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An Yu-jin (Korean: Yujin Ahn/An Yuzhen, Romanized: An Yu-Jin, Japanese: Ahn Yoo Jin; September 1, 2003 -) is a Korean idol, K-pop singer and model. She serves as the captain and vocal of STARSHIP Entertainment's well-known female music group IVE, and was once a member of the limited group IZ*ONE.

Shintaro Abe (Japanese: Abe Shintaro/Abe Shintaro, Romanized: Abe Shintarō, April 29, 1924 - May 15, 1991), a Japanese politician after Japan surrendered in World War II, served as the foreign minister of former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone. His wife is Yoko Kishi, the daughter of former Japanese Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi. His eldest son, Hironobu Abe, is an entrepreneur. His second son, Shinzo Abe, was the Prime Minister of Japan. His third son, Nobuo Kishi, was the Minister of Defense.

Shinzo Abe (Japanese: Abe Shinzo/Abe Shinzo, Romanized: Abe Shinzō, pronounced: [abe ɕindzoː] ; September 21, 1954 - July 8, 2022) was a politician from the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan. He served as Prime Minister (Prime Minister; 90th, 96th, 97th, 98th), President of the Liberal Democratic Party (21st, 25th), Chief Cabinet Secretary (72nd), and Secretary-General of the Liberal Democratic Party (41st). He belongs to the Qinghe Policy Research Association among the liberal democratic parties and will serve as the 10th president in 2021. Shinzo Abe was born into a political family in Tokyo and is originally from Yamaguchi Prefecture. His grandfather, Hiroshi Abe, was a member of the House of Representatives, and his father, Shintaro Abe, once served as Minister of Foreign Affairs. Shinzo Abe, his maternal grandfather Nobusuke Kishi, and his maternal uncle Eisaku Sato have all served as prime ministers and are known as the "Three Prime Ministers of the Family." Since 1993, Shinzo Abe has been elected to the House of Representatives for ten consecutive terms in Yamaguchi Prefecture. In 2005, Junichiro Koizumi appointed him Chief Cabinet Secretary, and the following year he was elected president of the Liberal Democratic Party and Prime Minister. He was also the first Prime Minister born after World War II. During his tenure, he promoted diplomatic relations with neighboring countries. After pension record issues and defeat in the upper house election, he finally resigned due to ulcerative colitis and was succeeded by Yasuo Fukuda. In 2012, Shinzo Abe was re-elected as the president of the Liberal Democratic Party, leading the Liberal Democratic Party to gain power in the House of Representatives election in the same year, and served as Prime Minister of the Cabinet for the second time. He continued to lead the Liberal Democratic Party to win a majority of seats in multiple House of Representatives and Senate elections, establishing the "Abe-dominated" leadership pattern and becoming the longest-serving Prime Minister in Japan's constitutional history. Shinzo Abe is a conservative right-wing politician who has promoted many domestic and foreign affairs tasks during his tenure. Economically, he launched the "Abenomics" reform policy to drive economic growth through quantitative easing, economic stimulus and structural reforms, and later also promoted social security policies. In terms of defense diplomacy, Shinzo Abe proposed the strategy of "values ​​diplomacy" and "active pacifism" to strengthen the US-Japan alliance and lead the "Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership" and the "Arc of Freedom and Prosperity." Faced with threats from North Korea and the People's Republic of China, Shinzo Abe has strengthened his military strength, pushed for the amendment of Article 9 of the Constitution of Japan, and expanded the right to collective self-defense through the Japan Peace and Security Law. Shinzo Abe’s views on war responsibilities, comfort women and other history

Angelina Jolie (also translated as Angelina Jolie) (English: Angelina Jolie, June 4, 1975 -), whose real name is Angelina Jolie Voight, is an American actress, philanthropist, and social activist. An alumnus of New York University in the United States, he served as the special envoy of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. She was nominated for the Academy Award twice and won the 72nd Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2000 for "Girls Step Up". Jolie's most successful commercial film is "Maleficent", which grossed $758 million at the box office. "Operation Smith," which grossed $478 million, "Assassin's Assassin" grossed $341 million, "Second Life" grossed $293 million, "The Ride" grossed $278 million, "Tomb Raider" grossed $274 million, and "In 60 Seconds" grossed $237 million worldwide.

Angela Davis (English: Angela Davis; January 26, 1944-) is an American political activist, scholar, and writer. Davis was a nationally renowned activist and activist in the 1960s. He was the leader of the Communist Party of the United States and the Black Panther Party. Now a retired professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research focuses on feminism, African America, critical theory, Marxism, popular music and social consciousness, and the philosophy and history of punishment and prisons. She was banned from teaching at any university in California by Ronald Reagan in 1969 because of her membership in the Communist Party. He was tried for his alleged involvement in the kidnapping and murder of Soledad in Marin County, California, in August 1970. He was later acquitted. She was twice nominated as the vice presidential candidate of the United States by the Communist Party of the United States in the 1980s.

