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Liu Guosong (born April 26, 1932), male, native of Yidu, Shandong, is a Taiwanese painter. He started studying traditional Chinese painting in Wuchang at the age of 14, switched to Western painting at the age of 20, and returned to the world of paper and ink at the age of 29 to create "modern ink". He settled in Taiwan in 1949 and served as the dean of the Art Department of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, a visiting professor at the University of Iowa and the University of Wisconsin in the United States, the director of the National Tainan University of the Arts Research Institute, and the honorary professor of many key universities and art academies in China. He is currently a chair professor at the National Taiwan Normal University and the director of the Institute of Contemporary Ink Art at the Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts.

Liu Dajie (1904-November 26, 1977), a Chinese poet, writer, and researcher of Chinese literature, whose pen name is Xiu Shi, Xiang Jun, was born in Yueyang, Hunan.

Winnie Lau Siu Wai (English: Winnie Lau Siu Wai, July 24, 1971 -), formerly known as Liu Shaohui, is a Hong Kong female singer and actress. Nicknamed "Xiao Hui" by the media and fans, she is a Hong Kong female singer active in the 1990s. She, Li Ruien and Tang Baoru are known as the "Three Little Polygram Flowers".

Liu Chonglun (1885-1937), also known as Yafu, was originally from Damingfu, Zhili Province. He was born in Fuzhou, Fujian. He was a Chinese industrialist and the founder of Fuzhou Electric Company.

Liu Pengshou (1876-1948), also known as Rensan, was born in Ninghe County, Zhili Province (now part of Tianjin City). Politician and industrialist of the Republic of China.

Hawick Lau Hoi-Wai (English: Hawick Lau Hoi-Wai, October 13, 1974 -), a Hong Kong male artist and producer, the son of Liu Dan, is originally from Weihai City, Shandong Province, China, and is currently based in Mainland China. In 1993, he won the Canadian Chinese Singer Selection Championship. The following year, he joined Hong Kong Wireless Television (TVB) and made his official debut. In 2005, he filmed his first starring role in TVB's "Sweet Grandpa" and left the nest to go north. In 2008, he rose to prominence in mainland China with the role of Huo Dongqing in "The Phoenix Wears the Peony". He later starred in TV series such as "The Beauty of the Country", "The Wife", "Snow on a Thousand Mountains", "Beauty Without Tears", "Sunny Evening in the Summer", and "The Thief". In the 2013 and 2014 Forbes China Celebrity List, Hawick Lau ranked 49th and 19th respectively.

Sir Louis Carl Davidson Hamilton, MBE HonFREng, a British racing driver who currently drives for Ferrari, is one of the most successful drivers in the history of Formula One and the first and currently only black driver in the history of Formula One.

Liu Jingnan (July 1943-), male, Han nationality, native of Changsha, Hunan, born in Chongqing, is an expert in China’s geodesy and satellite positioning system (GPS), an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and former president of Wuhan University and Duke Kunshan University.

Liu Ruoyu (1926-May 26, 1986), a native of Beijing, is an expert in Chinese literature. Liu was originally a Chinese national, and later became a British citizen, and finally became an American citizen.

Liu Yuxin (English: XIN LIU, April 20, 1997 -), born in Guiyang City, Guizhou Province, is a Chinese female singer and dancer. In 2012, he participated in "Upward!" "Youth" won the Most Promising Teenage Award. In 2016, he participated in "Bee Girls" and made his winning debut. On May 20, 2018, he released his first EP "XIN". In 2020, he participated in "Youth With You 2" and finally ranked first and made his debut as the center of THE NINE. On December 11, 2021, his first album "XANADU" was released.

Leanne Liu Hsueh-hua (English: Leanne Liu Hsueh-hua, November 12, 1959-), Hong Kong actress, was born in Beijing. Not only is Liu Xuehua very photogenic with her big, flexible eyes, she is also good at crying scenes because she can shed tears quickly. The media dubbed her "Faucet" to describe her wonderful acting skills. Many viewers also praised her crying scenes for their beauty and beautiful scenes. Her name even became synonymous with people who are good at crying, and she became well-known in the streets.

