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Quan Hongchan (March 28, 2007 -), a native of Zhanjiang, Guangdong, is a Chinese female diver. Her main event is the women's 10-meter platform. In 2021, she represented China in the diving competition at the 2020 Summer Olympics and won the women's 10-meter platform gold medal. In 2024, she represented China in the diving competition at the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics and won the women's synchronized 10-meter platform gold medal and the women's 10-meter platform gold medal respectively, becoming the youngest three-gold medalist in Chinese Olympic history.

Hideji Yagi (January 28, 1886 - January 19, 1976) was a Japanese educator, physicist, and inventor.

Lance Edward Armstrong (English: Lance Edward Armstrong, September 18, 1971 -, born Lance Edward Gunderson), is an American former professional road bicycle racer. He won seven consecutive Tour de France championships from 1999 to 2005 by taking performance-enhancing banned substances. In 2012, all results since August 1998 were canceled and banned for life. Armstrong began participating in triathlons at the age of 16 and won domestic championships in the United States in 1989 and 1990. He started his career as a professional cyclist in 1992 with the Motorola team and achieved good results between 1993 and 1996, including the 1993 World Road Cycling Championship, the 1995 San Sebastian Classic, the 1995 and 1996 Dupont Race champions, and stage wins in some European events, including stage 8 of the 1993 Tour de France and stage 18 of the same event in 1995. In 1996, he was diagnosed with potentially fatal malignant metastatic testicular cancer. After recovering, he established the Lance Armstrong Foundation (renamed the Livestrong Foundation in 2012). He returned to racing in 1998 and was a member of the U.S. Postal Service Cycling Team/Discovery Channel Cycling Team from 1998 to 2005. During this time, he won seven Tour de France titles and a bronze medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics. Announced his retirement in 2005. But he came back in 2009, joined the Astana team, and won third place in the Tour de France that year. In 2010 and 2011, he raced with the RadioShack team he helped found. Retired again in 2011. Armstrong has been suspected of doping since the 1999 Tour de France. In August 2012, the United States Anti-Doping Organization (United StatesDA) concluded that Armstrong's long-term use of a banned drug (erythropoietin EPO) was the culprit of "the most sophisticated, professional and successful doping program ever seen in the sports world." Therefore, Armstrong was deprived of his results after August 1, 1998, including seven Tour de France titles (the Sydney Olympic bronze medal was awarded by the International Olympic Committee on January 17, 2013

Kwan Tak-hing, MBE (June 27, 1905 - June 28, 1996), a famous Hong Kong Cantonese opera and film actor, Cantonese opera screenwriter and martial artist. He is well-known in the art world for starring in the Once Upon a Time film series. He is also the "Dharma Protector General" who is worshiped at the Golden Flower Temple in Ping Chau, Hong Kong. He is the second in the family. He studied opera with Xiao Wu Liangjiu in his early years, so he took the stage name "Xin Liangjiu" after joining the class (the audience thought that his martial arts skills were similar to Liangjiu, so they suggested that he take this name). As famous as Xinma Shitsang.

Guan Xiaotong (English: Gabrielle Guan, September 17, 1997 -), a Manchu surnamed Guarjia, was born in Beijing and is an actress and singer in mainland China.

Guan Qiao (July 2, 1935 - December 26, 2022), a native of Taiyuan, Shanxi, was a welding expert in aviation manufacturing engineering and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

Michelle Wingshan Kwan (July 7, 1980 -) is an American figure skater and diplomat who will serve as the U.S. Ambassador to Belize from 2022 to 2025. Kwan Yingshan has won 9 U.S. Figure Skating Championships and 5 World Figure Skating Championships, and also won 2 Winter Olympic medals. She has remained competitive for more than a decade and is the best figure skater in U.S. history. Due to her consistency and artistry on the ice, Kwan is considered one of the greatest figure skaters in history. For more than a decade, Michelle Kwan has been not only the most popular figure skater in the United States, but also one of the most popular female athletes in the country, consistently ranking in the top ten in such surveys (and often the only figure skater, even after she has retired). Over the course of more than a decade, she enjoyed unprecedented popularity, earning millions of dollars in advertising endorsements, appearing in numerous television shows, and receiving widespread media attention. Kwan's experience of overcoming difficulties and achieving success has a great inspiration for Chinese Americans, and even East Asians in general, to invest in figure skating, and has become a model for many Asian figure skaters to follow.

Goo Hara (Korean: Ask for it／Be old, Romanized: Goo Ha Ra, English: Gu Ha Ra, Japanese: , January 3, 1991 - November 24, 2019), stage name Hara (Korean: Do it, Romanized: Ha Ra, Japanese: Hara), a Korean female singer, actress, and a member of the Korean girl group KARA. At 6:09 pm Seoul time on November 24, 2019, he was found dead at home by the police. He was 28 years old.

