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Yi Nengjing (March 4, 1968 -), born Wu Jingyi, formerly known as Yi Nengjingjiang (from her stepfather's surname, and given name), is a Taiwanese female singer and actress. He went to Hong Kong for development in the early 1990s, Japan from 1996 to 1997, and mainland China after 1998.

Elizabeth Ann Warren (English: Elizabeth Ann Warren; born June 22, 1949), formerly known as Herring, is an American Democratic politician. She is a senior federal senator from Massachusetts. Warren was born and raised in Oklahoma. He is a graduate of the University of Houston and Rutgers University-Newark School of Law and has taught at several universities, including the University of Houston, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Pennsylvania, and Harvard University. Warren is the author of 12 books and more than 100 articles. Warren's first foray into public policy came in 1995, when she fought against a bill ultimately passed in 2005 that would have limited personal bankruptcy. In the late 2000s, her national profile grew as a result of her public support for tighter bank regulation after the 2008 financial crisis. She served as chair of the Congressional Oversight Group on the Troubled Asset Relief Program and proposed the creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, serving as its first special counsel during President Obama's term. In 2012, Warren defeated then-Republican Senator Scott Brown and became the first female U.S. Senator from Massachusetts. In 2018, she was re-elected by a large margin, defeating Republican candidate Jeff Deal. On February 9, 2019, Warren announced her participation in the 2020 US presidential election. She was briefly considered a front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination late in the year, but her support subsequently declined. She dropped out of the race on March 5, 2020, following Super Tuesday. In 2024, she was successfully re-elected and started her third Senate term.

Angela Isadora Duncan (English: Angela Isadora Duncan; May 26, 1877 - September 14, 1927), American dancer, founder of modern dance, was the first dancer in the world to perform on stage barefoot.

Isabella Karle (December 2, 1921 – October 3, 2017) was an American chemist who extracted plutonium trichloride from a mixture of plutonium oxide. Isabella Kahle has received the Gavin Olin Award, the Eminoff Award, the Bauer Award, the National Medal of Science, and the Navy Distinguished Civilian Service Award.

Elijah Jordan Wood (English: Elijah Jordan Wood, January 28, 1981 -) is an American actor and film producer. His famous representative works include Frodo Baggins, the protagonist of the "Lord of the Rings Movie Trilogy". He made his screen debut with a small role in "Back to the Future Part 2" (1989), and later took on more important roles. He had their first child with Danish filmmaker Mette-Marie Kongsved in 2019.

Isaac Manuel Francisco Albéniz Pascual (Spanish: Isaac Manuel Francisco Albéniz Pascual; May 29, 1860 – May 18, 1909) was a Spanish composer and pianist. Albéniz's music creation was strongly influenced by Andalusian folk music. His piano works have superb performance skills and rich and complex harmonies and rhythms. He was the first native Spanish composer to introduce Spanish folk music to European audiences.

Kazunaga Ito (August 23, 1945 - April 18, 2007), a Japanese politician, was born in Nagato City, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. He served as the mayor of Nagasaki and graduated from the Department of Political Science of Waseda University.

Ito Hirobumi (Japanese: Ito Hirobumi〔 Ito Nicolas Bowen) / Ito Hirobumi, Romanized: Itō Hirobumi (October 16, 1841 - October 26, 1909), whose childhood name was Lisuke, whose courtesy name was Junfu, was also known as Chunmu and the owner of Canglang Pavilion. His surname was Lin. A modern Japanese politician and a veteran of the Meiji Restoration, he was one of the Five Choshu Heroes who went to study in the UK. He served four terms as Prime Minister since 1885, three terms as Speaker of the Privy Council since 1888, and successively served as President of Taiwan Affairs and Superintendent of Korea. He led Japan to complete Westernization, presided over the formulation of the "Constitution of the Empire of Japan", and planned the Sino-Japanese War of Sino-Japanese War. In 1909, during negotiations with Russia, he was assassinated by An Zhonggen, a Korean independence activist, at Harbin Railway Station.

Joi Ito (Japanese: Ito Joichi/Ito Joichi, Romanized: Itō Jōichi, born June 19, 1966), commonly known as Joi Ito, is a Japanese activist, entrepreneur and venture capital, an important figure in the popularization of the Internet in Japan. He is currently the director of the MIT Media Lab. As an entrepreneur, I pay attention to Internet and technology companies and establish some companies, such as Japan PSINet, Digital Garage and Japan Infoseek. He also established a blog, wiki and IRC channel. Joichi Ito is the CEO of Creative Commons and a co-partner of Neoteny Labs.

