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Shikitei Sanba (Japanese: Shikitei Sanma/custom Sanba, Romanized: Shikitei Sanba; 1776-February 27, 1822), whose real name was Taisuke Kikuchi and whose courtesy name was Kutoku. A Japanese writer and ukiyo-e painter in the late Edo period, he and Shikasha Ichiku are known as the two major writers of comic books in Japan. Their representative works include the comic books "Ukiyo Bathhouse" and "Ukiyo Barber Shop".

Frank Lloyd Wright (English: Frank Lloyd Wright, June 8, 1867 - April 9, 1959), American architect, interior designer, author, and educator. He designed over a thousand buildings, 532 of which have been completed. Wright believed that architectural structures need to be in harmony with human nature and its environment. This architectural philosophy is called "organic architecture." The best example of organic architecture is Fallingwater (1935) designed by Wright, which was once praised as "the greatest building in American history." Wright's creative period spanned more than 70 years. Wright pioneered the architectural movement known as the Pastoral School and also developed the concept of the Usonian home in the Broadacre City, which was his unique vision in American urban planning. In addition to homes, Wright also designed many unique and innovative offices, churches, schools, skyscrapers, hotels, museums and other buildings. He also often designed building interiors, including furniture and stained glass windows. Wright wrote twenty books and many articles during his lifetime, and was a popular speaker. Wright, who was already well known during his lifetime, was named "the greatest American architect" by the American Institute of Architects in 1991. . Wright's colorful life often made headlines, including his divorce from his first wife, Kathleen Lee Tobin, for falling in love with his client's wife, Maha Borthwick (Borswick was murdered at Taliesin in 1914 before the divorce), his acrimonious marriage and divorce from his second wife, Miriam Noel, and his relationship with his third wife, Olgivina Lloyd Wright, whom he married in 1928. In 2019, eight buildings designed by Frank Roy Wright were simultaneously selected as World Heritage Sites.

Frank Hyneman Knight (English: Frank Hyneman Knight, November 7, 1885 - April 15, 1972), born in McLean County, Illinois, United States, was an economist who proposed Knight's uncertainty. Professor at the University of Chicago and one of the pioneers and founders of the Chicago School.

Frank Vincent Zappa (English: Frank Vincent Zappa, December 21, 1940 - December 4, 1993), American composer, singer-songwriter, guitarist, record producer, and film director. Throughout his career spanning more than 30 years, his musical output has spanned rock, pop, jazz, jazz fusion, electronic, orchestral and concrete styles. At the same time, Frank Zappa also participated in directing feature films and music videos, and designing album covers. He produced and released over 60 albums both with the band the Mothers of Invention and as a solo artist. His work is known for its unconventional approach, improvisation, sonic experimentation, musical virtuosity and satire on popular culture. He is considered one of the most innovative and stylistically diverse musicians of his generation. As a nearly self-taught composer and musician, Zappa was influenced by a wide range of music, so much of the music he composed sometimes defied categorization. As a teenager he became interested in 20th century modern classical music, Afro-R&B and doo-wop. He began composing classical music in high school while playing drums in a rhythm and blues band, and later switched to playing electric guitar. His 1966 debut studio album with the Mothers of Invention, Freak out!, combined seemingly traditional but ironic rock music with avant-garde sound collage. He continued this eclectic, experimental approach throughout his career. Zappa's work is united by a continuum of what he calls "plans/goals," and many phrases, ingenuities, and characters recur throughout his albums. His lyrics reflected his iconoclastic views on existing social trends, political institutions and movements, and were often humorous, and he was considered the godfather of comedy rock. He was a strident critic of mainstream education and the church, and an outspoken and passionate advocate of free speech, self-education, political participation and the abolition of censorship. Unlike many rock musicians of his generation, he disapproved of the use of recreational drugs but supported their legalization and regulation. Zappa was a controversial, criticized, and prolific musician whose fans appreciated the complexity of his compositions while critics considered it to lack emotional depth. He achieved greater commercial success outside the United States, particularly in Europe. Although Zappa is an independent musician, his main source of income relies on his relationship with

