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Sophiya Haque (June 14, 1971 - January 17, 2013) was a British woman of Jewish and Bengali descent. She was originally a ballet dancer and later became a model. Later, MTV Asia recruited VJs in India, and she went to apply and was hired by MTV. He immediately became a popular music program host on MTV. She speaks English and Bengali. Later, he moved to Channel V to host the show. Now she not only hosts shows, but also records more than ten albums. In recent years, he has entered the film industry and starred in many movies in Bollywood.
Sofia Coppola
Film & TV · United States
Sofia Carmina Coppola (/ˈkoʊpələ/ KOH-pə-lə, born May 14, 1971) or simply Sofia Coppola (English: Sofia Coppola) is an American screenwriter, director, producer and former actress. She is the daughter of director Francis Coppola and her mother is Eleanor Coppola, an American of West German descent. Her partner is Thomas Mars, the lead singer of the band Phoenix. Coppola has two daughters, the eldest daughter Romy was born on November 28, 2006, and the second daughter Cosima was born in 2010. She made her film debut in her father's famous crime film The Godfather (1972), playing the role of a baby. She later had a supporting role in Peggy Hugh Got Married (1986) and played Michael Corleone's daughter Mary Corleone in The Godfather Part III (1990). The latter film earned her much ridicule and strong criticism, ending her acting career. Gopra then turned her attention to filmmaking. According to an exclusive interview Coppola gave to Jean-Michel Frodon, editor-in-chief of Cahiers du cinéma (French: Cahiers du cinéma) on April 1, 2006, the first three films she directed, "Unlockable Youth", "Love Does Not Need Translation", and "Versailles" can be regarded as a trilogy. She won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 2003 for "Love, No Translation" and was the first American female director to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director. Won the Golden Lion Award for Best Film at the 2010 Venice Film Festival for "Lost Somewhere". In 2017, he won the Best Director Award at the 70th Cannes Film Festival for "Charm".
Sophia Loren
Film & TV · Italy
Sophia Loren (Italian: Sophia Loren, September 20, 1934-), Italian actress, winner of the Oscar for Best Actress, Lifetime Achievement Award, Golden Globe Lifetime Achievement Award and many other international blockbuster film awards. Sophia Loren is the first Italian actress in the history of film to win an Oscar for the foreign-language film "The Last Lady" (the first Italian Oscar winner was Anna Magnani for "The Rose Tattoo"). In addition, in 1999, she was selected by the American Film Institute as the 21st greatest actress of the past century. As of 2026, she is the last living inductee on AFI's 100 Years of Stars list. In July 1991, she was awarded the French Knight of the Legion of Honor; in June 1996, she was awarded the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (OMRI).
Mamoru Hosoda
Film & TV · Japan
Hosoda Mamoru (Japanese: Hosoda Mamoru/ Protect, Romanized: Hosoda Mamoru, September 19, 1967 -) is an animation director born in Kami-machi, Naka Shinkawa-gun, Toyama Prefecture, Japan. He is also a member of the Japan Animation Producers Association. Graduated from Kanazawa University of Arts and Crafts. In his early days, he worked as an animator at Toei Animation and was promoted to director. He once participated in the production of the Studio Ghibli animated film "Howl's Moving Castle", and later left Ghibli and returned to Toei Animation. In 2005, Mamoru Hosoda joined MADHOUSE. In 2007, he released an adaptation of Tsutsui Yasutaka's science fiction novel "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time" and his first feature-length animated film "Jump!" "Time and Space Girls" became famous in Japan and overseas. After that, he began to produce his own original story works, and published "Summer Wars" in 2009. In 2011, he left MADHOUSE to found Map Studio, and published important masterpieces such as "Wolf's Children Rain and Snow" in 2012 and "Monster's Children" in 2015. The animated film "Future Future" directed by him in 2018 was nominated for the Best Animated Film Award at the 91st Academy Awards, becoming the first Japanese animated feature film nominated outside the Studio Ghibli team. The 2021 animated film "The Dragon and the Freckled Princess" has also received widespread response from the international film community and was shortlisted for five awards at the 49th Annie Awards. A new generation of animators known as the "new generation of Japanese animation masters". Mamoru Hosoda's works have a fantasy or science fiction style, often depicting emotional descriptions including family love.
A Asami Konno Film & TV · JapanKonno Asami (Japanese: Konno Asami, May 7, 1987 -) is a Japanese female artist, a former member of Morning Musume, and a former TV Tokyo announcer. Born in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, his blood type is type B.
