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Sun Xilun (January 10, 2005 -), formerly known as Sun Haoyu, is a Beijinger and an actor in mainland China. Born as a child actor.

Sun Xuanxuan, named Xiangqi, was born in Tianjin. He was the founder of Yuanlong Silk Shop in the early years. Sun Xuanxuan was originally an apprentice at Yitaichang Cloth Shop, and was later promoted to manager. In 1896, he jointly opened Yuanlong Silk Cloth Shop with others. In 1915, Sun Xuanxuan jointly opened Jinfeng Yinhao, Yuanyu and Yuanju gauze shops. After his death, Yuanlong Silk Shop and other assets were taken over by his second son, Sun Zhongkai.

Stefanie Sun Yanzi (English: Stefanie Sun Yanzi, July 23, 1978 -), a Singaporean Chinese female singer. In 2000, she made her debut in Taiwan with the album of the same name "Stefanie Sun". She became famous with the song "It's Dark" adapted from a Hokkien nursery rhyme. In 2001, she won several Best Newcomer Awards including the Taiwan Golden Melody Award, and then entered the entertainment circles in mainland China and Hong Kong. To date, she has won a total of 7 IFPI Hong Kong Record Sales Awards, 5 MTV Asia Awards and 1 MTV Japan Music Video Award. She has sold more than 20 million records in Asia. Her physical and digital albums have achieved impressive results in the Chinese region. She is the Singaporean and Malaysian female singer with the highest record sales in the Chinese music circle. Stefanie Sun has been nominated for the Golden Melody Award for Best Mandarin Female Singer six times, and won the award in 2005 for her album "Stefanie".

Sun Ganlu (July 10, 1959 -), male, native of Rongcheng, Shandong, born in Shanghai, is a Chinese writer. He is currently the vice chairman of the Shanghai Federation of Literary and Art Circles, a member of the presidium of the Chinese Writers Association, and the chairman of the Shanghai Writers Association. In 2023, the novel "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" won the 11th Mao Dun Literature Award.

Sun Shilin (August 1951 -), a native of Pengshui, Chongqing, a Tujia nationality, a political figure of the People's Republic of China, and a representative of Chongqing at the 11th National People's Congress. Graduated from Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management, majoring in business administration, and is a member of the Communist Party of China. He serves as Vice Chairman of Chongqing CPPCC, Chairman (President) of Chongqing Federation of Industry and Commerce (General Chamber of Commerce), Chairman and Party Committee Secretary of Chongqing Southern Group Co., Ltd., and Chairman of Chongqing Southern Translation College of Sichuan Foreign Studies University. He has served as a deputy to the National People's Congress since 2008.

Son Ye-jin (Korean: Eonjin Son, January 11, 1982 -), whose stage name is Son Ye-jin (Korean: Son Ye-jin/ Son Ye-jin, romanized: Son Ye-Jin), is a Korean actress, commonly translated as Son Ye-jin. She is the only South Korean actress born in the 1980s to win the three major film awards (Grand Bell Award, Blue Dragon Film Award, Baeksang Arts Award). Her starring TV series such as "Summer Scent", "Pretty Sister Who Always Treats Me to Dinner", "Crash Landing on You", etc. are also deeply loved by the audience.

Sun Hengfu (1875-1944), also known as Zunfa, also known as Hengfu, was a financial capitalist in Shanghai in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China. A native of Cixi, Zhejiang.

Sun Fengchun (June 6, 1958 -), male, from Linli, Hunan, is a Chinese vehicle electrification expert and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

Sun Xin (July 15, 1938 - May 27, 2025), a native of Yangzhou, Jiangsu, was a Chinese condensed matter physicist and professor at Fudan University.

