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Mary-Dell Chilton (English: Mary-Dell Chilton, February 2, 1939 - June 24, 2026) was an American molecular biologist and a pioneer in plant genetic engineering. She won the World Food Prize in 2013.

María Pilar León Cebrián (Spanish: María Pilar León Cebrián; born June 13, 1995), commonly known as Mapi León, is a Spanish professional women's football player who plays as a defender and currently plays for the London City Lionesses of the English Women's Football Premier League.

Joan Crawford (English: Joan Crawford, born Lucille Fay LeSueur, March 23, 190? - May 10, 1977), born in Texas, United States, is an American actress and one of the chairman of the board of directors of Pepsi-Cola Company. She is the 18th Oscar-winning actress. In 1999, the American Film Institute selected her as the 10th greatest actress of the century.

Joanne Gignilliat Trimmier Woodward (English: Joanne Gignilliat Trimmier Woodward, February 27, 1930 -), born in Georgia, United States, is an American film actress and philanthropist who was a child star. She is one of the winners of the Academy Award for Best Actress and the winner of the Kennedy Center Honor Award. Joan Woodward and Paul Newman, Hollywood's silver couple, have both won Oscars as Best Actor and Best Actress. They are also the second Best Actor and Best Actress couple in the American film industry after Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh. In addition to being recognized by Oscars for their acting careers, Joan Woodward and Paul Newman, a deeply in love couple, stayed together from their marriage to the end of their lives, which has also become an enviable love story in Hollywood.

Chen Zhe (April 20, 1938 - December 4, 2024), mostly known by the pen name Qiong Yao, was a Taiwanese romance novel writer, screenwriter, film and television producer, and Chinese pop song lyricist. Born in Hengyang, Hunan, in Chengdu, Sichuan, he came to Taiwan with his family in 1949. His pen name comes from the poem "The Book of Songs", "Give me peach, give me peach, give me Qiong Yao", which means the most delicate and pure jade. She is a representative figure of romance novels. She became famous in the literary world for her novel "Outside the Window", so she met and fell in love with Ping Xintao, the owner of "Crown" magazine. The two got married after divorcing their spouses, and together they established companies such as Firebird Film Company, Superstar Film Company, and Yiren Communication Company to adapt Qiong Yao's creations into movies and TV series. However, Qiong Yao also encountered controversy because of her emotional experience. Qiong Yao's film and television dramas are famous for their "Qiong Yao romance films". Qiong Yao's dramas made famous stars such as Qin Han, Qin Xianglin, Brigitte Lin, and Lin Fengjiao in "Two Qins and Two Forests". The actresses among them are often called "Qiong girls". His film works are often called "three-hall movies", with the living room, ballroom, and coffee shop as the core scenes. The TV series is called "Qiong Yao drama" and is characterized by rich emotions and beautiful lines. BBC News called her "the world's most popular Chinese romance novelist", and her production of "Huan Zhu Ge Ge" is also called one of the most popular Chinese dramas in history.

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.

Val Logsdon Fitch (English: Val Logsdon Fitch, March 10, 1923 - February 5, 2015), American physicist, won the Nobel Prize in Physics together with James Cronin in 1980 for the discovery of symmetry violation in the decay of neutral K mesons.

Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin (German: Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin, July 15, 1892 - September 26, 1940) was a German Ashkenazi Jewish philosopher, cultural critic and essayist. His thoughts and doctrines combined elements of German idealism, romanticism, Western Marxism, and Jewish mysticism. He made lasting and influential contributions to aesthetic theory, literary criticism, and historical materialism. He was considered a thought leader in the field of cultural studies at the time. His thinking and writing were influenced by his association with the Frankfurt School, especially his friendship with Theodor Adorno. He also maintained friendships with thinkers such as the playwright Bertolt Brecht and the kabbalist Gershom Scholem. He was related by marriage to the political theorist and philosopher Hannah Arendt through her marriage to his cousin Günter Anders. His most famous works include the essays "Artistic Works in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" and "Theses on the Philosophy of History". His major work as a literary critic includes articles on Baudelaire, Goethe, Kafka, Kraus, Leskov, Proust, Walser, and translation theory. He also translated French works, Charles Baudelaire's "Les Fleurs du Evil" and Marcel Proust's "In Search of Lost Time" into German. He was a native of Berlin. After completing his studies, he returned to Berlin to work as a freelance writer because he was unable to hold the teaching position at the University of Frankfurt that he wanted. During this period, he also went to live in the Soviet Union and France. In 1933, he fled to Paris as a secular Jew to escape the Nazi German government. In 1940, when the German Wehrmacht attacked France, he committed suicide near the Spanish border town of Porvoo while trying to escape.

Walter Eucken (German: Walter Eucken, January 17, 1891 - March 20, 1950) was a German economist of the Freiburg School and the founder of "ordoliberalism". He is closely associated with the development of the concept of "social market economy". His father was Wa Keng, winner of the 1908 Nobel Prize for Literature. In 1948, he participated in the publication of the "Yearbook of Economic and Social Order". Well-known works include "Fundamentals of National Economics".

Václav Havel (Czech: Václav Havel, October 5, 1936 - December 18, 2011) was a Czech writer and playwright, a political dissident and one of the thinkers of the Velvet Revolution. First President of the Czech Republic.

