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Deanie Ip Tak-han (English: Deanie Ip Tak-han, December 25, 1947-), a Hong Kong female singer and actress, known as "Sister Deanie". In terms of music, Deanie Ip released her first EP "Deanie Ip" in the late 1960s. Later, she mainly appeared on stage. In the early 1980s, she released records again and sang many popular songs. In the late 1980s, she faded out of the music scene. From the 1980s to the 1990s, she made more movies, and returned to singing in the early 2000s. In 2004, she was awarded the Supreme Song Award at the 2004 All-China Music Popular Chart Awards Ceremony for her song "The Flying in the Ointment" co-written with Andy Hui. In 2014, she participated in singing "Hold Up the Umbrella", my favorite song at the 2014 All-China Music Chart Awards Ceremony. In film and television, Ip Tak-han is good at playing minor roles and has won many awards over the years. With the 2011 film "Sister Peach", she won nine awards including the 68th Venice Film Festival, the 48th Golden Horse Awards, the 6th Asian Film Awards and the 31st Hong Kong Film Awards. In addition, she also won three Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Supporting Actress and two Golden Horse Awards for Best Supporting Actress.

Patrick Yip Lim Shum (English: Patrick Yip Lim Shum, born March 19, 1975), formerly known as Jiang Boliang, is a Hong Kong actor, blog film critic writer and film director. Most of the themes of his film works are youth love triangle love stories, and the heroines in the dramas are mostly named "Chung Jiabao", "Kong Meibao", "Meibao" or "Po".

Ip Chun (English: Ip Chun, August 25, 1924 -), Hong Kong martial artist. Ip Chun was born in Foshan, the eldest son of Wing Chun master Ip Man, and his mother Zhang Yongcheng. After Ip Man passed away in 1972, his sons Ip Chun and Ip Zheng inherited their father's business and devoted themselves to promoting Wing Chun. Ye Zhun has a son, Ye Xuejin. At the age of 38, Ye Zhun had learned Wing Chun in Foshan. Ye Chun has successively set up apprenticeships at the Hong Kong Wing Chun Sports Association, Shatin Town Hall, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and Foshan University of Science and Technology. In 2020, Ye Chun was awarded the honorary academician title by Lingnan University in Hong Kong in recognition of his lifelong contribution to the inheritance and promotion of Wing Chun.

Yip Hon was a gambling tycoon in South China. His wealth was estimated to be HK$ 100 million. In his childhood, he stayed in Kong Mun of Guangdong, and usually participated in gambling with his pocket money. He was nicknamed Kwai Wong (Ghost King).

Veronica Yip (English: Veronica Yip, February 12, 1967-), the 1985 Miss Asia second runner-up, Hong Kong actress and singer.

Ye Shengzhang (December 7, 1912 - August 31, 1966), also known as Yaoru, was born in Taihu, Anhui Province. He was a Chinese Peking Opera actor and educator.

Ge Yiyuan (July 1918 - March 8, 1998), a native of Xiangtan, Hunan, was an intelligence agent installed by the Communist Party of China within the National Government of the Republic of China. In 1940, he was ordered to infiltrate the Kuomintang military system and was highly regarded. He used his status as a senior military official for a long time to gain access to a large number of Kuomintang secrets. Cooperating with Shen Anna, who is also a CCP sleeper intelligence agent, he collected and provided a large amount of confidential information to the Chinese Communist Party, and provided a complete list of changes in the military command organization and personnel after Dai Li's death (the experience of the protagonist Yu Zecheng in the Chinese TV series "Liberating" is partly a true portrayal of Ge Yiyuan's military command lurking). After Ge Yiyuan completed his espionage work, Dong Biwu proved his identity and was awarded the CCP collective order. Dong Biwu also praised his spouse Wu Deming as an "unsung hero." After liberation, Ge Yiyuan held leadership positions in the National Security (Investigation Department) and the United Front System for a long time until his retirement. He once served as director of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the United Front Work Department of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China and deputy director of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China. Ge Yiyuan is "a senior intelligence officer of the Communist Party of China undercover the Kuomintang military command. In 1940, he was ordered to infiltrate the Kuomintang military command system. He was one of the 72 wise men and thirteen Taibao under Dai Li."

Ge You (April 19, 1957 -), born in Beijing, native of Raoyang, Hebei Province, is a famous Chinese actor and a national first-class actor. His acting career spans many fields such as TV series and movies. He is famous for his realistic, humorous and life-oriented performance style, and has high popularity and influence in the Chinese film industry.

