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Jason Bradford Priestley (born August 28, 1969) is a Canadian-American actor and director. He is best known for his role as Brandon Walsh in Beverly Hills. Priestley was born in Vancouver.

Chu Anping (November 5, 1909 - disappeared in September 1966), a native of Yixing, Jiangsu Province, was a modern Chinese scholar and intellectual. Member of China Democratic League and member of Jiusan Society. Born into a distinguished family, he studied in the UK and later served as a professor at Fudan University. A famous critic during the Republic of China, he was the president and editor-in-chief of "Observation". He was accused of leaking military secrets, which led to the magazine being seized. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he served as manager of Xinhua Bookstore, editor-in-chief of Guangming Daily, and deputy director of the Propaganda Department of Jiusan Society. In 1957, in response to the policy of "letting a hundred flowers bloom and a hundred schools of thought contend", he published the article "Some Opinions to Chairman Mao and Premier Zhou" (i.e., "Party in the World"). Mao Zedong was dissatisfied with this and issued a rebuttal, and quickly launched an anti-rightist movement. Chu Anping was knocked down as a typical rightist, and his family and many related people were implicated. In 1966, during the Cultural Revolution, Chu Anping was persecuted and disappeared, and was later pronounced dead. After 1978, 550,000 rightists were rehabilitated, but Chu Anping is still one of the "five major rightists" at the central level who refuse to be corrected.

Jules Henri Poincaré (French: Jules Henri Poincaré, April 29, 1854 - July 17, 1912), a French mathematician, theoretical physicist, philosopher of science and engineer, is known as the "Gauss of modern mathematics" and "the last all-rounder in mathematics". He made many creative and fundamental contributions to mathematics, mathematical physics and celestial mechanics. The Poincaré conjecture he proposed is one of the most famous problems in mathematics. Over time, this conjecture became one of the famous Millennium Problems in mathematics until it was solved by Perelman from 2002 to 2003. In his research on the three-body problem, Poincaré became the first person to discover a deterministic system of chaos and laid the foundation for modern chaos theory. Poincaré preceded Einstein's work and drafted a simplified version of the special theory of relativity. The Poincaré group is named after him, and he is also recognized as one of the founders of algebraic topology.

Jules Émile Frédéric Massenet (French: Jules Émile Frédéric Massenet; May 12, 1842 - August 13, 1912) was a French composer and music educator. Best known for his operas, he wrote more than thirty. The two most frequently performed are "Manon" (1884) and "Werther" (1892). He also wrote oratorios, ballets, orchestral works, and occasionally some piano pieces, songs, and other music. At the time of his death, Massenet was considered by many critics to be old-fashioned and unadventurous, although two of his most famous operas remain popular in France and abroad. After decades of neglect, his works began to receive a favorable re-evaluation in the mid-twentieth century, and many of them have been performed and recorded. Although critics do not rank him among the few outstanding operatic talents such as Mozart, Verdi and Wagner, his operas are now widely accepted as well-crafted and intelligent products of the Belle Époque.

Corey Yuen Kwai (English: Corey Yuen Kwai, February 15, 1951 - March 2, 2022), formerly known as Yin Hong Kong, is a Hong Kong director, martial arts instructor, producer and actor. He is one of the Seven Little Blessings. He studied under Yu Zhanyuan and is famous for his martial arts action films. Yuan Kui is Jet Li's favorite action director. He went to Hollywood with Jet Li to develop and achieved quite dazzling results. The actions he designed have been unanimously recognized by Hollywood, and he has participated in the action design of many Hollywood blockbusters.

Xia Lingzhen (English: Yuen Piu, July 26, 1957 -), stage name Yuen Biao, Hong Kong actor and singer, one of the members of the Seven Little Blessings.

Kim Do-jin (Dojin Kim, November 10, 1977 -), whose stage name is Won Bin (often mistakenly written as Won Bin, Korean: Wonbin), is a Korean actor. In 2000, he became a popular star actor throughout Asia after starring in the Korean drama "Blue Life and Death". Although his performances have not been many over the years, he has always aroused great repercussions. In 2010, he became the highest-grossing movie actor in 2010 with the movie "Uncle", which achieved a box office record of 6.22 million people. He also won the 47th Korean Film Grand Bell Award, the 8th Korean Film Award and other best actor awards, which established his status in the film and television industry. With his exquisite facial features, he is known as "Korea's most handsome man."

