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Yao Nianyi (1920-1958), a voice actor at Shanghai Film Translation Factory. He has played the leading role in many films, such as "The Furious Sea", "The Revenge of the Waste", "The Merchant and the Lady", and "A Place Far from Moscow".

Yao Ming (September 12, 1980 -) is a Chinese entrepreneur, politician and retired basketball player. He was born in Xuhui District, Shanghai, and his ancestral home is Wujiang, Jiangsu Province. He once played for the Shanghai Sharks Basketball Club of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) and the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was nicknamed the "Little Giant" and the "Moving Great Wall" and was a long-term main player of the Chinese National Basketball Team from the late 1990s to the beginning of the 21st century. After retiring, he once served as the chairman of the Chinese Basketball Association.

Yao Chi-Chih Yao (English: Andrew Chi-Chih Yao; December 24, 1946 -) is a Chinese computer scientist born in Shanghai. In 2000, Yao Qizhi won the Turing Award and is currently the only Chinese to win this award. Yao Chi-chi is currently the Dean of the School of Artificial Intelligence, the Dean of the Institute of Cross-Information Research, the Director and Professor of the Theoretical Computer Science Research Center of Tsinghua University in Beijing, the Bowen Chair Professor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the Honorary Chair of the National Tsinghua University in Hsinchu, and the Distinguished Research Chair Professor of the National Taiwan University.

Yao Yitian (August 22, 1988 -), a native of Yuncheng City, Shanxi Province, is a media person in mainland China. He graduated from Zhejiang University of Communication with a major in cultural industry management. He is currently the deputy director and chief manager of Zhejiang Satellite TV Program Center and the manager of Star Map Studio.

Yao Xueyin (October 10, 1910 - April 29, 1999), formerly known as Yao Guansan, with Chinese-English characters, has used the pen names Xuehen, Xue, Shensi, Yao Dongbai, etc., male, native of Dengzhou, Henan, Chinese writer, his representative work "Li Zicheng". He has served as a member of the 5th, 6th and 7th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, chairman of the Hubei Federation of Literary and Art Circles, a member of the Chinese Federation of Literary and Art Circles, a director of the Chinese Writers Association, and a director of the China Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries. The "Yao Xueyin Long Historical Novel Award" was established.

Jiang Qingyun (November 25, 1904 - February 3, 1985), nicknamed Xinbai, was a native of Lanxi County, Zhejiang Province. A politician in the Republic of China, and later a pharmaceutical expert and politician in the People's Republic of China. He graduated from the Zhejiang Provincial Medical College and the Shanghai Law School in his early years. He successively served as executive member of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Headquarters of the Chinese Kuomintang, administrative inspector and security commander of the Fifth District of Zhejiang Province, representative of the Constitutional National Assembly, and member of the first legislative committee. He went to Taiwan in 1949 and returned to mainland China via Hong Kong in 1950. He joined the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang and served as a senior engineer at the Beijing Pharmaceutical Factory. He is the author of "New Chronicles of Zhejiang" and "Food and Herbal Medicine". Died in Beijing in 1985.

David Chiang Tai-wai, June 29, 1947 -), also known as Jiang Dawei, real name Jiang Weinian, respectfully known as "Brother John", Canadian Hong Kong, Hong Kong actor and director; former artist of Lai's TV, Asia Television and Hong Kong Television Network, former TVB basic artist contract artist, once in 19 He won the "Best Actor" award at the "16th Asian Film Festival Golden Harvest Awards" in 1970 for the movie "Revenge", and later won the "Thousands of Glory Performing Arts Award" at the "Thousands of Stars Awards Ceremony 2021". In 2024, he won the "Best Supporting Actor" at the 42nd Hong Kong Film Awards for the movie "Under the Sun".

Kang Je-kyu (Korean: Kang Je-gyu, November 27, 1962-) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter.

