera "The Ring of the Nibelung". Wagner's works, especially those of his later years, are characterized by complex textures, rich harmonies and orchestrations, and carefully crafted dominant motives: short musical phrases linked to specific characters, places, concepts, or plot elements. His innovations in musical language, such as extreme chromaticization and rapid switching of tonal centers, profoundly influenced the development of classical music; "Tristan und Isolde" is regarded as an important precursor to modernist music. In his later years, he moderated his ideological stance against traditional operatic forms (such as arias, duets, and choruses) and reintroduced these forms in his last stage productions, including Die Meistersinger of Nuremberg and Parsifal. In order to fully realize his artistic vision, Wagner built his own opera house according to his personal requirements: Bayreuth Festival Theater, which adopted many innovative designs designed to immerse the audience in the drama. "The Ring" and "Parsifal" both premiered here; to this day, the theater is still used only for performances of his mature works at the annual Bayreuth Festival. After Wagner's death, his widow Cosima took over the management of the festival, and management has since been passed on to their descendants. Wagner's unconventional operas, provocative writings, and controversial personal actions aroused great controversy during his lifetime and still do so today. Some people claim that he is a "genius", while others dismiss him as a "disease"; his views on religion, politics, and society are still controversial.

Richard Merritt Montague (English: Richard Merritt Montague, September 20, 1930 - March 7, 1971), born in Stockton, California, United States, was an American mathematician and philosopher who proposed Montague grammar.

Richard Phillips Feynman, an American theoretical physicist, is world-famous for his research on the path integral expression of quantum mechanics, quantum electrodynamics, the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, and molecular models in particle physics. For their contributions to quantum electrodynamics, Feynman shared the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics with Julian Schwinger and Shinichiro Tomonaga.

Clinton Richard Dawkins, FRS, FRSL (English: Clinton Richard Dawkins; born March 26, 1941), is a British evolutionary biologist, animal behaviorist, science communicator, and author. He was appointed full professor of zoology at the University of Oxford in 1990 and Simone Professor of Public Understanding of Science from 1995 to 2008. He is also a member of the Royal Society and the Royal Society of Literature. Dawkins published his famous book "The Selfish Gene" in 1976, which attracted widespread attention. The book expounds the idea of ​​evolution with genes as the core, compares all living things to genetic survival machines, and introduces the concept of "memes". Later, he published books such as "Extended Phenotype", "The Blind Watchmaker", and "The God Illusion", promoting the theory of evolution and opposing creationism. Among scientists, Dawkins is known for his outspoken tone and scientific attitude that challenges the religious concept of "God created the world." He is known as the "Four Horsemen of New Atheism" together with American philosopher Daniel Dennett, neuroscientist Sam Harris and British-American writer Christopher Hitchens.

Whoopi Goldberg (English: Whoopi Goldberg, November 13, 1955 -) is an American actor, writer, singer-songwriter, and talk show host. She is also one of the fifteen artists in the history of the American entertainment industry who has written the "Showbiz Grand Slam", namely the winner of the Academy Award (movie award), Emmy Award (television award), Tony Award (drama award), and Grammy Award (music award).

Lynn Ann Conway (January 2, 1938 – June 9, 2024) was an American computer scientist, electrical engineer, and transgender rights activist. She worked at IBM in the 1960s and invented generalized dynamic instruction processing, a key technological advance in out-of-order execution and used by the vast majority of modern computer processors to improve performance. Subsequently, she launched the Med-Conway VLSI chip design revolution in the field of very large scale integrated circuits (VLSI). This technological revolution spread rapidly to research universities and the computer industry in the 1980s, spawning the emerging electronic design automation (EDA) industry, spawning the fab infrastructure for modern chip design and production, and launching a series of far-reaching high-tech startups in the 1980s and 1990s.