Victor Almon McCusick
Scholars · United States
Victor Almon McKusick (English: Victor Almon McKusick, October 21, 1921 - July 22, 2008) was an American physician and medical geneticist who served as professor of medical genetics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. He is the original author and editor-in-chief of Mendelian Inheritance in Man, a database of genetic diseases and genes, and its online version, Mendelian Inheritance in Man Online (OMIM).
Victoria Justice
Film & TV · United States
Victoria Dawn Justice (English: Victoria Dawn Justice, February 19, 1993 -) is an American actress and singer. She is known for starring in the Nickelodeon series Victory and Zoey 101. In terms of music, she sang many songs in the TV series "Spectacular!" and "Song of Victory", and released her first album "Shake" in 2015. She made her acting debut when she was 10 years old with a small role in the TV series "Gilmore Girls." In 2010, she starred in the Nickelodeon TV series "Wolf Story". Justice has announced that her first album will be released in 2012. However, due to various reasons, the album was delayed until 2015.
Vittorio Desiga
Film & TV · Italy
Vittorio De Sica (Italian: Vittorio De Sica, pronounced: [vitˈtɔːrjo de ˈsiːka]; July 7, 1901 – November 13, 1974) was an Italian director and actor, four-time Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language Film.
Violetta Tomic
Political figures · slovenia
Violeta Tomič (Slovenian: Violeta Tomić, sometimes Violeta Tomič; January 22, 1963 -) is a Slovenian politician, television host and actress. She served as deputy coordinator of the Left Party and a member of the National Assembly. Born in Sarajevo, Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia. In 1985, graduated from the University of Ljubljana. From 2003 to 2006, he served as the host of the program "The Wise Man is King" on Slovenian Radio and Television. In the 2019 European Parliament elections, she served as the lead candidate of the European United Left/Nordic Green Left, but she was not elected.
Vera Goli
Athletes · India
Virat Kohli (English: Virat Kohli, Hindi: विररट कोहली, November 5, 1988 -) is an Indian cricket player and captain of the Indian cricket national team. Goli has also been named one of the world's most famous and India's most valuable athletes by ESPN and Forbes. His wife is Bollywood actress Anushka Sharma.
Veronica Ruiz de Velasco
Artists · Mexico
Verónica Ruiz de Velasco (English: Verónica Ruiz de Velasco, 1968-), female, Mexican New Image painter living in the United States. She is the youngest female painter in Mexico to hold an independent exhibition at the country's Museum of Modern Art.
Ayase Haruka
Film & TV · Japan
Ayase Haruka (Japanese: Ayase Haruka/Ayase Haruka, Romanized: Ayase Haruka, March 24, 1985 -) is a Japanese actress and singer, born in Hiroshima Prefecture. Now affiliated to Horipro Office. In 2000, she participated in the 25th Horipro Talent Scout Caravan and won the Special Jury Award. At that time, she used her real name "Tatemaru Aya", and later used "Ayase Yuki" as her stage name for activities. The word "Yao" is only a kanji name in the Chinese world, and this word is not used in Japanese.
Miaoqian people
Film & TV · People's Republic of China
Cora Miao (mìao) Qian (English: Cora Miao, August 21, 1958 -), Chinese-American, former actress in Hong Kong.
R Red Beans Film & TV · People's Republic of ChinaHongdou (original name: Wang Liyong, September 20, 1970 -) is a mainland Chinese singer and film actor. He made his debut in 1987 after participating in the "Stars Cup" singing competition and winning second place. In 2002, he shocked the country for molesting multiple boys. In May 2004, Hongdou was paroled for good behavior. On June 14, 2011, Hongdou was arrested again by the Baotou police in Inner Mongolia for molesting a boy.
Joshua Bengio
Scientists · Canada
Joshua Bengio OC OQ OBE FRS FRSC (French: Yoshua Bengio, born March 5, 1964) is a Canadian computer scientist known for his research in artificial neural networks and deep learning. His most famous work is the neural probabilistic language model, ReLU and attention mechanism. He is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Operations Research at the University of Montreal and Scientific Director of the Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms. Bengio, together with Jeffrey Hinton and Likun Yang, received the 2018 Turing Award in recognition of their contributions to deep learning. These three people are sometimes called the "Godfathers of AI" and the "Godfathers of Deep Learning."
