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Yue Minjun (1962-), a native of Daqing City, Heilongjiang Province, China, is a famous painter of contemporary art in mainland China. Yue Minjun studied in the Fine Arts Department of Hebei Normal University and has participated in many international biennales. A self-portrait of a big-mouthed man laughing as a brand image. This image is often seen in his works, causing the audience to reflect. On October 12, 2007, his work "Execution" was auctioned at Sotheby's in London for 2.93 million pounds (44 million yuan), setting a record for Chinese contemporary art auctions.

Yue Hao (September 23, 2012 -) is a Chinese film actor. In 2023, he won the Best Actor in the "Asian Newcomer" category at the Shanghai International Film Festival for his starring role in the movie "Zhu Tong Lost His Super Powers in the Third Grade"; he is the youngest winner of this award so far.

Kishi Nobusuke (Japanese: Kishi Nobusuke/Kishi Nobusuke, Romanized: Kishi Nobusuke (November 13, 1896 - August 7, 1987), nee Sato, was a Japanese politician who was born in Yamaguchi Town, Yoshiki County, Yamaguchi Prefecture (now Yamaguchi City, Yamaguchi Prefecture). He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs (Foreign Minister), Prime Minister (Prime Minister), and President of the Liberal Democratic Party. He was known as the "Yōkai of Showa" (Yōkai of Showa) and the "Yōkai of Manchuria" (Demon of Yoshu). Nobusuke Kishi graduated from the Faculty of Law of Tokyo Imperial University in 1917. In the same year, he entered the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce and served as a clerk in the Provincial Documentary Division, Temporary Industrial Bureau and other departments. After 1925, he successively served as the director of the Public Works, Clerical and Statistics Section of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, and was promoted to the Director of Public Works in 1935. He once served as Director-General of the General Affairs Department of the Ministry of Industry of Manchukuo, Deputy Director of the Ministry of Industry and Deputy Director of the General Affairs Department. Together with Kwantung Army Chief of Staff Hideki Tojo, Manchukuo General Affairs Department Director Hoshino Naoki, Manchukuo Railway President Matsuoka Yosuke, and Manchuria Heavy Industries Development Co., Ltd. President Nagawa Yoshisuke, they are known as the "Manchuria Big Five". Nobusuke Kishi later served as Minister of Commerce and Industry in Tojo Hideki's cabinet in 1942, and countersigned Emperor Showa's edict declaring war on the United States. After Japan surrendered in World War II in 1945, Nobusuke Kishi was imprisoned for three years as a "Class A war criminal" suspect by the US-led General Headquarters Allied Forces in Japan (GHQ) for his exploitative policies in Manchukuo and his participation in Tojo Hideki's cabinet. However, in the end, GHQ did not prosecute him, so there was no trial. Release him; at that time, the communist forces represented by the Soviet Union spread to the Far East and kicked off the Cold War with the Western world; Japan naturally became the front line to contain the red ideology. Because of Kishi Nobusuke's strong pro-American and anti-communist tendencies, the U.S. government regarded him as a candidate suitable to lead post-war Japan. Nobusuke Kishi consolidated the right-wing conservative camp with the support of the United States to resist the spread of the left-wing ideological trend of the Japanese Socialist Party. In 1955, he united other conservative parties to merge into the Liberal Democratic Party. He was the founder of the 55-year system, which firmly established the conservatives as the largest party in Japanese politics for the next thirty years. From 1957 to 1960, when Nobusuke Kishi was prime minister, the Japanese government signed the "U.S.-Japan Security Treaty". Later, he resigned due to his improper response to demonstrations.

Nobuo Kishi (Japanese: Kishi Nobuo/Kishi Nobuo, Romanized: Kishi Nobuo; April 1, 1959 -), a politician from the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan, served as the Minister of Defense and the Assistant to the Prime Minister of the Cabinet. He served as a member of the Senate (2 terms) from 2004 to 2012, and as a member of the House of Representatives (4 terms) from 2012 to 2023. Within the Liberal Democratic Party, he belongs to the Seiwa Policy Research Association (Abe faction). His real surname is Abe, his biological father is Shintaro Abe, and his brother is Shinzo Abe. He changed his surname to Kishi because he was adopted by his uncle, Nobuka Kishi.

Cui Yitian (1906-1989), male, from Jinxi, Liaoning Province, was a political figure in the People's Republic of China.

