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Kimishima Tatsumi (Japanese: Kimishima Tatsumi/Kimishima Tatsumi, Romanized: Kimishima Tatsumi, April 21, 1950 -) is a Japanese entrepreneur who served as the president of Nintendo from September 2015 to June 2018.
Günter Grass
Artists · Free City of Danzig
Günter Wilhelm Grass (16 October 1927 – 13 April 2015) was a German writer. He is widely regarded as one of Germany's most famous writers. He was awarded the Georg Bichner Prize in 1965 and was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Letters in 1993. He was awarded the Hermann Kesten Prize in 1995. Günter William Glass's most famous work is "The Tin Drum", which is a representative work of European magical realism and the first work in Danzig's trilogy (the other two works are "Cat and Mouse" and "The Year of the Dog"). His work has a strong political overtone and is considered left-wing, and he is also a supporter of the German Social Democratic Party. The Swedish Academy awarded him the 1999 Nobel Prize for Literature, believing that he "depicted the forgotten historical face of mankind with a playful and tragic allegory."
W Wu Peici Film & TV · Republic of ChinaPace Wu Pei Tzu (English: Pace Wu Pei Tzu, October 4, 1978 -), born in Taipei, Taiwan, is a Taiwanese female singer and actress. When she debuted in 1998, the record company used the name "Nine-Headed Weird Beautiful Girl" as her promotion direction to distinguish her from the sweet line of common girl singers at that time.
W Wu Qianlian Film & TV · Republic of ChinaJacklyn Wu (English: Jacklyn Wu, July 3, 1968 -), Taiwanese actress and singer, graduated from the Department of Drama at the National Academy of Arts (now the National Taipei University of the Arts). In 1990, he participated in his first movie "Love" and was nominated for Best New Actor at the 10th Hong Kong Film Awards. In 1994, he shot Ang Lee's movie "Eat Drink Couple" and became famous in Asia. In 1998, she won the "Best Actress" award at the 4th Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards for her movie "Half a Lifetime". In the late 1990s, the focus of performing arts shifted to mainland China. After getting married in 2007, she retired from the entertainment industry.
Kane Wu
Film & TV · People's Republic of China
Wu Riyan, formerly known as Wu Kaiyan, is a Hong Kong female singer and actress. She was born and raised in Hong Kong and her ancestral home is Zhongshan City, Guangdong Province. Wu was identified as "Winter Mushroom Head" when he debuted. After being fired by Neway, he has had no fixed income. In 2019, he started a joint venture to run a rice ball shop. In 2017, she and her husband launched a charity running event called "Run for Love Hong Kong". The proceeds from the event will be donated to the medical expenses of sick children. Its youtube channel is [1]
Wu Xiarong
Musicians · Republic of Korea
Oh Ha Young (Korean: Hayoung Oh/Oh Ha Young, Romanized: Oh Ha Young; July 19, 1996 -), a Korean female singer, is a member of the Korean girl group Apink, and serves as the sub-singer and maknae in the team. She was born in Haggok-dong, Gangseo-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea. She was later selected in Cube Entertainment's audition. After a year and a half of trainee life, she became a member of Apink. She attended Seoul Performing Arts High School with members Son Na-eun, Hong Yu-kyung, and Kim Nam-joo, and graduated in 2015. She also worked with GFRIEND's Yerin and Red Velvet's Joy is a classmate who graduated from the same school in the same year. She has been a close friend in the industry since her debut and is nicknamed "96line". On August 21, 2019, he debuted as a solo singer and released his first solo album "OH!". On May 28, 2020, he opened his personal YouTube channel "oha bread" (Ohhabbang), and his personal fans are called Bbangda.
Wu Dacheng
Artists · Qing Dynasty
Wu Dacheng (chéng) (1835-1902), formerly known as Dachun (renamed Dachun to avoid the name taboo of Mu Zong of the Qing Dynasty), also named Zhijing, also named Qingqing, also named Hengxuan, also named Suzhai, was a native of Wu County, Suzhou Prefecture, Jiangsu Province. He was a Qing Dynasty scholar, epigrapher, calligrapher, painter, and political figure.
W Wu Ziniu Film & TV · People's Republic of ChinaWu Ziniu (October 31, 1952 -), male, from Leshan, Sichuan, director from Mainland China. He won the Best Director Award at the 9th China Golden Rooster Awards for his three films: "Evening Bell", "Happy Heroes" and "The Twilight Zone". His representative works include "The Granary of the World", "The Lone Guard with Passionate Loyalty", "The Long Song of Zhenguan", "Deng Xiaoping at the Turning Point of History", etc.