Lindsay Morgan Lohan (English: Lindsay Morgan Lohan, pronunciation: /ˈloʊ.ən/, born: Lindsay Dee Lohan, July 2, 1986 -) is an American actor, singer, songwriter, producer and entrepreneur. She began her career as a children's fashion model at the age of 3 and starred in the soap opera Another World for a year at the age of 10. At the age of 11, Lindsay had her first film role in Disney's critically and commercially successful remake of Kiss (1998). Her next film, the Disney remake of "Hot Girls" (2003), was also a box office and critical success. After the release of Mean Girls (2004), another critically and commercially successful film, Lindsay became a household name and the focus of paparazzi and tabloids. The two films won her several MTV Movie Awards and Teen Choice Awards. Lindsay's debut studio album, Tell It Like It Is (2004), was certified platinum. Her second album, "Private Space" (2005), was certified gold. In early 2005, Lindsay starred in the Disney film "Butterbug", which was a box office success. In 2006, she received positive reviews for her work in independent films such as Robert Altman's "The Ranch" and Emilio Estevez's "Bobby." In 2007, two drug and drunk driving incidents resulted in Lindsay facing probation and three visits to rehab. This resulted in Lindsay losing some film contracts. In 2008 and 2009, Lindsay worked as a fashion model and launched the clothing brand 6126. In 2008, she resumed her acting career with a guest role on the TV series "Ugly Betty" and starred in the 2009 film "Labor Pains." She also appeared in Robert Rodriguez's film Machete (2010). Lindsay spent much of 2010 and 2011 dealing with legal issues stemming from probation violations and the theft of a necklace. After her probation was lifted in 2012, Lindsay performed more television work including playing Elizabeth Taylor in the televised autobiographical film Liz & Dick (2012). In 2013, Lindsay starred in Paul Schrader's independent film "The Canyons."

Linda Lizeth Caicedo Alegría (Spanish: Linda Lizeth Caicedo Alegría, February 25, 2005 -) is a Colombian female professional football player who serves as a forward. As of 2023, she plays for the Spanish Women's Football League club Real Madrid Women's Football Club. She helped Real Madrid Women's Football Club reach the 2023 Copa del Rey final. She is also a member of the Colombian women's national football team. She participated in the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup with the team and scored two goals in the group stage. She has also won the 2022 America's Cup Golden Ball Award, the 2022 America's Cup Bronze Boot Award and the 2022 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup Silver Ball Award.

Linda Brown Buck (English: Linda Brown Buck, January 29, 1947 -), American biologist, she won the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine together with Richard Axel for her outstanding research on olfactory receptors.

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.

Dame June Rosemary Whitfield, DBE (English: Dame June Rosemary Whitfield, November 11, 1925 - December 28, 2018), or Joan Whitfield, a British radio, television and film actress. Her major breakthrough role in radio drama came in 1953 when she starred in the BBC Easy Show radio comedy Take It On, and offers for various television roles followed. Joan Whitfield's TV career began with her participation in Tony Hancock's TV series. In 1966, she starred in the TV sitcom "Beggar My Neighbor" and starred in it for three consecutive seasons. Jon Whitfield starred in four "Spring Series" movies, including: "Nurses Have Fun" (1959), "The Holidays Are Crazy" (1972), "Pretty Girls Have Fun" (1973) and "Columbus" (1992). In 1968, Jon Whitfield and Terry Scott began their long-term television partnership. They played husband and wife in the TV series "Happily Ever After" (1974-1978) and "Terry and Jon" (1979-1987) respectively. Beginning in 1992, Jon Whitfield played the mother of the protagonist Edina Monsoon in the TV series "Auntie" starring Jennifer Sanders. She is also a series regular on the TV series "Last Summer Wine" and a recurring character on "The Grass Is Green." From 1993 to 2001, Jon Whitfield played Miss Marple in 12 Agatha Christie's Miss Marple novels on BBC Radio 4.

Jean Merilyn Simmons, OBE Simmons (January 31, 1929 - January 22, 2010), a senior British film actress, joined the film industry during World War II. In 1950, she moved to Hollywood in the United States. She has participated in and starred in many films. Her representative works include "The Beauty of Mountains and Rivers" "En" and "The Gathering of Heroes" and so on. In 1956, she won the Golden Globe Award for "Guys and Dolls". She was one of the most popular Hollywood actresses in the 1950s. She has worked with movie stars including Laurence Olivier, Spencer DeLisi, Marlon Brando and Frank Sinatra. Jane Simmons has focused on stage plays and TV series since the 1970s, and won an Emmy Award in 1983. In her later years, Jane Simmons performed in several films and participated in the dubbing work of the film "Howl's Moving Castle". In 2003, she was awarded the OBE by the British government in recognition of her contribution to the entertainment industry. Jane Simmons was married twice, to British actor Christopher Glengart (1950-1960) and director Richard Brooks (1960-1977).

Joan Rivers (June 8, 1933 - September 4, 2014), whose real name is Joan Alexandra Molinsky. is an American comedian, writer, producer and television host.