Sun Jun (October 3, 1926 - March 1, 2024), male, originally from Shaoxing, Zhejiang, was born in Suzhou, Jiangsu. He is an expert in tunnel and underground construction engineering in China. He has been engaged in the teaching and scientific research of geomechanics, tunneling and underground engineering for a long time, and developed and established a new branch of the discipline - Engineering Mechanics of Underground Structures (1962). He has considerable attainments in the rheological mechanics of geomaterials, viscoelastic plasticity theory of underground structures, urban environmental geotechnical and the application of soft science theories and methods in geomechanics and engineering. Since the early 1980s, it has undertaken and completed nearly 20 national key scientific and technological research projects, major natural science projects, key projects, and general fund projects, as well as more than 40 engineering research projects for major national engineering construction projects. The results have been applied to actual production and have achieved huge technical and economic benefits. He has written more than 200 academic papers and 8 monographs. He has won 15 awards at the national, provincial and ministerial levels. He is one of the first batch of doctoral supervisors in my country and the first batch of academic leaders of key disciplines in the country. Since 1960, he has presided over the establishment of the first "Tunnel and Underground Construction Engineering" major at home and abroad at Tongji University.

Ziya Saimat (Russian: Зия Самеди, 1914-2000), Uyghur writer and politician.

Meng Jia (Korean: Manga, Romanized: Maeng Ga, English: Meng Jia; February 3, 1990 -), whose stage name is Jia (Korean: Zia, Romanized: Ji Ah), was born in Loudi City, Hunan Province, a Chinese female singer and dancer. In 2007, she joined JYP Entertainment as a trainee. On July 1, 2010, she officially debuted in South Korea as a member of the Chinese-Korean girl group miss A, serving as the lead singer and rap singer. On May 20, 2016, Meng Jia's contract with JYP Entertainment expired and was officially terminated. Subsequently, she signed the Banana Project on June 8 and returned to China for development. In 2020, Meng Jia was a member of the women's limited music group X-SISTER.

Meng Ye (January 30, 1988 -), born in Beijing, is a Chinese football player who serves as a midfielder. When Meng Ye was in the third year of junior high school in Beijing Bayi Middle School, he was selected by China Educational Television's "Road to Gold Medal" program and sent to Spanish Football League Atletico Madrid Club for three months of trial training, which attracted the attention of the Chinese media; he subsequently had trial training with Sheffield United in the English Championship and Porto in the Portuguese Super League. From 2006 to 2007, Chengdu Sheffield United included him in the club's roster for the Chinese League One. However, Meng Ye later ended his career and entered Beijing University of Technology, where he represented the school in futsal matches.

Mencius, born Meng Ke (Meng Ke), was a Chinese Confucian philosopher, often described as the Second Sage (Yasheng) to reflect his traditional esteem relative to Confucius himself. He was part of Confucius's fourth generation of disciples, inheriting his ideology and developing it further. Living during the Warring States period, he is said to have spent much of his life travelling around the states offering counsel to different rulers. Conversations with these rulers form the basis of the Mencius, which would later be canonised as a Confucian classic.

Gregor Johann Mendel (German: Gregor Johann Mendel, July 20, 1822 - January 6, 1884) was an Austrian biologist, meteorologist, mathematician, and Augustinian monk. He was posthumously known as the "Father of Modern Genetics." Mendel was born into a German-speaking peasant family in Silesia (now part of the Czech Republic) in the Austrian Empire. At the age of 21, he entered the St. Thomas Monastery in Brno, Moravia, and eventually became the abbot. Between 1856 and 1863, Mendel conducted a series of experiments on peas and established a number of genetic laws, which are now known as Mendel's laws of inheritance. Mendel selected seven pairs of pea traits for study: seed shape, flower color, cotyledon color, pod shape, immature pod color, flower placement position, and plant length. Taking seed color as an example, experiments show that when pure yellow peas are crossed with pure green peas, their offspring will always produce yellow seeds. However, in the next generation, green peas reappeared in a ratio of 1 green to 3 yellow. To explain this phenomenon, Mendel coined the terms "recessive" and "dominant" to describe traits (in the previous example, the green trait that seems to disappear in the offspring is recessive, and the yellow trait is dominant). He published research results in 1866 demonstrating that invisible factors (now called genes) could predict and determine the traits of organisms. For more than thirty years, little was known about Mendel's work. In 1900, Hugo de Vries, Carl Kollens, and Eric von Chermak independently verified Mendel's experimental results. The far-reaching significance of Mendel's discovery was recognized, thus opening a new era of modern genetics.

