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Wu Yangjie (January 1, 1928 -), male, native of Jinan, Shandong, Chinese organic chemist, professor of the Department of Chemistry of Zhengzhou University, director of the Key Open Laboratory of Applied Chemistry of Henan University, and director of the Henan Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology and Organic Chemistry.

Wu Guanzhong (August 29, 1919 - June 25, 2010), Hao Tu, male, was born in Yixing, Jiangsu Province. He was a Chinese painter and art educator. He was the first Chinese artist to be elected as a corresponding academician of the Academy of Arts of the Collège de France. Wu Guanzhong graduated from the National Art College. He studied oil painting under Fang Qianmin and Wu Dayu, and studied traditional Chinese painting under Pan Tianshou. Wu Guanzhong is a representative figure of modern Chinese art in the 20th century. He devoted his life to the exploration of the nationalization of oil painting and the modernization of Chinese painting. His original "color and ink painting" is unique. Together with Chu Teh-Chun and Zao Wou-ki, he is known as the "Three Musketeers" in France.

Sandra Ng Kwan Yue (English: Sandra Ng Kwan Yue, August 2, 1965 -), nicknamed Sangu, is a Hong Kong actress. She is an influential female comedian in the Chinese region and the actress with the highest cumulative box office revenue in Hong Kong film history (cumulative box office revenue of approximately 700 million). Sandra Ng has filmed more than 100 movies since her debut. In 1999, Sandra Ng won the 18th Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Actress, the Hong Kong Film Golden Bauhinia Award for Best Actress, and the Hong Kong Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress for "Young and Dangerous: The Thirteen Sisters of Hung Hing". In 2003, she won the Best Actress at the 40th Golden Horse Awards for "Golden Rooster". Sandra Ng's father is Xia Chunqiu (Uncle Dong), a Cantonese feature film actor who has hosted Asia Television's "Mark Six Lottery" lottery show for many years. Sandra Ng's partner is director Peter Chan and they have a daughter, Chen Shizhi.

Wu Tianming (October 19, 1939 - March 4, 2014), male, from Sanyuan, Shaanxi Province, is a fourth-generation director in China, with a non-professional background. In the 1980s, he served as the director of Xi'an Film Studio and trained fifth-generation directors such as Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, Huang Jianxin, and Gu Changwei. Died of myocardial infarction on March 4, 2014 at the age of 74.

Ng Man Tat (English: Ng Man Tat, January 2, 1952 - February 27, 2021), a Hong Kong actor, was born in Xiamen, Fujian Province. He moved to Hong Kong at the age of five. He graduated from the 3rd phase of the TVB Artist Training Course in 1974. He won the Best Supporting Actor at the 10th Hong Kong Film Awards for "Heavenly Love", and is well-known for his nonsensical comedies with Stephen Chow. In response to the comedy boom cooling down, he moved to mainland China in the 2000s.

John Woo, SBS (English: John Woo Yu-Sen, September 22, 1946 -) is a Hong Kong male director and screenwriter. His ancestral home is Wuzhou, Guangxi. He was born in Guangzhou and grew up in Hong Kong. He was awarded the Best Director by the annual American film and television awards (Saturn Award) organized by the American Science Fiction, Fantasy and Film Academy, and successfully created his own unique film style. He graduated from Union Primary School in Kowloon, attended Mother Delia Memorial School (Matthew Ricci) and graduated from the Lutheran Union Secondary School in Tai Hang Tung. In 1973, John Woo directed a film independently for the first time. In 1986, "A Better Tomorrow", which he wrote and directed, won the Best Picture and Best Actor awards at the 6th Hong Kong Film Awards. In the 23rd Golden Horse Awards, John Woo was named Best Director. Since this film, John Woo has created his own unique film style, holding high the banner of violent aesthetics in the Eastern Hemisphere, echoing Oliver Stone and Quentin Tarantino in the Western Hemisphere. In the "100 Years of Chinese Film" event organized by the Hong Kong film industry in 2005, John Woo was selected by Hong Kong as the favorite director of this century. In 2010, he won the Honorary Golden Lion Award at the 67th Venice Film Festival. In 2014, he received the "Outstanding Artistic Contribution Award" of the "2013 Hong Kong Arts Development Awards" from the Hong Kong Arts Development Council. In 2015, he won the "Samurai Award" at the Tokyo International Film Festival.

Wu Mi (August 20, 1894 - January 17, 1978), whose original name was Yuheng, later changed to Tuoman, and then Mi, also known as Yusheng, also known as Yuseng, and pen name Yusheng, was born in Jingyang, Shaanxi Province, a comparative writer, a Western writer, and a representative of the Xueheng School.

Carrie Ng Ka-Lai (English: Carrie Ng Ka-Lai, February 24, 1963 -) is a Hong Kong actress and director. She graduated from the TVB Artist Training Course in 1981. She later participated in many TV series. In the late 1980s, she moved to the film industry. She won the 30th Golden Horse Award for Best Actress ("Heart Is Like Iron") and the 19th Hong Kong Film Awards in 2000 for Best Supporting Actress ("Meteor").