Zlatan Ibrahimović (Swedish: Zlatan Ibrahimović, born 3 October 1981; Swedish pronunciation: [ˈslaːtan ɪbraˈhiːmɔvɪtɕ]; Serbian-Croatian pronunciation: [zlǎtan ibraxǐːmoʋitɕ] ), a retired Swedish football player who plays as a center or forward and winner of the 12th Swedish Ballon d'Or. He is also the former captain of the Swedish national football team. Before retiring, Ibrahimovic played for Serie A team AC Milan and played for many top European teams. In 2009, he joined La Liga team Barcelona for about 70 million euros. At that time, it was the most expensive acquisition in the history of La Liga team Barcelona. Except for the Swiss Super League Ma Mo and the Premier League Manchester United, he has won the league championship in all the leagues he has played in. Even though he did not win the league championship for the team during his joining Manchester United, he still brought the team the English League Cup and European League double championships within one season. He is also the only player in the history of European football to score in the UEFA Champions League while playing for 6 different clubs. In his career, he has helped his team win league championships for eight consecutive years, and has won league championships in the Eredivisie, Serie A, La Liga and Ligue 1 in his career. After joining the Los Angeles Galaxy, he also completed an amazing record - scoring in his first game in seven leagues including the Premier League, Serie A, La Liga, French Ligue 1, Eredivisie, Swiss Super League, US Professional League and the Champions League. He scored against Cagliari on January 12, 2020. This goal also allowed Iba to set multiple records. This was the 537th goal of his career. From 1990 to 2020, he scored in three decades, and he scored in each decade; at the same time, he also became the fifth oldest player to score a goal in Serie A at the age of 38 years and 100 days. On June 4, 2023, Ibrahimovic announced that he would hang up his boots and retire, ending his 24-year football career.

Nadine Gordimer (English: Nadine Gordimer, November 20, 1923 - July 13, 2014), a South African female writer, winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize for Literature, and the first female winner of the prize in Africa and South Africa. Gordimer passed away peacefully at his home in Johannesburg on July 13, 2014, at the age of 90.

Uchimura Kohei (Japanese: Uchimura Kohei/Uchimura , Romanized: Uchimura Kōhei, January 3, 1989 -) is a Japanese male gymnast who was born in Kitakyushu City, Fukuoka Prefecture. He graduated from Toyo High School and Nippon Sports University. Currently a professional gymnast for Konami Athletic Club, she represented Japan in the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics. In the men's individual all-around gymnastics competition at the 2008 Summer Olympics, 19-year-old Kohei Uchimura fell off the pommel horse twice, but came from behind to win the silver medal for Japan after 24 years, attracting the attention of the world for the first time. Kohei Uchimura's gymnastics style is elegant, artistic and famous for its perfect quality. He is also the only athlete in the history of gymnastics to have won the individual all-around title six times in a row at the World Gymnastics Championships. In addition, he won by a high score each time, so he is known as the "All-Around King" and the "New Prince of Gymnastics". Kohei Uchimura has inherited the "beauty" pursued by Japanese gymnastics. He is a rare athlete who can balance difficulty and quality. He is undoubtedly the best gymnast today. After the 2012 Summer Olympics, many in the gymnastics community believed that Kohei Uchimura had won enough medals to prove himself as the greatest gymnast of all time. Kohei Uchimura successfully defended his gold medal in the men's individual all-around gymnastics competition at the 2016 Summer Olympics, becoming the first individual gymnastics all-around champion since Alberto Braglia to win two consecutive championships.

Nathan Deal (English: Nathan Deal; August 25, 1942 -) is an American politician. Nathan Deal has served as the 82nd Governor of Georgia since 2011. Nathan Deal was elected to the House of Representatives as a Democrat in 1992, but switched to the Republican Party in 1995. In 2010, Deal was elected governor of Georgia for the first time.

Nelly Sachs (German: Nelly Sachs, December 10, 1891 - May 12, 1970) was a German-Jewish poet and playwright. In 1966, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature together with the Israeli writer Samuel Joseph Agnon. The judges believed that his outstanding lyrical and dramatic works interpreted the fate of the Israelis with touching power. Sachs was born in Berlin, Germany, and fled to Sweden in 1940 to escape the Nazi persecution of Jews in Germany. Her works were all written in German. After the war, she published many poems related to the Holocaust of Jews by the Nazi Party in Europe.