Wu Shiqian (December 21, 1672 - February 25, 1743), also known as Yamaguchi Chiyun Sōki, also known as Zijing, also known as Yun Gu and later named Baofang, was a court painter of the second Sho clan of the Ryukyu Kingdom and one of the "Five Great Painters" of the Ryukyu Kingdom. At the age of 19, he worked as an artist for the Ryukyu Royal Palace. At the age of 31, he went to Fuzhou in the Qing Dynasty and studied painting under Sun Yi, Shun Liangheng and Zheng Daguan, the first painters in Fuzhou. After returning to Japan, he became a master painter and was responsible for producing the royal paintings for the Lord of Satsuma and the Queen of Ryukyu. His works include "Feathers and Flowers of the Four Seasons" and so on. He learned how to make ink pads during the Qing Dynasty and brought this method back to China. Yin Yuanliang (Zamami Qinyun Shang Yongchang) was his disciple.
W Wu Jihan Entrepreneurs · SingaporeWu Jihan (1986-), a Singaporean entrepreneur, is currently the chairman of BitDeer Group and the co-founder of Bitmain. In 2017, Wu Jihan was selected by Coindesk as one of the ten most influential people in the blockchain.
W Wu Zhongchao Scientists · People's Republic of ChinaWu Zhongchao (1946-), a native of Fuzhou, Fujian Province, China, is a professor at Zhejiang University of Technology. He has translated a large number of popular science works into Chinese such as "A Brief History of Time", "The Universe in a Nutshell" and "The Grand Design" by his mentor Stephen Hawking.
Wu Yingjie
Film & TV · Republic of China
Wu Yingjie (August 11, 1989 -), whose stage name is Guigui, is a Taiwanese actress, female singer and program host. After participating in the TV show "I Love Heise Club" in 2005, she was selected to debut in the girl group Black Girl (formerly known as Heise Club Girls). In 2009, he left the group after his contract expired. After going solo, he mainly focused on TV series and variety shows. In 2016, she officially signed a contract with Korean agency CJ E&M and released her first solo mini-album "GEMMA" under the stage name GEmma. She became the first Taiwanese solo female singer to perform on the Korean stage. After ending her one-year contract with the Korean company in 2017, she established her own personal studio.
Wu Qingyuan
Athletes · Republic of China
Wu Qingyuan (Japanese: Kure Kiyomoto/Go Seigen, Romanized: Go Seigen; June 12, 1914 - November 30, 2014), Mingquan, courtesy name Qingyuan, yixing, male, a native of Fuzhou, Fujian, a modern Go master, a former Japanese professional chess player, also known as the "Showa Go Sage". He started learning chess at the age of seven. A few years later, he had few opponents in China and was known as the "genius prodigy". Later, he was appreciated by Japanese chess player Kohei Inoue for his fifth dan in China and was recommended to Japanese Go elder Ken Segoshi for his seventh dan. At the age of fourteen, he went to Japan to study and was classified as a third-dan student by Japan. In 1933, he published a "new layout" with Minoru Kitani, and used Hoshi, Sansan, and Tengen to start the game against Hideya, which shocked the chess world. In 1940, he began to dominate the Japanese chess world for twenty years. He defeated all the top Japanese chess players at that time in ten games. He was praised by the chess world as the "first player of modern Go". Japan called him the "Showa Go Sage" and was awarded the title of "Great Player" by the government of the Republic of China.
Wu Lianxu
Film & TV · Republic of Korea
Oh Yeon-seo (Korean: Oh Yeon-seo, June 22, 1987 -) is a South Korean actor and singer. In the early days, he debuted with his real name "Oh sunbeam", which means "sunshine". In 2007, he changed his name to "Oh Yunxu". The name is taken from the "Friendship" in the flow of water and the "order" in sequence, which means growing step by step like flowing water. The early transliteration in Greater China was "Wu Yanshu". In 2008, the magazine "Movieweek" (Movie Week) translated its Chinese characters as "Wu Yanxu"; in 2012, the meaning of the name was explained on the program "Strong Heart", and the Chinese characters were written as "Wu Yanxu". In 2022, Garage Entertainment sought confirmation from South Korea and changed his name to "Wu Lianxu". The National Central Library of Korea records its Chinese characters as "Wu Yanxu".
Wu Qili
Film & TV · British Hong Kong
Elaine Wu Yi Lee (English: Elaine Wu Yi Lee, September 23, 1972 -), Hong Kong actress and host, born in Hong Kong, was the winner of the 1990 Miss Asia Hong Kong contest.
Wu Yaohan
Film & TV · People's Republic of China
Richard Ng Yiu Hon (English: Richard Ng Yiu Hon, December 27, 1939 - April 9, 2023), whose ancestral home is Huiyang, Guangdong (it is also said that Wu Yaohan's ancestral home is Chaozhou, Guangdong), is a Hong Kong actor and businessman. He once immigrated to the United Kingdom. His son Wu Jialong is also an artist and is known as the "original cold-faced comedian".