Wu Daifeng (1903-September 19, 2005), formerly known as Wu Zhendong, was born in Anding, Shaanxi Province, a political figure in the People's Republic of China, and a member of the Communist Party of China.

Wu Shishu (May 27, 1923 - February 27, 2009) was a native of Yihuang, Jiangxi Province, a theoretical physicist and a professor at Jilin University. Mainly engaged in research and teaching in atomic nuclear theory, especially nuclear many-body theory.

Wu Dexin (December 20, 1936 - March 23, 2026), Chinese semiconductor device and integrated circuit expert. Born in Leting, Hebei. Graduated from the Department of Radio and Electronic Engineering of Tsinghua University in 1961. Researcher at the Microelectronics Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. In 1991, he was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (member of the academic department). In March 1998, at the first session of the Ninth National People's Congress, he was elected as a member of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress. At 13:15 on March 23, 2026, Wu Dexin died of illness in Beijing at the age of 90.

Ng See Yuen, BBS, JP (English: Ng See Yuen, June 12, 1944 -), Hong Kong director, producer, permanent honorary president of the Hong Kong Film Directors Association, president of the Hong Kong Film Workers Federation, and founded the Siyuan Basketball Team.

Andrew Yan-Tak Ng (English: Andrew Yan-Tak Ng, born April 18, 1976) is an adjunct professor in the Department of Computer Science and an associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. He was the former director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Together with Daphne Kohler, he founded the online education platform Coursera.

Wu Minxia (November 10, 1985 -), native of Shanghai, is a former Chinese female diver and holder of multiple international diving awards. In her career, she has won four consecutive Olympic medals, two gold medals (2012, 2016), one silver medal (2004), and one bronze medal (2008). She has won seven World Swimming Championships (2001, 2003, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015), and six-time Diving World Cup champion (2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016). She is the double Grand Slam winner in the women's diving single three-meter springboard and synchronized three-meter springboard. She has won a total of 22 world championships in her career; 16 of them are pairs championships, ranking first in the world. At the 2004 Athens Olympics and the 2008 Beijing Olympics, she won the synchronized three-meter springboard championship with Guo Jingjing. In the 2012 London Olympics, her partner He Zi won the synchronized three-meter springboard championship and won the single three-meter springboard championship. In the 2016 Rio Olympics, she and Shi Tingmao defended the synchronized three-meter springboard event. On December 15, 2016, Wu Minxia officially announced her retirement. Wu Minxia is the athlete who has won the most Olympic gold medals in the history of world diving. She is the first athlete in Olympic history to win four consecutive championships in diving. Together with Zou Kai and Chen Ruolin, she is tied with 5 gold medals as the Chinese athlete with the second most Olympic gold medals, second only to Ma Long, who has won 6 gold medals. Together with Huang Xuechen, she is tied with 7 medals as the Chinese athlete with the most Olympic medals. She is also one of the most successful female athletes in the history of world diving. Following Gao Min, Fu Mingxia and Guo Jingjing, she is China's fourth generation "Queen of Diving".

Wu Jingjing (August 1964 -), a Gaojia Opera actor, Gongdanxing, first-class actor, deputy director of Xiamen Jinlian Shengjia Theater Troupe, winner of the 21st Chinese Drama Plum Blossom Award (2004), a native of Lianhe, Tongan, Xiamen, and a political profile of the China Association for the Promotion of Democracy (a democratic party member). On March 16, 2004, she became the first Gaojia opera actor in history to win the Chinese Drama Plum Blossom Award and the first prefecture-level actor in Xiamen to win the Chinese Drama Plum Blossom Award. She studied under Liu Suzhi, and her representative work is the new costume drama "Shangguan Wan'er" (which won the Plum Blossom Award, the 8th China Drama Festival Outstanding Actor Award, and the Cao Yu Drama Award). He has performed with the group in Macau, Kinmen, Singapore and Taiwan.

Wu Zelin (November 28, 1998 -) is a male singer, actor and host in mainland China. He graduated from Xiamen University Jiageng College majoring in environmental design. He signed a contract with Hunan Satellite TV in 2022 and currently serves as the host of Hunan Satellite TV's "Hello, Saturday" and other programs.

