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Dieter Rams (German: Dieter Rams, May 20, 1932 -) is a famous German industrial designer. He was born in Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany. He has a close relationship with the German home appliance manufacturer Braun and the functionalist design school.

Diego Carlos Santos Silva (Portuguese: Diego Carlos Santos Silva; March 15, 1993 -), referred to as Diego Carlos (Portuguese: Diego Carlos), is a Brazilian football player who plays as a center back and currently plays for the Serie A team Komu (on loan from the Turkish Super League Fernbach).

Diego Armando Maradona (Spanish: Diego Armando Maradona, October 30, 1960 - November 25, 2020), was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, nicknamed "The King of the Century" and "The God of the Stadium", an Argentine football player and coach, and one of the most influential players in the history of world football. In 1986, Maradona single-handedly led Argentina to its second World Cup championship. He also became the assist king of the World Cup (8 times, but since FIFA’s official count of assists in the World Cup started in 1986, in fact the ball king Pele had a total of 10 assists in four World Cups). At the same time, he set the record for the most dribbles in the World Cup (90 times) and the highest number of violations (60 times). In 1987, he successfully brought the relegation team Naples to the Serie A championship. In 2001, he was named the King of the Century. Maradona can play anywhere in the frontcourt and dribble with his left foot. His dribbling skills are unparalleled in the world, and his shooting skills are also top-notch. After Billy hung up his boots, although excellent stars continued to emerge from all over the world, they could not compare with Billy until the emergence of Maradona, so he was also called the "new king of football." During his professional player career from 1976 to 1997, Maradona successively joined Argentine Youth, Boca Youth, Barcelona, ​​Naples, Sevilla, Newell's Old Boys, and Boca Youth. He has won the Argentine League Championship, the Italian Football League Championship, and the UEFA Cup Championship. During his 17 years with the Argentina national football team (1977-1994), he also won the World Cup and the World Youth Football Championship. In 2001, he was named the "Best Player of the 20th Century" by FIFA. On November 25, 2020, Maradona, who suffered from dilated cardiomyopathy, died of acute pulmonary edema caused by chronic heart failure at the age of 60.

Shiga Lin Sze-nga (English: Shiga Lin Sze-nga; June 29, 1988 -), a Hong Kong female singer and actress, is currently an artist under Zhongxingtang Entertainment. Her husband is Hong Kong actor Chan Jiale. Lien Sze-ya filmed for RTHK's educational TV show when she was in elementary school, and started working as a model when she was in middle school. In 2010, she signed a contract with Warner Records and debuted as a singer on ATV. In 2013, after the copyright dispute with HKRIA broke through for the first time, she only signed a singer contract with TVB. Since she had known Fang Datong since she was a child and called him her brother, and the two of them worked at Warner Music Group, Lian Shiya was known as "Fang Datong's junior sister". In 2011, she filmed the movie "Love Night Pussy", for which she was nominated for the Best New Actor at the 31st Hong Kong Film Awards. The theme song of the movie "I'm still loving you" was also very popular on the Internet and YouTube. In 2014, she released her first Mandarin song "Time's a Joke" and won the "TVB8 Golden Melody Chart Most Popular Female Singer Award" at the "2014 TVB8 Golden Melody Chart Awards Ceremony". In addition, netizens often think that Lian Shiya looks like AV actress Maomi Nagazawa and transgender model Kayo Sato.

Lian Xianji (1880-1953), also known as Yangshan, was born in Dongcheng, Longyan, Fujian Province. He was a politician, industrialist and linguist of the Republic of China.

Doug Davidson (October 24, 1954-) is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Paul Williams on the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless, and is currently the longest-running character on the show.

Douglas Warren Diamond (October 25, 1953 -) graduated from the University of Chicago Business School. He specializes in financial intermediation, financial crises and liquidity. He is a past president of the American Finance Association. He is also a member of the Western Finance Association, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Finance Association. He is one of the originators of the Diamond Diebwig model. In 2022, Diamond, along with Ben Bernanke and Philip Dibweg, won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for their "contributions to the study of banking and financial crises."

Douglas Luiz Soares de Paulo (Portuguese: Douglas Luiz Soares de Paulo; May 9, 1998 -) is a Brazilian male professional football player who plays as a midfielder. He is currently on loan to the Premier League team Aston Villa from Serie A club Juventus.