Grace Chang (August 4, 1933 - August 3, 2026), whose real name is Zhang Yufang, also known as Zhang Yuying, was a native of Haining County, Zhejiang Province (now Haining City), Hong Kong actress and singer, from the 1950s to the 1960s During the 1990s, she starred in many famous Chinese musicals and dance films, and was known for her ability to perform both singing and dancing. Many of the songs in her starring films are still sung to this day. Her representative works include "Mambo Girl", "Children of Youth" and "The Love of Wild Rose". After retiring from acting in 1964, Grant turned to study Peking Opera and participated in related performances. In 1989, he and his friends published a collection of Peking Opera records. In addition, he has also sung or performed at public events.

Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti (Italian: Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti, November 29, 1797 - April 8, 1848), also translated as Donizetti, was a famous Italian opera composer. His famous work is "Elixir of Love", and his most famous masterpiece is "Lucia di Lammermoor" which premiered in 1835.

Eric Kot Man Fai (English: Eric Kot Man Fai, December 30, 1966 -) is a Hong Kong Radio program host, actor and director. He is best known as the "Soft Master" as a member of the popular group Soft and Hard Masters.

Ge Hongsheng (October 1931 - January 30, 2020), male, Han nationality, from Junan, Shandong. Member of the Communist Party of China, political figure of the People's Republic of China, and former governor of the People's Government of Zhejiang Province.

Hokusai Katsushika Hokusai, October 31, 1760 - May 10, 1849), whose real name was Tokitarō (Tokitarō/Tokitaro, Tetsuzō), was a native of Edo, Japan, an artist at the end of the Edo period, and a representative figure of Kasei culture. Katsushika Hokusai was versatile, and his works spanned printmaking, ink painting, dyeing, book illustrations, etc. Among them, the ukiyo-e "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji" and "Hokusai Manga", which has been published for 64 years, are his most representative works.

Grace Brewster Hopper (English: Grace Brewster Hopper, surname: Murray; December 9, 1906 - January 1, 1992) was an American computer scientist, mathematician, and U.S. Navy commodore. She was a pioneer in computer programming and the first person to propose the theory of machine-independent programming languages. She used this theory to develop the FLOW-MATIC programming language and COBOL, an early high-level programming language that is still in use today. She was also one of the earliest programmers of the Harvard Type I computer and is credited with being the author of the first computer manual, A Manual of Operation for the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator. Before joining the Navy, Hope earned a PhD in mathematics and mathematical physics from Yale University and served as a professor of mathematics at Vassar College. During World War II, she left her position at Vassar College to join the United States Naval Reserve. Hopper began his computer career in 1944 as a member of Harvard's Type I team, led by Howard Aiken. In 1949, she joined the Eckert-Mauchley Computer Company and participated in the development of the UNIVAC I computer. At Eckert-Mauchlay, she oversaw the development of one of the earliest COBOL compilers. She firmly believed that programming should be simplified using English-based computer programming languages. Her compiler converts English words into machine code that computers can understand. By 1952, Hope had completed her program linker (originally called a compiler), written for the A-0 system. In 1954, Eckert-Mauchley selected Hope to lead its automatic programming department, and she led the release of some of the earliest compiled languages, including FLOW-MATIC. In 1959, she participated in the CODASYL Association and helped create COBOL, a machine-independent programming language based on English vocabulary. Hope continued to promote the use of the language throughout the 1960s. The U.S. Navy's Arleigh Burke-class missile destroyer USS Hopper is named after her, as are the Cray XE6 "Hopper" supercomputer at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) and the NVIDIA GPU architecture "Hopper Microarchitecture". in her

Dong Yachun (March 1960-), director and photographer from Mainland China. He won the Best Cinematography Award at the 22nd China Golden Rooster Awards for the movie "Out of the Amazon" and the Best Cinematography Award at the 23rd China Golden Rooster Awards for the movie "Uncanny".

Dong Baotong (January 1967-), a native of Shenxian County, Hebei Province, Han nationality, a member of the Communist Party of China. Politician of the People's Republic of China and representative of Yunnan Province at the 13th National People's Congress. He currently serves as Vice Minister of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment of the People's Republic of China, member of the Party Leadership Group, and Director of the National Nuclear Safety Administration.

Dong Qichang (February 10, 1555-October 26, 1636), whose courtesy name was Xuanzai, also known as Sibai, Siweng, and Xiangguang Jushi, was a native of Huating County (now Songjiang District, Shanghai) under the direct administration of the Communist Party of China. Ming Dynasty politician, calligrapher and painter. Wanli Jichou became a Jinshi and became the Minister of Rites in Nanjing, the remaining capital (after Yongle, the Ming Dynasty had two capitals and two sets of governments, Beijing and Nanjing. Nanjing could only govern Nanjing and Nanzhili). Together with Xing Dong, Zhang Ruitu and Mi Wanzhong, they are collectively known as the four late Ming dynasties.

