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Evariste Galois
Political figures · France
Evariste Galois (French: Évariste Galois, French pronunciation: [evaʁist ɡalwa]; October 25, 1811 - May 31, 1832), also translated as Galois, was a French mathematician. When he was only a teenager, he discovered the necessary and sufficient conditions for polynomials of degree n to be solved using radicals, solving a problem that had long plagued the mathematical community. His work laid the foundation for Galois theory, a major branch of abstract algebra, and research in the field of Galois connections. He was the first person to use the mathematical term "group" to refer to a set of permutations, and is called the founder of modern group theory together with Niels Abel. During the Restoration of Louis Philippe, he was a radical republican and was arrested and imprisoned. After being released from prison at the age of twenty, he died in a nearly suicidal duel, causing various speculations.
Amy Nott
Scientists · Germany
Amalie Emmy Noether (German: Amalie Emmy Noether, March 23, 1882 - April 14, 1935), a German mathematician, was a prominent figure in abstract algebra and theoretical physics. Many well-known scholars have hailed Noether as the most outstanding female mathematician in history; the fields of mathematics she developed include rings, fields, and algebra over fields; in physics, the Noether theorem she proved revealed the close relationship between symmetry and conservation laws. Noether was born into a Jewish family in the town of Erlangen in Franconia, Germany. His father was the mathematician Max Noether. Noether originally prepared to be a French and English teacher, but ultimately chose to study mathematics at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, where her father taught; she completed her doctoral thesis in 1907 under the supervision of Paul Goldin, and then worked without pay for seven years at the Erlangen Institute of Mathematics, at a time when women were generally not allowed to hold teaching positions. In 1915, David Hilbert and Felix Klein invited her to serve in the mathematics department of the world-leading University of Göttingen. However, she was opposed by the professor of the philosophy department, so Noether taught in Hilbert's name for four years. In 1919, Nott finally obtained the charter of teaching qualifications and the title of lecturer. Noether was an important figure in the mathematics department of the University of Göttingen. In 1924, the Dutch mathematician Barthel Lundt van der Walden joined Noether's research team. Her research results became the basis for the second volume of van der Walden's 1931 textbook "Modern Algebra" and had a profound influence. In 1932, Noether addressed the International Congress of Mathematicians in Zurich, Switzerland, and became famous worldwide for her achievements in algebra. The following year, the German Nazi government banned Jews from holding university faculty positions. Knott immigrated to the United States and became a professor at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania. In 1935, she underwent surgery for an ovarian cyst and died four days later at the age of 53. Noether's mathematical research career can be divided into three periods. During the first period from 1908 to 1919, she made significant contributions to the field of algebraic invariants and fields. In terms of differential invariants in the calculus of variations, the Noether's theorem she proved became one of the most important mathematical theorems in the development of modern physics. During the second period from 1920 to 1926, she carried out work that would revolutionize abstract algebra. In her paper "The Ideal Theory of Rings" published in 1921, she developed the ideal theory of commutative rings into a widely used tool. She cleverly used the chain-raising conditions,
Emilio Odero
Athletes · Italy
Emilio Audero Mulyadi (January 18, 1997 -) is an Indonesian professional football player who serves as a goalkeeper. Currently plays for Serie A club Cremona (on loan from Como) and plays for the Indonesian national football team.
Emile Jannings
Film & TV · Germany
Emil Jannings (German: Emil Jannings, July 23, 1884 - January 2, 1950) was a Swiss-born German/Austrian actor. Emile Jennings was the first Academy Award winner for Best Actor and the Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival in 1937. To this day he is still the only German actor to win the Academy Award for Best Actor. Emil Jennings is best known for his work with F.W. Murnau and Josef von Sternberg, including the 1930 film "The Blue Angel" with Marlena Dietrich. The Blue Angel was the film in which Emile Jennings carved a niche for himself in the new medium of talkies, but it was Marlena Dietrich who stole the show. He was unemployed after the war due to his participation in many Nazi propaganda films.
Emile Durkheim
Scholars · France
David Émile Durkheim (ɡān) (French: David Émile Durkheim; April 15, 1858 - November 15, 1917), also translated as Durkheim, Durkheim, etc., was a French-Jewish sociologist and anthropologist. Together with Karl Marx and Max Weber, he was listed as the three founders of modern social science. He was the founder of the "Annals of Sociology" and the first professor of sociology in France. Durkheim's main thoughts are concentrated in four masterpieces: "The Division of Labor in Society" (1893), "The Criterion of Sociological Method" (1895), "On Suicide" (1897), and "The Basic Forms of Religious Life" (1912). These are now considered foundational works in the discipline of sociology. As a pioneer of modern sociology, Durkheim published a large number of papers and monographs on education, religion, suicide, law and crime throughout his life, laying a solid foundation for the academic and scientific development of sociology and making a huge contribution to establishing sociology as an independent discipline.