Darren Majian Shahlavi (August 5, 1972 - January 14, 2015), also translated as Darren Shahlavi, was born in Stockport, Cheshire, England. He was an action, stunt actor, martial artist, choreographer, stuntman, and producer assistant. He has performed in films and TV series such as "Tai Chi 2 Heroes Rising" (2012) and "Ip Man 2" (2010).

Michael Joseph Winkelmann (English: Michael Joseph Winkelmann, June 20, 1981 -), better known by his pseudonym Beeple, is an American digital artist, graphic designer and animator known for selling NFTs. He uses a variety of mediums in his art to create pieces that are comical, hallucinatory, and make political and social commentary while using pop culture figures as references. British auction house Christie's called him "a visionary digital artist at the forefront of NFT." Beeple entered the NFT space in October 2020 and credits Pak with providing his first "introduction" to selling NFTs. An NFT associated with Every Day: The First 5,000 Days, a collage from his Every Day series, was sold to NFT investors on March 12, 2021 for $69 million in cryptocurrency. This is the first virtual NFT auctioned by Christie’s. The auction house previously sold "Block 21" in October 2020 for about US$130,000, which was an NFT with a physical painting.

Deng Zhonghua (September 1961-), a native of Changsha, Hunan, is a member of the 19th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China, president of the National Association for Hong Kong and Macao Studies, and former deputy director and member of the Party Leadership Group of the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of the State Council. He was sanctioned by the U.S. Department of the Treasury on November 9, 2020 for his role in the anti-extradition bill movement in Hong Kong. In March 2022, he will no longer serve as deputy director of the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of the State Council. In March 2023, he served as deputy director of the Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan Overseas Chinese Committee of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

Teresa Teng, stage name Teresa Teng, is a Taiwanese female singer, actress and philanthropist. She is a very representative figure in Chinese pop music in the late 20th century and one of the pioneers of contemporary Chinese music. To this day, Teresa Teng is still regarded as one of the representative figures of pop culture in the Chinese area around the world.

Deng Yaping (February 6, 1973-), born in Zhengzhou, Henan, native of Xinning, Hunan, is a former athlete of the Chinese women's table tennis team. She served as deputy secretary-general of the People's Daily and vice-president of the European and American Alumni Association. From 1990 to 1997, she occupied the top spot in the ITTF's world women's rankings for eight years and is considered one of the greatest female players in the history of table tennis.

Deng Conghao (October 10, 1920 - January 17, 1998), male, was born in Linchuan, Jiangxi Province. He was a Chinese theoretical chemist and former professor and president of Shandong University. For many years, he has conducted research in two aspects: basic theory of quantum chemistry and microscopic reaction kinetic theory. He has won the first prize of the National Natural Science Award.

Deng Wei (April 13, 1959 - February 3, 2013), a native of Beijing, was a Chinese photographer, professor and doctoral supervisor at Tsinghua University. Hon FRPS, Honorary Senior Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society. His videos of Chinese cultural figures and portraits of world celebrities shot around the world are the most famous. Many of his works have been collected by several national art galleries, museums and libraries at home and abroad.

Deng Weizhi (November 1938-), a native of Xiaoxian County, Anhui Province, is a Chinese sociologist, a tenured professor at Shanghai University, a doctoral supervisor, and a member of the China Association for the Promotion of Democracy. He served as a member of the Standing Committee of the 7th Central Committee of the Democratic Progressive Party and vice chairman of the 8th, 9th and 10th Central Committee of the Democratic Progressive Party. Graduated from the Department of Industry and Trade of the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences in 1960.

Patrick Tang Kin-wang (English: Patrick Tang Kin-wang, May 6, 1974 -) is a Hong Kong male singer and actor. In addition to singing, composing and writing lyrics, he also participates in film performances and behind-the-scenes work, such as music director, production supervisor, MTV director and creation.

Deng Xiaoke (1869-1950), named Shooyuan and Mulu, male, was a native of Fengjie County, Sichuan. Constitutionalists in the late Qing Dynasty.

Deng Xiaoping (August 22, 1904 - February 19, 1997), formerly known as Xiansheng and scientific name Xixian, was officially renamed Xiaoping in 1927. His former name was Deng Bin. He was male and a native of Guang'an, Sichuan. He was a political figure of the Communist Party of China and the People's Republic of China and a former national-level leader. He established his leadership position at the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China held in 1978 and became the second generation of the supreme leader of the People's Republic of China and the core of the second generation of the central leadership collective of the Communist Party of China. Deng served as Vice Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China from 1977 to 1982, Chairman of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China from 1981 to 1989, and Chairman of the State Military Commission from 1983 to 1990. He also served as Director of the Advisory Committee of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and Vice Premier of the State Council. Chinese officials call him the "chief architect of reform and opening up."

