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Hou Yong (September 26, 1960 -), native of Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, is a Chinese cinematographer, director, producer, and director of the Film Department of the School of Film and Television of Shanghai Theater Academy. Graduated from the Photography Department of Beijing Film Academy. He has won the China Film Golden Rooster Award for Best Cinematography four times.

Hou Hsiao-hsien (April 8, 1947 -) is a Taiwanese film director. His films have won major awards at major film festivals at home and abroad. He is one of the representatives of Taiwan's new films. He has won three Golden Horse Awards for Best Director. In 1989, he won the Golden Lion Award at the 46th Venice Film Festival for "City of Sadness". In 1993, he won the Jury Prize at the 46th Cannes Film Festival for "Dream Life". In 2015, he won the Best Director Award at the 68th Cannes Film Festival, the Best Director Award at the 52nd Golden Horse Awards and the Best Feature Film Award at the Golden Horse Awards for "The Assassin". . In 2020, he won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 57th Golden Horse Awards. He likes to use long shots, empty shots and fixed camera positions to allow characters to tell stories directly in the camera, which is a major feature of his films. He is currently the honorary chairman of the Taiwan Film Culture Association, but retired due to Alzheimer's disease.

Hou Debang (August 9, 1890 - August 26, 1974), also known as Hou Qirong, courtesy name Zhiben, male, was born in Houguan, Fuzhou, a Chinese chemist, chemical industry expert, academician of Academia Sinica, and academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Graduated from Fuzhou Yinghua Academy, Beijing Preparatory School for Studying in the United States, MIT and Columbia University. The inventor of "Hou's Combined Alkali Production Method" and the author of the book "Alkali Production". He participated in the preparation of Yongli Alkali Industry, and together with Fan Xudong, the founder of Yongli Alkali Industry, was a pioneer in China's modern chemical industry.

Hou Minghao (English: Hou Ming Hao; August 3, 1997 -) is a mainland Chinese actor and singer, native of Beijing, and graduated from Beijing Modern Music Training Institute. On December 12, 2014, he debuted in the Fresh Geek Youth League and developed as an idol singer by singing and dancing. On January 11, 2016, he announced that he would quit the group and pursue a solo career, and began to star in many film and television works as an actor. His representative film and television roles include the pick-up boy in "The Cambrian" and "People Are Not Tough". "Youth" Hua Biao, "Protect the Heart" Tian Yao, "Under the Stranger" Wang Ye, "The Young White Horse Drunken in the Spring Breeze" Baili Dongjun, "The Big Dream Returns" Zhao Yuanzhou, "Into the Blue Cloud" Ji Bozai, "Sparrow Bones" Xiao Wuyi.

Hou Yao (1903-1942), also known as Yixing and nicknamed Dongming, was a Chinese film director and screenwriter. The first generation of directors in the Chinese film industry and one of the pioneers of early Chinese film theory. A native of Panyu, Guangdong.

Hou Yifan (February 27, 1994 -), a native of Xinghua City, Jiangsu Province, China, is a chess grandmaster. She has won the Women's World Chess Championship three times. She is the youngest female player to win a grandmaster and the youngest women's world champion in history. As of February 2025, she ranks first in the World Chess Federation's women's world rankings, 72 points ahead of second-placed Ju Wenjun. In July 2020, he was appointed as a full professor at the School of Physical Education of Shenzhen University, making him the youngest professor in the history of Shenzhen University.

Hou Hongliang (1973-), a native of Shandong, is a director, photographer, producer and distributor in mainland China, and the chairman of Dongyang Noon Sunshine Film and Television Co., Ltd. His works as a producer include "Crossing Guandong", "Battle of Changsha", "All Quiet in Peking", "The Pretender", "Langya Bang", "Ode to Joy", "Do You Know Should Be Green, Fat, Red and Thin", "De Leisure Careful System", etc.

Paul Lukas (English: Paul Lukas, May 26, 1894 - August 15, 1971) was an Austrian-Hungarian-born actor who won the Academy Award for Best Actor.