Joseph Brodsky
Writers · Soviet Union
Joseph Alexandrovich Brodsky (Russian: Иосиф Александрович Бродский; English: Joseph Brodsky; May 24, 1940 – January 28, 1996) was a Soviet-American Jewish poet and essayist. Brodsky was born in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) in 1940. He was imprisoned many times. In 1964, he was prosecuted for being a "social parasite" and sentenced to five years in prison. He was exiled to the north. In 1972, the Soviet authorities informed him that he was "strongly advised" to leave the Soviet Union and be deported. Settled in America with the help of Westin Hugh Auden and other supporters. He later taught at Mount Holyoke College and at schools such as Yale, Columbia, Cambridge, and the University of Michigan. Brodsky read all the famous Russian poems, inherited the excellent tradition of classicism, and was deeply influenced by Western modernist poetry, becoming "a master of constantly updating expression techniques." In 1987, when he was 47 years old, Brodsky won the Nobel Prize for Literature that year, becoming another young winner after Camus for his "all-encompassing authorship, full of clear thought and poetic intensity", "superb", "beautiful rhythm", "as rich as a symphony" and "heroic dedication to art". In 1991, he became the United States Poet Laureate. Professor Andrei Rankin of Moscow State University said: "Brodsky is the only modern Russian poet whose works have been considered classics... Brodsky's literary canonization is an exceptional phenomenon. No other contemporary Russian writer is revered as a hero to the author of so many memoirs, and no other conference is devoted to them."
Joseph Stalin
Political figures · russian empire
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (Russian: Иосиф Виссарионович Сталин; December 18, 1878 – March 5, 1953), formerly known as Joseph Bessarionisze Dzhugashvili (Georgian: იოსებ ბესარიონის ძე ჯუღაშვილი), a Soviet politician, proletarian revolutionist, Marxist-Leninist thinker, and supreme leader of the Soviet Union. He served successively as General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks), Chairman of the People's Council of the Soviet Union (later renamed the Council of Ministers), and Chairman of the National Defense Committee. He was in power from 1924 until his death in 1953. Dzhugashvili was born in Gori, Russian Empire, and graduated from Tiflis Theological Seminary. After becoming a Marxist, he joined the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party. He supported the Bolshevik faction and organized the 1907 Tiflis bank robbery to raise funds for the revolution. In 1913, he began to use the pen name "Stalin" (Сталин, meaning "Man of Steel"). After the victory of the Russian October Revolution in 1917 and the Bolsheviks coming to power, Stalin became one of the seven members of the Politburo. After the founding of the Soviet Union, Stalin became the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Although Lenin objected to Stalin continuing to serve as general secretary, he was opposed by the party and failed. After Lenin's death in 1924, Stalin successfully took power and purged the opposition. He inherited socialism in one country, and Lenin's new economic policies were gradually replaced by planned economy and collectivist policies. Stalin successfully achieved large-scale industrialization, rapidly transforming the Soviet Union into a heavy industrial power, with industrial output second only to the United States. However, its implementation of agricultural collectivization triggered the Great Famine in the Soviet Union in 1932. In the 1930s, while establishing a cult of personality, he carried out large-scale arrests, exiles, or labor camps against party, government, and military leaders, ethnic minorities, and the general public, resulting in the deaths of millions of people. This period is therefore known as the Great Purge of the Soviet Union. In August 1939, Stalin signed a non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany led by Hitler, divided Poland, and occupied Western Ukraine and Western Belarus west of the Curzon Line. After that, the Soviet Union marched and occupied the Baltic countries. However, the relationship between the two sides subsequently deteriorated, and Germany tore up the agreement and invaded the Soviet Union in 1941. Despite initial losses, the Soviet Red Army finally defeated Nazi Germany, won the Soviet-German War, and declared the end of the European battlefield of World War II. After World War II, the Soviet Union and the United States became two superpowers, and Stalin promoted socialism in Eastern Europe.
Joseph Stiglitz
Scholars · United States
Joseph Eugene Stiglitz was an American economist, public policy analyst, and professor at Columbia University. He is the winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics and the 1979 John Bates Clark Prize. He is the former Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank and a former member and chairman of the U.S. President's Council of Economic Advisers. He has made significant contributions in the fields of information economics and other fields. He is one of the important members of the emerging Keynesian school of economics and is famous for his support of the Georgist public finance theory. He holds critical views on the phenomenon of globalization, scholars who advocate laissez-faire economic policies, and international institutions such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
Joseph Tyler
Scientists · United States
Joseph Hooton Taylor (English: Joseph Hooton Taylor, born March 29, 1941), American physicist. Current amateur radio operator, call sign K1JT, and has contributed to modern amateur radio. He and Russell Hulls jointly discovered the first pulsar in history, PSR B1913+16, located in a binary star system, and through in-depth research on it, they discovered indirect quantitative evidence for the existence of gravitational waves for the first time, which was an important verification of Einstein's general theory of relativity. For this, Taylor and Hulse won the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Joseph Heller
Writers · United States
Joseph Heller (English: Joseph Heller, May 1, 1923 - December 12, 1999) was a Jewish American novelist and playwright born in New York, United States. He is one of the representative writers of "black humor". His masterpiece "Catch-22" has become a classic of satirical literature. In 1998, Random House ranked this book seventh among the top 100 English novels of the 20th century.