Yuen Qiu (English: Yuen Qiu, April 19, 1950 -), whose real name is Zhang Zhuannan, is a Hong Kong female martial arts actor. Her other stage names include "Gam Jiafeng", "Lin Xiu", etc. Yuan Qiu is the third among seven brothers and sisters, and has a sister, artist Wen Xueer.

Yuen Wah (English: Yuen Wah, September 2, 1952 -), whose original name is Yung Jizhi, has used the stage names of Yong Zhi and Yuan Hua. He is a Hong Kong martial arts actor and licorice actor. He is one of the Seven Little Blessings. He studied under Yu Zhanyuan and was his second disciple.

Christa Deguchi (English: Christa Deguchi, Japanese: Christa／Deguchi Christa, Romanized: Deguchi Christa, October 29, 1995 -) was born in Nagano Prefecture, Japan, and is a Canadian female judoka. Her father is from Canada and is an English lecturer, and her younger sister Kelly Exit (kelly) is also engaged in judo. Krista originally represented Japan. Canada invited her to join the Canadian national team in 2012, but she refused. Later, after realizing the fierce competition in Japan, she officially became a Canadian citizen in 2017 and began to represent Canada, with the goal of participating in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. In 2018, she participated in the World Championships for the first time and won a bronze medal, becoming the first Canadian female athlete in history to win a World Judo Championship medal. A year later, she went a step further and successfully won the World Championship gold medal, becoming the first Canadian athlete in history to win a World Judo Championship championship.

Christine James Stewart, American actress and director. The famous representative work is the "Twilight" series of movies, and she is well-known for her role as the heroine Bella Swan. Other representative works include "Crying Space" (2002), "Planet of the Lost" (2005), "The Legend of God" (2007), "The Rookie of the Year" (2009), "The Girl" (2010), and "The Princess and the Huntsman" in 2012. Shi Chaowei was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as Diana, Princess of Wales in "Spencer" in 2022. She served as a director for the first time in 2025 and participated in the "Un Certain Regard" category competition at the 78th Cannes Film Festival with her first directorial work "Falling Time".

Clive Staples Lewis (English: November 29, 1898 - November 22, 1963), commonly known as C.S. Lewis or Lewis, and his friends and family nicknamed him Jack, was a British writer, poet and apologist. He is best known for his children's literature "The Chronicles of Narnia", as well as his theological essays, studies of medieval literature and many other works. Lewis was a good friend of J.R.R. Tolkien, another famous British writer, and they both taught at Oxford University.

Knut Hamsun (Norwegian: Knut Hamsun, August 4, 1859 - February 19, 1952), Norwegian writer, winner of the 1920 Nobel Prize for Literature. His major works include "The Growth of the Earth", "The Mysterious Man", "Hunger" and "The Path in the Overgrown Grass". Hamsun is considered "one of the most influential and creative stylists of the past hundred years (1890-1990)." His stream of consciousness and interior monologue techniques influenced Thomas Mann, Franz Kafka, Maxim Gorky, Stefan Zweig, Henry Miller, Hermann Hesse and Ernest Hemingway. Furthermore, he believed in the philosophy of German philosopher Nietzsche. He published articles in major newspapers praising Hitler's aggressive behavior, and continued this behavior after Germany invaded Norway. In 1946, he was convicted of treason by the Norwegian Supreme Court and sentenced to house arrest. Died at home in 1952.

Oscar-Claude Monet was a French painter, a representative figure and one of the founders of Impressionism. The word "Impression" comes from his famous painting "Impression Sunrise", which was exhibited in the first independent exhibition organized by Monet and his colleagues in 1874.