Wu Lei (December 26, 1999 -), a Chinese film and television actor, was born in Shanghai and his ancestral home is Guang'an City, Sichuan Province. He graduated from the Performance Department of Beijing Film Academy. In 2005, Wu Lei, who was only 6 years old, entered the entertainment industry by participating in the TV series "Fengming Qishan". In 2009, he became known to the audience for his performance in the situation dramas "Aliens at Home" (playing Tang Buku) and "The Naughty Bag Ma Xiaotiao" (playing Ma Xiaotiao). In 2015, he won the Most Promising Actor Award at the National Drama Festival for his role as Fei Liu in the period drama "Langya Bang". In 2017, he starred in the costume fantasy drama "Fights Break the Sphere" (playing the role of Xiao Yan) adapted from the novel of the same name by Tiancan Tudou and the adventure drama "Sand Sea" (playing the role of Li Cu) adapted from the novel of the same name by Nanpai Sanshu. In 2018, he played the role of the young military general Yang Ping in Zhang Yimou's "Shadow". In 2020, he participated in the passionate youth inspirational drama "Crossfire" with the theme of e-sports (playing the role of Lu Xiaobei). In 2021, he played the leading actor Ashle Falcon in the legendary costume drama "Long Song Xing"; in July of the same year, he played the leading actor Zheng Yuxing in the youth movie "Midsummer Future"; in September, he played the leading actor Zheng Yuxing in the youth inspirational period drama "Sail:" He played the male protagonist Xiao Chuang in "When the Wind Rises", which was selected as the 2021 Excellent Online Audiovisual Works of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television; in October, he played Ma Chengfeng in the tribute film "My Fathers and Me" and "Chengfeng" directed by Wu Jing. In 2022, he played the leading actor Ling Buyi in the costume drama "The Stars Are Brilliant and the Moon Rises Over the Sea". In 2023, Wu Lei starred in the urban drama "Just Love", playing the leading actor Song Sanchuan. In December of the same year, Wu Lei won the "Outstanding Artist of the Year Award" at the Tencent Starlight Awards. In 2024, he played the male lead professional snooker player Lin Yiyang in the modern romance drama "In the Blizzard"; in April of the same year, the movie "The World of Grass and Trees" was released, in which Wu Lei played the male lead He Mulian. The film has a cumulative box office of over 100 million, was shortlisted for the main competition of the 36th Tokyo International Film Festival, and was selected as the opening film of the Beijing Film Festival; in May of the same year, Wu Lei personally directed and starred in the Vanuatu chapter of the third season of the personal cycling video IP column "Ride This Reason" (the Ulan Butong chapter of the first season will be broadcast on February 4, 2022, and the Northern Xinjiang chapter of the second season will be broadcast on August 28, 2023). Since its launch, the program has received high praise from all platforms and received exclusive interviews from central media. The total number of video views in the three seasons exceeded 400 million, and the total number of topic reads exceeded 4 billion. The Douban scores for the first and second seasons were 9.5 and 9.6 respectively. November of the same year

Wu Xiubo (September 5, 1968 -) is a mainland Chinese actor, singer, and host. He was born in Beijing and graduated from the Performance Department of the Central Academy of Drama. His main TV dramas include "The Case of the Orphans of Zhao", "Before Dawn", "Please Forgive Me" "Me", "My Heart", "The Way Is the Way", "Brothers", "The Divorce Lawyer", "The Great Military Advisor Sima Yi", etc., and starred in the movies "Beijing Meets Seattle" and "Beijing Meets Seattle: Love Letter", which set new box office records for romance films in mainland China. Wu Xiubo has won the China TV Golden Eagle Award for Best Performing Arts Actor and the Most Favorite Actor, the Huading Award for Best Actor, and the Shanghai TV Festival's Most Popular Actor. At the end of 2018, he was completely banned by Chinese TV stations due to his involvement in the "Wu Xiubo and Chen Yulin incident".

Wu Yingkai (May 8, 1910 - November 13, 2003), a native of Xinmin, Liaoning, Manchu, medical educator, cardiothoracic surgery expert, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Wu Qingfeng (August 30, 1982 -), whose stage name is Qingfeng, is a Taiwanese male singer and music producer. He is the founding member and lead singer of the band Soda Green, and is also the main songwriter in the band. Wu Qingfeng began to perform and publish works as a solo artist in 2018, and released his first solo studio album in 2019. In addition to producing albums for the band, he also writes lyrics and music for many Chinese pop singers. Wu Qingfeng has been nominated for and won Golden Melody Awards many times, including the 34th Annual Album Award for "Tuesday of Mallarmé", the 31st Best Mandarin Male Singer Award for "Spaceman", the 18th Best Composer Award for "Little Love Song", the 27th Best Lyricist Award for "He Raised His Right Hand for Calling" and the Best Arranger Award for "Happy Sadness" (co-arranged by Soda Green).

Lu Shou-Kun (English: Lu Shou-Kun, 1919-September 26, 1975) was a Hong Kong ink painter.

Lu Cai (606-665), a philosopher in the early Tang Dynasty, was born in Qingping, Bozhou (now Qingping Town, Gaotang County, Liaocheng, Shandong).

Lu Fuhai (?—), Kunqu opera actor, Gongxingxing, China's national first-class actor, member of the Communist Party of China, is currently the deputy secretary and deputy director of the Party Branch Committee of Suzhou Kunqu Opera Theater in Jiangsu Province.

Niki Chow Lai-ki (formerly known as Chow Lai-ki; former stage name Chow Lai-ki; English: Niki Chow Lai-ki, August 30, 1979 -) is a female artist under Hong Kong Emperor Entertainment and a former TVB contract artist. She can speak Cantonese, English, Mandarin, Shanghainese and Japanese, and is good at Chinese dance. Her sister is the supermodel Zhou Wenqi. In recent years, it has developed in China and Hong Kong.