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Gao Yu (February 3, 1944 -) was born in Chongqing. His ancestral home is Gaozhuang Village, Jiaoyuan Township, Changyuan County, Henan Province (now part of Dongming County, Heze City, Shandong Province). He is a journalist, newspaper and online columnist. He graduated from the Department of Language and Literature of Renmin University of China with a major in literary theory. He once worked at China News Service and served as the deputy editor-in-chief of Economic Weekly in 1989. The newspaper was soon suspended and he was arrested on June 3 of the same year. Released on August 28, 1990. On October 2, 1993, he was arrested again. On November 9, 1994, he was sentenced by the Beijing Intermediate People's Court to six years in prison for "revealing state secrets", deprived of political rights for one year, and confiscated his "illegal money" of RMB 800. He was released on February 15, 1999 on medical parole. Arrested again on April 24, 2014. On April 17, 2015, he was sentenced to 7 years in prison. On November 26 of the same year, the Beijing Higher People's Court changed the 7-year sentence of the first-instance verdict to 5 years in the second instance, and the period of deprivation of his political rights was still one year. After Gao Yu's application, and based on the hospital certification documents, the court decided to grant Gao Yu supervised release because Gao Yu suffered from serious illness.

Kenzo Takada (Japanese: Takada Kenzo/Takadakenzou, Romanized: Takada Kenzō, February 27, 1939 - October 4, 2020) was a Japanese fashion designer living in France. He is the founder of the Kaidro brand.

Isao Takahata (Japanese: Takahata Isao/Takahata Isao, Romanized: Takahata Isao, October 29, 1935 - April 5, 2018) was an animation film director and producer born in Ise City, Mie Prefecture, Japan. He was involved in animation production at the dawn of the Japanese animation industry. He has launched TV animation series "Little Angel" and "Pretty Woman" adapted from famous novels. Later, he founded Studio Ghibli with Hayao Miyazaki, Toshio Suzuki and others, and directed film animations such as "Grave of the Fireflies", "Heisei Tanuki Battle", and "The Tale of Princess Kaguya". He emphasizes a delicate realistic style and realistic descriptions of daily life in his works, which has an influence on the Japanese animation industry. The screen expression and directing techniques also inspired Hayao Miyazaki, Yuki Tomino, Sunao Katabuchi and others.

Gao Xingjian (January 4, 1940 -), born in Ganzhou, Jiangxi Province, is a French-Chinese playwright, novelist, painter, drama and film director, and photographer. He went to Europe in the late 1980s and is now a French citizen. He won the 2000 Nobel Prize for Literature for "opening up new paths for Chinese novels and art dramas." He was also a translator, especially of the works of Samuel Beckett and Eugène Ionescu. The stream-of-consciousness works and the consciousness of exile in it have greatly inspired other writers.

Gao Jin Sumei (Atayal: Ciwas Ali, Chinese transliteration: Jiwas Ali, September 21, 1965 -), formerly known as Jin Sumei, is a Taiwanese politician and former artist. He has served as a legislator for the Mountain Aboriginal Electoral District since 2002. Gao Jin Sumei's acting career began around 1984: she made her debut in the China Television program "Great Wonder". He entered politics in 2001 and was later elected as a legislator for the mountain aboriginal electoral district as a non-party member. After 2012, he became the only representative of the non-party Solidarity Alliance in the Legislative Yuan. Starting from 2020, due to factors such as Lin Bingkun, chairman of the Non-Party Solidarity Alliance, announced his retirement, he resumed his political career as a non-party member and joined the Chinese Kuomintang Legislative Yuan caucus to participate in the operation of the caucus.

Sir Charles Kuen Kao, Grand Bauhinia Honor (English: Sir Charles Kuen Kao, November 4, 1933 - September 23, 2018), electrical engineer. He was born and raised in Shanghai (until junior high school). In 1949, he fled Hong Kong and settled in British Hong Kong with his family. In 1966, he conducted a landmark optical fiber experiment at the British Standard Telecommunications Laboratory. In 2009, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for "breakthrough achievements in the field of optical communications in which light is transmitted through fibers." He returned to Hong Kong in 1970 and served as President of the Chinese University of Hong Kong from 1987 to 1996.

Gao E, politician and diplomat of the People's Republic of China. In 1981, he succeeded Sun Shengwei as the Ambassador of the People's Republic of China to Sri Lanka and the Ambassador to the Maldives. In 1984, Zhou Shanyan took over.

