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Lillian Diana Gish (English: Lillian Diana Gish, October 14, 1893 - February 27, 1993) was an American film actress who was a child star. She was one of the screen icons of the silent film era, winner of the Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement Award, and winner of the Kennedy Center Honor Award.

Elkie Chong Ting Yan (English: Elkie Chong Ting Yan, November 2, 1998 -), whose stage name is Elkie (Korean: Elkie), is a Hong Kong female singer and actress, and a former member of South Korea's Cube Entertainment girl group CLC.

Saffron Domini Burrows (English: Saffron Domini Burrows, October 22, 1972 -) is a British actress. His credits include films such as "In the Name of the Father," "Troy: Trojan Horse" and "From the Heart" and TV series such as "Boston Legal."

Sasha Grey's (English: Sasha Grey, March 14, 1988 -) full name is Marina Ann Hentze. She is a retired American pornographic actress, and has also crossed over into the fields of modeling, acting and music. She is a member of the industrial music group ATelecine and participated in Stephen Soderbergh's film "The Girlfriend Experience". Sasha won several Adult Video News Awards in 2007 and 2008, including "Best Actress of 2008", "Best Oral Sex" and "Best Anal Sex Clip".

Sabrina Annlynn Carpenter (English: Sabrina Annlynn Carpenter; May 11, 1999 -) is an American singer-songwriter and actress. She rose to fame starring in the Disney Channel series Growing Up (2014-2017). Additionally, she signed with Disney-owned Hollywood Records and released several studio albums, including Eyes Wide Open (2015), Evolution of Love (2016), One of a Kind: Act One (2018), and One of a Kind: Act Two (2019). Carpenter joined Island Records in 2021 and released her fifth album "Secret Letters" in 2022, which included the multi-platinum certified singles "Nonsense" and "Feather". Her sixth studio album "Slightly Sweet" was released in 2024. It successfully topped the US Billboard 200 Album Chart, received six nominations for the Grammy Awards, and won two awards. The album spawned two global hit singles, "Espresso" and "Please", the latter of which became her first number-one song on the Billboard Hot 100. Her seventh studio album "Man's Best Friend" was released in 2025. It also topped the Billboard album chart and included the US number one single "Manchild". Carpenter has participated in many film and television works, including "One Night at Home" (2016), "The Hate U Give" (2018), "The Long Road" (2019), "Love Song in the Cloud" (2020) and "The Rescue" (2022). She also starred in the Netflix films "Top 2" (2019), "Top 2" (2022), and "So You Think You Can Dance" (2020), on which she served as an executive producer. On Broadway, she played the title role of Cady Heron in the musical Mean Girls in 2020.

Sarah Jessica Parker (English: Sarah Jessica Parker, March 25, 1965 -), American actress and producer. She is best known for her role as columnist Carrie Bradshaw in "Sex and the City," for which she won four Golden Globe Awards and two Emmy Awards.

Sharon Davies (English: Sharron Davies, November 1, 1962 -), British female swimmer. She represented Great Britain in swimming at the 1976, 1980 and 1992 Summer Olympics, winning a silver medal at the 1980 Olympics. Married track and field athlete Derek Redmond in 1994 and divorced in 2000.

Monica Anna Maria Bellucci (Italian: Monica Anna Maria Bellucci, September 30, 1964 -), Italian actress and model, was born in Castello, Umbria. Mainly engaged in film work in Italy, France and the United States, with well-known works such as "True Love" (2000), "Irrevocable" (2002), "The Matrix" series (2003-2021) and "Mr. Smith" (2007).

Karen Mok (English: Karen Joy Morris; stage name Karen Mok, June 2, 1970 -), Hong Kong female singer and actress. He made his debut in Hong Kong in 1993 and went to Taiwan to release his first Mandarin album "Be Yourself" in 1997. Since then, he has focused on the Mandarin pop music market, which is very rare among Hong Kong singers. So far, she has released more than 30 albums, appeared in more than 50 movies, and held more than 130 solo concerts. Among them, she has held 100 concerts in mainland China, making her the second Hong Kong female artist to exceed 100 concerts. She has won female singer awards from mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and South Korea, including the Golden Melody Award for Best Mandarin Female Singer, the Mnet Asian Music Awards for Best Asian Artist, etc. In terms of movies, she won the Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Supporting Actress and the Hong Kong Film Golden Bauhinia Award for Best Supporting Actress for "Fallen Angels", becoming the first double winner of the Supporting Actress Award in Hong Kong (winning two Best Supporting Actress awards for the same film). She was nominated for the Golden Rooster Award for Best Actress for "The God of Cookery" and the Golden Rooster Award for Best Supporting Actress for "The Story of Old Port". She was among the first batch of actresses in Hong Kong and Taiwan to achieve three gold medals in Chinese-language films (Golden Rooster Award, Golden Horse Award, and Golden Image Award) to be nominated for the Grand Slam. She has also been nominated for the Hong Kong Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress six times. Karen Mok has set many records in the Chinese pop music world as a Hong Kong female singer: she is the first Hong Kong female singer to win the "Best Mandarin Female Singer" and "Best Mandarin Album" awards at the Taiwan Golden Melody Awards, the first Hong Kong female singer to win the "Golden Song Diva" twice; she is also the first Hong Kong female singer to win the "Best Asian Artist" at the Mnet Asian Music Awards in South Korea. In addition, she has won important music awards in Chinese regions around the world, including "Best Female Singer on the Global Chinese Music Chart", "Most Popular Female Singer of the Year on the Global Pop Music Chart", "Best Mandarin Female Singer at the Chinese Music Media Awards" in mainland China, "Best Female Singer Performance at the CASH Golden Sail Music Awards" in Hong Kong, "Best Female Singer Performance at the Singapore Golden Melody Awards" in Singapore, and "Best Chinese Music Video Voted by International Audiences" at the MTV Video Music Awards, etc. In terms of concerts, she is the only Hong Kong female singer to have performed solo at the Taipei Arena five times. In 2016, the "Look at the World Tour" was held in Italy and Spain. In 2024, she became the first Chinese female singer to tour at the Bird's Nest in Beijing; in the same year, she became the first

Modest Petrovich Musorgskiy (Russian: Модест Петрович Мусоргский, Romanized: Modest Petrovich Musorgskiy; March 21, 1839 [March 9 in the Julian calendar] - March 28, 1881 [March 16 in the Julian calendar]), Russian composer. He is famous for his opera "Boris Godunov" and piano suite "Pictures at an Exhibition". Together with Borodin, Rimsky-Korsakov, Kuyi and Balakirev, he formed the "Powerful Group" or the "Russian Five" and was considered a typical Russian composer in the 19th century. Mussorgsky died young and left behind many unfinished or unorchestrated works, which were completed by Rimsky-Korsakov, Glazunov and Ravel.

Mollie O'Callaghan (English: Mollie O'Callaghan, April 2, 2004 -) is an Australian female swimmer who specializes in freestyle. She represented Australia in swimming competitions at the 2020 and 2024 Summer Olympics, winning five gold medals, one silver and two bronze medals.

Mo Yan (February 17, 1955 -), whose real name is Guan Moye, is a native of Gaomi, Shandong Province. He is a writer in mainland China, a member of the Communist Party of China, a retired major of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, and vice chairman of the Chinese Writers Association. Graduated from the People's Liberation Army Art Institute, a joint Master of Arts from Beijing Normal University and Lu Xun College of Literature, an honorary Doctor of Letters from Hong Kong Metropolitan University, a part-time professor at East China Normal University and Shandong University, a visiting professor at Qingdao University of Science and Technology, and a part-time professor at Shantou University. He is currently a professor at Beijing Normal University.

Joseph Maurice Ravel (French: Joseph Maurice Ravel, March 7, 1875 - December 28, 1937), French composer, pianist and conductor. Born in 1875 in Sibourg, a small mountain town in southern France near Spain, he is a Basque. When he died in Paris in 1937, he was already as famous as Claude Debussy in the French music scene as an Impressionist composer. His music is known for its delicacy, emotional richness and poignancy, and he is considered one of the major composers of the twentieth century. His piano music, chamber music and wind instruments cannot be ignored in the history of music. Piano pieces such as "Miroirs" and "Ghosts of the Night" are classic works; orchestral pieces such as "Daphny et Croy" and the orchestral arrangements for Mussorgsky's piano suite "Pictures at an Exhibition" brilliantly demonstrate his skill in expressing light and shadow through music. For the public, the most familiar one should be his "Polyloo".

Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck (French: Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck, August 29, 1862 - May 6, 1949) was a Belgian poet, playwright, essayist, and winner of the 1911 Nobel Prize for Literature. The themes of his works are mainly about death and the meaning of life. The most familiar of his works is "L'Oiseau Bleu" (1908), which has been adapted into many films. Maeterlinck believed that the world is maintained by visible things and invisible things, visible people and invisible minds. Writers should not stop describing visible phenomena on the surface, but should go straight into the spiritual depths. Based on this philosophical understanding, Maeterlinck was committed to "exploring the origins and secrets of life." Maeterlinck published many books on entomology. Among them, the book "La Vie des Termites" (The Life of the Termites) published in 1926 was almost completely copied from the book "The Soul of the White Ant" (The Soul of the White Ant) written by the South African poet and scientist Eugène Mares. David Bignell, professor of biology at the University of London, believes that "The Life of Termites" is a classic example of academic plagiarism.

Leisel Jones (English: Leisel Jones, August 30, 1985 -), Australian female swimmer. The gold medalist in the women's 100-meter breaststroke at the 2008 Summer Olympics and the silver medalist at the 2004 Summer Olympics.

Leoš Janáček (Czech: Leoš Janáček, Czech pronunciation: [ˈlɛoʃ ˈjanaːtʃɛk], July 3, 1854 – August 12, 1928) was a Czech composer, music theorist and folk music scholar. His main creations incorporate a large number of Moravian and Slavic folk music elements, and are interpreted in more modern styles. Along with Antonin Dvořák and Bedoyce Smetana, he is considered the most important Czech composer. Janájek has been collecting folk songs from his hometown of Moravia for many years and observing folk language and natural sounds. These studies have been included in his works. The so-called "tone" (Czech: nápěvky mluvy; German: Sprachmelodie; English: speech melody) has influenced his style, not just in his vocal works. He developed a theory of intonation (German: Theorie der Sprechmelodie). As a result, Janjak diverged from the mainstream of European music of his time and became one of the musical style innovators and important musicians of the 20th century.

Leila Schneps (born December 22, 1961) is an American female mathematician who lives in France and works at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and the Institute of Mathematics at the Pierre and Marie Curie University Jussieux Campus. Her research expertise is number theory. In addition to publishing academic papers, Schneps has edited several textbooks, written a popular science book and several popular science articles on the use and abuse of mathematics in criminal proceedings. Schneps also published a series of mathematically themed murder novels under the pseudonym Catherine Shaw.

Léon Marchand (French: Léon Marchand, May 17, 2002 -), a French male swimmer who has competed in the 200m individual medley, 200m butterfly, 200m breaststroke, and 400m individual at the 2024 Summer Olympics. Winning the medley event, he is currently the world record holder in the 200m individual medley and 400m individual medley and the Olympic record holder in the 200m individual medley, 200m butterfly, 200m breaststroke and 400m individual medley.

Lemmy, whose real name is Ian Fraser Kilmister (December 24, 1945 - December 28, 2015), is a British rock/heavy metal singer, bassist, songwriter, music producer and actor. He is the founder and leader of the Grammy Award-winning rock band Motorhead, serving as the lead singer and bassist. His musical style and lifestyle made him a legend. He has a strong personal image, including clothing that combines the characteristics of rock, drag racers, western cowboys and military officers, a straightforward and rebellious attitude, and the sideburns that have remained unchanged for 30 years, becoming one of the symbols of heavy metal and rock music. He began to join several bands at the age of 18, became Jimi Hendrix's technician at the age of 22, and founded his own band Motorhead at the age of 30, becoming a pioneer of the speed metal genre. At the age of 35, his work topped the UK album charts, reaching the peak of his career. He has since become a legend in the music industry and was ranked 18th among the "50 Most Important Heavy Metal Rock Figures in History" by Loudness Conductor magazine. He spent most of his time recording and touring until he died of cancer at the end of December 2015 at the age of 70. In addition to his distinctive and rough rock music style: "sex, drugs, gambling", Lemmy is more well-known for his uninhibited lifestyle. He has been addicted to alcohol for a long time and often consumed the psychedelic drugs LSD and amphetamines. Lemmy also never had a long-term, stable relationship after his girlfriend, Susan Bennett, died of a drug overdose at 19, so he never married. He is also a collector of military weapons and Nazi memorabilia, and sometimes wears Nazi symbols on his body. In this regard, he said that he did not understand topics such as racism. He just thought that the things used by bad guys were cool: "Collecting Nazi memorabilia does not mean that I am a fascist or a skinhead. I just like those clothes. I have always liked good-looking uniforms, and in history, the uniforms of bad guys are always the best: Napoleon, the Allies and the Nazi Party." He also stated that he was a liberal or anarchist and did not support Nazi ideals.