An Hee Yeon (Korean: Ahn Hee-yeon, Romanized: An Hui Yeon, English: Ahn Hee Yeon; May 1, 1992 -), whose stage name is Hani (Korean: hani, Romanized: Ha Ni, English: Hani), is a South Korean female singer and actress. She debuted as a member of the South Korean girl group EXID in 2012, and serves as the lead singer, lead dancer, and image in the team.

Ansel Easton Adams (English: Ansel Easton Adams, February 20, 1902 - April 22, 1984, also translated as Ansel Adams) was an American photographer and environmentalist born in San Francisco. He is known for his black and white landscapes, the most famous of which is the Yosemite National Park series. He also wrote on photographic subjects, such as the trilogy of technological innovations ("Camera", "Negatives" and "Prints"). In the photography community f/64, which he helped to found, masters such as Edward Weston, Willard Van Dyke, and Imogen Cunningham can be seen. He proposed the technical concept of "area system" and believed that photographers should use changes in light to control the density look and feel of negatives and photographic paper. Adams also advocated the concept of "visualization" (he also often called it "pre-visualization", but this term was not accepted by later generations), which means that the perception of a photo depends on the measurement of light, which is determined at the moment the scene is captured in the lens.

Anne Jacqueline Hathaway (English: Anne Jacqueline Hathaway, November 12, 1982 -), American actress. His works include "The Devil Wears Prada", "The Sparrow Who Turns into a Princess" series, "Brokeback Mountain", "The Dark Knight Rises" and other films. In 2008, she won the National Board of Review Award for Best Actress for "Rachel Getting Married" and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. In 2012, she won the Academy Award, Screen Actors Guild Award and British Academy Film Award for Best Supporting Actress for "Les Misérables". Hathaway's subsequent films include "Interstellar" (2014), "The Internship" (2015), "The Dark Side" (2018), "What's on Your Mind" (2024), "The Devil Wears Prada 2" (2026) and "The Odyssey" (2026). In 2015, she ranked among the highest-paid actresses in the world.

Anna-Lou Leibovitz (English: Anna-Lou Leibovitz, born October 2, 1949) is an American portrait photographer.

Anna Gasser (German: Anna Gasser, August 16, 1991 -), Austrian female snowboarder. She represented Austria in snowboarding competitions at the 2014, 2018 and 2022 Winter Olympics, winning two gold medals.

Anna Kiesenhofer (German: Anna Kiesenhofer, born February 14, 1991) is an Austrian cyclist and mathematician. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. In 2021, she represented Austria at the 2020 Summer Olympics and won the gold medal in the women's road race. This is also Austria's first Summer Olympic gold medal since 2004 and the first freestyle gold medal since 1896.

Anna Andreevna Gorenko (Russian: Анна Андреевна Горенко) ; June 23, 1889 - March 5, 1966), pen name Anna Akhmatova (Анна Ахматова), a Russian Ukrainian female poet, one of the representatives of the "Silver Age", known as the "Moon of Russian Poetry" (Pushkin was once known as the "Sun of Russian Poetry"), suffered persecution during the Great Purge and the 1946 Zhdanov Criticism.

Anna Jacobson Schwartz (English: Anna Jacobson Schwartz, November 11, 1915 - June 21, 2012), born in New York City, New York, United States, is a famous economist and economic historian who specializes in monetary economics. She has worked for the National Institute of Economic Research for a long time and is a representative of monetaristism and a member of the Chicago School of Economics.

Anna Kay Faris (November 29, 1976 -) is an American singer and actress. Her representative film works include the "Scary" series, "Lost in Translation", "Hot Questions About Time Travel" and "The Fall of the Great Dictator". In 2015, she launched the podcast "Unqualified", and in 2017 she published a memoir of the same name.

Anna Meares (Anna Meares, September 21, 1983 -), born in Blackwater, Queensland, is an Australian cyclist. In January 2008, Mires was participating in the world championships in Los Angeles. When he turned, he and his car fell down on the sloping track. The accident broke her neck bones, and she would have been half-paralyzed just two millimeters away. Later, she needed to use a wheelchair. After several efforts, she was successfully shortlisted for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. On August 19, 2008, Mires was in the third warm-up match of the Beijing Olympics when his bicycle crossed the track and was illegally pushed by Chinese player Guo Shuang. The push almost caused Mires to overturn. Fortunately, Mires did not overturn and the bicycle swayed from side to side and continued to move forward. Guo Shuang was subsequently ruled to have entered the opponent's track and therefore blocked his opponent's path and was disqualified. Mires then unsuccessfully challenged Britain's Victoria Pendleton to win Olympic silver. At the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics, Mires pushed the bicycle of Hong Kong athlete Li Huishi during the keirin, causing it to overturn and injure her. Still, she had to take bronze in the keirin.

Anna Veith (née Fenninger, born June 18, 1989) is an Austrian alpine skier and the gold medalist in the women's super-G alpine skiing event at the 2014 Winter Olympics. She also won the women's World Cup title at the 2014 Alpine Skiing World Cup in March. Feit was born in the village of Adnet in Hallein, Salzburg, Austria. In 2011, she won the 2011 Alpine Skiing World Championships and the 2011 World Alpine Skiing Championships Super Mixed Skiing Championship for the first time. In 2014, she won her first Olympic gold medal at the Sochi Winter Olympics in Russia, and then won the Alpine Skiing World Cup Women's Championship again in March.