Frank Owen Gehry, CC (English: Frank Owen Gehry, /ˈɡɛəri/ GAIR-ee; nee Goldberg; February 28, 1929 - December 5, 2025) was an American postmodernist and deconstructivist architect who won the Pritzker Prize. Frank·Gary was born in Canada，Later immigrated and settled in the United States，He at1970The era stands out for its unique style，He is adept at combining everyday materials with complex and dynamic structures。 Although Gehry himself had reservations about being categorized, his architectural style is often described as deconstructivist. 2010world architecture survey（World Architecture Survey）Considers his work to be one of the most important works of contemporary architecture，《vanity fair》The magazine even called Gehry“The most important architect of our time”。 Gary's private residence in Santa Monica, California，Launched his architectural career， Get Gary out of here「paper architect」status，Before receiving their first major commission, many well-known architects，Almost all of them have experienced the green and mature stage of working on paper like this.。Gehry's famous works include the titanium Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain.、MIT State Technology Center、Los Angeles Disney Concert Hall、Seattle's Music Experience、Louis Vuitton Art Center in Paris、Weisman Museum of Art in Minneapolis、Dancing houses and more in the Czech Republic。 Throughout his career, Gehry received numerous awards and honors, including the 1989 Pritzker Architecture Prize. He has also been awarded the National Medal of Arts and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Francis Albert Sinatra, nicknamed Skinny Monkey in the Chinese-speaking world, is an American male singer and Oscar-winning actor. Recognized as one of the best American male pop singers of the 20th century.

Frank William Abagnale, Jr. (English: Frank William Abagnale, Jr.; April 27, 1948 -) is an American security consultant who was famous for his experience in forging checks, impersonating identities, defrauding trust, and escaping in his early years. In the 1960s, in the five years since Frank Abagnale was 16 years old, he forged $2.5 million in checks in 26 countries and was wanted by many countries. He later claimed that he assumed no less than eight identities in the process, including a Pan Am pilot, a teacher, a doctor, a Federal Bureau of Prisons employee, and a lawyer, and that he escaped from detention twice, all before he was 21 years old. He spent less than five years in a U.S. prison before being released and working for the U.S. federal government. He currently serves as a consultant and instructor at FBI Academy and field offices. He also founded Abagnale & Associates, a financial fraud consulting firm. In 1980, Abagnale published his autobiography "Catch Me if You Can", which described his fraud experience in the first person. In 2002, Spielberg directed the film "Cat and Mouse" based on Abagnale's story. A musical with the same name was also staged in 2011.

Virginia Woolf, a British writer, is considered a pioneer of realist literature, stream-of-consciousness literature and feminist literature in the twentieth century. In the early twentieth century, she was a central figure in London's literary scene and a member of the Bloomsbury Circle. The most famous novels include "Mrs. Dalloway", "To the Lighthouse", "Orlando", "The Waves", the essay "A Room of One's Own", etc.

Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who has served as President of Russia since 2012. He served as the President of Russia from 2000 to 2008, and served as the Prime Minister of Russia twice from 1999 to 2000 and 2008 to 2012. Since 2000, he has been regarded by the outside world as the de facto supreme leader of Russia.

Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyi (Ukrainian: Володимир Олександрович Зеленський, Romanized: Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyi, pronounced: [woloˈdɪmɪr olekˈsɑndrowɪdʒ‿zeˈlɛnʲsʲkɪj]; January 25, 1978 -; or translated by Ukrainian name Volodymyr Zelensky) Ukrainian politician and former comedian, serving as the sixth president of Ukraine since 2019. He has served as Chairman of the Supreme Command of Ukraine since February 2022 after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Due to the inability to hold general elections during the war, Zelensky has been extended to become Ukraine's second-longest-serving president and the only president with a single term of more than five years. Zelensky was born into a Jewish family in the central Ukrainian city of Krivilih, and his mother tongue is Russian. He obtained a law degree from the Kreverich School of Economics but never practiced law, instead pursuing a career in comedy and entertainment. He founded the production company 95 Block Studios, which produced films, cartoons and television shows, including the TV series "Servant of the People," in which Zelensky played the fictional president of Ukraine. The show aired from 2015 to 2019 and was very popular. In March 2018, employees at Block 95 Studios created a political party with the same name as the TV series. On the evening of December 31, 2018, Zelenskiy announced his participation in the 2019 presidential election while then-President Petro Poroshenko delivered a New Year's Eve speech on TV channel 1+1. A political outsider, he had emerged as one of the front-runners in election polls months before he formally announced his candidacy. He won the second round of the election with 73.23% of the vote, defeating Poroshenko with the largest landslide in the history of Ukrainian presidential elections. Zelensky has positioned himself as an anti-establishment and anti-corruption figure. As president, he has been a supporter of electronic government and the unity of the Ukrainian and Russian populations. He uses social media extensively, especially Instagram. His party won a landslide victory in the snap legislative elections held shortly after he became president. During his first two years in power, Zelensky oversaw the removal of the legal immunity of Ukrainian members of the Verkhovna Rada in parliament, the country's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the subsequent economic

