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Da Zhangwei (born August 31, 1983), whose real name is Zhang Wei, is a Beijinger. He is a singer, actor, host, and songwriter. He was once the lead singer of Huaer Band.

Ōe Kenzaburō (Japanese: Ōe Kenzaburō/Oe , Romanized: Ōe Kenzaburō, January 31, 1935 - March 3, 2023), a famous contemporary Japanese existentialist writer. Born in a remote mountain village in Shikoku, Japan, he studied French literature at the University of Tokyo. When he officially entered the literary world in 1957, he won praises such as "Student Writer" and "Kawabata Yasunari the Second". In 1994, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for "the 'mutated realism' of poetry that transcends language and culture, new insights, and poems full of concise images, which allowed him to return to his own themes with a strong fascination that eliminated barriers such as language." The Japanese right wing believes that "continuous criticism of Japan" is the reason why Oe was favored by the Swedish Academy. Oe's own explanation is that his award is "the victory of the periphery (literary) over the center" (he believes that from a cultural perspective, Japan should be regarded as the periphery of the world).

Shohei Ohtani, a Japanese professional baseball player, nicknamed Sho-time. Currently playing for the Los Angeles Dodgers of the Major League Baseball, he mainly serves as a two-way player (i.e., pitching in the "two-way game") as a designated hitter and pitcher.

Taiichi Ohno (Japanese: Ohno Taiichi/Ono Taiichi, February 29, 1912 - May 28, 1990) was born in Dalian, China. He was an entrepreneur and former vice president of Toyota Motor Corporation. He was an important figure in systematizing the Toyota Production System (TPS).

Tenjo Shumon (Japanese: Tenjo Shumon, ?—?), who was active around the 15th century AD, was a Japanese monk and artist in the Muromachi period. The official name is Zhou Wen, the legal name is Tianzhang, and the painting name is Yuexi. He lived near Kyoto, Japan, and became a monk in his early years. He later devoted himself to painting and became an important founder of Japanese ink painting. He went to Korea in 1423. His works have a global influence.

Dazai Osamu (Japanese: Dazai Osamu/Dazai Osamu, Romanized: Dazai Osamu, June 19, 1909 - June 13, 1948), whose real name was Tsushima Shuji (tsushima Xiuji/Tsushima Shuji, Tsushima Shūji, a Japanese scoundrel novelist, was born in Aomori Prefecture. Dazai Osamu had wanted to become a writer since he was a student. At the age of 21, he attempted suicide by throwing himself into the sea with a waitress at a Ginza cafe. The work "Retrograde" in the book "Late Years" published in 1936 was listed as a candidate for the first Akutagawa Prize. After getting married, he wrote works such as "One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji" and "Setting Sun" and became a popular contemporary writer. Late at night on June 13, 1948, he and his female reader and girlfriend Yamazaki Furei, who admired him, jumped into the Tamagawa River and committed suicide at the age of 38. He left behind works such as "Disqualification in the World".

Sir Cliff Richard, OBE (English: Sir Cliff Richard, October 14, 1940 -), formerly known as Harry Rodger Webb, is a British pop singer, musician, performer, actor and philanthropist. He is the third best-selling singles artist in British history, with sales of over 21 million records in the UK and a reported total worldwide sales of over 250 million.

Neil deGrasse Tyson (English: Neil deGrasse Tyson, October 5, 1958 -) is an American astronomer who specializes in cosmology. After his postdoc, he stopped doing cutting-edge academic research and transformed into a science communicator promoting astronomy to the public. He is famous in the United States and won the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal (2004) and the National Academy of Sciences Outstanding Public Welfare Medal (2015). Founder and research associate of the Department of Astronomy and Physics at the American Museum of Natural History, and director of the Hayden Planetarium at the museum's Ross Center for Earth and Space. Both of his parents are researchers working for the U.S. government. His father is African American and his mother is Puerto Rican. Since 2006, he has hosted NOVA ScienceNOW, PBS' science education program, and has been a frequent guest on The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Live with BMA, and Jeopardy! On August 5, 2011, Tyson announced that he would take over as host of the new show "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey" for the next season of the show "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage" originally hosted by Carl Sagan.

M. Night Shyamalan (English: M. Night Shyamalan, August 6, 1970 -), whose real name is Manoj Nelliattu Shyamalan, is an Indian-American film screenwriter, director, producer and actor. As of mid-2006, his most commercially successful film is 1999's The Sixth Sense, starring Bruce Willis and Haley Joel Osment, which has grossed over $600 million worldwide. Shyamalan and Jay Chandrasekhar are outstanding representatives of Indian-American filmmakers in Hollywood. Like one of his idols, Hitchcock, Shyamalan loves to make cameos in movies.