Cui Jian (Chinese Korean: Choi Geon/Cui Jian, Romanized: Choi Kŏn, August 2, 1961 -), born Cui Jianjun (Choi Geon-gun), is a Beijinger, ethnic Korean, Chinese male singer, and a pioneer of rock in mainland China. He is known as the "Father of Chinese Rock". The famous song is "Nothing" in 1986, and "A Piece of Red Cloth" in 1988 is also a masterpiece. He symbolizes the historical significance of rock music in mainland China from scratch, with his unique hoarse voice and his symbolic image of singing while blindfolded with a red cloth. In the 1980s, albums such as "The Return of the Prodigal Son" and "Rock on the New Long March" were released. In the 1990s, the albums "Resolution", "Eggs Under the Red Flag" and "The Power of Incompetence" were released. In 2005, the album "Give You a Little Color" was released. In the same year, "Howl Records" published a tribute album to Cui Jian, "Who is Cui Jian", which once again showed Cui Jian's status as a senior in the Chinese rock industry. In 2009, "Nothing" was selected into the "Taiwan Pop Music 200 Best Albums". In 2022, he won the Best Chinese Male Singer Award at the 33rd Golden Melody Awards for the "Flying Dog" music album, and also became the first mainland Chinese "Golden Melody Singer" in the history of the Taiwan Golden Melody Awards.

Cui Weiping (1956-), female, born in Yancheng, Jiangsu Province, is a public intellectual, translator and social critic. She once served as a professor in the Basic Department of Beijing Film Academy. Her main research fields include political philosophy, literary theory and criticism, and contemporary Central and Eastern European thought and culture.

Choi Min-sik (Korean: Choi Min-sik, May 30, 1962-) is a South Korean actor.

Cui Xifan, a Taoist figure in the Tang Dynasty. It's called "Zhiyi Zhenren". He wrote "Medicine Mirror" to discuss the Taoist inner alchemy method. This book had a great influence on the history of Neidan. "Ten Books on Cultivation: Tianyuan Becomes the Medicine Mirror" contains Cui Xifan's autobiography, which is titled "Tang Gengzi looked forward to the day when he came to the end of the year, Cui Xifanfan, the real person." In the Southern Song Dynasty, it was recorded in "Daoshu" that Lu Dongbin received the "Medicine Mirror" from Cui Xifan, and further understood the essence of inner elixir. Lu Dongbin's poem downloaded from the volume of "Chunyang Zhenren Huncheng Collection" says: "Reading Cui Gong's "Medicine Mirror" makes people's hearts and minds clear." Volume 45 of "Xianjian" records that Lu Yan "recovered in the first year of Guangming of Emperor Xizong (880), met Cui Gong's "Medicine Mirror", and knew that cultivating one's life is not bad at all."

Cui Yongyuan (February 20, 1963 -), whose ancestral home is Wuyi, Hebei Province, was born in Beichen, Tianjin. He is a professor at Communication University of China and once served as a program host at China Central Television. Graduated from the Journalism Department of Beijing Broadcasting Institute (now Communication University of China). His famous work is the talk show "Tell the Truth". He has produced the feature film "Movie Legend", hosted the talk show "Xiao Cui Talks", and has written the best-selling book "Nothing But That". He resigned from CCTV in 2013 and joined the Communication University of China as a teacher. He established his own studio and devoted himself to oral history research. He has since been involved in many public opinion turmoils, including the 2013 genetically modified food controversy, the 2018 Yin-Yang contract incident in the film and television industry, and the Shaanxi 100-billion mining rights case.

Choi Soo-young (Korean: Sooyoung Choi/ Choi Soo-yeong, Romanized: Choi Soo-yeong, February 10, 1990 -), stage name Soo-young (Korean: swimming, English: SooYoung), is a South Korean female singer, actress and host. A member of the South Korean girl group Girls' Generation, she serves as the lead rapper, sub-vocalist and lead dancer in the team. In 2000, he was discovered by SM Entertainment in Seoul and joined the company as a trainee. In 2002, she left the company and went to Japan to participate in a talent show audition. She successfully won the Korean group and formed a two-person Japanese girl group Routeφ with the Japanese group winner to debut. Routeφ disbanded in 2003, and Sooyoung returned to SM Entertainment as a trainee. Debuted as a member of Girls' Generation on August 5, 2007. Currently working as an actor. Her boyfriend is actor Zheng Jinghao. The two met after Zheng Jinghao retired from the army in September 2012 and developed into a relationship. On June 9, 2026, the two parties announced their breakup. On October 9, 2017, Sooyoung's contract with SM Entertainment expired and she left the company without renewal. However, she will not quit Girls' Generation and will focus on her development as an actor in the future. On November 10, 2017, Echo Global Group announced that it had signed a contract with Xiuying. On December 20, 2018, Sooyoung made her solo debut and participated in writing lyrics and music, and released a digital single. On May 7, 2019, Saram Entertainment announced that it had signed an exclusive contract with Sooyoung. In 2026, she formed Girls' Generation's sub-group Girls' Generation-Hyori Soo with Hyoyeon and Yuri, and served as the maknae.