Valeria Bruni Tedeschi (Italian: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, November 16, 1964 -), born in Turin, Italy, is an Italian actress and the half-sister of Carla Bruni, Mrs. Sarkozy.

Vasilis Politis (May 20, 1963 -) is a Greek philosopher and associate professor of philosophy at Trinity College Dublin, dedicated to the study of Plato and Aristotle. He was a researcher at the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin from 2009 to 2010 and a researcher at Trinity College Dublin in 2005. He was also the director of the Center for Plato Studies at Trinity College Dublin from 2009 to 2016.

Vasily Vasilyevich Kandinsky (Russian: Васи́лий Васи́льевич Канди́нский, Romanized: Vasiliy Vasilyevich Kandinskiy, December 16, 1866 – December 13, 1944) was a Russian-born painter and art theorist. Julian calendar1866Year12moon4day，Kandinsky was born in Moscow, Russia，Spending my childhood in Odessa。 After entering Moscow State University, he studied law and economics. Studied painting (life drawing, drawing and anatomy) in Munich in 1896, returning to Moscow in 1918 after the Russian Revolution. Because avant-garde art was in conflict with official realist art, he went to Germany in 1921 and began teaching at the Bauhaus in 1922. He became a German citizen in 1928 until the Bauhaus was closed down by the Nazi German government in 1933. After that, he settled in France and became a French citizen in 1939. France was occupied by Nazi Germany in 1940. Kandinsky did not choose to settle in the United States. He died in Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1944. Along with the likes of Piet Mondrian and Malevich, Kandinsky is considered a pioneer of abstract art. He also co-founded the short-lived but influential art collective The Blue Rider.Kandinsky painting sold for nearly $15 million。 The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is home to one of the largest collections of Kandinsky's works. Kandinsky had synesthesia (mixed perception) and he could hear colors very clearly. This effect had a major influence on his art.He even named his paintings“impromptu”and“structure”，As if they were not paintings but musical works。

Władysław Stanislaw Reymont (Polish: Władysław Stanisław Reymont, May 7, 1868 - December 5, 1925), nee Rejment, was a Polish writer. He was the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1924. Remont's baptismal certificate lists his surname as "Rejment". He changed his name when he first published his work; presumably to avoid the trouble of publishing in Galicia without permission from tsarist censorship in Russian-occupied Poland. Kazimierz Wyka, who is passionate about Remont's work, believes that the reason for the name change may be to avoid being associated with the word "rejmentować", which means "curse" in some Polish dialects.

Jenny Tseng (English: Jenny Tseng, April 3, 1953 -), formerly known as Zhen Shushi, also known as Zhen Yiting, is a female singer who debuted in Taiwan in 1971 and has become popular in Taiwan and Hong Kong music circles. She has won many important awards at the Chinese Music Awards, including the Taiwan Golden Bell Award for Best Female Singer, the first most popular female singer at the Hong Kong Top Ten Golden Melody Awards Ceremony, and the Golden Needle Award, the highest honor at the Top Ten Chinese Golden Melody Awards Ceremony. In 2010, he was selected as one of the 30 classics of the "Chinese Golden Melody Award" for 30 years. In addition to being hailed as a diva-level singer in the music industry, she is also known as the "Legend of the Music Industry" because of her style of complaining when injustice is not tolerated.

Donnie Yen, Hong Kong actor, action director and martial arts instructor, member of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

Chris Yen, a Hong Kong actress, is the younger sister of international martial arts star Donnie Yen. In 1985, she won the third place in the women's all-around and the bronze medal in the women's Changquan at the first International Wushu Invitational Tournament. Graduated from Boston University in the United States, majoring in psychology and economic statistics.

Gan Zizhao (April 16, 1938 -), male, Xinyiren, Guangdong, Chinese physicist, professor at Peking University and director of the Institute of Solid State Physics, chief expert of the National Superconducting Expert Committee, and chief scientist of the national "973" project.

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.

Irina Ikuta (July 7, 1997 -), born in Fukuoka Prefecture, Yoshimoto Kogyo artist, was a member of the Japanese female idol group Morning Musume during her UP-FRONT AGENCY period. 9th term member. His nickname is "Eripon", and his official support color is yellow-green. Blood type A, height 157 cm. He likes the fifth-term senior Risa Aragaki very much, and calls himself the president of the "Risa Aragaki Support Club". The original cheering color was purple, but after Aragaki graduated, he inherited the yellow-green color. He will take over as vice captain on November 27, 2014 and captain on November 29, 2023 until graduation on July 8, 2025.

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.

Tian Liang (August 27, 1979 -), a native of Chongqing, is a Chinese male diver and actor. Former registered athlete of Shaanxi Diving Team. In the 2000 Sydney Olympics, he won the men's 10-meter high platform diving championship; in the 2004 Athens Olympics, he won the men's synchronized 10-meter high platform diving championship with Yang Jinghui, and also won the individual third place.

James Tien (English: James Tien, May 28, 1942-), a famous Hong Kong film actor. He has a total of 70 major works, mainly action movies and kung fu movies. He often appeared in movies with Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung and others. He mainly played bad guys. He retired in 2000.

Tian Zhuangzhuang (April 1, 1952-), a native of Beijing. Teacher at Beijing Film Academy, film director, producer and actor, he is one of the representatives of the "fifth generation" in the Chinese film industry. He was once nominated for the Best Actor Award at the 54th Golden Horse Awards for "Love and Dating".