Jiang Rong (April 1946-), whose real name is Lu Jiamin, was born in the northern Jiangsu base area under the jurisdiction of the Communist Party of China. His ancestral home is Shanghai and he is Manchu. Lu Jiamin was the editor-in-chief of the magazine "Beijing Spring". He was also an associate professor at the China University of Labor Movement and a graduate student at the Institute of Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong Thought at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He is now retired. In 2004, he wrote his first book "Wolf Totem" under the pen name Jiang Rong. His current spouse is the famous female writer Zhang Kangkang, and he had been married twice before. Lu Jiamin himself is very low-key. Apart from private interviews with the media, he has never appeared in public.

Jiang Wen (January 5, 1963 -), whose real name is Jiang Xiaojun, male, native of Tangshan, Hebei Province, is a film director and actor in Mainland China. He once served as the dean of the Institute of Film Arts, School of Humanities and Arts, Macau University of Science and Technology, and a member of the 8th, 9th and 10th National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference. Jiang Wen was selected into the Chinese Film Centenary Hall of Fame and was awarded the French Knight of the Order of Letters and Arts and other honors. His representative works include "The Sun Also Rises", "Let the Bullets Fly", "The Japanese Are Coming", etc.

Jiang Lai (March 6, 2009 -), a child star in mainland China, was born in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. In 2014, she caused controversy when she shared her views on beauty on Beijing Satellite TV's "Mom Hear Me" program.

Jiang Chao (August 12, 1991 -), Han nationality, male singer and actor from mainland China. In 2010, he won the Jinan Division Championship of Hunan Satellite TV's "Happy Boys" and was ranked among the top 13 in the country. He has also served as the captain of the idol group "8090 Men's Team" and has been in his career ever since.

Kang Ji-young (Korean: Jiyoung Kang, Romanized: Gang Ji Yeong, English: Kang Ji-young, Japanese: Kang Ji-young, January 18, 1994 -), stage name is Jiying, a Korean female singer, a member of the Korean girl group KARA, her cousin is the singer NS Yunzhi. On April 4, 2014, it was officially announced that Jiying had officially withdrawn from KARA after her contract expired. After graduating from a language and acting course to study abroad in London, England, he was mainly active in the Japanese entertainment industry until 2019. In September 2022, to celebrate the 15th anniversary of his debut, he became a member of KARA again.

Jiang Weiping (October 5, 1955 - ) is a former Hong Kong "Wen Wei Po" reporter based in Dalian. From June to September 1999, he successively published under a pseudonym in the Hong Kong political magazine "Sentinel Magazine" "Li Tieying's son snatched the white wolf in Dalian empty-handed, Bo Xilai engaged in anti-corruption, arrested the small and magnified them", "The rich one takes care of the other two" Nineteen mistresses, former Daqing Mayor Qian Dihua was arrested," "Shenyang Vice Mayor Macau lost 30 million," "Dalian Soviet Army Memorial Tower Relocation Troubles," and many other reports. He also wrote articles exposing the political deficiencies and private life of Dalian Mayor Bo Xilai, the then CCP political star. Jiang Weiping was arrested by the National Security Bureau in 2000. In May 2001, he was tried in secret and sentenced to eight years in prison for leaking state secrets. His sentence was later commuted to six years. Jiang Weiping's case received widespread international attention, and he was released early due to illness in 2006. In February 2009, Jiang Weiping was granted refugee status by the Canadian authorities.