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (Russian: Владимир Владимирович Набоков) Nabokov; April 23, 1899 - July 2, 1977), a 20th-century Russian-American novelist, literary critic, translator, poet, chess enthusiast and entomologist. Nabokov was born in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire, in 1899. During his exile, he wrote a large number of Russian novels (including "The Gift"), but what really made him famous was "Lolita", which he completed the first draft in English in 1955 (it was translated into Russian by himself ten years later). "Lolita" became famous in the twentieth century and became famous in the literary world. Nabokov's subsequent English novels (such as "Pnin", "Dark Fire", "Ada or Eros: A Family Chronicle", etc.) fully demonstrate his love for wording and detailed description.

Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky (Russian: Владимир Владимирович Маяковский; July 19, 1893 - April 14, 1930) was a Soviet poet and playwright of Ukrainian origin, a representative figure of Russian Futurism and Socialist Realism.

Francesco Clemente, born in Naples, is an Italian painter whose works include both Surrealism and Expressionism.

François-André Danican Philidor (French: François-André Danican Philidor, September 7, 1726 - August 31, 1795) was a French chess master and composer in the mid-18th century. He attaches great importance to the status of "pawns" in the chess game. He tried to base chess theory on a scientific basis and is considered the first chess theorist to make a systematic analysis of chess. His major works include "Chess Analysis". In terms of composition, he was a representative composer of French comic operas in the 18th century. His works were dramatic and close to the lives of the masses, and were very popular at the time.

François Clouet (English: François Clouet, 1510-1572), a European artist during the Renaissance. The son of Jean Clouet, he devoted himself to the study of paintings for many years, mainly in France. He was a famous painter of genre scenes and portraits.

François Marie Adrien Maurice Mitterrand (French: François Marie Adrien Maurice Mitterrand) ; October 26, 1916 - January 8, 1996), a French politician who served as President of France, Grand Duke of Andorra and First Secretary of the French Socialist Party. He was the first left-wing president of the Fifth French Republic.

Francois·Roland·Truffaut（French：François Roland Truffaut，1932Year2moon6day—1984Year10moon21day）It's a French director、film critic，One of the representatives of the French New Wave film genre，「Film auteur theory」advocates of，With another famous French director Jean-Loup·Gundam tie，Enjoy a high reputation in the international film community。 Truffaut dropped out of school at the age of 14 because of truancy and had to work in a factory.As a teenager, he already loved movies，Organized a small movie screening event that resulted in debt，16Sent to a juvenile correctional center when he was young，Later by Andre·Bazin bailed，And led him into the field of film criticism，Basin was his spiritual mentor，It also deeply influenced his ideas on film.。 Bazin founded "Cinema Notes" in 1951. Later, Durufo joined to write film reviews and was considered the most acerbic critic in Paris. In 1955, he shot his first short film "The Visit", and later worked as an assistant to Italian director Rossellini. In 1957, Truffaut wrote an article predicting the arrival of "first-person" films. 1959First feature film of the year《four hundred blows》Immediately won the Best Director Award at the Cannes Film Festival，《four hundred blows》To secure the end·Dano（Antoine Doinel，Yoshinao-Biey·Leo's performance）as the protagonist，autobiographical，together with《Twenty year old love》、《blow a kiss》、《bed ground situation》、《love escape》An Duan·Dano Pentalogy。 He is also good at practicing Bazin’s teachings「long shot」theory，Story themes are rich and varied、Content varies；Especially good at photographing beautiful scenery、A fresh French-style literary love movie，Movie fans from all over the world are moved and recall it again and again to this day.。 Truffaut died of brain cancer in 1984. A total of 21 feature films and four short films were directed by the director.

François Mauriac (French: [fʁɑəswa ʃaʁl moʁjak]; Occitan: Francés Carles Mauriac; October 11, 1885 – September 1, 1970) was a French novelist, playwright, critic, poet, and journalist, a member of the French Academy of Letters (since 1933), and winner of the 1952 Nobel Prize for Literature. He was awarded the Grand Cross of the French Legion of Honor in 1958. Mauriac was born in Bordeaux, France, and graduated from the Department of Literature at the University of Bordeaux in 1905. His main works include the poetry collection "Handshake" and the novel "The Desert of Love".