Eminem
Musicians · United States
Marshall Bruce Mathers III (English: Marshall Bruce Mathers III; October 17, 1972 -), whose stage name is Eminem (English: Eminem /ˌɛmɪˈnɛm/, personalized as EMINƎM), is an American male rapper, songwriter, record producer and actor. Eminem is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, with sales estimated at more than 220 million records. He was the best-selling music artist in the United States in the 2000s, with his albums "The Big Bad" and "The Eminem Show" and singles "Lose Yourself", "Love The Way You Lie" and "Not Afraid" all receiving Diamond certification from the Recording Industry Association of America. Eminem has also won numerous awards, including 15 Grammy Awards, 8 American Music Awards, 17 Billboard Music Awards, an Academy Award and the MTV Europe Music Global Icon Award. He has ten number one albums on the Billboard 200, all of which have consecutive number one hits on the chart, making him the only artist to achieve this feat, as well as five number one singles on the Billboard Hot 100. Billboard named him an Artist of the Decade in the 2000s. Rolling Stone also included him in its "100 Greatest Artists of All Time" and "100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time" lists. After releasing his debut album Infinite (1996) and mini-album Slim Shady EP (1997), Eminem signed with Dr. Dre's Aftermath Entertainment and subsequently achieved mainstream popularity in 1999 with the album Slightly Shady. The next two albums, "The Big Brother" (2000) and "The Eminem Show" (2002), were quite successful around the world, and both were nominated for the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. After releasing Encore (2004), Eminem took a break from releasing albums in 2005, in part due to an addiction to prescription drugs. Four years later, with "Here We Go Again" (2009)
Eleanor Roosevelt
Political figures · United States
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was an American politician, diplomat, and human rights activist. The wife of the 32nd U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Roosevelt experienced four presidential terms from March 1933 to April 1945. Therefore, Eleanor Roosevelt is also the longest-serving first lady in the United States. After World War II, she served as the first ambassador of the United States to the United Nations and led the drafting of the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights. She is also a feminist and a strong advocate of protecting human rights. President Harry S. Truman called her "the First Lady of the World" when he praised her human rights achievements.
Egon Schiele
Artists · Neletania
Egon Schiele (German: Egon Schiele, German pronunciation: [ˈeːɡɔn ˈʃiːlə]; June 12, 1890 - October 31, 1918) was an Austrian painter who studied under Gustav Klimt. He was an important Expressionist painter in the early 20th century. Schiele's works are characterized by strong expressiveness, depicting distorted figures and bodies, and the themes are mostly self-portraits. Most of his paintings are collected in the Leopold Museum in Vienna.
Eddie Merckx
Athletes · Belgium
Eddy Merckx, whose real name is Edouard Louis Joseph, Baron Merckx (June 17, 1945 -), is a Belgian professional cyclist who has won five Tour de France championships and is known as the "Ogre". Eddy Mocks was born in Woluwe-Saint-Peter. In 1964, he participated in the cycling race at the Summer Olympics in Tokyo and finished 12th. Became a professional player in 1965. In 1968, he joined the Italian Faema team.
Eric Clapton
Musicians · U.K.
Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE (English: Eric Patrick Clapton, born March 30, 1945), is a British male singer, musician and songwriter. Nicknamed "Guitar God". He has won 18 Grammy Awards and is one of the most successful musicians of the 20th century. He is currently the only artist to have won three Rock and Roll Hall of Fame achievements, once as a solo artist and twice with the band Yardbirds and Cream. He is one of the greatest guitarists of all time. In 2003, he was ranked 4th in Rolling Stone's Top 100 Guitarists of All Time. In 2011, he was ranked 2nd in Rolling Stone's Top 100 Guitarists. He was ranked 53rd in Rolling Stone's Top 100 Rock Artists. "Gibson Guitar" ranks 4th among the "Top 50 Guitarists of All Time". He was ranked No. 5 on Time Magazine's "Top Ten Electric Guitar Players" in 2009. He won the Outstanding Contribution Award at the Brit Awards in 1987, was awarded the Buckingham Palace CBE by the British royal family in 2004, and was awarded the Order of Arts and Letters by France in 2017. In 1998, he founded the Antigua Crossroads Center, a charity used to house alcoholics and drug addicts for treatment. Although Clapton's musical style varied, most of his compositions were based on his blues roots. He is a music reformer, and his main contributions include insisting on blues and leaving the Yardbirds, who were gradually turning to pop music. He is a pioneer of blues rock. After leaving the Yardbirds, he joined John Maya and the Blues Breakers, who mainly focused on British blues music, and later blues-based psychedelic rock during the period of Cream, and then to the Blind Faith Band. He successfully released the song "Crossroads Blues", the signature song of Delta blues pioneer Rob Johnson, during the Cream band, and later included on the album "Me and Mr. Rob Johnson". The musical style later varied from blues to blues rock to pop rock. His representative songs include "Change the World" and "Lyla", his albums include "Pilgrim" and "Lyla and Other Love Songs" and his representative reggae song "I Shot the Sheriff" in his 1974 album "461 Ocean Boulevard", which was a major success and sold out It has been certified as gold, and its reinterpretation of "I Shot the Sheriff" by the father of reggae music, Bob Marley, also achieved the number one hit single on the Billboard, helping reggae music enter the mass market. Clapton's interpretation of this song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2003.
Eric Kandel
Scientists · United States
Eric Richard Kandel (English: Eric Richard Kandel, German: [ˈkandəl], November 7, 1929 -) was born in Vienna, Austria, and later immigrated to the United States. Graduated from New York University in 1956. Since 1974, he has been a professor at Columbia University. In 2000, he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Paul Greengard for his contributions to the field of neurology.
Eric Schmidt
Entrepreneurs · United States
Eric Emerson Schmidt (English: Eric Emerson Schmidt, born April 27, 1955) is an American entrepreneur and computer software engineer. He was the executive chairman of Alphabet Inc. from 2015 to 2017. He served as CEO of Google for ten years from 2001 to 2011 and was also a member of Apple's board of directors. At the same time, he is also a trustee of Carnegie Mellon University and Princeton University, and is the co-author of the program compiler lex.
Eric Lindros
Athletes · Canada
Eric Lindros (Swedish: Eric Lindros, February 28, 1973 -), Canadian men's ice hockey player. He represented the Canadian national team in ice hockey at the 1992, 1998 and 2002 Winter Olympics, winning one gold medal and one silver medal.
Eric Hobsbawm
Scholars · U.K.
Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm, CH, FBA (Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm, /ˈhɒbz.bɔːm/; June 9, 1917 – October 1, 2012), British historian and writer.
Kiley Gonzalez
Athletes · Argentina
Kily González (Spanish: Kily González, August 4, 1974-) is an Argentine male football player who serves as a winger. He represented the Argentina Olympic team in the 2004 Summer Olympics football competition and won a gold medal.
Kylian Mbappe
Athletes · France
Kylian Mbappé Lottin (French: Kylian Mbappé Lottin, pronounced: [kiljan (ɛ)mbape lɔtɛ]; December 20, 1998 -) is a French professional football player who serves as a forward. Currently plays for La Liga club Real Madrid and serves as captain of the French national football team. Mbappe was born in Paris, France and grew up in nearby Bondi. He joined Monaco Football Club in 2015 and helped Monaco win the French Ligue 1 championship in the 2016-2017 season. In 2017, Mbappe joined Paris Saint-Germain for a transfer fee of 180 million euros, becoming the second most valuable player in history and the most valuable teenage player in history. His Paris Saint-Germain has won six French Ligue 1 titles and four Coupe de France titles, including the domestic quadruple crown in the 2019-20 season, and led the team to the Champions League final for the first time in 2020. He is the top scorer in Paris Saint-Germain history, ranks third in assists, and is the seventh top scorer in Ligue 1 history. In 2024, Mbappe joined Real Madrid on a free transfer. In the international arena, Mbappe represented the French national team for the first time in 2017. In the 2018 World Cup, Mbappe became the youngest World Cup goal scorer in the history of the French team and the second teenage player to score in the World Cup final after Belgium. He helped France win the championship as the second-leading scorer and was named the World Cup's Best Young Player and France's Player of the Year. In 2021, he helped the French team win the UEFA Nations League championship and was awarded the top scorer in the finals. In the 2022 World Cup, the French team reached the final again. Mbappe won the Golden Boot Award and the Silver Ball Award, and set a World Cup final scoring record. Mbappe ranked third in the 2023 Ballon d'Or selection and won the runner-up in the 2022 FIFA World Player of the Year selection. He has been selected into the FIFA Team of the Year six times and the Champions League Team of the Season four times. He won the Golden Boy Award and the Kopa Award in 2017 and 2018 respectively, and was selected for the 2018 UEFA Team of the Year. Mbappe was elected Ligue 1 Player of the Year five times and was the Ligue 1 top scorer for six consecutive seasons. Mbappe was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine in 2023, and was listed as one of the top ten highest-paid athletes in the world by Forbes magazine in 2023 and 2024.