Nara Yoshitomo (Japanese: Nara Yoshitomo/If Yoshitomo, Romanized: Nara Yoshitomo; December 5, 1959 -) is a Japanese artist and sculptor from Hirosaki City, Aomori Prefecture, Japan. Currently lives in Nasushiobara City, Tochigi Prefecture. Since 1984, Nara has held nearly 40 solo exhibitions, and his works have also been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. His most well-known creative theme is "big-headed girl", and reviewers pointed out that its "childish expression can arouse adult emotions, the cute appearance contains black humor, and clear cultural codes are intertwined with personal memories."

Bong Joon-ho, Korean film director, producer and screenwriter. His films emphasize social issues, crime suspense and sudden dark humor. In his early years, he first gained a cult film following through the black comedy "Kidnapping the Dog" (2000). Later, he filmed the thriller crime film "Memories of Murder" (2003), which was a huge critical and box office success, the monster movie "Monster" (2006), the sci-fi action film "The Doomsday Train", a black The comedy "Okja" (2017), the psychological thriller "Parasite" (2019), which won the Academy Award for Best Picture, and the science fiction black comedy film "Mickey 17," of which "Parasite" was one of the highest-grossing Korean films in history.

Quinn (English: Quinn, August 11, 1995 -), formerly known as Rebecca Catherine Quinn, is a Canadian professional football player who plays as a defender or defensive midfielder. She currently plays for the Northern Premier League team Vancouver Rise and the Canadian women's national football team.

Kwemai Anthony Appiah is a British-American philosopher and writer who was born in London, England. His father was a lawyer, diplomat and politician from the Ashanti region of Ghana. Appiah is a professor of philosophy and law at New York University. He was a professor of philosophy at Princeton University. In January 2022, Appiah was elected president of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Xi Guohua (1951-), male, Han nationality, native of Shanghai, entrepreneur of the People's Republic of China.

Octavio Paz (Spanish: Octavio Paz, March 31, 1914 - April 19, 1998) was a Mexican poet, scholar, critic, novelist, translator, and diplomat. He wrote poems, essays, novels, political essays, and literary criticism. Born on March 31, 1914 in Mexico City, the capital of Mexico, and died on April 20, 1998 in Mexico City, the capital of Mexico. His outstanding poetry creation earned him the Cervantes Prize, the highest honor for Spanish literature, in 1981. In 1990, he became the 10th winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature writing in Spanish. He was also the fifth Latin American writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature after Gabriela Mistral, Miguel Ángel Asturias, Pablo Neruda and García Márquez. He inherited the beautiful Spanish and Latin American Spanish poetry tradition, and carried forward the great literary legacy of Pablo Neruda (Chile), winner of the 1971 Nobel Prize for Literature, Juan Ramon Jimenez (Spain), winner of the 1956 Nobel Prize for Literature, Peruvian poet Cesar Vallejo, and Chilean poet Vicente Hudofro. "The Sunstone" is considered to be his award-winning representative work.

Oksana Alexandrovna Chusovitina (Russian: Оксана Александровна Чусовитина, Romanized: Oksana Aleksandrovna Chusovitina, June 19, 1975 -), born in Bukhara, Soviet Union (now the capital of Bukhara Oblast, Uzbekistan), is a female gymnast who is good at vaulting events. Since 1992, she has participated in eight consecutive Olympic Games.

Olympe de Gouges (French: Olympe de Gouges, May 7, 1748 - November 3, 1793), also translated as Olympe de Gouges, formerly known as Marie Gouze, was a French feminist, playwright, and political activist. His works on feminism and abolitionism have a large audience. Born in southwestern France, de Gouges began her prolific career as a playwright in Paris in the 1780s. She was a passionate advocate for human rights and one of the first public voices against slavery in France. Her plays and pamphlets cover a variety of issues including divorce and marriage, children's rights, unemployment and social security. In addition to being a playwright and political activist, she was also a little-known actress before the French Revolution. De Gouges welcomed the outbreak of the French Revolution. As a champion of democracy, De Gouges always sought equal rights for French women and men. But she soon became disappointed when equal rights failed to extend to women. In 1791, in response to the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, de Gouge published the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Citizen, in which she challenged the practices of male authority and advocated equal rights for women. She was one of the few people who fought for women's rights during the French Revolution. During the revolution, she also published many essays on social issues and several plays. During the Reign of Terror of the French Revolution, De Gouges was guillotined for attacking the regime of Maximilian Robespierre and being close to the Girondins.