Paul Cézanne (French: Paul Cézanne, January 19, 1839 - October 22, 1906) was a French Post-Impressionist painter whose style ranged from Impressionism to Cubism. His works laid the foundation for the transformation of 19th-century artistic concepts into 20th-century artistic styles, and he was hailed as "the father of us all" by Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso. The painting methods used by Cézanne, as well as his artistic proposition that all objects in nature can be composed of three structures: cylinders, spheres and cones, profoundly influenced and revolutionized 20th century art, especially his first solo exhibition in 1895 and the official retrospective of his works in 1907.

Paul Thomas Anderson (English: Paul Thomas Anderson, June 26, 1970 -) is an American film director born in California. In 1999, he won the Golden Bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival for "Corner of the Soul"; in addition, he won the Golden Bear Award for "Love Cocktail" (2002), "Black Gold Enterprise" (2007), "The Master of the Century" (2012) and "Battle Again" (2025). He won the Best Director Award at the Cannes Film Festival, the Silver Bear Award for Best Director at the Berlin Film Festival, the Silver Lion Award for Best Director at the Venice Film Festival and the Academy Award for Best Director. He became the first person in film history to win the Best Director Award at the four major film festivals in the world (Berlin, Cannes, Venice, and Oscars).

Paul Lafargue (French: Paul Lafargue; 1842-November 25, 1911), one of the founders of the French Workers' Party.

Paul Abraham Dukas (French: Paul Abraham Dukas, October 1, 1865 - May 17, 1935), French composer. Ducasse won the second prize of the Prix de Rome in 1882. His early creative style was deeply influenced by Wagner, and he was known for his rich and colorful orchestration. His debut work, the symphonic poem "Polyekite", premiered on January 23, 1892, and he became famous with "The Sorcerer's Disciple" in 1897. This orchestral piece later became famous as the centerpiece of Disney's classic animated film Fantasia. His works are not numerous in number but have a large proportion of fine works, including the ballet "La Sylphide" and the opera "Arianna and Bluebeard". Ducasse graduated from the Paris Conservatory of Music in 1888; he served as professor of composition at the Academy twice from 1910 to 1913 and from 1928 to 1935. His students included a large number of famous composers. Among them are the blind Spanish composer Joaquín Rodrigo, Messiaen, one of the most important composers of the 20th century, and the Chinese composer Xian Xinghai.

Herbert Paul Grice (Herbert Paul Grice, March 13, 1913 - August 28, 1988) was a famous British philosopher who belonged to the school of analytic philosophy and whose works mainly focused on the philosophy of language.

Paul William Walker IV (English: Paul William Walker IV, September 12, 1973 - November 30, 2013) was a late American actor and former fashion model. He began to gain popularity after starring in a number of major Hollywood movies in the early 2000s, the most famous of which was the "Fast and Furious" series.

Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse (German: Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse, March 15, 1830 - April 2, 1914), German novelist, poet, playwright, winner of the 1910 Nobel Prize for Literature. Heise was born in Berlin, Germany. His father was the famous philologist Carl Wilhelm Ludwig Heise, and his mother came from a wealthy Jewish family. Heise was educated in Berlin and Bonn, where he studied classical languages. After that, he translated the works of some Italian poets, also began to write short stories, and published several novels, the most famous of which is the novel Kinder der Welt (1873). He was a member of the poet societies "Tunnel over the Spree" and "Krokodil". Heizer's works include books, poems, and about 60 plays. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1910 in recognition of "the artistic perfection he achieved in his long and prolific creative career, full of idealistic spirit." Most of the themes of the works are about love. The art emphasizes conception, delicate and fascinating writing, and adheres to the classical style of elegant order. Secondly, the themes of Heizer's dramas are mostly based on ancient legends or historical anecdotes, such as "King Solomon", "Alcibiades", "Mary Magdalene", and "The Last Days of Don Juan". His lyrical short poems are elegant and harmonious, praising the mountains and rivers, love and friendship with great affection.

Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac (English: Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, August 8, 1902 - October 20, 1984) was a British theoretical physicist and one of the founders of quantum mechanics. He once held the Lucasian Professorship of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge and spent the last fourteen years of his life at Florida State University. Dirac made many groundbreaking contributions to physics. He integrated Werner Heisenberg's matrix mechanics and Erwin Schrödinger's wave mechanics to develop the basic mathematical structure of quantum mechanics. The Dirac equation he gave could describe the physical behavior of fermions, explain the particle's spin, and first predict the existence of antiparticles. He also played a pioneering role in path integral and second quantization, laying an important foundation for the subsequent development of quantum electrodynamics. In addition, he introduced the concept of topology into physics and proposed the theory of magnetic monopoles. In 1933, Dirac and Schrödinger jointly won the Nobel Prize in Physics for "the discovery of new forms that are very useful in atomic theory" (i.e., the basic equations of quantum mechanics - the Schrödinger equation and the Dirac equation). They were the youngest theoretical physicists in history to win the prize at the time.

Paul Kariya (English: Paul Kariya, October 16, 1974 -), Canadian men's ice hockey player. He represented the Canadian national team in ice hockey at the 1994 and 2002 Winter Olympics, winning a gold medal and a silver medal.

Paul Gardner Allen (English: Paul Gardner Allen, January 21, 1953 - October 15, 2018), American inventor, investor, archaeologist and philanthropist, one of the two founders of Microsoft. In 2013, Allen ranked 53rd on the Forbes list of the world's richest people, with assets of US$15 billion. His business activities and philanthropic efforts are managed by companies he founded. In other respects, Allen has billions of dollars in investments in technology, industry, real estate, and media. Allen owns two professional teams: the NFL's Seattle Seahawks and the NBA's Portland Trail Blazers. He is also the chairman of Charter Communications, a shareholder of DreamWorks (invited to join the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS)), and one of the NBA's richest men. His private yacht Octopus is one of the most luxurious private yachts in the world. Paul Allen suffered from Hodgkin's lymphoma in 1983 and later recovered. He suffered from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma again in 2009 and recovered for a time, but finally died of complications from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma on the afternoon of October 15, 2018, local time in the United States at the age of 65.

Paul Mockapetris (English: Paul Mockapetris, November 18, 1948 -), the inventor of the Domain Name System (DNS), proposed the architecture of DNS in 1983 Internet Standards No. 882 and 883 proposed by the Institute of Information Sciences at the University of Southern California. He discovered the shortcomings of domain name-IP address translation based on a single level of a single host in the early Internet, including the ARPANET, and proposed improving it into a distributed and dynamic database domain name system, which is the prototype of the domain name system we use today.

Paul Anthony Samuelson (English: Paul Anthony Samuelson, May 15, 1915 - December 13, 2009), was born in Gary, Indiana, United States. He was an economist specializing in mathematical economics, international trade, etc. He was one of the founders of the neoclassical comprehensive school. He was one of the important academic leaders in the promotion of the Keynesian school in the United States and a representative of the Saltwater School. Paul Samuelson entered the University of Chicago at the age of 16 and later received his PhD from Harvard University. He became an assistant professor of economics at MIT at the age of 25 and a full professor at the age of 32. In 1947, he proposed the comparative static economic analysis method in his book "Foundation of Economic Analysis" and won the John Bates Clark Award in the same year. "Economics - Introductory Analysis" was published in 1948. It was the second economics textbook in the United States that focused on the Keynesian school, and was also the first textbook to successfully promote the Keynesian school. It has become the best-selling economics textbook in history. It is now in its 19th edition, has been translated into 40 languages, and has sold nearly four million copies worldwide. He made the Economics Department of MIT a major economics center in the United States and cultivated many outstanding economists, such as Paul Krugman, Robert C. Merton, Joseph Stiglitz and others, many of whom would later win the Nobel Prize in Economics. Samuelson served as an economic adviser to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Johnson, and as an adviser to the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the President's Council of Economic Advisers. He once wrote a weekly column with Milton Friedman in Newsweek. The two discussed economic policy as supporters of the Keynesian school and the monetary school respectively. He won the second Nobel Prize in Economics in 1970 and was the first American scholar to win the Nobel Prize in Economics. Received the U.S. National Medal of Science in 1996.