Gao Zhentong (November 15, 1928 - January 21, 2025), a Chinese expert on structural fatigue science.

Kaohsiung (English: Eddy Ko Hung, December 26, 1944 -), formerly known as Ho Yiu-shen, is a Hong Kong actor. He joined the Hong Kong film industry in 1968 and began to get involved in the television industry in the 1970s. After 2007, he moved to the film and television industry in mainland China and continues to this day.

Gao Yu (June 1961-), male, native of Yanchuan, Shaanxi Province, political figure of the People's Republic of China.

Gao Hong (June 26, 1918 - June 14, 2013), male, was born in Jingyang, Shaanxi Province, a Chinese analytical chemist, a professor and tenured professor at Nanjing University and Northwest University, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Wei Dong (December 1967 - April 29, 2008), male, was born in Yongshun, Hunan, a Chinese entrepreneur, and graduated from the Central Institute of Finance and Economics with a master's degree. He founded Yongjin Group and served as chairman. On April 29, 2008, he suddenly committed suicide by jumping off a building at his residence in Beijing.

Wei Xueren (1899-1987), courtesy name Leshan, was born in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province and was an expert in audio-visual education in China.

Wei Wei (March 6, 1920 - August 24, 2008), formerly known as Wei Hongjie, used the pen name Hong Yangshu, male, from Zhengzhou, Henan, a Chinese writer, journalist, poet, and member of the Communist Party of China. He served as a deputy to the first to the third National People's Congress, an honorary member of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, a consultant to the Chinese Writers Association, vice president of the China-North Korea Friendship Association, and president of the Chinese Liberated Areas Literature Research Association. Graduated from Yan'an Anti-Japanese Military and Political University. After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, he joined the Eighth Route Army. During the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea, he went to the Korean front line, lived and fought with the volunteer soldiers, and published a large number of literary and artistic communications. Among them, "Who is the Cutest Person" was included in the second volume of the seventh-grade Chinese textbook of the People's Education Press and gained a certain degree of popularity.

Wei Chen (English: Vision Wei; February 22, 1986 -), a native of Lanzhou, Gansu, is a Chinese singer and actor.

Wei Jiangchun (November 1, 1931 -) is a Chinese lichen mycologist. Researcher at the Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Robert H. Whittaker (English: Robert Harding Whittaker, December 27, 1920 - October 20, 1980) was a famous American biologist and ecologist. In 1969, he proposed Whittaker's five-kingdom system, which divided organisms into five kingdoms: prokaryotes, protists, plants, fungi, and animals. It had an important influence.

Wei Lushi (English: Ruth F. Weiss, December 11, 1908 - March 6, 2006), female, Chinese-Austrian Jewish journalist and editor.

Earvin Johnson Jr. (English: Earvin Johnson Jr., August 14, 1959 -), nicknamed Magic or Magic Johnson, was born in Lansing, Michigan, United States. He is a professional basketball player in the NBA. He serves as a point guard on the court. He also served as the president of the basketball affairs department of the Los Angeles Lakers. After leading his team to win championships in high school and college, Johnson entered the 1979 NBA draft and was selected with the No. 1 pick by the Los Angeles Lakers. He dedicated his entire 13-year career to the Los Angeles Lakers. In his rookie season, Johnson scored three triples in the first playoff game and teamed up with teammate Kareem Abdul-Jaba to lead the Lakers to the championship, becoming the youngest NBA Finals Most Valuable Player (20 years and 276 days old) in the history of the league. He later won four championships in the 1980s. In 1991, Johnson announced that he was infected with HIV and announced his retirement on November 7 of the same year. He then made a brief comeback in January 1996. However, due to strong opposition from Karl Malone and others, Johnson announced his retirement again on May 14, 1996. Johnson's career achievements include being elected NBA Most Valuable Player three times, NBA Finals Most Valuable Player three times, 12 times selected to the All-Star team (twice elected NBA All-Star Game Most Valuable Player), nine times selected to the NBA First Team of the Year, selected to the NBA's Second Team of the Year in 1982, twice won the NBA steals king, four times won the NBA assists king, and was selected to the Finals Most Valuable Player Award three times. In addition, Johnson was also a member of the 1992 U.S. Men's National Basketball Team (Dream Team), which won the Olympic gold medal with an undefeated victory in 1992. Johnson is the second-highest point guard in league history and was named the greatest point guard of all time by ESPN in 2007. On February 16, 1992, the Lakers held a retirement ceremony for Johnson's No. 32 jersey. In October 1996, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the NBA, Johnson was selected to the NBA 50th Anniversary Team. In 2002, Johnson was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. After retiring, Johnson became a successful entrepreneur whose advocacy for AIDS prevention and the importance of safe sex helped dispel stereotypes that were still widespread at the time. He was widely praised for his courage and was named one of the most influential African-American businessmen in the United States by Ebony Magazine in 2009.