Neymar da Silva Santos Júnior (Portuguese pronunciation: [nejˈmaʁ dɐ ˈsiwvɐ ˈsɐətus ˈʒũɲoʁ]; February 5, 1992 -), commonly known as Neymar (Portuguese: Neymar), is a Brazilian male professional footballer who currently plays for the Brazilian Football League Santos. He mainly serves as a left winger and can also serve as an offensive midfielder. Neymar is one of the few Samba-style players in recent years (the more famous ones include Ronaldinho, Pele and Ronaldo, etc.). At his peak, he was one of the strongest left wingers in football, and occasionally played as a second forward or offensive midfielder. He has also played center forward in club games recently, and is a wing with organizational ability when active on the wing. Neymar is a right-footed player, but he has good reverse-foot ability. He is excellent in dribbling, creativity, passing, shooting and technical skills. He is fast and explosive. Whether on the left or right, Neymar can cut in and shoot or cross to tear apart the defense. Neymar is considered to be one of the best players of his generation. He is as famous as Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo and is known as the best third man in football. He has the strongest voice under Melo and is also regarded as the successor to Brazil's top No. 10 by football king Pele and legendary star Ronaldinho. He is known for his flamboyant style of play, passing ability and ability with both feet. Neymar has scored at least 100 goals for three different clubs, one of the few players to do so, and is the highest-scoring Brazilian player in Champions League history. Neymar won the title of South American Footballer of the Year in 2011 when he was 19 years old, and won this title again in 2012. In 2011, Neymar was nominated for the FIFA Ballon d'Or Award and was selected 10th. He also won the 2011 FIFA Puskas Award for the Best Goal of the Year. During his time at Barcelona, ​​Neymar formed the "MSN Combination" with Metz and Suarez, which was hailed as the strongest trident striker in the modern era. In the 2014-2015 season, the "MSN combination" scored a total of 122 goals. It is regarded as a historical strike combination and helped Barcelona become the first team in history to win two Triple Crowns. During the three-year cooperation period (2014~2017), the three scored a total of 302 goals, setting a historical record in football. In the summer transfer window of August 2017, Neymar transferred to Paris for 220 million euros

Okada Yukiko (Japanese: Okayada Yukiko/Okada Yukiko, Romanization: Okada Yukiko, August 22, 1967 - April 8, 1986), whose real name was Sato Kayo (Japanese: Sato Kayo/sugar Kayo, Romanization: Kayo Satō) is a Japanese female idol artist in the 1980s, whose management company is Sun Music. Born in Nagoya, he attended Nagoya Municipal Koyo High School and later graduated from Horikoshi High School. He is 155 cm tall, weighs 42 kg, and has blood type O. Her original slogan was "The little princess from the country she loves most", but later it was changed to "Together now and forever".

Ran Yunfei (1965-), a writer of the People's Republic of China, was born in Youyang, Chongqing, to the Tujia ethnic group. He graduated from the Chinese Department of Sichuan University. He currently works for "Sichuan Literature" and has lived in Chengdu. He is one of the "100 Chinese Public Intellectuals in 2008" and a Christian of the Early Rain Covenant Church.

Ran Shaoping (1960s -), stage name Ran Dongsheng, male, Xuanhan, Sichuan, born in Harbin, Heilongjiang, entrepreneur, general manager of Beijing Aobo Yuping Cultural Communication Co., Ltd. Because he has shown his smiling face in the audience of China Central Television’s Spring Festival Gala for many consecutive years (from 1999 to present, except for 2013, 2019, and 2020), he is called Smiling Brother by netizens.

Feng Jiachen, a dancer from Mainland China, is the “Shaanxi Cultural Tourism Recommendation Messenger”. In November 2019, she became famous on the Internet for performing a live-action version of "Roly-poly" in ancient costume at the Evernight City of the Tang Dynasty in Xi'an, and she became known as the "Little Sister". In September 2021, he will serve as the eighth torchbearer for the 14th National Games of China and the Paralympic Games.

Fung Hark On (English: Fung Hark On, September 12, 1948 - March 2, 2016), was originally a Cantonese opera actor and later turned into a film actor.

Feng Lanzhou (June 24, 1903 - January 24, 1972), whose English name is Feng Lan-chou, was a native of Linqu, Shandong Province and a Chinese entomologist. He graduated from the Medical Department of Qilu University in Jinan, Shandong Province in 1929, and received a doctorate in medicine from the University of Toronto in Canada. Professor and director of the Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences. The main mosquito vectors of malaria and filariasis in China were identified. In 1957, he was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (member of the academic department).

Feng Xiaogang (March 18, 1958 -), native of Xiangtan, Hunan, was born in Beijing, an actor, director, and screenwriter in Mainland China. Feng Xiaogang became famous for his comedy collaboration with Ge You, and his works created the Chinese New Year film market.

Fung Ping-shan (English: Fung Ping-shan, 1860-1931), formerly known as Feng Chaoan, was a native of Gaodili, Xinhui Huicheng, Guangdong, and a philanthropist in China and Hong Kong. Feng Pingshan's father, Feng Hongfu, was named Jingtang.

Feng Yuanjun (September 4, 1900 - June 17, 1974), whose original name was Shulan, whose pseudonym was Defu, and whose pen names were Ms. Gan, Shuluan, Daqi, Wu Yi, and Yi An, was born in Tanghe, Henan. She was a modern Chinese writer, a historian of Chinese classical literature, and a first-class professor.

Feng Dengguo (May 1965-), male, is a Chinese information security expert, president of the Beijing Institute of Information Science and Technology, visiting researcher at the Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.