Irène Joliot-Curie (French: [iʁɛn ʒoljokyʁi], September 12, 1897 – March 17, 1956) was a French atomic physicist. His father was Pierre Curie and his mother was Marie Curie. The younger sister is Eve Curie. Irena was born in Paris and received her degree from the University of Paris in research related to alpha particles of the element polonium. In 1926, she married Frederic Joliot, an assistant to her mother Marie. Synthesized phosphorus-30 in 1934, and won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with her husband Frederick in 1935 for "Research on Artificial Radioisotopes".

Wu Bai (January 14, 1968 -) was born in Suantou Village, Liujiao Township, Chiayi. His real name is Wu Junlin. Taiwanese male rock music singer, music producer, and concert conductor. He has been active as the lead singer and lead guitarist of the rock band "Wu Bai & China Blue" for a long time. However, the public is still accustomed to calling him Wu Bai instead of the full group name.

Todd Andrew Woodbridge, OAM (English: Todd Andrew Woodbridge, April 2, 1971 -) is a retired Australian male professional tennis player. From the 1990s to the early 2000s, he was one of the top men's doubles players in the world. He formed a men's doubles partner with fellow Australian Mark Woodford and won a total of 11 Grand Slam men's doubles championships. He also won the men's doubles gold medal in the 1996 Summer Olympics tennis competition. He is one of the few players in the history of tennis to complete the Golden Slam in his men's doubles career. In addition, he also achieved a career Grand Slam in mixed doubles tennis.

Mark Woodforde (English: Mark Woodforde, September 23, 1965 -), Australian retired professional tennis player. Turned professional in 1984. He and his partner Woodbridge were one of the best men's tennis doubles pairs in the world in the 1990s.

Thomas Woodrow Wilson (English: Thomas Woodrow Wilson, December 28, 1856 - February 3, 1924) was an American politician and the 28th President of the United States. As a leader of the Progressive Era, his ideas were called Wilsonianism by later generations. In the 1912 U.S. presidential election, due to the competition between former President Theodore Roosevelt and then-President William Taft, which divided Republican votes, he was eventually elected as a Democrat with 40% of the popular vote and the electoral votes of 40 states, becoming the only Democratic president from 1897 to 1933. Previously, he served as president of Princeton University and governor of New Jersey. To date, he is the only U.S. president to hold the title of Doctor of Philosophy (other than the title of Doctor of Laws), and the only U.S. president to have held public office in New Jersey before becoming president. During Wilson's first term, he supported the Democratic-controlled Congress in passing the Federal Reserve Act, the Clayton Antitrust Act, the Federal Farm Loan Act, the new Revenue Act to impose an income tax at the federal level, and the establishment of the Federal Trade Commission. But at the same time, he supported segregation in federal government agencies, which led to the dismissal of a large number of black employees and was criticized by civil rights groups at the time. After barely winning the 1916 U.S. presidential election, the central issue of Wilson's second term was World War I. Although he campaigned on the slogan "he kept us out of the war," America's policy of neutrality did not last. Germany sent a telegram to Mexico via Foreign Secretary Arthur Zimmermann, stating that if the two countries formed an alliance, Germany would help Mexico regain several northern states occupied by the United States. In addition, Germany's unrestricted submarine warfare prompted Wilson to warn Germany many times and finally asked Congress to declare war in April 1917. However, Wilson mainly focused on the diplomatic and financial aspects of participating in the war, and left the combat tasks to the military department. On the home front, he launched the first effective conscription in American history in 1917, raised billions of war funds through the establishment of Liberty Bonds, and established the War Industries Commission.

Utithorn Milintachinda (Thai: วุฒิธร มิลินทจินดา, born November 25, 1976, known as Woody Milinthachinda and nicknamed Ai (Thai: อ้าย), is a Thai content creator, television and online content host and executive producer. He is the son of Mi Peng Sang, the first Thai ambassador to ASEAN and current deputy director of the Chulaphorn Institute. In addition, he is also the founder of large-scale music and entertainment events such as S2O Music Festival, The Bangkok Countdown, Circuit Asia, and Thailand's first health and fitness festival "FIT FEST". He has also been selected as one of the top 100 most influential people in Asia by CNN. Hosted programs include "Woody Talk Show", "Woody FM", etc.