Keanu Reeves
Film & TV · Canada
Keanu Charles Reeves (English: Keanu Charles Reeves, /kiˈɑːnuː/, kee-AH-noo; September 2, 1964 -), Canadian actor, director, producer and musician. Well-known works include the movies "The Adventures of Abby and Adi" (1989), "Breaking Point" (1991), "Half of a Man Is Still a Man" (1991), "The Matrix" (1994), "The Matrix" series (1999-2021), "Justice" (2008) and "The Matrix" series (2014 to present). In addition, he also starred as John Constantine in "Constantine: The Exorcist" in 2005. In terms of artistic creation, Levi has co-authored a book called "Ode to Happiness" with illustrator Alexandra Grant. He produced a 2012 documentary "Keanu Reeves: Digital Mission." He also directed the movie "Tai Chi" (2013). Levi starred as the male lead in the 2014 action film "The Last Stand", which received positive reviews, and later returned for several sequels.
Keith Richards
Musicians · U.K.
Keith Richards is an English musician, singer, songwriter, and one of the founding members of the British rock band The Rolling Stones. The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989, and was ranked 10th on Rolling Stone's list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists in 2003 and 4th in 2011. Fourteen of the songs he collaborated with lead singer Mick Jagger were included in Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs.
G Gene Perkins Athletes · AustraliaKieren John Perkins OAM (English: Kieren John Perkins, August 14, 1973 -), Australian former male swimmer. He has won two Olympic gold medals in the men's 1,500-meter freestyle swimming competition. He also won three World Long Pool Swimming Championship medals.
Kiwendi Rodiguse
Athletes · Argentina
Clemente Rodríguez (Clemente Rodríguez, July 31, 1981 -) was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is an Argentine football player who can serve as a left and right defender. Currently playing for Atletico Colón, a team in the Argentine First Division Football League. He represented the Argentina national team at the 2004 Athens Olympics and won a football gold medal. Later attended the 2010 World Cup.
Kip Thorne
Scientists · United States
Kip Stephen Thorne (English: Kip Stephen Thorne, June 1, 1940 - ) is an American theoretical physicist whose main contributions are in the fields of gravitational physics and astrophysics. Thorne has maintained long-term friends and colleagues with the British physicist Stephen Hawking and the American astronomer, popular science writer, and science fiction writer Carl Sagan. He served as the Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology until 2009. He is one of the leaders in the world today in the study of general relativity theory and experiments in the field of astrophysics. In 2017, Thorne shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with Rainer Weiss and Barry Barish for their decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and gravitational wave detection.
Kit Connor
Film & TV · U.K.
Kit Sebastian Connor (English: Kit Sebastian Connor, March 8, 2004-) is a British actor. Well-known works include the movies "Catching Santa Claus" (2014), "Rocketman" (2019), and "Little Flowers" (2019), as well as the TV series "Rocket Island", "The Dark Element" and "Love Course".
M Mitsuko Horie Film & TV · JapanMidoko Horie (real name: Midoko Asami (previous surname: Horie), March 8, 1957 -) is a Japanese female animation singer and voice actress. Born in Yamato City, Kanagawa Prefecture, lives in Yokohama City, blood type AB. She is an artist belonging to Etoto and Aoji Production, also known as "Micchi" (Micchi), and graduated from Tsurumi Women's High School. Her spouse, Akio Asami, is a lyricist and composer, and also serves as the head of her personal agency. During her career as a singer, her representative songs include "Polo 5" opening song "VoltesVsong", "Britney" theme song "candy candy" and "Flower Fairy" theme song "", etc. The main works in his dubbing career include "Little Anna", "Dr. IQ", "Daddy Long Legs" and so on.
Kinen
Athletes · Romania
Michael Klein (Romanian: Michael Klein, October 10, 1959 - February 2, 1993) was a Romanian male football player who served as a defender. He represented the Romanian national football team in the 1990 FIFA World Cup, but the team ended up in the top 16.