Claude Elwood Shannon (English: Claude Elwood Shannon, April 30, 1916 - February 24, 2001), American mathematician, electrical engineer and cryptographer. Shannon holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1948, he published an epoch-making paper, "The Mathematical Theory of Communication," which laid the foundation for modern information theory. Not only that, Shannon is also considered the founder of digital computer theory and digital circuit design theory. In 1937, 21-year-old Shannon was a master's student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He proposed in his master's thesis that applying Boolean algebra to the electronic field could construct and solve any logical and numerical relationship. It was hailed as one of the most advanced master's thesis in history. During World War II, Shannon made significant contributions to the military field of cryptanalysis—code breaking and secure communications.

Claudia Goldin (English: Claudia Goldin, May 14, 1946 -), American economic historian, labor economist, Henry Lee Emeritus Professor of Economics at Harvard University, from 1989 to 2017, served as director of the U.S. Economic Development Project at the National Institute for Economic Research and leader of the Gender Economics Research Group. His research topics cover a wide range of topics, including the female workforce, the gender pay gap, income inequality, technological change, education, and immigration, most of which interpret the present through a historical perspective while exploring the roots of current social concerns. During the 2013-2014 academic year, Claudia served as President of the American Economic Association. In 1990, Claudia became the first female tenured professor in the Department of Economics at Harvard University. Won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 2023 for “improving the public’s understanding of women’s labor market earnings.”

William Clark Gable (English: William Clark Gable, February 1, 1901 - November 16, 1960), an American national treasure film actor, a U.S. Army Air Forces officer, the star of "Gone with the Wind", nicknamed "The Movie Emperor". In 1999, the American Film Institute selected him as the seventh greatest actor of the century.

Clara Hughes (English: Clara Hughes, September 27, 1972 -), Canadian female speed skater and cyclist. She won two bronze medals in the 1996 Summer Olympics and won a gold, a silver and two bronze medals in the other three Winter Olympics. She is the only athlete in the world to win multiple medals in both the Summer and Winter Olympics. She is also the only Canadian athlete to win medals in the Winter and Summer Biathlon Games. She served as the flag bearer for the Canadian delegation at the opening ceremony of the 2010 Winter Olympics, and won a bronze medal in the women's 5,000-meter short track speed skating event at that Winter Olympics; this event was also her last Olympic speed skating competition.

Clara Josephine Schumann (German: Clara Josephine Schumann, September 13, 1819 - May 20, 1896), nee Wieck (German: Wieck), was a German pianist, composer and piano teacher. Her husband, Robert Schumann, was also an important musician during the Romantic period. Her 61 years of touring experience established her status in the music world, and also indirectly promoted the transformation of piano concert repertoire, allowing more serious works to replace the previous virtuoso music. His works include "Piano Concerto" (Opus 7) and some piano solos, chamber music works, choruses, and art songs. Clara was born in Leipzig. His father, Friedrich Wieck, and his mother, Marianne Bargier, were both pianists and piano teachers. Clara was a child prodigy. She started studying music with her father at the age of seven, toured around the world, and gained recognition in cities such as Paris and Vienna. After their marriage, Clara and Schumann had eight children. At the same time, Johannes Brahms was deeply influenced by Schumann and his wife, and the three musicians had close contacts. Many works by Schumann and Brahms were premiered by Clara. After Schumann's death, Clara continued touring throughout Europe for decades. During this time she collaborated with violinist Joseph Joachim and other chamber musicians. In 1878, she began teaching at the Hoch Music Academy in Frankfurt, attracting students from all over the world. She also presided over the publication of a number of her husband's works. Clara died in Frankfurt in 1896 and was later transported back to Bonn and buried next to her husband's grave. Clara's legacy is far-reaching. Many film and television works have developed narratives around the life of Schumann and his wife, such as "Fantasia" in 1944 and the 2008 film "Dear Clara" directed by Helma Saunders-Brahms. In addition, the fourth edition of the 100-mark Deutsche Mark was issued in 1989, featuring Clara's lithograph portrait. In the second half of the 20th century, the trend of studying Clara revived, and the work regained attention.