Paul Neumann (German: Paul Neumann, June 13, 1875 - February 9, 1932), born in Vienna, was an Austrian male swimmer and doctor. He participated in the swimming competition at the 1896 Summer Olympics and won the men's 500-meter freestyle gold medal, becoming Austria's first Olympic gold medalist.

Sir James Paul McCartney, CH, MBE (English: Sir James Paul McCartney, June 18, 1942 -), British rock musician, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and composer, band member of The Beatles (1960-1970) and Wings (1971-1981). The Guinness Book of World Records records Paul McCartney as the most successful songwriter in the history of pop music. As a member of the Beatles, Paul McCartney achieved worldwide fame together with John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. In particular, he and Lennon formed the most successful and influential creative combination in history, Lennon-McCartney. The two worked together to write many of the most popular songs in the rock music industry, such as "Hey Jude", "Let It Be", etc., which are often regarded as hits in the pop music industry; and "Helter" Skelter" is considered to be the first heavy metal song in history; "Yesterday" is the most covered song in history. It is known that it has been covered by more than 2,200 singers and has been played on television and radio in the United States as many as 7 million times. McCartney's career continued to prosper after the end of the Beatles era. He formed the Wings with his first wife Linda Eastman and Danny Lane. During this period, 30 songs entered the top ten songs in the UK or the United States, including "Maybe I'm Amazed", "Live and Let Die", "Pipes of Peace" and the song "Ebony and Ivory" with Stevie Wonder. "Mull of Kintyre" in 1977 even became the first single in British history to sell two million copies, and it still maintains the record for the highest-selling (non-charitable) single in the UK. During McCartney's group and solo career, he has created a total of 60 gold records and 50 number one singles, with total record sales exceeding 400 million, a quarter of which came from the UK. His works have been at the top of the UK sales chart for 99 weeks, and his 24 number one singles have made him worthy of being the king of the UK singles chart. In the United States, in addition to entering the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as an individual, the authoritative Billboard Hot 100 singles chart has also pushed McCartney's songs sung or written to the top 32 times.

Paul Klee (Paul Klee, December 18, 1879 - June 29, 1940) was a Swiss-German painter. He studied painting at the Munich Art School and produced many prints and line drawings, mostly in black and white. In 1914, he was inspired to travel to Tunisia with his friends, and he became a painter of color paintings. He created excellent works. His famous works include Fish Magic, Zitronen and Viaducts Break Ranks. His painting styles have been classified as Surrealism, Cubism and Expressionism. He also coached in Weimar, Dessau and Dusseldorf. He has a unique appreciation for changes in color. In his mature period, his works used a wide variety of mixed media, such as sand or sawdust, to create paintings with special tension. He and his friend, the Russian painter Kandinsky, were both famous Bauhaus teachers at that time.

Paul Leonard Newman (English: Paul Leonard Newman, January 26, 1925 - September 26, 2008), was born in Ohio, United States, Jewish, one of the Oscar winners. Newman is the Oscar winner for Best Actor and also won the Oscar and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Lifetime Achievement Award. He has won 4 Golden Globe Awards, and has won the Best Actor Award at three major European film festivals. Paul Newman and Joanna Ward, the silver couple in Hollywood, have both won Oscars as Best Actor and Best Actress. They are also the second Best Actor and Best Actress couple in the American film industry after Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh. In addition to being recognized by Oscars for their acting careers, Paul Newman and Joanna Ward, a loving couple, stayed together from their marriage to their final years, which has also become an enviable love story in Hollywood.