Ji (jī) Kang (223-263), courtesy name Shuye, was born in Qiaojun Zhi (now Suixi County, Anhui Province). Because he served as an official in Cao Wei Zhongsan, he was also called Ji Zhongsan in later generations. Writers, thinkers and musicians of Cao and Wei in the Three Kingdoms. He was one of the "Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove", a literary group in the Wei and Jin Dynasties. He was as famous as Ruan Ji and was also called Ji Ruan. They were both representatives of the literary and ideological circles in the late Wei Dynasty. He fiercely criticized secular norms, advocated conforming to the laws of nature, preserving human nature, and actively promoted the theory of food and health. He had a very high reputation and appeal at the time. Later, he was imprisoned for being involved in the lawsuit of his friend Lu An. The powerful minister Sima Zhao was afraid that the influence of his speech would threaten the Sima family's regime, so he was executed at the suggestion of Zhong Hui. After his death, his ideas and propositions were highly praised in the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Southern Dynasties, and became an important component of metaphysics in the Wei and Jin Dynasties. With the rise of immortal Taoism, Ji Kang himself was transformed into an immortal. Including the "Book of Jin" as the official history, the description of his life and deeds is mixed with quite a lot of supernatural and legendary content. And his quality of insisting on freedom of thought and personality, not pursuing worldly fame and fortune, and sacrificing for the pursuit of justice has been regarded by later generations as one of the representatives of traditional Chinese literati who are honest, upright, and fearless of power.

Masatoshi Shima (born August 22, 1943), a Japanese microprocessor design expert, is one of the designers of the world's first commercial microprocessor, the Intel 4004. Former professor at Aizu University.

Kawakami Mieko (Japanese: Kawakami Mieko/Kakami Mieko, Romanized: Kawakami Mieko, August 29, 1976 -), whose real name is Kawakami Saneko (Kawakami Saneko, pronounced the same as Kawakami Mieko), is a Japanese novelist, singer and actor.

Rei Kawakubo (Japanese: Kawakubo Rei/cute spirit, Romanized: Kawakubo Rei, English: Rei Kawakubo; October 11, 1942 -) is a Japanese fashion designer who was born in Tokyo and graduated from Keio University. In the early 1980s, she became famous all over the world for her asymmetrical and curved avant-garde clothes, which were loved by many people in the fashion industry. In addition, among Japan's well-known fashion designers, Rei Kawakubo is one of the few special designers who has never studied abroad or majored in fashion design.

Ai Kawashima (real name: Ai Kawashima, February 21, 1986 -) is a Japanese female singer-songwriter. Double Wing is part of Tsubasa Records Entertainment Group. Born in Zaara Ward, Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. ai, the former lead singer of Japanese group I WiSH. In order to become a singer, Kawashima Ai started singing on the street in 2002, and reached the goal of 1,000 times in 2005, and was called the "angel on the road." In 2003, Ai Tokawashima debuted as the lead singer of I WiSH. Her debut single "Facing the Future" achieved very good sales results. His representative songs include "Invisible Wings", "My Love", etc. Its singing voice is so transparent that it is called "the singing voice of an angel." He also engages in various social contribution activities such as holding free concerts in areas affected by the Great Hanshin Earthquake and supporting the construction of schools in developing countries.

Kawasumi Ayako (Japanese: Kawasumi Ayako/Kawasumi Ayako, Romanized: Kawasumi Ayako, March 30, 1976 -), a Japanese female voice actress, narrator, and singer. Born in Tokyo. Belongs to Osawa Office. Height 158cm. Blood type B.