Clarice E. Phelps is an American scientist who works at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. She participated in the cross-team project that discovered chemical element 117, Ts. Clarisse is the Program Manager for Isotope Industrial Applications at Oak Ridge Laboratory. She also studies the processing of radioactive "superheavy elements" such as plutonium-238.

Clinton Eastwood, Jr. (English: Clinton Eastwood, Jr., May 31, 1930 -), American actor, film director, film producer, film score composer and political figure. Eastwood made his first appearance in a B-movie in 1955 and officially entered Hollywood. He became well-known as a regular member of the TV series "Rawhide". In the 1960s, he became a household name after starring in Sergio Leoni's spaghetti westerns "The Good Samaritan Trilogy". His representative works include the heroic detective "The Pursuit" series from the 1970s to the 1980s. Eastwood won the Academy Award for Best Director and the Academy Award for Best Picture for directing "No Mercy" and "The Assassin." He has also directed "The Mist", "Thunderbolt and Scud", "Western Enforcement", "Art" "Escape", "Blackjack", "Pale Rider", "Master Chief", "In the Line of Fire", "Madison Bridge" and "Classic Cars" are among the critically acclaimed films nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor. Eastwood has only acted in two comedy films, "Never Give Up" and the sequel "Fighter," and the box office performance was quite impressive after accounting for inflation. Eastwood has also directed films in which he did not appear, such as "Mystic River," "Strange Child," and the Academy Award-nominated "Letter from Iwo Jima." Eastwood is very popular among the French. Many films that have not been successful in the United States are quite popular in France. He has been awarded France's highest honorary award twice, namely the French Order of Arts and Letters from the French government in 1994 and the French Legion of Honor in 2007. He won the Honorary Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in Italy in 2000. Eastwood founded Malpaso Productions in 1967 to produce American films in which he starred. He served as mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, in a nonpartisan capacity from 1986 to 1988. Eastwood fathered seven children with five women, but he married only twice.

Claude Lévi-Strauss (French: Claude Lévi-Strauss, November 28, 1908 - October 30, 2009) was a famous French anthropologist who, together with Fraser and Boas, is known as the "Father of Modern Anthropology". The structuralism and mythology he constructed not only deeply influenced anthropology, but also had a profound impact on sociology, philosophy, linguistics and other disciplines.

Kwame Nkrumah (English: Kwame Nkrumah, September 21, 1909 - April 27, 1972), also translated as Kwame Nkrumah, was a Ghanaian politician and revolutionary. He led the British Gold Coast to independence in 1957. He was the first Prime Minister of Ghana and the President of Ghana. He was the leader of the African independence movement and one of the main advocates of Pan-Africanism. Kwame Nkrumah was one of the founders of the Organization of African Unity (later renamed the African Union) and received the Lenin Peace Prize in 1962. Nkrumah studied abroad for 12 years, developed his own political theory (later known as Nkrumahism), and established organizations with other diasporic Pan-Africanists. He later returned to the British Gold Coast to promote Ghana's independence. He founded the Congress People's Party, which quickly rose to prominence due to its unprecedented appeal to voters. He became Prime Minister of British Ghana in 1952, a position he retained when Ghana declared independence from the British colony in 1957. In 1960, Ghana adopted a new constitution and elected Nkrumah as its first president. Nkrumah's governance was both nationalistic and socialist, trying to achieve the country's industrialization and economic development through socialist policies. Therefore, the government funded domestic industrial and energy plans, developed a strong national education system, and promoted national culture and Pan-African culture. Ghana, under the leadership of Nkrumah, was an important country in Africa during the decolonization period. His political ideology is known as Nkrumahism. Nkrumah suffered a military coup in 1966 and was later deposed by the National Liberation Council supported by Britain and the United States. Nkrumah later lived in Guinea for a long time and eventually died in Romania.

Crystal Kay (February 26, 1986 -, full name: Crystal Kay Williams, Crystal Kay Williams) is a Japanese female singer born in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture. The record company is Delicious Deli Records. Its Chinese name is used by the Chinese official website of Sony Music Entertainment. It is generally called by its first two names, Crystal Kay, also referred to as CK.