Roberta Joan "Joni" Mitchell, CC (Roberta Joan "Joni" Mitchell, née Anderson; November 7, 1943), is a Canadian female singer-songwriter, musician and painter. Michelle's singing career began in her hometown, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, a small town in western Canada. In the mid-1960s, Michelle traveled to Toronto, the United States and other places, singing in nightclubs and busking on the streets. She subsequently became associated with the budding folk music scene in New York City in the mid-1960s. Michelle gained fame in the late 1960s and was considered an important part of the Southern California folk rock scene. Throughout the 1970s, she devoted herself to exploring and merging pop music and jazz. Michelle has created many works and has been well received by critics and peers in the music industry. The influential AllMusic stated: "When all is said and done, Joni Mitchell may become the most important and influential female singer of the late 20th century." Michelle is also an accomplished visual artist. She created the images for each of her albums through photography and painting, describing herself in a 2000 interview with Toronto's Globe and Mail as a "painter who got off the rails in some way." An outspoken critic of the music industry, Michelle stopped recording in the past few years and focused mainly on her visual arts. 2007's "Shine" is Michelle's last released album.

Raymond Thomas Dalio (English: Raymond Thomas Dalio, August 8, 1949 -) was born in New York and currently lives in Fairfield County, Connecticut. He is an American hedge fund manager and philanthropist. Dalio is the founder of Bridgewater Associates, which was listed as the world's largest hedge fund company in 2013. Dalio published his book "Principles" on business management and financial economics in 2017. According to Bloomberg, as of January 2019, he was the 79th among the 100 richest people in the world.

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.

Ryan Lambert (English: Ryan Edward Lambert Lee Kit Seng, September 21, 1998 -) is an Australian and Malaysian Chinese professional football player born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He plays as a defender and midfielder and currently plays for Kuala Lumpur City in the Malaysian Super League.

Ryan Gosling (English: Ryan Gosling, November 12, 1980 -) is a Canadian actor, director, screenwriter, producer, musician and businessman. He began as a child actor on the Disney Channel television series The Mickey Mouse Club (1993-1995) and continued to appear in family entertainment shows such as The Fainted (1995) and Goosebumps (1996). Starring in the movie "Blade Runner 2049" in 2017 and "Barbie" in 2023. Gosling starred in the 2004 romance film "The Notebook," which earned him high attention and four Teen Choice Awards and an MTV Movie Award. He played a drug-addicted teacher in the 2006 movie "My Leftist Teacher", which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor and won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Actor; and in 2007, "Blow Up Doll Love" saw him nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy, and won the Satellite Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Drama. In 2016, the musical romance film "La La Land" won the 74th Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy Film, and was nominated for the 89th Academy Award for Best Actor. This was his second Oscar nomination after ten years. In 2022, he will star in the Netflix movie "The Gray Shadow". In 2023, he starred as Ken in the movie "Barbie". Gosling is also a director. His first directorial work "Mysterious River" was released in 2014.

Marija Gimbutienė (Lithuanian: Marija Gimbutienė, January 23, 1921 – February 2, 1994) was an American Lithuanian archaeologist who is famous for her academic achievements in the study of ancient European Neolithic and Bronze Age cultures, and her tomb hypothesis is also widely accepted. This hypothesis points to the origin of Proto-Indo-European languages ​​in the steppes of Eastern Europe. Maria Gimbutas believed that Neolithic sites in Lithuania and across Eurasia provided archaeological evidence that ancient Indo-European societies were neither matrilineal nor patrilineal, but she later argued in some academic circles that these ancient societies were matrilineal.

Margaret Heafield Hamilton (English: Margaret Heafield Hamilton, August 17, 1936 - September 30, 2026) was an American computer scientist, systems engineer, and entrepreneur. She served as the Director of the Software Engineering Department of the MIT Instrument Laboratory, helping the laboratory develop the flight software for the spacecraft in the Apollo program. The programs she wrote were designed to prevent crashes to the greatest extent, thus preventing the Apollo 11 moon landing program from aborting. In 1986, she founded Hamilton Technologies, Inc. in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and served as CEO. The company develops systems and software engineering around a common systems language, a concept based on Hamilton's "Development Before the Fact" design principles. To date, Hamilton has published more than 130 papers, conference proceedings and reports, covering more than 60 projects and 6 major topics in which she participated. She coined the term "software engineering," noting that "I began to use the term 'software engineering' to distinguish it from hardware and other types of engineering, but to view each type of engineering as part of the overall systems engineering process." On November 22, 2016, Hamilton received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama for his contribution in developing airborne flight software for NASA's Apollo lunar missions.