Deng Yue (1918-2000), male, native of Macheng, Hubei Province, political figure of the People's Republic of China and major general of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.

Deng Tuo (February 26, 1912 - May 18, 1966), whose nickname was Xu Chu, formerly known as Zijian, and whose pen names were Manancun, Deng Yunte, Zuo Hai, etc., was male and a native of Min County, Fujian (now Fuzhou). He was a political commentator, scholar, and writer in Chinese newspapers and periodicals. He was an important member of the propaganda front of the Communist Party of China. He has long served as the president of the People's Daily and other leading positions in major central propaganda agencies. Later, he was reprimanded for repeatedly failing to understand the meaning of Mao Zedong's political deployment, and was dismissed from his actual post in the People's Daily. He committed suicide due to political criticism on the eve of the Cultural Revolution, and was exonerated in 1979.

Deng Zhiyi (August 1965-), a native of Shuangfeng, Hunan, Han nationality, a political figure of the People's Republic of China, and a representative of Hubei region in the 12th National People's Congress. Graduated from Renmin University of China majoring in currency and banking. Join the Communist Party of China. In 2013, he served as a deputy to the National People's Congress.

Deng Jiaxian (June 25, 1924 - July 29, 1986), a native of Huaining, Anhui, was a Chinese theoretical physicist, nuclear physicist, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, member of the 12th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, and member of the Jiusan Society. Deng Jiaxian graduated from the National Southwest Associated University of the Republic of China, then went to the United States to study, and received a doctorate in physics from Purdue University in 1950. Deng Jiaxian made significant contributions to the development of the atomic bomb of the People's Republic of China, and was named the "Two Bombs and One Satellite Hero" in 1999.

Gloria Tang (English: Gloria Tang; August 16, 1991 -), whose stage name is Tang Ziqi and G.E.M., is a Hong Kong female singer-songwriter, songwriter and record producer. On July 10, 2008, he made his debut at the age of 16 and won the Newcomer Gold Award at the three major music awards ceremonies in Hong Kong. In 2012, she released the album "Xposed" and won the Hong Kong IFPI, becoming the highest-selling Hong Kong female singer of the year. With "Xposed", she was nominated for the 24th Golden Melody Award for Best Female Singer in 2013, becoming the youngest female singer to be nominated for the Golden Melody Award. In 2014, she quickly became popular in the Chinese-speaking region due to her outstanding performance in the second season of Hunan Satellite TV's singing competition program "I Am a Singer". Deng Ziqi completed 80 solo concerts before the age of 24. In 2015, the concert at Beijing Workers Stadium had nearly 40,000 viewers. In the same year, she completed the 73rd concert at Wembley Stadium in London, England. In 2017, Wuhan Station completed its 100th game. Mainland platforms announced the box office of concerts in 2024. Deng Ziqi topped the list, generating a box office of more than 2.5 billion yuan. In 2025, it will become the fourth highest-grossing female singer tour concert in the world. Deng Ziqi became the first Chinese female singer to have five MVs that exceeded 100 million. The number of views of the MV for the song "Light Years Away" on YouTube exceeded 300 million on December 28, 2025, ranking first in the number of views of Chinese-language songs on YouTube. Other MVs that exceeded 100 million include "Goodbye", "Countdown", "Devil from Heaven" and "Like You", and "Like You" became the second most viewed Cantonese song MV. In January 2025, the cumulative total views of Deng Ziqi’s YouTube channel exceeded 2.4 billion. Deng Ziqi won the "Most Popular Asian Artist" at the 27th KCA American Children's Choice Awards and the Best Singer from Mainland China and Hong Kong at the 26th MTV European Music Awards (EMA). He has appeared on Forbes China's 100 Most Powerful Celebrities list twice (No. 91 in 2014 and No. 11 in 2015). He is the only Asian musician listed in Forbes' 2016 "30 Under 30" list of the world's most promising musicians under 30 years old. On the evening of March 7, 2019, Ziqi Deng announced the termination of the contract with Hummingbird Music, which she had cooperated with for more than 11 years. On April 19 of the same year, it was announced that Ziqi Deng's studio and G Nation record company were officially open for business.