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Chang Hua (March 1966-), a native of Beijing, is a diplomat of the People's Republic of China. He has served as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People's Republic of China to the Republic of Yemen, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People's Republic of China to the United Arab Emirates, and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People's Republic of China to the Islamic Republic of Iran. He is currently Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People's Republic of China to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Sanyu (October 14, 1895 - August 12, 1966), a famous French Chinese painter, was born in Shunqing (now Nanchong City), Sichuan Province. He was the sixth eldest child in his family. His real name was Chang Youshu. His painting style is a fusion of Chinese and Western styles, and he is often called the "Matis of the East" and the "Modigliani of Free China".

Hirano Aya (Japanese: Hirano Aya/Hirano Aya Hirano Aya, October 8, 1987 -) is a Japanese actress and singer. As a child actor, he entered the industry by appearing in TV commercials. In 2001, he made his debut as a voice actor in the animation "Angel Tail". In 2006, he became famous for starring in the "The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya" series. He successively won the 2007 Tokyo Animation Awards Voice Actor Award and the Best Newcomer Award at the Voice Actor Awards. His representative works also include the dubbing of characters such as Miami Sand in "Death Note", Izumi Matata in "Lucky Star", and Lucy Heartfilia in "Fairy Tail". Since 2010, he has transformed into a film, television and stage actor, starring in "This Is Not an Idol!" ? "(2012), "Mirror of the Muse" (2012) and other works. Hirano Aya was regarded as a representative figure of "idol voice actors" from the late 2000s to the early 2010s, and was one of the few voice actors who successfully crossed over into the mainstream entertainment industry. In addition to dubbing work, she is now releasing works under the music label Universal Sigma. She released her first single "Breakthrough" in 2006 and her first album "Riot Girl" in 2008.

Hironaka Heisuke (Japanese: Hironaka Heisuke/Hironaka Heisuke, Romanized: Hironaka Heisuke, April 9, 1931 - March 18, 2026), a Japanese mathematician, was born in Yuu Town, Kuku County, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan (now Iwakuni City). Member of the Japanese Academy of Sciences. In 1970, he won the Fields Medal for his achievements in algebraic geometry.

Zhuangzi (about 369 BC - 286 BC), named Zhou, also known as Zixiu, was born around the same time as Mencius in the Song Dynasty (now Dongming County, Heze City, Shandong Province) and served as an official in Qiyuan. He was a thinker, philosopher, and writer in the middle period of the Warring States Period in China. He was a representative figure of the Taoist school and the inheritor and developer of Laozi's thoughts. Later generations called him "Laozi and Zhuangzi" together with Laozi. In AD 742, at the beginning of the Tianbao reign of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, Zhuang Zhou was granted the title of Nanhua Zhenzhen, and his book "Zhuangzi" was named Nanhua Sutra, which was classified as the Zibu Taoist category in Sikuquanshu. During the reign of Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty, he was posthumously named "The True Monarch of Wei Yuantong".

Kurt Vonnegut (English: Kurt Vonnegut, November 11, 1922 - April 11, 2007, also known as Vonnegut and Vonnegut), an American writer and one of the representatives of black humor literature.

Kurt Friedrich Gödel (German: Kurt Friedrich Gödel, April 28, 1906 - January 14, 1978), an American mathematician, logician and philosopher born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, was a member of the Vienna Circle (Vienna Group). Gödel is one of the greatest logicians of the twentieth century. His most outstanding contribution is the relative consistency proof of Gödel's incompleteness theorem and the continuum hypothesis. Gödel was born in Brno, Czech Republic (formerly Austria-Hungary) in 1906. He graduated from the University of Vienna. He immigrated to the United States in 1940 and worked at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton until his retirement in 1976. Gödel died in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1978.