Rupert Grint (English: Rupert Grint /ɡrɪnt/, August 24, 1988 - ), British actor. He was born in Harlow, County Ashes, England. His full name was Rupert Alexander Lloyd Grint. He became famous when he was cast as Ron Wesley in the Harry Potter film series at the age of 11. Before that, he had only performed in school plays and local theater companies; he has since continued to work in film, television and theatre. Beginning in 2002, he began working outside of the Harry Potter series, co-starring in The Assassin. He had starring roles in the 2006 comedy-drama film "Driving Lessons" and the 2010 limited-release drama film "Cherry Bomb." He co-starred with Bill Nair and Emily Brown in the comedy "Target." His first film project after the Harry Potter series was a supporting role in the 2012 anti-war film White Winter. In 2013, his movie "CBGB" was released and he starred in CBS's new show "Super Clyde". In October of the same year, he made his stage debut in Jez Butterworth's The Magic at the Harold Pinter Theater in London. In 2014, he voiced the role of Josh in "Postman Pat: The Movie"; from 2017 to 2018, he produced and starred in the TV series "Kidnapping" based on the movie of the same name. Since 2019, he has starred in Apple TV+'s psychological horror series "The Handmaiden." In 2009, "The Times" published its ranking of the UK's richest people, and Galiente was included in the "Top 100 Richest People Under Thirty". Galiente's net worth is as high as 9 million pounds.

Joseph Rudyard Kipling (English: Joseph Rudyard Kipling, December 30, 1865 - January 18, 1936), also translated as Kipling or Kipling, was born in Bombay, India, and was a British writer, journalist and poet. His major works include the children's story "The Jungle Book" (1894), the detective novel "Kim" (1901), the poetry collection "Gunga Din" (1892), the short poem "If—" (1895), and many popular short stories. He was a very popular British prose writer from the 19th to the 20th century, and was known as "the innovator in the art of short stories." He is also regarded as a representative writer of British imperial literature in the 19th century. Kipling's works had an impact on the world literary world in the early 20th century, and he himself won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. He is the first British and youngest recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (42 years old). In addition, he was offered a British knighthood and the title of British Poet Laureate, but he declined both. Because Kipling lived in an era when European colonial powers were frantically expanding to other countries, some of his works were also accused of being obviously imperialistic and racist. People have long held different opinions on him and are extremely contradictory. The literary images in his works are often both loyal and patriotic and adhering to tradition, but also representative of barbarism and aggression.

Ruger Olsen Hauer is a Dutch actor, screenwriter and environmental activist. He is more famous for co-starring with Harrison Ford in the 1982 science fiction film "Blade Runner", in which he played Roy Batty. His tearful monologue in the rain became a classic in the history of science fiction films.

Ayukawa Yoshisuke (Japanese: Ayukawa Yoshisuke/Aikawa Yoshisuke/Ayukawa Yoshisuke, Romanized: Aikawa Yoshisuke/Ayukawa Yoshisuke; November 6, 1880 - February 13, 1967), a Japanese entrepreneur, businessman and politician. Ayukawa was the founder and first president of Nissan Corporation (1931-1945). In addition, Ayukawa has also served as the president of Manchuria Heavy Industries Development Co., Ltd., a member of the House of Lords, the president of Imperial Oil Co., Ltd., the president of Petroleum Resources Development Co., Ltd., and a member of the Senate. Together with Hideki Tojo, Naoki Hoshino, Nobusuke Kishi, and Yosuke Matsuoka, they are known as the "Five Giants of Manchuria".

Peter Pau Tak-hei, BBS (English: Peter Pau Tak-hei, 1952-), was born in Hong Kong, his ancestral home is Shexian County, Anhui Province, his real name is Bao Qiming, a Hong Kong photographer and director. The son of Hong Kong actor Bao Fang and the younger brother of actress Bao Qijing. Bao Dexi has won the Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Cinematography six times, the Oscar for Best Cinematography in 2001 for "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", and the 43rd Golden Horse Awards for Best Cinematography in 2006 for "If Love". In his early years, he studied in the primary section of Xiangdao Middle School and Xiangdao Middle School, and was a primary school classmate with director Yan Hao.