Joseph Haydn
Musicians · Grand Duchy of Austria
Franz Joseph Haydn (German: Franz Joseph Haydn, March 31, 1732 - May 31, 1809), 77 years old, also translated as Haydn, was an Austrian composer.Haydn was another great instrumental composer after Bach,An outstanding representative of classical music,known as「father of symphony」、「father of string quartet」and "Haydn's father". Haydn was born in Rolau, a small village on the border of Austria and Hungary.,Born into a poor carmaker's family,27When he was young, he was hired as the musical director of Prince Esterházy of Hungary.,Served up30years,He wrote all his life108symphony,two divine dramas《Genesis》and《four seasons》,He also wrote a large number of string quartets,piano sonata,and some operas、operetta、12Masses and vocal works。 Haydn's musical humor、Bright,Religious detachment,He developed the sonata form from keyboard music to string ensemble,He is the founder of instrumental music,Completely assimilates the independent voices of traditional counterpoint,Develop the theme on its own。Later he visited England,Accepts a doctorate in music from the University of Oxford,Influenced by Handel,Also influenced by Mozart,Produce melodious lyrical color,A baroque-like style appears。 He replaced the piano with a string quartet and replaced the organ with an orchestra, creating two new forms of harmonious performance. Together with Mozart and Beethoven, he is an outstanding representative of the Viennese classical music school. Joseph's brother Michel Haydn is also a composer.
Joseph Schumpeter
Political figures · Neletania
Joseph Alois Schumpeter (German: Joseph Alois Schumpeter, pronounced: [ˈʃʊmpeːtɐ]; February 8, 1883 – January 8, 1950) was an Austrian political economist with far-reaching influence.
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Artists · kingdom of great britain
Joseph Mallord William Turner (English: Joseph Mallord William Turner, April 23, 1775 - December 19, 1851) was a British printmaker and watercolor painter during the Romantic period. He was famous for his rich use of color, landscape paintings and marine art. His artistic style evolved over time, moving away from Romanticism and skipping over the rise of realism at the time, culminating in later works that foreshadowed the emergence of Impressionism and abstraction, movements that would flourish in the decades after his death. He left more than 550 oil paintings, 2,000 watercolors and 30,000 works on paper during his lifetime. From 1840 onwards, he was highly praised by the art critic John Ruskin, and today he is widely regarded as an important artist who elevated landscape painting to the same level as historical painting. Turner was born in Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, London, from a lower-middle-class family. He retained the accent unique to this class throughout his life and deliberately avoided the aura and social circle that came with becoming famous. In 1789, Turner entered the Royal Academy of Art, where he exhibited his works for the first time at the age of 15. During this period he also worked as an architectural draftsman. Turner maintained a stable income by accepting commissions and selling works, but due to his withdrawn and rebellious personality, he was often reluctant to sell paintings. In 1804 he opened his own gallery and served as professor of perspective at the Royal Academy from 1807 to 1828. Since 1802, he traveled around Europe many times, bringing back a large number of sketchbooks from each trip. Introverted, eccentric and maverick, Turner was surrounded by controversy throughout his life. He never married, but he had two daughters with the widow Sarah Danby: Evelina (1801–1874) and Georgiana (1811–1843). After his father's death in 1829, he became more pessimistic and melancholy, the gallery gradually became deserted, and his painting style became more intense. In 1841, he rowed into the Thames to avoid being registered at any address in the census that year. From 1845 onwards, he lived in a state of extreme poverty and deteriorating health, eventually dying in London in 1851 at the age of 76. He is buried in St Paul's Cathedral, London.
J Joseph Murray Scientists · United StatesJoseph Edward Murray (April 1, 1919 – November 26, 2012) was an American surgeon who performed the first successful organ transplant between twins. In 1990, he received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his "research on human organ and cell transplantation".