Kurt Vogel Russell (English: Kurt Vogel Russell, March 17, 1951 -) is an American actor. In his early years, he was a second-string player on the American Professional Baseball team. In the past, he has starred in many comedy movies co-produced with Disney. He often collaborates with director John Carpenter. His representative works are the heroic movie "Escape from New York" (1981) about saving the President of the United States in the early 1990s and its sequel "Escape from Los Angeles" (1996). He played the articulate anti-hero Snake Pliskin, which was widely praised. In 1986, he also played the funny and dissolute truck driver Jack Burton in Carpenter's fantasy action film "Chinatown." Other well-known works include the horror film "The Third" (1982), the science fiction film "Star Trek" (1994) and the blockbuster action film "Fast and Furious 7" (2015). He played Star-Lord's biological father Ego in the 2017 Marvel movie "Strike 2". Russell mainly supported the Liberal Party, and when there was no suitable candidate from the Liberal Party, he supported the Republicans. He even said that he and his current live-in girlfriend Goldie Hawn moved to Colorado because it was different from the general political atmosphere in Hollywood.

Ying Shuling (1981-), born in Shanghai, China, is a Chinese entrepreneur, a member of the E-sports Committee of the Olympic Council of Asia, a member of the 13th Shaanxi Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and currently the chairman of Hero Interactive Entertainment and the chairman of Hero Sports VSPO.

Anno Hideaki (Japanese: Anno Hideaki/Anno Hideaki, Romanized: Anno Hideaki, May 22, 1960 -) is a Japanese animator, director, and the representative director and president of Khara Co., Ltd. Born in Ube City, Yamaguchi Prefecture. As an animator, he is famous for his mechanical and explosive special effects drawings. As a director, he has made achievements in both animation and live-action films. His most famous works are the 1995 animated series "Neon Genesis Evangelion" and the 2016 special photo film "Shin Godzilla". Blood type is type A. His wife is cartoonist Yume Yoko Anno. Anno produced some amateur works when he was a student. After dropping out of the Imaging Planning Department (now Imaging Department) of the Art Department of Osaka University of the Arts, he entered the animation industry. During his period as a freelance original animator, he participated in the production of "Macross", "Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind" (1984) and other works, and respected Ichiro Itano and Hayao Miyazaki as his teachers. Later, he joined GAINAX due to the production of GAINAX's founding work "Wang Li's Space Army" (1987). His painting performance in "The King of Space Force" was highly praised, and Anno also claimed that this was the highest peak of his painting. He made his debut as an animation director in 1988 and successively directed "Over the Top" and "Natya", establishing a firm foothold in the industry. After a period of depression, he released "Neon Genesis Evangelion" in 1995, which received unprecedented response and became his most famous masterpiece. Anno then turned to live action and directed three films, but without any breakthrough. Khara founded Khara in 2006 and produced the animated film series "Evangelion: The New Movie", which has seen box-office increases. Afterwards, three live-action tokusatsu movies were released: "New Godzilla", "New Ultraman" (2022, not directed), and "New Kamen Rider" (2023). In his early years, he was fascinated by animation and special photography works. Influenced by this, Anno's works are always full of tributes to his favorite works in the past. His style blends postmodernism with a broad depiction of the thoughts and emotions of his characters, often using outside-the-box scenes to represent the mental deconstruction of these characters.

Kang Le (April 1959-), Chinese insect and ecologist. Researcher at the Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. In June 2017, he was appointed as the president of Hebei University.

Cornelius Vanderbilt (English: Cornelius Vanderbilt, May 27, 1794 - January 4, 1877), also translated as Cornelius Vanderbilt, Cornelius Vanderbilt, nicknamed "The Commodore" (English: the Commodore, a New York-based industrialist and philanthropist of Dutch descent, made his fortune relying on inland waterway trade and gradually gained a dominant position. He then invested heavily in the rapidly developing railroad industry in the United States, which significantly changed the geographical pattern of the United States. Cornelius Vanderbilt was the founder of the Vanderbilt family and one of the wealthiest men in American history. Although he had almost never been to the South of the United States in his life, he still donated money to found Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, named after him, with the purpose of promoting reconciliation between the North and the South and the reconstruction of the South. Vanderbilt is a symbol of America's Gilded Age industrial and commercial boom, and is often depicted as a representative figure of the "robber baron".