William Oliver Stone (English: William Oliver Stone, September 15, 1946 -) is an American film director, screenwriter and producer, as well as an actor. Coming from a French-American family. Stone won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for "Midnight Express" (1978). He also wrote the screenplay for the acclaimed gangster film Scarface (1983). As a director, Stone gained prominence with the war film March 1986 (1986), which he directed and wrote, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Director and the film was also awarded the Best Picture Award. "Advancing the Khmer" is the first of a trilogy of films based on the Vietnam War. Stone served as an infantryman in the Vietnam War, so he focused on using violence to reflect on society in his films. He continued the series with Born on the Fourth of July (1989), for which Stone won his second Academy Award for Best Director, and Sky and Earth (1993). Stone's other notable works include the film "El Salvador" (1986) based on the El Salvadoran civil war, the financial film "Wall Street" (1987) and its 2010 sequel "Wall Street", Jim Morrison He also produced the documentary film "The End of the World" (1991), and a trilogy of films based on U.S. presidents - "The Assassination" (1991), "Nixon" (1995) and "Not Simple" (2008). His most recent films are Snowden (2016) and the documentary Ukraine on Fire (2016). Many of Stone's films focused on controversial American political issues of the late 20th century and were considered controversial at the time of their release. They often combined different cameras and film formats in a single scene, as in "Killings," "Natural Born Killers" and "Nixon."

Dame Olivia Mary de Havilland, DBE (English: Dame Olivia Mary de Havilland, July 1, 1916 - July 26, 2020), was born in Tokyo, Japan, and is a British film actress. She became famous in 1939's "Gone with the Wind" and reached the peak of her acting career in the 1940s. Her representative works include "The Merry Seeds", "Snake's Den" and "Dream in the Boudoir". Her awards include two Academy Awards for Best Actress, two Golden Globe Awards, and a Venice Film Festival Award for Best Actress. De Havilland has lived in Paris, France since the 1950s and was awarded the French Legion of Honor in 2010. In 2017, two weeks before her 101st birthday, Queen Elizabeth II awarded her the Order of the British Empire, making de Havilland the oldest person to be awarded the medal. Since 2014, de Havilland and the actor who played her son in "Gone with the Wind" have become the last two living actors from the film. During her nearly 60-year acting career, she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contributions to the film industry. De Havilland's biological sister is another Oscar-winning actress, Joan Fontaine. They are the only biological siblings in the world who have both won Oscar acting awards. Xia Huilan passed away in Paris, France on July 25, 2020, at the age of 104.

Olivier Royer (December 1, 1955 -) is a French retired professional football player who played as a winger. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Royer played 17 times for the French national team (scoring two goals). Royer played for Nancy and represented the French national team in the 1978 World Cup. After Royer retired, he coached his mother club Nancy from 1991 to 1994.

Auguste Comte (French: Auguste Comte; January 19, 1798 - September 5, 1857) was a French philosopher who created the field of contemporary sociology and established its important foundation, and was the first to fully elaborate on the content of modern positivism.

August Herman Pfund (December 28, 1879 - January 4, 1949) was an American physicist and spectroscopist. Born in Madison, Wisconsin, United States in 1879, he discovered the Pfund system of hydrogen atomic spectrum in 1924. "Pfund" is also used to name a unit of mass, 1 pfund = 500 grams.

François-Auguste-René Rodin (French: François-Auguste-René Rodin, November 12, 1840 - November 17, 1917) was a French sculptor who is often considered the founder of modern sculpture. With a traditional education and a craftsman-like approach to creation, Rodin had a unique ability to simulate complex, turbulent and deeply recessed surfaces in clay. He is also famous for his sculptures such as "The Thinker", "Monument to Balzac", "The Kiss", "The Burghers of Calais" and "The Gates of Hell". Many of Rodin's most famous sculptures have been criticized because they conflicted with dominant sculptural traditions, in which sculptures had a certain decorative or thematic character. Rodin's most original works departed from the traditional themes of past myths and fables. The human body is shaped in a naturalistic way, highlighting the character's personality, muscles and body structure. Although Rodin was quite sensitive to the controversy surrounding his works, he still refused to change his style. He continued to create with strong passion, and later attracted the attention and favor of the government and the art world. As his fame grew, Rodin became the most outstanding French sculptor from the 19th to the early 20th century. By the 1900s, he had achieved international fame and praise, and he actively maintained contacts with well-known intellectuals and artists of the time. His student Camille Claudel would later become his colleague, lover and rival. Rodin's other students included Antoine Boudel, Constantin Brancusi and Charles Despiot. A few weeks before his death in 1917, he married his lifelong love, Rose Burley. Although Rodin's sculptures declined in popularity after his death in 1917, they regained considerable popularity decades later, and to this day Rodin remains one of the few sculptors widely known outside of the visual arts.

Aldous Leonard Huxley (English: Aldous Leonard Huxley, July 26, 1894 - November 22, 1963) was an English writer who came from the famous Huxley family. He is best known for his novels and numerous prose works, and has also published short stories, travelogues, film stories and screenplays. Through his novels and essays, Huxley served as an interrogator and sometimes critic of society's morals, standards, and ideals. Huxley was a humanist, but later in life he was also interested in spiritual fields such as parapsychology and philosophy and mysticism. Towards the end of his life, Huxley was considered a leader of modern thought in some academic circles, ranking among the most distinguished intellectuals of his time. He lived the rest of his life in the United States, moving to Los Angeles in 1937, where he lived until his death in 1963.