Annemarie Moser-Pröll (German: Annemarie Moser-Pröll, born March 27, 1953) is an Austrian female alpine skier. She represented Austria in alpine skiing at the 1972 and 1980 Winter Olympics, winning one gold medal and two silver medals. She has won 62 World Cup championships and six Alpine Skiing World Cup overall championships.

Amuro Namie (Japanese: Amuro Namie／Amuro Namie, Romanized: Amuro Namie, Ryukyuan: Amuro Namie／Amuru Namikue , Romanized: Amuru Namikuwē; September 20, 1977 -) Japanese female singer, born in Naha City, Okinawa Prefecture, is a Ryukyu tribe with a quarter of Italian ancestry (the mother is of mixed Ryukyu and Italian descent). She has titles such as "Queen of Japanese Pop Music" and "Japanese Diva". In 1992, she debuted as a member of the girl group Super Monkey's. In 1995, Amuro, who was under 18 years old, joined the Komuro family and released a solo record. She immediately became a super queen in the Japanese music scene and started a fashion trend called "Amuro Phenomenon". Together with Tomomi Hanahara, she was the most representative fashion leader in East Asia in the second half of the 1990s. She even has broad popularity around the world. Namie Amuro's music works have sold nearly 40 million copies in Japan so far. From her debut to the eve of her retirement, she had more than 8 million-selling music works. She is one of the best-selling Asian female singers from the end of the 20th century to the present. The record company is Dimension Point, a subsidiary of Avex, and the management company is Stella88, a studio established by himself. On September 20, 2017, Amuro announced that he would retire on September 16, 2018, the 26th anniversary of his solo debut. According to statistics from "Nikkan Sports" newspaper, Amuro's concerts in the past 25 years have attracted about 5 million people, and a total of 716 concert tours have been held. Looking at Amuro's 26-year singing career, she is the only female singer and solo singer who can have singles in the top ten for 23 consecutive years. Amuro, who became Japan's super diva at the age of 19, also faced a lot of pressure in her private life, such as her mother's murder, divorce, and being a single mother. Amuro is considered one of the most successful singers in the history of Japanese pop music. Her single "CAN YOU CELEBRATE?" also ranks as the highest-selling single in the history of Japanese female singers with nearly 2.3 million copies. This record is still maintained to this day; and this single is also a very popular wedding music used by modern Japanese.

Andrés Nicolás D'Alessandro (April 15, 1981 -) is an Argentine male football player who serves as an offensive midfielder and currently plays for the Brazilian club Internazionale Atletico. He won an Olympic gold medal with Argentina in 2004.

André-Marie Ampère FRS (French: André-Marie Ampère, French pronunciation: [ɑdʁe maʁi ɑpɛʁ], January 20, 1775 – June 10, 1836) was a French physicist, mathematician, and one of the founders of classical electromagnetism. To commemorate his contribution, the SI unit of current, the ampere, was named after his surname.

Andrey Arsen'yevich Tarkovskiy (Russian: Андре́й Арсе́ньевич Тарко́вский, Romanized: Andrey Arsen'yevich Tarkovskiy, pronounced: [ɐnˈdrʲej ɐrˈsʲenʲjɪvʲɪtɕ tɐrˈkofskʲɪj]; April 4, 1932 – December 29, 1986), Russian film director, opera director, writer and actor. He is the most famous Soviet film master after Eisenstein. He is considered one of the greatest film directors in film history, and is known as the Holy Trinity of art films along with Fellini and Bergman. He died of lung cancer in France in 1986 at the age of 54.

André Comte-Sponville (French: André Comte-Sponville, March 12, 1952-), was born in Paris, France. He studied at the Ecole Normale Supérieure and received a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Paris I. He was an atheist and a materialist, but his ideas took a special form due to his spiritualistic goals. The most important aspect of his work is the overcoming of traditional materialist atheism from a post-materialist perspective, as he demonstrates the spiritualization of atheism. This is particularly prominent in his 2006 essay "The Spirit of Atheism." His book also includes "A Brief Introduction to Philosophy", which introduces Western classic philosophy with explanations of 12 "big questions" in philosophy.

Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov (his surname is also translated as Sakharov, Russian: Андрей Дмитриевич Сахаров; May 21, 1921 - December 14, 1989), a Soviet atomic physicist, famous for his research in the fields of nuclear fusion, cosmic rays, elementary particles and baryon generation. He participated in the invention of the Tokamak and led the development of the Soviet Union's first hydrogen bomb. He is known as the "Father of the Soviet Hydrogen Bomb". Sakharov was also a human rights campaigner, Soviet dissident, advocate of civil liberties, and supporter of democratic reforms in the Soviet Union. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1975. In memory of him, the European Parliament named Europe's highest human rights award the Sakharov Prize.

Andrea Bocelli is a blind Italian singer. He is a classical crossover music tenor, and is a crossover music singer between classical music and pop music, such as British soprano Sarah Brightman and New Zealand soprano Hayley Westra.