Nikolai Dmitrievich Kondratiev Kondratieff (March 4, 1892 - September 17, 1938), first translator Kondratieff, Kondratieff, Soviet economist, proposed the Kondratieff long wave, believing that there are long-term fluctuations in the development process of capitalist economy with a cycle of about 50 years, alternating between boom and depression. The famous American scholar Immanuel Wallerstein borrowed Kondratieff cycle theory in his world system analysis.

Konrad Hermann Joseph Adenauer (German: Konrad Hermann Joseph Adenauer, German pronunciation: [ˈkɔnʁaːt ˈhɛɐman ˈjoːzɛf ˈaːdənaʊɐ], January 5, 1876 – April 19, 1967), born in Cologne, German Empire, died in Rhein-Rhöndorf, West Germany. Before World War II, he served as the mayor of Cologne as a member of the Catholic Center Party for more than ten years. After the war, he was elected as the first West German Prime Minister, leader of the German Christian Democratic Union, and a famous politician and jurist. Edenault was committed to a market-based social system, restored West Germany's economy from the ruins of World War II to its central position in Europe, and worked with his Economy Minister Ludwig Erhard to create the German economic miracle. Since 1955, Edenauer had been the driving force behind the reconstruction of West Germany's national military power (the Bundeswehr); he opposed East Germany and succeeded in getting West Germany to join NATO. Edenault was already a major political figure in the Weimar Republic before World War II, serving as mayor of Cologne (1917-1933) and chairman of the Prussian State Council (1922-1933).

Constantin Brâncuşi (Romanian: Constantin Brâncuşi, Romanian pronunciation: [konstanˈtin brɨnˈkuʃʲ]; February 19, 1876 – March 16, 1957) was a Romanian and French sculptor and modern photographer. He is the most influential sculptor of the 20th century after Auguste Rodin and is known as the pioneer of modernist sculpture. From 1894 to 1898, he studied art at the School of Arts and Crafts in Craiova, from 1898 to 1901 at the National University of Arts in Bucharest, and in 1905 he entered the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in France. After completing traditional academic training, Brancusi was influenced by African art and Romanian folk art, and gradually developed his unique sculptural style. Brancusi's sculptures often use copper, marble, wood and plaster materials to depict abstract themes such as eggs and flying birds, leading the avant-garde trend in the field of visual art. He came into contact with Cubism in 1910 and was influenced by it. He began to experiment with a limited range of subjects and the use of different materials. In 1938, Brancusi completed the creation of the War Memorial in Targuzyu, which completely integrated architecture and sculpture and achieved a milestone in the history of art.

Kang Seulgi (Korean: Seulgi Kang/Seulgi, Romanized: Kang Seul-Gi, February 10, 1994 -), whose stage name is Seulgi, Seulgi (Korean: Seulgi, Japanese: seulgi), is a Korean female singer, a member of the Korean girl group Red Velvet, and serves as the lead dancer and lead singer in the team.

Conan Christopher O'Brien (English: Conan Christopher O'Brien; April 18, 1963 -), American talk show host, comedian, writer, producer, and voice actor. He is best known for hosting late-night talk shows for nearly 28 years and served as host of NBC News' Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1993-2009), The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien (2009-2010) and TBS's The Conan Show (2010–2021). O'Brien was born in Brooklyn, Massachusetts, and raised in an Irish Catholic family. While studying at Harvard University, he served as the editor-in-chief of the Harvard Satirist magazine. After graduation, he moved to Los Angeles, where his first comedy-related job was as a writer for a comedy series, and he also worked as a writer for several talk shows. O'Brien then moved to New York, where he worked as a writer for "Saturday Night Live" and the cartoon "The Simpsons." Until he was commissioned by NBC to replace David Reitman as late-night host. O'Brien's original late-night run was virtually unknown to the public, and the show generally improved over time and was highly regarded when it concluded its run in 2009. O'Brien then moved from New York to Los Angeles and hosted his own "Tonight Show" for seven months until a host change in 2010. After his departure, O'Brien toured on a live comedy tour in approximately 32 cities across the United States and became the subject of the documentary "Can't Stop Conan O'Brien." From 2010 to 2021, he hosted "The Conan Show". He also hosted events such as the Emmy Awards and Christmas in Washington. O'Brien was a guest speaker at the 2013 White House Correspondents' Association Dinner. Known for his spontaneous hosting style, which The New York Times described as "awkward, self-deprecating humor," O'Brien's late-night show combines "raunchiness and weirdness with more elegant, narrative-driven shorts." With David Letterman's retirement on May 20, 2015, O'Brien became the longest-serving active late-night talk show host in the United States. This active streak ended with O'Brien's retirement from late-night television in June 2021, having lasted nearly 28 years throughout his career as a late-night host. In 2010, he was named one of the 100 most influential people by Time magazine. In March 2025, he will serve as the 97th Oscars

Conor Anthony McGregor is an Irish professional mixed martial artist and currently a UFC Ultimate Fighting Championship player. He is a former UFC featherweight and lightweight champion, and a former cage fighter featherweight and lightweight champion. As of July 19, 2021, he is ranked No. 9 in the UFC lightweight division.

Conyers Herring (November 15, 1914 - July 23, 2009) was an American physicist and professor of applied physics at Stanford University. He won the 1985 Wolf Prize in Physics for his significant contributions to the basic theory of solids, especially the behavior of electrons in metals. He first predicted the existence of Weyl fermions in solid-state systems with band structures. His doctoral supervisor was Eugene Wigner.

Kang Hui (January 17, 1971 -), male, Han nationality, from Baoding, Hebei, was born in Wuji, Hebei. He is a news announcer and host of China Central Television, director of the broadcast department of the CCTV News Center, a member of the Communist Party of China (joined the party in 1993), a representative of the 19th and 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, and vice chairman of the China Television Artists Association. When party and state leaders of the People's Republic of China visit overseas, they will also travel as journalists.

Tuo Zhen (tuǒ) Zhen (September 9, 1959 -), male, from Fangcheng County, Nanyang City, Henan Province, is a political figure of the People's Republic of China. He started working in June 1976 and joined the Communist Party of China in June 1982. Graduated from the Department of Economics of Wuhan University, majoring in political economics. He was awarded the title of "National Outstanding Journalist" in 1984, one of the "Top Ten Outstanding Young People in China" in 1993, and the Fan Changjiang Journalism Award in 2002. He once served as editor-in-chief of China Mainland Economic Daily and vice president of Xinhua News Agency. In May 2012, he was appointed as member of the Standing Committee of the Guangdong Provincial Committee and Minister of Propaganda. In July 2015, he was appointed deputy minister of the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. In April 2018, he was appointed editor-in-chief of the People's Daily. In October 2020, he was appointed president of the People's Daily. Alternate member of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and member of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.

Liao Shijun, professor, main research fields include applied mathematics, nonlinear waves, ocean engineering, etc. The founder of "Homotopy Analysis Method". Distinguished professor of the third batch of "Changjiang Scholars" of the Ministry of Education of China. He has won awards such as China's "Second Prize of National Natural Science Award", published hundreds of papers, and published many English monographs.

Dick Liu Kai-chi (English: Dick Liu Kai-chi, September 30, 1953 - March 28, 2021), a Hong Kong actor, was a full-time lecturer at the Film School of Hong Kong Baptist University during his lifetime.

Jens Castrop (English: Jens Castrop; Korean: Jens kastrop; July 29, 2003 -) is a South Korean football player who also holds German nationality and plays as a midfielder. He currently plays for the Bundesliga team Munson Garber.