Kathleen Genevieve Ledecky (English: Kathleen Genevieve Ledecky, March 17, 1997 -) is an American female swimmer. She has won 9 Olympic gold medals and 23 World Championship gold medals, making her the most female swimmer. Ledecky won a total of 9 gold medals and 14 medals in four Olympic Games. She is the most decorated American female athlete and female swimmer in Olympic history. She is also the female athlete with the most gold medals (tied with Larissa Latnina) and the athlete with the fifth most medals. Ledecky holds a record of 18 gold medals in individual events at the World Aquatics Championships. She has broken world records 17 times. She is the world record holder in the women's 800m freestyle (long pool) and 1500m (long pool and short pool). She is also the former world record holder in the women's freestyle 400m short pool and 800m short pool. She is widely regarded as the best female swimmer in history. In 2012, at the age of 15, she won the 800-meter freestyle gold medal at the London Olympics as a dark horse. At the 2016 Summer Olympics, Ledecky won 4 gold medals and 1 silver, setting two world records and becoming the first swimmer since Debbie Meyer in 1968 to win Olympic gold medals in the 200, 400 and 800 meters freestyle at the same time. At the 2020 Summer Olympics, Ledecky became the most decorated female athlete in U.S. history. At the 2025 World Aquatics Championships, Ledecky once again defended the women's 800-meter freestyle gold medal, becoming the first swimmer to win seven consecutive championships in the same event. In 2024, Ledecky was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Joe Biden.

Wilfredo Daniel Caballero Lazcano (Spanish: Wilfredo Daniel Caballero Lazcano, September 28, 1981 -) is a retired Argentine male professional football player who serves as a goalkeeper. He is currently the assistant coach of the Premier League team Chelsea.

Willie Hugh Nelson is an American musician, songwriter, actor, and social movement figure. Nelson is one of the iconic figures of renegade country music, a genre of country music that developed in the late 1960s as a riposte to the traditional, conservative Nashville sound of the time.

Willard Carroll "Will" Smith Jr. (English: Willard Carroll "Will" Smith Jr., September 25, 1968 -) is an American actor, film producer, and hip-hop singer. Will Smith has made remarkable achievements in the music, television and film industries. He has won 4 Grammy Awards, 1 British Academy Film Award, 1 Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actor, 1 Golden Globe Award and 1 Academy Award. His representative works include "Jedi Men" (1995), "ID4 Star Terminator" (1996), "MIB Star Wars" (1997), "Will Smith: The King of Storm" (2001), "Mechanical Enemy" "(2004), "The Pursuit of Happiness" (2006), "I Am Legend" (2007), "Concussive Effect" (2015), "Suicide Squad" (2016) and "King Richard" (2021), etc. Among them, "Will Smith: The King", "The Pursuit of Happiness" and "Richard" earned him three Oscar nominations for Best Actor. In the end, he successfully won the Academy Award for the first time in 2022 with "Richard". At the same time, Will Smith was also rated as the world's most profitable movie star by Forbes. As of 2014, he has starred in seventeen roles in his twenty-four films, with cumulative global box office revenue exceeding $3.1 billion.

William James "Will" Durant (/dəˈrænt/, November 5, 1885 - November 7, 1981) was an American writer, historian, and philosopher. Will Durant received higher education at St. Peter's College and Columbia University in the United States. He later entered Columbia University to study biology and studied philosophy under the guidance of the famous American philosopher John Dewey. He received a doctorate from Columbia University in 1917. He is best known for his 11-volume The Story of Civilization, written with his wife Ariel Durant from 1935 to 1975. His early well-known work was "The Story of Philosophy" published in 1926, which was described as "a seminal work that helped to promote philosophy." "Falling Leaves" was his last book before his death. This book was still being written until the day before his death. Will Durant was 96 years old at the time. Durant won the 1968 Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction and the 1977 Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Wilbur Louis Ross Jr. (English: Wilbur Louis Ross Jr.; November 28, 1937 -) is an American investor who is good at reorganizing bankrupt companies in different industries, such as steel, coal mining, telecommunications, multinational investment companies, textiles and other industries, and is especially proficient in leveraged buyouts. He is a consultant to the Yale School of Management and a member of the Turnaround Management Association and the American Bankruptcy Institute. Appointed by President Clinton, Ross served on the board of directors of the U.S.-Russia Investment Fund and later became New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani's privatization adviser. In 2005, Ross was selected into the world's richest list by Forbes Magazine for the first time. On November 30, 2016, US President-elect Donald Trump nominated Ross to serve as US Secretary of Commerce. On February 27, 2017, the U.S. Senate approved the nomination with 72 votes in favor and 27 votes against. On July 23, 2021, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China announced sanctions against 6 individuals and 1 entity, including Wilbur Ross.