Liu Yunhao (1971-) is the dean of the Global Innovation Institute (GIX) of Tsinghua University and a professor of the Department of Automation. He is mainly engaged in research work in the Internet of Things and Industrial Internet. He was selected as a distinguished professor of the Yangtze River Scholars Award Program of the Ministry of Education of China in 2011. He also served as the dean of the School of Software at Tsinghua University from 2013 to 2017.

Gabriel José García Marquez, nicknamed Gabo and Gabito, was born in Aracataca, Colombia. He is a Colombian writer, journalist and social activist. He is a representative figure of Latin American magical realism literature and the explosion of Latin American literature. He is considered one of the greatest Spanish writers and one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. He is the winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature and the author of "One Hundred Years of Solitude".

Gabriel Iván Heinze (Spanish: Gabriel Iván Heinze, pronounced: [ɡaˈβɾjel ˈxejnse]; April 19, 1978 -) is an Argentinian former football player who served as a defender and was born in Newell's. He played for Valladolid and Real Madrid in La Liga, Paris Saint-Germain and Marseille in Ligue 1, Manchester United in the Premier League and Roma in Serie A. He played in more than 400 games in various top leagues.

Gabriela Mistral (Spanish: Gabriela Mistral, April 7, 1889 - January 10, 1957) was a Chilean writer and poet, formerly known as Lucila de María del Perpetuo Socorro Godoy Alcayaga. Gabriela Mistral is her pen name. Her first and last names are respectively taken from the first and last names of the Italian poet Gabriele D'Annunzio and the French poet Frédéric Mistral (winner of the 1904 Nobel Prize for Literature), whom she admired.

Kayama Yūzō (Japanese: Kayama Yūzō/Kayama Yuzou, Romanized: Kayama Yūzō, April 11, 1937 -), Japanese singer, actor, composer, guitarist, pianist, and painter. My real name is Nao Liang Ikehata. His nickname is General. The pen name used when composing the music was Dan Houzuo.

Gabe Logan Newell (English: Gabe Logan Newell, November 3, 1962 -) is an American game developer and entrepreneur, co-founder and president of the online publishing company Valve Software.

Gabriel Barbosa Almeida (Portuguese: Gabriel Barbosa Almeida; August 30, 1996 -) is a Brazilian professional football player who serves as a forward and currently plays for the Brazilian team Santos.

Gabriel Fernando de Jesus (Portuguese: Gabriel Fernando de Jesus, born April 3, 1997) is a Brazilian professional footballer who serves as a forward. He currently plays for La Liga club Barcelona and has played international matches for the Brazilian national team.

Gabriel Urbain Fauré (French: Gabriel Urbain Fauré, French pronunciation: [ɡabʁiɛl yʁbɛ fɔʁe]; May 12, 1845 – November 4, 1924) was a French composer, organist, pianist and music educator. Faure inherited Saint-Saëns, and was followed by Ravel and Debussy. In the early days, he and Saint-Saëns laid the foundation for the French National Music School. Later, during his tenure at the Paris Conservatory of Music, Fauré worked hard to reform and promote the underachievers, which played a supporting role in the development of modern French music. Faure's musical works are famous for vocal music and chamber music, and he also influenced his descendants in the grammar of harmony and melody.

Gabriel Teodoro Martinelli Silva (Portuguese: Gabriel Teodoro Martinelli Silva, Portuguese pronunciation: [ɡabɾiˈɛw maɾˈtʃĩnɛli]; June 18, 2001 -) is a Brazilian male professional footballer who currently plays for the Saudi Professional Football League team Al-Hilal and the Brazilian national football team as a forward. Martinelli was born in Guarulhos, Brazil, and initially played for the Futsal team of Corrientes before starting his career with Ituno in 2015. After playing in the league and the Brazilian Sao Paulo State League for a period of time, he moved to the English Premier League team Arsenal in 2019 for 6 million pounds.

Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu (Albanian: Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu), whose real name is Anjezë Gonxhe (Albanian: Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, also translated as Yikes Gonza Bojashu; August 26, 1910 - September 5, 1997), the Catholic name of Mother Teresa of Calcutta (Latin: Sancta Teresia de Calcutta) (or Mother Teresa of Calcutta, Saint Teresa of Calcutta), known to the world as Mother Teresa (Latin: Mater Teresa), Saint Mother Teresa, is an Albanian-Indian Catholic nun, missionary and saint. Mother Teresa was born in Skopje (now the capital of the Republic of North Macedonia) in the Kosovo Province of the Ottoman Empire. After living in Macedonia for nearly eighteen years, Theresa moved to Ireland and then to India, where she spent the rest of her life. Mother Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity in 1950 to provide homes for those suffering from AIDS, leprosy and tuberculosis, and operate porridge factories, pharmacies, clinics, child and family counseling agencies, orphanages and schools. One of the vows taken by members of the Missionary Society is to "serve the poorest of the poor wholeheartedly." Mother Teresa has received many honors or awards, including the Magsaysay Award, among which the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 is the most famous. However, although Mother Teresa received much praise from all walks of life, there were many criticisms and controversies both during her lifetime and after her death; critics mostly targeted the poor medical and living conditions in the relief institutions she opened, and her anti-abortion stance. Mother Teresa passed away in 1997 and was canonized by the Catholic Church in 2016. September 5 (the day of her death) is her holy day.

Giovanni Antonio Canal (Italian: Giovanni Antonio Canal; October 18, 1697 - April 19, 1768, commonly known as Canaletto in the English world), was a painter of the Republic of Venice in Italy and one of the representative painters of the Venetian School in the 18th century. He was a cityscape painter who painted cityscapes of Venice, Rome and London, as well as fictional landscapes (known as "Capriccio"), although in his work the line between reality and fiction was never quite clear. He was also an important printmaker using etching techniques. Working in England between 1746 and 1756, he painted many landscapes of London and other locations, including Warwick Castle and Alnwick Castle. He achieved great success in England thanks to the English merchant and connoisseur Joseph Smith, whose large collection of Canaletto works was sold to King George III in 1762.

Kato Katsunobu (Japanese: Kato Katsunobu/Kato Katsunobu, Romanized: Katō Katsunobu, born November 22, 1955, is a politician from the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan. He was born in Kurashiki City, Okayama Prefecture. He has served as Minister of Finance, Chief Cabinet Secretary (84th generation), Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare, and Minister with Special Appointments in the Cabinet Office. He has served as a member of the House of Representatives from 2003 to the present. Belongs to the Heisei Research Society (Motegi faction) within the Liberal Democratic Party. He served as Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare three times. His original surname was Murosaki. He changed his surname after marrying Kato Shuko, the second daughter of the Liberal Democratic Party leader Kato Jun, and becoming his son-in-law and adopted son. He has successively served as Administrative Officer to the Minister of the Cabinet Office (the first Abe reform cabinet, Yasuo Fukuda Cabinet), Special Assistant to the President of the Liberal Democratic Party, and Visiting Professor at Kawasaki University of Health and Welfare. In 2015, he was appointed as the minister in charge of the 100 million total active members, the minister in charge of women's active participation, the minister in charge of the North Korean abduction issue, the minister in charge of reconsidering the challenge, the minister in charge of land resiliency, and the cabinet office's special minister (countermeasures against low birthrate, gender-neutral participation) in the third Abe reform cabinet. On September 16, 2020, Yoshihide Suga succeeded Yoshihide Suga, who became Prime Minister, as Chief Cabinet Secretary. He resigned from office on October 4, 2021 with the resignation of Yoshihide Suga's cabinet.