Kawabata Yasunari (Japanese: Kawabata Yasunari/Kawabata Easy, Romanized: Kawabata Yasunari, June 14, 1899 - April 16, 1972), a world-renowned Japanese neo-sensationalist writer and literary critic, active from the Taisho to Showa years. Kawabata Yasunari was recommended for the Nobel Prize in Literature eight times in the 1960s. In 1968, he became the first Japanese Nobel Prize winner and the second Asian writer to win the prize after Rabindranath Tagore. Kawabata Yasunari was born in Osaka Prefecture and graduated from the Japanese Literature Department of Tokyo Imperial University. In college, he was appreciated by Hiroshi Kikuchi and emerged in the fields of literary criticism. Later, he co-founded the doujinshi "Literary Times" with Yokomitsu Riichi and others. He combined Western European avant-garde literature to create works known as New Sensation Literature, and attracted attention as a "New Sensationist" writer. His works are of various types, with different techniques and styles, including poetry, lyrical articles, mystical works, girls' novels, etc., so he is also called a magician. Since then, he has created works that express the "beauty of Japan" in death and reincarnation, fusion of renga and avant-garde works, etc. These works show his concern for themes such as traditional beauty and the devilish world. He has a very thorough understanding of the ugliness and ruthlessness of human nature, as well as the loneliness and despair of people. He left many masterpieces in the history of Japanese literature, which established his unshakable position as the highest peak of Japanese literature. As the first Japanese to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, he introduced the Japanese view of life and death and aesthetic consciousness to the world in his acceptance speech.

Haruka Kudo (Japanese: Kudo Haruka/Kudo Haruka, Romanized: Kudō Haruka, October 27, 1999 -), a Japanese actor, was originally the tenth member of the idol group "Morning Musume." Formerly a member of the 10th batch of Hello! Pro trainees, he was once affiliated with the entertainment agency Just Production Inc, and was supported by the former UP-FRONT CREATE business. Now it belongs to "GATE". Born in Saitama Prefecture, Japan, blood type A, 159 cm tall. Graduated from "Morning Musume" on December 11, 2017.

Zuo Si (about 250-305), courtesy name Taichong, was a native of Linzi (now Zibo, Shandong) and a writer of the Western Jin Dynasty. He was the most outstanding writer in the Taikang period, and his "Sandu Fu" was highly praised at the time, making him "Luoyang Paper Expensive".

Ju Xingmao (1981-), whose stage name is Satisfaction, is a male from Zuoquan, Shanxi, and a Chinese film and television actor and director. The director's representative works include the TV series "Soul Ferry", "Dog Stick", "The Most Beautiful Youth", etc.

Dwayne Douglas "The Rock" Johnson (born May 2, 1972) is an American professional wrestler, actor, producer and former North American football player, best known for his career in World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and Hollywood. Johnson was a member of the University of Miami's American football team, leading the Miami Hurricanes to win the 1991 NCAA I-A National Championship, and then entered the Canadian American Football League's Calgary Stampeders, quitting two months into the 1995 season. Later, influenced by his grandfather Peter Mavia and his father Rock Johnson, he embarked on a professional wrestling career under the name "Rock Mavia". Later, he became famous for being a member of the World Wrestling Federation "The Rock" from 1996 to 2004. He was the first third-generation wrestler in the history of the company. He briefly returned to WWE from 2011 to 2013 and won the WWE Championship 7 times. Johnson is considered one of the greatest wrestlers of all time. He established 17 championship dynasties in WWE, including 8 WWE(F) Championships and 2 WCW/World Championships. He also won two WWE Intercontinental Championships and five WWE Tag Team Championships, was WWE's sixth Triple Crown Champion, and the winner of the 2000 Royal Rumble. His autobiography "The Rock Said..." was published in 2000 and topped the New York Times bestseller list for several weeks upon its debut. His first starring film was "The Scorpion King" in 2002. This role gave him a salary of US$5.5 million, setting a world record for the highest salary for a debut film. Since then, his name has become well-known in the film industry. On December 16, 2013, Johnson was named the highest-grossing actor in 2013 by Forbes. The cumulative global box office of the films he participated in was nearly US$4.3 billion. In August 2016, he was named the highest-grossing actor in 2016 by Forbes, with an income of more than $64.5 million. In July 2018, Johnson was rated as the highest-paid actor by Forbes. His income from 2017 to 2018 exceeded US$124 million, breaking the historical record. As of July 2018, the cumulative global box office of his films has exceeded US$10.4 billion.

Gong Li, AL, originally from Xinmin City, Liaoning Province, is a Singaporean film actress and producer, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Ambassador, the United Nations Global Environmental Protection Ambassador, and the United Nations Artist for Peace.

Baccio Bandinelli (November 12, 1493 - February 7, 1560) was an Italian Renaissance sculptor, draftsman and painter.