Heywood "Woody" Allen (English: Heywood "Woody" Allen, November 30, 1935 -), whose real name is Allen Stewart Konigsberg, is an American film director, screenwriter, actor, comedian, writer, playwright and musician. His career has spanned more than 50 years. Allen's distinctive films, which range from drama to screwball comedy, have made him one of the most respected living directors in the United States. Allen is also famous for his rapid filming speed and large number of film works. Allen has directed more than forty films to date. Allen's films often feature writers, directors, and sometimes even actors himself. Allen draws inspiration from literature, sex, philosophy, psychology, ancient Greece, Jewish identity, European art films, and his birthplace and lifelong residence: New York City. Allen began writing short jokes for television programs and publications in the 1950s. In the early 1960s he appeared in a number of burlesque shows. He often plays restless, irritable and neurotic characters and insists on completely distinguishing these characters from his real self. In 2004, Comedy Central ranked Allen fourth on their list of the 100 stand-up comics, and a British poll ranked Allen the third greatest comedian. By the mid-1960s, Allen was writing and directing slapstick comedies. In the 1970s, influenced by European art films, Allen's films changed to a more artistic and dramatic film style. Allen is generally considered one of the American New Wave filmmakers of the mid-1960s to late 1970s. Allen often starred in his own films, and as in his early years, his characters were often pessimistic, restless, and neurotic. His most famous films include "Annie Hall" (1977), "Manhattan" (1979), "Hannah and the Sisters" (1986), "Midnight in Paris" (2011), etc. Film critic Roger Ebert described Allen as "a treasure of the cinema". Allen has so far been nominated for 23 Academy Awards and won 4 Academy Awards: three Oscars for Best Original Screenplay and one Academy Award for Best Director ("Annie Hall").

Fu Mingxia (August 16, 1978 -), a former Chinese diving athlete, is coached by Yu Fen, and has a sister named Fu Mingyan. After retiring, Ye Jianying's granddaughter Ye Jingzi served as her agent until her relationship with Liang Jinsong was announced. After marriage, they gave birth to their eldest daughter Liang Siyu (2003), sons Liang Haojia (2004) and Liang Jiawei (2008).

François-Marie Arouet (French: François-Marie Arouet, November 21, 1694 - May 30, 1778), pen name Voltaire (pronounced: [vɔltɛːʁ]), was a French philosopher, writer and historian in the Age of Enlightenment. Known for his witticisms and criticism of Christianity (particularly the Catholic Church) and criticism of slavery, Voltaire advocated freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and the separation of church and state. Voltaire was a versatile and prolific writer who wrote in almost every literary genre, including drama, poetry, novels, essays, histories, and even scientific treatises. He wrote more than 20,000 letters and 2,000 books and pamphlets. Voltaire was one of the first writers to achieve international fame and commercial success. Not only did Voltaire have outstanding achievements in philosophy, he was also known for his outspoken advocacy of civil liberties, especially freedom of belief and judicial justice. Despite the harsh censorship of Catholic France of his day, Voltaire openly supported social reform. His discourses were characterized by satire, often attacking the dogma of the Catholic Church and the French education system at that time. Along with Thomas Hobbes and John Locke, Voltaire's writings and ideas laid the foundation for future constitutional monarchy and republicanism, and also influenced major thinkers of the American Revolution and the French Revolution. His most famous masterpiece, "Candide, ou l'Optimisme", is a novella that comments, criticizes and ridicules many events, thinkers and philosophical systems of the same period, especially Gottfried Leibniz and his belief in "the best of all possible worlds".

James Hugh Calum Laurie, CBE (English: James Hugh Calum Laurie, June 11, 1959 -), British actor, comedian, writer and musician, graduated from Selwyn College, University of Cambridge. The first work that made him famous was the British historical comedy series "Blackadder". He and his friend Stephen Fry formed the comedy duo "Fry and Laurie" and even collaborated to create a TV series called "The Fry and Laurie Show", which was released on the BBC. From 2004 to 2012, he played Dr. Gregory House in the Fox drama series "House." In 2012, the documentary "Let Them Talk A Celebration of New Orleans Blues" was released.

Hugh Michael Jackman (English: Hugh Michael Jackman, October 12, 1968 -) is an Australian actor, singer and producer. He is well-known for his long-term role as "Wolverine" in the "X-Men" series. His performance in the 2012 film "Les Miserables" earned him his first Academy Award nomination for Best Actor and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy.

Hugh John Mungo Grant (English: Hugh John Mungo Grant, September 9, 1960 -) is a famous British actor and film producer. He has played characters from the British middle and upper classes many times. In 1987, he won the Best Actor Award at the Venice Film Festival for "Maurice's Lover". In 1994, he won the British Academy Film Award for Best Actor and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy Film for "You Are My Bride".

Hugh Politzer (English: Hugh Politzer, August 31, 1949 -), American theoretical physicist, born in New York, is currently the Richard Chase Tolman Chair Professor at the California Institute of Technology. In 2004, he won the Nobel Prize in Physics for their discovery of asymptotic freedom in quantum chromodynamics with David Gross and Frank Wilczek.

Hugh Marston Hefner (English: Hugh Marston Hefner, April 9, 1926 - September 27, 2017), American entrepreneur. Founder and editor-in-chief of Playboy magazine, and creative director of Playboy Enterprises.

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.