W Wu Liangliang Entrepreneurs · People's Republic of ChinaNg Leung-ho, GBM, GBS, JP (Xinghua Pinhua: Gó Lió̤ng-hô̤, Cantonese: ng4 loeng4 hou2[ng4 loeng4 hou2], English: Ng Leung-ho, September 1951—), known as the "King of Suits", is an entrepreneur from mainland China and Hong Kong, currently a member of the Standing Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and the Honorary Chairman of the Hong Kong Federation of Fujian Societies. Born in Xianyou, Fujian Province, he came to Hong Kong for development in the 1980s. In 1987, he officially founded Jinwei Group (the predecessor of China Linda (0910.HK)), Haoheng Group, Zhongke Nanotechnology Engineering Center and other industries. He is the chairman of the board of directors of Jinwei Group Holdings Co., Ltd. and has 35 years of experience in fashion clothing in Hong Kong and mainland China.
Wu Ruoxi
Film & TV · People's Republic of China
Jinny Ng Yeuk-hei (English: Jinny Ng Yeuk-hei; May 23, 1992 -), a Hong Kong female singer, actress and program host, formerly known as Wu Jiani, is currently a TVB manager contract artist and a female singer under Aibo Music.
W Wu Gang Entrepreneurs · People's Republic of ChinaWu Gang, chairman of Shenzhen Jinhezhi Technology Co., Ltd., chief expert of Shenzhen Baowen Fashion Management Organization of Biying International Investment Group, executive director of Shenzhen Bo Chamber of Commerce, director of Bo Business Foundation, expert of China Textile Industry Association expert group, and consultant of China Garment Commerce and Trade Commission. Graduated from the Shenzhen Research Institute of Tsinghua University, he also serves as a columnist on brand marketing strategies for "Textile and Apparel Weekly", China Clothing Network and other media. His main representative works include "Think Before You Act", "Competitive Strategies of Textile Enterprises under the New Situation", "Strategic Marketing of Casual Clothing", "The Winning of Clothes - Marketing Discussion of Small and Medium-sized Clothing Enterprises", and "Thirty-Six Strategies of Gan Stir-Fry", etc.
Wu Jinyu
Film & TV · People's Republic of China
Francis Ng (English: Francis Ng; December 21, 1961 -), formerly known as Wu Zhiqiang, is a Hong Kong actor. In 1999, he won the Best Actor Award at the 37th Taiwan Film Golden Horse Awards for "Gunfire" directed by Johnnie To. In 2000, he won the Best Supporting Actor at the Hong Kong Film Awards for "2000 AD". Other works include the TV series "Up to the Sky" series, the movie "Infernal Affairs II", the variety show "Where Are We Going, Dad (Season 2)", etc.
D Danny Wu Film & TV · People's Republic of ChinaDanny Wu (April 24, 1992 -), actress, Tujia nationality.
W Wu Yundong Scientists · People's Republic of ChinaWu Yundong (May 1957-), born in Liyang, Jiangsu, is a theoretical organic chemist, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and professor of Peking University. He once served as the dean of Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School.
Wu Jing
Film & TV · People's Republic of China
Wu Jing (April 3, 1974 -), Manchu, Chinese actor, film director and producer, first-class actor, vice chairman of the China Film Association, member of the 13th and 14th Beijing CPPCC. Wu Jing is a martial arts actor. His starring films include the "Wolf Warrior" series ("Wolf Warrior" and "Wolf Warrior 2"), the "Changjin Lake" series ("Changjin Lake", "Changjin Lake Shuimen Bridge"), and the "Wandering Earth" series ("The Wandering Earth" and "The Wandering Earth 2"), all of which have achieved good box office results in mainland China. The cumulative box office of his starring works has exceeded 30 billion yuan, and the box office of a starring role has exceeded 20 billion yuan. He is the first actor in Chinese film history to achieve this box office achievement. His wife is program host Xie Nan and they have two sons.
Wu Jianxiong
Scientists · Republic of China
Chien-Shiung Wu (English: Chien-Shiung Wu; May 31, 1912 - February 16, 1997) was a Chinese-American physicist who made outstanding contributions in the field of nuclear physics. Her achievements in experimental physics often make her comparable to Marie Curie. Wu Jianxiong is the first female president of the American Physical Society. She is often called "China's Marie Curie", "the first lady of physics research", "the queen of nuclear research" and "one of the most outstanding female experimental physicists in the world". Wu Jianxiong graduated from the National Central University of the Republic of China and the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied under Nobel Prize winner Ernest Lawrence. During the Manhattan Project, she participated in research on how to use gas diffusion to separate two isotopes of uranium (uranium-235 and uranium-238). Wu Jianxiong has been teaching at Columbia University for a long time. One of her most famous scientific research achievements is the use of experimental methods to verify parity non-conservation. This work won her colleagues Tsung-Dao Li and Chen Ning Yang the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1957. For this work, she was awarded the Wolf Prize in Physics, first awarded in 1978.