Diana, Princess of Wales (English: Diana, Princess of Wales, July 1, 1961 - August 31, 1997), formerly known as Diana Frances Spencer (English: Diana Frances Spencer), was the first wife of King Charles III (then Prince of Wales) and the mother of William, Prince of Wales, and Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex. Diana was born into a British aristocratic family and had a close relationship with the royal family since she was a child. She lived in the Parker Manor in Sanjingxian Prefecture. In 1981, while working as a kindergarten teacher's assistant, she became engaged to Charles, the eldest son of Queen Elizabeth II. Their wedding was held at St Paul's Cathedral in July 1981, making her the much-loved Princess of Wales. The couple had two sons, William and Harry, who were second and third in line to the British throne at the time. Diana and Charles' marriage suffered rifts due to personality incompatibility and extramarital affairs. They officially separated in 1992, shortly after news of their relationship's breakdown became public. The marital difficulties were widely reported in the media, and the couple eventually divorced in 1996. As Princess of Wales, Diana performed royal duties on behalf of the Queen and attended events across the Commonwealth. She was well-known in the media for her beauty and fashionable charm, and later attracted attention for her unconventional charity work. She early focused on sponsorship activities related to children and the elderly, and later became well-known for her participation in two important initiatives: one was to change social attitudes towards AIDS patients, and the other was to promote demining work through the International Red Cross. She is also committed to raising public awareness and support for patients with cancer and mental illness. Diana was initially known for her shy image, but her approachability and charisma endeared her to the public and she maintained her good reputation even after the public breakdown of her marriage. She is regarded as a fashion icon in the 1980s and 1990s, and can be called the darling of photographers. In August 1997, Diana died of serious injuries in a car accident in Paris; the incident triggered global media attention and massive public mourning. The coronial inquest, following an investigation led by Operation Paget, led by the Metropolitan Police, ruled that the death was unlawful. Her influence on the royal family and British society was profound. Her activism and charisma made her an international icon, gaining her lasting popularity.

Wilton Norman Chamberlain (English: Wilton Norman Chamberlain, /ˈtʃeɪmbərlɪn/; August 21, 1936 - October 12, 1999), a former professional basketball player and legendary center in the American NBA League, is considered by many to be the greatest basketball player in history, and is known as the "Basketball Emperor" by the world. From 1959 to 1973, he played for the Philadelphia Warriors (now the Golden State Warriors), the Philadelphia 76ers and the Los Angeles Lakers. Chamberlain was a mythical player in NBA history. He had absolute dominance in his era. His hands were extremely huge and he often used his own "Big Dipper Finger Roll", which was only popularized by George Gervin in the 1980s. His main rival was Bill Russell. In 142 career games against Russell, Chamberlain had the advantage in statistics (averaging 28.7 points and 28.7 rebounds per game, while Russell's data was 14.5 points and 23.7 rebounds). There are many rules in the NBA that were established because of Chamberlain's dominance. His most important statistical milestones are 100 points in a single game, 55 rebounds in a single game, and an average of 50.4 points per game in a single season.

William Edward Simon (English: William Edward Simon, November 27, 1927 - June 3, 2000) was a famous American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and politician. He served as Secretary of the Treasury, Chairman of the Petroleum Policy Council, and Director of the Federal Office of Energy, and was known as Richard Nixon's "Oil Czar."

William Learned Marcy (English: William Learned Marcy, December 12, 1786 - July 4, 1857), American politician, served as governor of New York State, U.S. Secretary of War, and U.S. Secretary of State.