Meng Zhaochang (1871-1918), also known as Yongsheng, also known as Qingfeng. A native of Wujin, Jiangsu (now Changzhou City). He was a legal scholar and industrialist in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China.

Meng Jisheng (1851-1939), also known as Luochuan (also known as Luochuan), was born in Zhangqiu, Shandong Province. He was the fourth son of the great businessman Meng Chuanshan and an industrialist in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China.

Ji Xianlin (August 6, 1911 - July 11, 2009), also known as Xibu and Qizang, male, was born in Qingping, Shandong Province. He was a Chinese linguist, literary translator, and expert in Sanskrit, Pali, and Tocharian. Professor at Peking University and Fu Jen Catholic University in Peking. He is as famous as Jao Tsung-i, and is known as "Nan Rao Bei Ji" in academic circles. He graduated from the Department of Western Literature of Tsinghua University in 1934 and studied famous Western literary figures such as Shakespeare, Goethe, and Cervantes. The following year, he went to the University of Göttingen in Germany to study Sanskrit, Pali, and Tocharian, and met foreign students Zhang Yong, Tian Dewang, etc. He encountered the Second World War and received a doctorate in philosophy. He returned to China in 1946 and worked as a professor in the Department of Oriental Languages ​​at Peking University. He joined the Communist Party of China in 1956, participated in the anti-rightist movement and criticized rightists. In the early days of the Cultural Revolution, he participated in the Jinggangshan Corps, a rebel organization led by Zhou Peiyuan, and opposed the Nie Yuanzi faction. He lost the political struggle, was classified as a counterrevolutionary, was sent to the cowshed, and was persecuted. In 1973, he began to translate the Indian epic "Ramayana" and completed the full translation in 1977.

Zeno of Citium (Zeno of Citium; approximately 334 BC - approximately 262 BC) was a Hellenistic philosopher and the founder of the Stoic school. He was born in Gityon, Cyprus, and later settled in Athens for a long time and gave lectures. In about 301 BC, he began to teach in the Stoa Poikile in the Athens Agora. The school was named "Stoa" because of the place where he lectured.

Sun Qiaolu (June 12, 1995 - January 1, 2021), formerly known as Sun Zhen, female, native of Shenzhen, Guangdong, internet celebrity in mainland China, former actor and child star. In 2007, she played the role of Ling Meiqi in the special drama series "Balala Little Demon Fairy", which made her widely known to the public. Passed away due to myocardial infarction on January 1, 2021, at the age of 25.

Son Na-eun (Korean: Son Na-eun, Romanized: Son Na Eun; English: Son Na-eun; February 10, 1994 -) is a South Korean actress and singer. She was a member of the South Korean girl group Apink. She served as the chorus, front and center of the team. She accompanied her sister to auditions and was accidentally discovered by a talent scout. She later entered A Cube Entertainment to practice and became a member of Apink.

Masayoshi Son, Japanese-Korean. Born in Tosu City, Saga Prefecture, Japan, he is the founder and president of SoftBank Group, chairman of SoftBank Co., Ltd., and the boss of Fukuoka SoftBank Eagle. According to "Forbes" magazine, he had a net worth of US$8.1 billion in 2011, ranking second among Japan's richest people. Son ranked 43rd on Forbes' 2019 billionaire list, with assets reaching US$21.6 billion. Son once surpassed Microsoft founder Bill Gates to become the world's richest man in one day when Yahoo's valuation was at its highest during the Internet bubble in the 1990s. He relied on SoftBank's several holdings and investment returns in the Alibaba Group founded by shareholder Jack Ma. For a long time, Yanai Masaru and Uniqlo ranked among the top two richest people in Japan. On December 16, 2024, it announced a leveraged investment of US$100 billion in the US AI field to help Trump improve US AI public construction, and later increased it to US$500 billion.

Sun Yue (March 31, 1973 -), the former main attacker of the Chinese women's volleyball team, nicknamed "Little Tiger", specializes in the fourth position. He is 186 centimeters tall, weighs 72 kilograms, and has a spike height of 314 centimeters.

Sun Yingsha (November 4, 2000 -) is a Chinese female table tennis player from Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province. Her ancestral home is Gucheng County, Hebei Province.