François Kinsoen (January 29, 1770 - October 18, 1839) was a painter born in Flanders, Belgium. As a young man he studied at the art school in Bruges and established his reputation in Ghent and Brussels. He exhibited portraits in Paris in 1799 and settled in Paris after the exhibition. His paintings were popular with the rich and famous at the time. He later became court painter to Jérôme Bonaparte and remained in Paris until 1830, where he died in Bruges in 1839 at the age of 69. Kanamori is best remembered for his elegant female portraits.

Franz Kafka, a German-language novelist and short story writer born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, is hailed by critics as one of the most influential writers of the 20th century.

Liszt Ferencz (Hungarian: Liszt Ferencz, October 22, 1811 - July 31, 1886), German name Franz Liszt (German: Franz Liszt), Hungarian composer, music critic, pianist, and one of the main representatives of romantic music. Liszt developed piano skills to an unparalleled level at the time, greatly enriched the expressive power of the piano, and created orchestral effects on the piano. He also pioneered the method of memorizing music and had outstanding improvisational skills. He also gained the title of "King of Piano" for this reason. In 1841, Liszt fanaticism swept across Europe. The piano music he composed was extremely difficult. Liszt became famous in Europe in the early 19th century for his prodigious skills as a pianist. He was a friend, musical promoter, and benefactor to many composers of the time, including Frédéric Chopin, Charles-Valentin Alcorn, Richard Wagner, Hector Berlioz, Robert Schumann, Clara Schumann, Camille Saint-Saëns, Edvard Grieg, Ole Boul, Joachim Raff, Mikhail Glinka, and Alexander Borodin. Liszt was a prolific composer and one of the most outstanding representatives of the New German School of Music. He left behind an extensive and diverse body of work that influenced his forward-thinking contemporaries and anticipated 20th-century thought and trends. Liszt's musical contributions included symphonic poetry, thematic shifts as part of his experiments with musical form, and radical innovations in harmony.

Franz Zerafikus Peter Schubert, Austrian composer, a representative figure of early Romantic music, is also considered the last master of classical music. His life was short, only lived for 31 years, but he composed more than 600 songs, 19 operas, operas and drama music, 8 completed symphonies (No. 7 and 10 are only drafts), 19 string quartets, 22 piano sonatas, 4 violin sonatas, etc.

Franz Anton Beckenbauer (German: Franz Anton Beckenbauer, German pronunciation: [fʁants ˈʔantoːn ˈbɛkn̩ˌbaʊɐ], September 11, 1945 - January 7, 2024) was a former German men's football player, coach and team leader. He was nicknamed "Caesar" (der Kaiser), one of the most influential and respected figures in German football history. He was known for his technical prowess, leadership and intelligence during his career. Beacon Bower's agility and technical ability on the pitch allowed him to play an important role in different positions. He started out as a midfielder but later switched to a central defender and became a role model in this position. He possesses excellent defensive skills, precise passing and excellent tactical awareness, and performs well in the "libero" role in the midfield and backfield. Beacon Bower once represented West Germany and scored 14 goals in 103 games. He participated in three FIFA World Cups (1966, 1970 and 1974). In 1974, he led the West Germany team to win the championship on home soil. He was selected to the All-Star team in every tournament he participated in. So far, only he and Brazilian defender Jalma Santos (1954, 1958, 1962) have been selected as the starting 11 of the All-Star team in three World Cups. As the head coach, he led the West Germany team to participate in the World Cup in 1986 and 1990, reaching the finals in both cases and winning the World Cup championship in 1990. He became the second celebrity after Brazilian legend Mario Zagallo to win the World Cup as both a player and a head coach. As a player, he was recognized as one of the greatest players in world football history. As a coach, he was recognized as one of the most successful coaches. After retiring, he served as chairman of the German Football Association, chairman of the World Cup Organizing Committee, and vice president of FIFA. He is recognized by FIFA and world public opinion as "The Emperor of Football" (Der Kaiser). In 2004, he was ranked among the 125 best living players (FIFA 100) selected by football king Pele. On January 7, 2024, Beckenbauer passed away in his sleep in Salzburg, Austria, at the age of 78.

Francis Harry Compton Crick OM FRS, British biologist, physicist and neuroscientist. His most important achievement was the discovery of the double helix structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) with James Watson at the Cavendish Laboratory of Cambridge University in 1953. For this, the two of them, together with Maurice Wilkins, won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for "the discovery of the molecular structure of nucleic acids and their importance to the transmission of information in organisms." Crick died of colorectal cancer in California, United States, in 2004. His colleague Christoph Koch once lamented: "He was still revising a paper before he died; he was still a scientist until his death."