Dong Yong (December 15, 1968 -), whose real name is Dong Jing, is an actor from Mainland China. He was born in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province and was a Peking Opera martial arts student. Graduated from the China Academy of Opera in 1986. His main representative works include "Six Serious Cases", "Black Hole", "Huo Yuanjia", "Trident", etc. In 2004, he was nominated for the 24th Feitian Award for Outstanding Actor for his role as Peng Dashu in "The Family Tree". In 2005, he participated in the film "Fearless" directed by Yu Rentai and won the Best Supporting Actor nomination for the Popular Film Hundred Flowers Award. On December 17, 2014, he played Zeng Keda in "All Quiet in Peking" and won the "Annual Screen Performance Award" at the 2014 National Drama Festival. Married at the end of the same year. In 2015, "Marshal Peng Dehuai" was launched, and he played Peng Dehuai. Four years later, he played Peng Dehuai again in the TV series "Diplomacy".

Dong Qing (November 17, 1973 -), female, Han nationality, native of Chongming, Shanghai, China Central Radio and Television Station program host and CCTV program producer, known for hosting large-scale party programs. Hosted programs include "Happy China Tour", "Charming China", "Music Life", "I Want to Go to the Spring Festival Gala", etc. He hosted CCTV’s Spring Festival Gala for 13 consecutive years from 2005 to 2017.

Dong Si Cheng (real name: Dong Si Cheng; Korean: Dongsicheng; English: Dong Si Cheng; October 28, 1997 -), a mainland Chinese actor and singer, stage name Yun Yun (Korean: win win, English: WINWIN), was born and raised in Lucheng District, Wenzhou City, Zhejiang Province. He was a member of the Korean boy group NCT under SM Entertainment. Debuted in 2016 with the Seoul unit NCT 127. Debuted in 2019 with Chinese sub-unit WayV. In 2021, a personal studio will be officially established in mainland China. Withdrew from the portfolio on July 8, 2026 due to contract expiration.

Dong Hui (May 22, 1997 -), whose English name is Gigi Jess, is a Chinese actress. He was once a child star. He was noticed by the director when he was six years old. He had already appeared in twenty film and television works by the age of eleven, and was later taken seriously by Yu Zheng. She has filmed many TV series, including: "Big Maid", "Suo Qingqiu", "Rose River", "Beauty's Scheming", "Beauty Without Tears", etc. He has also participated in many movies, and has co-starred with Jay Chou and Lin Chiling in the movie "The Tomb", which is listed as his film masterpiece. The representative of the TV series is the childhood Zhang Yan played in "Beauty's Scheming", which made her popularity soar. Due to her outstanding performance in the play, she won the love of directors and producers, and was gradually recognized by the audience. She has entered the ranks of domestic first-line child stars. She is also the goddaughter of actress Ruby Lin. In 2013, she was invited by a Hong Kong director to participate in the stage play "Moonlight Volley", playing the role of "Yu Xiaoqin". With her flexible performance and superb acting skills, she defeated many senior artists and won the "Best Actress" and "Favorite Female Child Star" awards at the "13th China Youth Stage Drama Gold Cup Awards".

Dong Chengpeng (January 12, 1982 -), whose stage name is Dapeng, is a native of Ji'an, Jilin, a Chinese host, singer, actor, director and screenwriter, and the 53rd disciple of Zhao Benshan. He started his hosting career in 2004 and released his solo single "Drunken Heart" in the same year. In 2007, he founded China's first Internet talk show "Dapeng's Bar". In 2012, he directed and starred in the online drama "Diaosi Man". In 2015, he directed and starred in the movie "Pancake Man", making his debut as a film director. In 2018, he won the Best Feature Short Film at the 55th Golden Horse Awards for "Auspicious". In 2023, he won the Best Actor Award at the 25th Shanghai International Film Festival Golden Goblet Award and was nominated for the Best Actor at the 42nd Hong Kong Film Awards for the movie "The Eighth Suspect".

Dong Wenbiao (June 1957-), male, native of Yexian County, Henan, is a financial figure in the People's Republic of China. He served as president and chairman of China Minsheng Banking Co., Ltd., member of the 10th and 11th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, deputy director of the Economic Committee of the 11th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, executive member of the 10th All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce, vice president of the China Private Chamber of Commerce, vice president of the China Listed Companies Association, and chairman of the board of directors of China Minsheng Investment Corporation. He is currently the Vice Chairman of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce.

Dong Mingzhu (August 12, 1954 -), a native of Nanjing, Jiangsu, is an entrepreneur in the People's Republic of China and currently serves as the chairman of Zhuhai Gree Electric Co., Ltd. Representative to the 10th, 11th, 12th and 13th National People's Congress, member of the Central Standing Committee of the 9th China Democratic National Construction Association.