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Mabel Cheung (English: Mabel Cheung, November 17, 1950 -), Hong Kong film director and screenwriter, one of the representatives of the new wave of Hong Kong films.

Zhang Xuejin (1941-December 21, 2012), a Chinese Peking Opera actor, worked as a student in the Gongsheng University, and studied under Ma Lianliang.

Zhang Hongjie (April 1972-), formerly known as Zhang Chang, is a professor and researcher at the School of History at Renmin University of China. His main research directions are non-fiction historical writing and public history communication.

Zhang Xiaoguang (September 8, 1970 - September 21, 2016) was a male crosstalk actor in mainland China, a duo actor and Zhao Benshan's tenth apprentice.

Jiao Anpu (May 30, 1981 -), whose stage names are An Pu and Zhang Xuan, is a Taiwanese singer-songwriter and social activist. The name "Zhang Xuan" known to the public is the pen name she used when she was in middle school when she tried to write new poems and submitted them to supplements. After the Kaohsiung Tidewater Motto concert in 2015, she chose to bid farewell to her identity as Zhang Xuan and leave the music scene for a while, and started writing under the single name "An Pu". An Pu's lyrics are extremely poetic, meaningful, and often lead the audience into deep thinking. She also often expresses her care and criticism of society in her works. Her unique observations and delicate writing allowed her to win the Best Lyricist Award at the 24th Golden Melody Awards in 2013 for her song "Rose Colored You" written for social activists. It was also her first Golden Melody Award in her life. Ten years later, in 2023, he won the Song of the Year Award at the 34th Golden Melody Awards for his song "The Best Time".

Zhang Haipeng (May 1939-), professor and doctoral supervisor at the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and member of the Faculty of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

Zhang Yufa (born February 1, 1935 or 1936) is a historian of the Republic of China and an academician of the Academia Sinica.

Zhang Yunjing (September 6, 1983 -), stage name Zhang Yunjing, is a Taiwanese singer. After winning the championship title of the first season of "Super Idol" in 2008, he was signed by Gold Medal Dafeng. In 2009, he released his first solo album "Unprecedented".

Zhang Zanbo (August 10, 1973 -) is a Chinese independent documentary director, born in Shaoyang, Hunan Province. He graduated from the master's degree class of the Directing Department of Beijing Film Academy in 2005. In 2009, he completed his debut documentary feature "Skyfall". In 2015, his fourth documentary feature "The Road to the Sky" was shortlisted for the main competition of the 28th Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival, and was nominated for Best Documentary at the 53rd Golden Horse Awards.

Zhang Changcheng (April 1933 - January 18, 2020), a Teochew opera actor, was born in Shapi Village, Chengtian Town, Chaoyang County (now Shapi Village, Chengtian Town, Chaonan District, Shantou City) in the 22nd year of the Republic of China. He is a famous Laosheng performing artist in the contemporary Teochew opera circle and is known as the "Living Honest Official" and the "Teochew Opera Laosheng King". In 1944, at the age of 11, due to financial constraints, he was forced to sell himself and join the "San Zhengshun" theater troupe as a child actor, starting his more than seventy-year career in Teochew opera. In 1959, he transferred to the first troupe of Guangdong Chaozhou Theater and became a pillar actor of the theater. This was the peak period of his career. During this period, he performed with the troupe many times in Thailand, Singapore, the United States, France and other countries and regions. He was extremely influential among Chaozhou people at home and abroad. During his lifetime, he served as a second-level actor and director of the art committee of the Guangdong Chaozhou Theater Troupe. In his later years, he was engaged in art inheritance work and was one of the representative inheritors of the Guangdong Provincial Intangible Cultural Heritage Project (Teochew Opera). In his later years, he was still committed to guiding young actors and inheriting classic plays.

Zhang Xueying (June 18, 1997 -), a native of Yiwu City, Zhejiang Province, is an actress in mainland China. Graduated from the undergraduate class of the Acting Department of the Central Academy of Drama in 2020. Protagonist works include "Dog Thirteen", "Bubble Summer", "White Hair", etc.

Aska Cheung Chi Ho (English: Aska Cheung Chi Ho; March 5, 1995 -) is a Hong Kong male singer and actor. He is a contestant in the first season of the TVB singing talent show "Legend of Dreams". He is currently a TVB manager contract artist and a male singer of the label "Love Boom Music" under Star Dream Entertainment. On April 19, 2022, he released his first solo single "The Back of Color" and made his official debut. The major awards Zhang Chihao has received include the "Top Ten Outstanding Singers" in the Metro Awards Ceremony.

Zhang Lijia (May 1, 1964 -) is a Chinese writer, journalist and speaker. In 2009, Zhang Lijia's English autobiographical work "Socialism is Good!" The publication of "Memoirs of Workers in New China" won her many praises. Her first novel in English, Lotus, was published in 2017.

Shi Yue (1979-), pen name Nian Mingyue, male, was born in Yichang, Hubei, and native of Wuhan, Hubei. He is a writer, scholar and official in the People's Republic of China. He was a former Shunde Customs civil servant and editor of the magazine "Golden Key" under the General Administration of Customs. He became popular for writing the historical novel "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty". He later served as deputy director of the Research Office of the Shanghai Municipal People's Government and associate researcher of the Ming History Society of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

Son Chaeyoung (Korean: Chaeyoung Son/ Son Chaeyoung, Romanized: Son Chaeyoung; English: Katarina Son; April 23, 1999 -) is a South Korean female singer-songwriter. She debuted through the Korean girl group TWICE in 2015 and serves as the main rapper. and chorus. He has written lyrics and created rap parts for many songs. He is also the first member of the team to participate in the creation of Korean and Japanese songs. The Korean Music Copyright Association registration number is 10020132. His solo debut album "LIL FANTASY vol.1" released in 2025 was ranked 86th in "The 100 Best Albums of 2025" by the American music magazine "Rolling Stone" and "The 25 Best K-Pop Albums of 2025" by Billboard. Albums of 2025: Staff Picks).