Leon Petrazycki (April 13, 1867 - May 15, 1931) was a famous Polish philosopher and jurist, famous for his theories of state and law.

Lennox Lewis CM, CBE (English: Lennox Claudius Lewis, September 2, 1965 -), former boxer and world boxing champion. He holds dual British and Canadian citizenship. As an amateur boxer in his early years, Lewis represented Canada and won the 1988 Olympic super heavyweight gold medal. The following year, he entered professional boxing. During his career, he was a three-time heavyweight world boxing champion, a two-time orthodox boxing champion, and the last undisputed heavyweight boxing champion to date. Lewis retired in 2004 with a record of 41 wins, 2 losses and 1 draw, with a total of 32 knockouts. He is considered one of the greatest heavyweight boxers of all time and one of the greatest boxers in the history of British boxing.

Lech Wałęsa (Polish: Lech Wałęsa, pronunciation: [ˈlɛɣ vaˈwɛsa]; September 29, 1943 -), former Polish president, politician, human rights activist, former Solidarity leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner. Served as President of Poland from 1990 to 1995. After winning Poland's presidential election in 1990, Walesa became the first democratically elected Polish president since 1926 and the first Polish president elected by direct popular vote. Walesa was originally an electrician and later became the leader of the Solidarity trade union. While working at the Lenin Shipyard, Walesa, an electrician, became a trade union activist. As a result, he was persecuted by the Polish government, placed under surveillance, fired in 1976, and arrested many times. In August 1980, he played a key role in the negotiations between striking workers and the government, leading to the groundbreaking "Gdansk Agreement" between striking workers and the government. He was also a co-founder of the Solidarity trade union, which later grew to more than 10 million members. After Poland imposed martial law and declared Solidarity an illegal organization, Walesa was arrested again. After his release, he continued his political activities and promoted the establishment of the Polish Round Table, which led to the 1989 Polish parliamentary elections and the establishment of a government led by Solidarity. Since 1980, Walesa has received hundreds of awards, honors and commendations from various countries and organizations around the world. He was named Time Magazine's Person of the Year in 1981 and in 1999 was listed as one of the 100 most important people of the 20th century. He has received more than 40 honorary doctorates, including degrees from Harvard University, Fordham University, and Columbia University, and has received dozens of the nation's highest medals, including the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Knight's Grand Cross of the Order of Bath, and the French Legion of Honor. In 1989, Walesa became the first foreign non-head of state to address a joint session of the U.S. Congress. Since 2004, Gdansk Lech Walesa Airport has been named after him.

Renfang (November 28, 1967 -, father's surname is Xie, mother's surname is Saito, ex-husband's surname is Murata) is a Taiwanese-Japanese politician, member of the Senate, and chairman of the Congressional Countermeasures Committee of the Cadet Senate. He once served as the second representative (party leader) of the Democratic Progressive Party, a member of the Democratic Progressive Party faction Huaqihui (originating from Matsushita School of Political Science and Economics), and a member of the "New Green Wind Association" of the Japanese Senate. She was a member of the Japanese Cabinet from 2010 to 2012, during which time she was the Minister with Special Responsibilities for Administrative Reform and Consumer and Food Safety. In 2016, she was elected as a representative of the Democratic Progressive Party, making her the first woman and the first person of multi-national descent to serve as the leader of a major political party in Japanese history.

Suda Masaki (Japanese: Suda Masaki/Suda Masaki, Romanized: Suda Masaki; February 21, 1993 -) is a Japanese male artist, born in Minoh City, Osaka Prefecture, and his agency is TOP COAT. He has also branched out into the music industry and developed into film, television and singing. His wife is actress Nana Komatsu, and his eldest brother is Japanese YouTuber and singer-songwriter Kento Sugao.