Eddie Peng (English: Eddie Peng; March 24, 1982-), a Taiwanese actor, was born in Penghu County, Taiwan. He made his debut in the entertainment industry in 2002.

Peng Weiguo (October 3, 1971 -) is a Chinese football coach, commentator, and former professional football player. He was selected for the Chinese national team for a long time as a player. He became famous for the Guangzhou Sun Gods. He also played for Chongqing Avant-garde Huandao and Shenzhen Ping An Kejian. After retiring, he served as a coach for many teams.

Pang Ho Cheung (English: Pang Ho Cheung, September 22, 1973 -), Hong Kong film director, screenwriter, writer and actor. His film style belongs to the genre of black humor, absurd drama and market.

Yakusho Kōji (Japanese: Yakusho Hiroshi/Yakusho Kouji, Romanized: Yakusho Kōji, January 1, 1956 -), whose real name is Hashimoto Koji (Japanese: Hashimoto Hiroshi/Hashimoto Kouji, Romanized: Hashimoto Kōji, born in Isahaya City, Nagasaki Prefecture, is a powerful Japanese actor who has won many film awards. He is also the second Japanese actor to win the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival.

Pyotr Il'yich Chaykovskiy (Russian: Пётр Ильич Чайковский, Romanized: Pyotr Il'yich Chaykovskiy, May 7, 1840 – November 6, 1893) was a Russian composer. Many of Tchaikovsky's works achieved international fame during his lifetime and remain one of the most important representatives of Romantic music today. Tchaikovsky's most famous works include Violin Concerto in D major, Piano Concerto No. 1 in B♭ minor, "1812 Overture", as well as opera works "Eugene Onegin" and "The Queen of Spades", and ballet works "Swan Lake", "Sleeping Beauty", "Nutcracker", etc.

Sir Peter Paul Rubens (Dutch: Sir Peter Paul Rubens, June 28, 1577 - May 30, 1640) was a Flemish painter and an early representative of the Baroque school. Rubens's paintings have a strong Baroque style, emphasizing movement, color and sensuality. Rubens is famous for his Counter-Reformation altarpieces, portraits, landscapes, and historical paintings of myths and allegories. Rubens ran a large studio in Antwerp, painted many famous paintings, and was also a well-known art collector in Europe. Rubens received a good education in Renaissance humanism and was a diplomat himself. He was knighted by King Felipe IV of Spain and King Charles I of England.

Peter Hardeman Burnett (November 15, 1807 - May 17, 1895), American politician, independent Democrat, first governor of California (1849-1851).

Richard Henry Sellers, CBE (September 8, 1925 - July 24, 1980), better known by his stage name Peter Sellers Sellers is an award-winning movie star and comedian with extremely superb acting skills. In the 30 years from the 1950s to 1980, almost all of his films were well received and well-received. His most famous masterpieces are the black comedy film "Dr. Strangelove" that mocked the atmosphere of nuclear war in the Cold War era (he played one of the three actors in the film), and the slapstick comedy classic "The Pink Panther" where he played a silly detective with a slurred speech. The French-accented English-speaking "Crouseau" detective (with a stand-up collar, a magnifying glass, and a funny mustache), and the fictional character, the 19th-century Chinese-American detective "Fu Manchu" who wore pigtails to hang his eyes and had long curly nails. White people laughed constantly every time he performed, but at the same time, there were constant protests from Chinese people in Chinatown. In addition to gaining fame and fortune, he also had constant gossip and scandals with several female movie stars in the British and American film circles at that time. On the evening of July 24, 1980, Sellers suffered a heart attack and collapsed shortly after dining in a hotel suite. He was sent to London's Middlesex Hospital for rescue and died after midnight on July 24, 1980 at the age of 54.

Peter Ware Higgs, CH, FRS, FRSE (English: Peter Ware Higgs, May 29, 1929 - April 8, 2024), British theoretical physicist, emeritus professor at the University of Edinburgh. He is world-famous for the Higgs mechanism and the Higgs particle. Peter Higgs was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. He graduated from King's College London in 1960 and taught at the University of Edinburgh from 1960 to 1996. On July 4, 2012, CERN announced that the LHC's compact muon coil detected a new particle with a mass of 125.3±0.6 GeV (exceeding the background expectation by 4.9 standard deviations), and the torus instrument measured a new particle with a mass of 126.5 GeV. On March 14, 2013, CERN issued a press release stating that the previously detected new particle was the Higgs boson. The Higgs mechanism is widely regarded as an important theoretical basis for the Standard Model of particle physics. Peter Higgs has received many awards, including the Dirac Medal and the British Physical Society Outstanding Contribution to Theoretical Physics Award in 1997, the Wolf Prize in Physics in 2004, and the Sakurai Prize in 2010. In 2013, Higgs and Francois Engler were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for "the theory of the mass generation mechanism of subatomic particles, which has advanced human understanding in this regard and has recently been confirmed by the discovery of elementary particles by the torus instrument and the compact muon coil detector of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN."