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Diana Ernestine Earle Rose was an American singer and actress who was the lead singer of the 1960s Motown recording group The Supremes. After leaving the group in 1970, she began to transition into a solo singer, and she achieved great success in movies and Broadway theaters. She was nominated for the 1972 Academy Award for Best Actress for her role as the late singer Billie Holiday in the drama "Lady Sings the Blues" and also won the Golden Globe Award that year. She has won 8 American Music Awards and been nominated for 12 Grammy Awards. In 1976, "Billboard" magazine named her the best female artist of the era. In 1977, she won a Tony Award for her solo play "An Evening with Diana Ross."

Dianna Elise Agron (/ˈeɪɡrɒn/;), April 30, 1986 -) is an American actress. After graduating from high school, she took on some commercials and guest-starred in some TV series and movies, such as "Heroes", "New York", and "Pretty Girls". In 2009, Diana played the role of cheerleader Quinn Fabray in Fox Broadcasting Company's "Glee". She is widely recognized for this show.

Dale Thomas Mortensen (English: Dale Thomas Mortensen, February 2, 1939 - January 9, 2014) was an American economist and former professor at Northwestern University. He is known for his research on labor economics, especially the theory of frictional unemployment. On December 10, 2010, he won the Nobel Prize in Economics together with Peter Diamond and Christopher Pissarides.

Tinglong Dai is the Bernard T. Ferrari Chair Professor and Professor of Operations Management and Business Analysis at the Johns Hopkins University School of Business. He specializes in management science and is interested in the U.S. healthcare system. , artificial intelligence , global supply chain , market operation , and online platforms.

Dai Jianye (1956-), a native of Macheng, Hubei Province, graduated from Central China Normal University. He is now a professor, doctoral supervisor, and leader of the classical literature subject group and subject leader of the Ancient Literature Teaching and Research Section of the School of Liberal Arts of Central China Normal University. In October 2018, he became popular after his video of teaching ancient poetry in class was uploaded to Douyin, and he was known as the "Internet celebrity professor".

Dai Qing (January 8, 1941 -), formerly known as Fu Xiaoqing and Fu Ning, was born in Linchuan County, Jiangxi Province, and was born in Chongqing, China. He is a freelance writer. Her biological father was a revolutionary martyr who was killed by Japanese military police in 1945. After that, Dai Qing became the adopted daughter of Ye Jianying, a veteran of the Communist Party of China. He once served as a technician in the Ministry of Aviation Industry of China and the Ministry of Public Security, a staff officer in the First Bureau of the General Staff, and a reporter in Guangming Daily. He is a member of the Chinese Writers Association.

David Edward Card (English: David Edward Card, born 1956) is a Canadian-American economist in the field of labor economics and a professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley. He was awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Economics together with two others for "empirical contributions to labor economics."

David Carradine (English: David Carradine, December 8, 1936 - June 3, 2009), formerly known as John Arthur Carradine Carradine, an American actor, was born in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. He graduated from the music theory and arrangement department of the University of California, San Francisco. He was born in a family of actors. His father, brother, and daughter were all film and television actors. In 1966, he performed on Broadway in New York and participated in the first film directed by the famous director Martin Scorsese. In 1972, David Carradine starred in the TV show Gan Guixiang, a silent but excellent martial arts monk from the Shaolin Temple. Later, he starred in the Western movie series "Kung Fu" and became famous. In recent years, he has played many villain roles with perfect accuracy, and American movie fans even awarded the Saturn Award (specially awarded to an actor who plays a villain for the best acting performance) to David. He is also an evergreen actor in the American film industry. On June 4, 2009, while Carradine was filming a movie in Thailand, his body was found in the Swissotel Nai Lert Park in downtown Bangkok. According to the police, Carradine was suspected of hanging himself in the closet by using a rope tied to the curtains. The hotel cleaner discovered the body at 10 a.m., and it was estimated that he had been dead for more than 12 hours. However, Carradine's agent, relatives and friends expressed that they did not believe that Carradine committed suicide and believed that it was caused by an accident or robbery. The Thai police said that the cause of death may have been an accident during self-tying. When they were found, a rope was placed around Carradine's neck, and another rope was placed around his reproductive organs. The two ropes were then tied together and hung in the closet.

David Packard (English: David Packard, September 7, 1912 - March 26, 1996), one of the founders of the American Hewlett-Packard Company (English abbreviation HP, the official Chinese name Hewlett-Packard Company). In 1939, David Packard and William Hewlett co-founded Hewlett-Packard Company. From 1969 to 1971, he served as Deputy Secretary of Defense in the Nixon Cabinet.

David Edward Walliams OBE (English: David Edward Walliams, August 20, 1971 -, born surnamed Williams, Walliams is also translated as "Williams" in some places) is an English comedian, screenwriter, children's author and actor. Best known for co-starring Matthew Lucas on the sitcom Little Britain. Recently, the two of them wrote and acted in "Fly with Me". Walliams was a judge on Britain's Got Talent from 2012 to 2022.

Benny Tai Yiu-ting (English: Benny Tai Yiu-ting; July 12, 1964 -) is a Hong Kong legal scholar and politician. He served as deputy dean and associate professor of the School of Law of the University of Hong Kong. Benny Benny is famous for proposing "Let Love and Peace Occupy Central" in 2013. He believes that if Hong Kong cannot have "real universal suffrage", it should participate in occupation actions to strive for a "real choice" in the 2017 Hong Kong Chief Executive election. Later, Dai Yaoting continued to become an opinion leader of the pro-democracy camp. He proposed the Thunder Plan, the Storm Plan, and the pro-democracy 35+ primaries. He was repeatedly criticized and attacked by the central government, pro-establishment figures and the media. On January 6, 2021, Tai Yaoting and other participants in the democratic primaries of the 2020 Legislative Council election were arrested on suspicion of "conspiracy to subvert state power" under the national security law. On May 30, 2024, 45 of the 47 people in the case were convicted. Tai Yaoting, Au Noxuan, Zhao Jiaxian, Zhong Jinlin, and Wu Zhengheng were accused of being the organizers of the primary election, or the "ringing elements." During the plea process of the five defendants, the prosecution and the defense argued whether Tai Yaoting was the "ringing element" of the case. On November 19, 2024, Tai Yiu-ting was convicted of "conspiracy to subvert state power" at the West Kowloon Magistrates' Court and sentenced to 10 years in prison.

Dai Suli (1919-2000), a native of Xiangyuan County, Shanxi Province, was a political figure in the People's Republic of China.

Dai Meng (February 8, 1993 -) is a former member of the Chinese idol group SNH48. His team is Team SII and he is the former vice-captain of Team SII. She was revealed at the press conference of SNH48's first members on October 14, 2012, and became the first member of SNH48. On January 12, 2013, they officially debuted at the "Give Me Power!" performance. She is also a member of SNH48's international unit "7SENSES". He has now graduated from the group and officially became an artist under Siba Media.

Fang Weizhong (February 1928 - March 16, 2025), male, Han nationality, from Haicheng, Liaoning. Politician of the People's Republic of China.

Toni Morrison (English: Toni Morrison, February 18, 1931 - August 5, 2019), formerly known as Chloe Adelina Wofford, was an African-American female writer and an important creator of African American literature and black literature. His major works include "The Bluest Eye", "Sula", "Beloved", etc. Morrison has won many literary awards, including the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Tony Jaa (Thai: ทัชชกร ยีรัมย์; English: Tony Jaa; February 5, 1976 -), whose real name is Tatchakorn Yeerum, whose Chinese name is Jia Bolong, nicknamed Ja, is a famous Thai action actor and director. He has starred in films such as "Boxing Fighter" and "Tom Yum Kung", which have been successfully released around the world. He also served as director in "Boxer 2" and "Boxer 3". In 2015, he participated in the globally popular "Furious 7" and starred opposite Paul Walker. Later, Iyara Film Company, a film distribution and production company, was established.

Toni Sailer (German: Toni Sailer, November 17, 1935 - August 24, 2009) was an Austrian male alpine skier. He represented Austria in alpine skiing at the 1956 Winter Olympics and won gold medals in the men's slalom, men's giant slalom and men's downhill.

Toğrul Asgarov (Azerbaijani: Toğrul Əsgərov, September 17, 1992 -) was born in Ganja, is an Azerbaijani male freestyle wrestler. At first he practiced judo, but later switched to wrestling at the suggestion of his coach. In 2012, he won the men's 60kg freestyle wrestling event at the London Olympics and became Azerbaijan's youngest Olympic gold medalist at the age of 19. Four years later, he competed in the men's 65kg freestyle wrestling event at the Rio Olympics, losing to Russia's Soslan Lamonov in the final and winning the silver medal. In May 2017, Asgarov was suspended for one year after testing positive for higenamine in a drug test. The Azerbaijan Wrestling Federation claimed that Asgarov failed the drug test because he had mistakenly eaten food containing banned substances during a previous competition in India.

Toby Regbo (English: Toby Regbo, October 18, 1991 -) is a British actor who also participates in film, television and theater performances. He is best known for his role as François II in the CW television series The Queen. Regbo was born in London, England, to a father of Norwegian descent and a mother of Italian and Australian descent. In 2006, he began his acting career in the ITV television film Sharp's Challenge.

Tobey Maguire (English: Tobey Maguire, June 27, 1975 -) is an American actor and producer. He started his acting career in the late 1980s. His first film was the non-speaking "Chibiusa" (1989). He is widely known to audiences from all over the world for starring in Sam Onami's "Spider-Man" series (2002, 2004, 2007), playing the protagonist Spider-Man, and returning to play Spider-Man in "Spider-Man: Homeless Day" (2021). He is the first actor in film history to star in the Spider-Man series of movies four times. His other credits include "A Little Color" (1998), "Always the Sun" (1999), "The Genius Successor" (2000), "The Greatest Heroes" (2003), "Berlin" (2006), "The Road to Love" (2009) and "The Greatest Man" (2013).

Thomas J. Watson (English: Thomas J. Watson, February 17, 1874 - June 19, 1956), whose full name is Thomas John Watson, Sr., was an American businessman, founder and first chairman of the technology giant IBM (International Business Machines Corporation). CEO, he served as the first chief executive of International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) from 1914 to 1956, leading IBM to develop into an internationally renowned business organization from the 1920s to the 1950s. He practices an effective management style.

Thomas Aiden Turgoose (February 11, 1992-) is a British actor. He is best known for his role as Shaun Field in the film This Is England. He later also starred in the TV series of the same name.

Thomas Isidore Noël Sankara (French: Thomas Isidore Noël Sankara, pronounced: [tɔmɑ izidɔʁ nɔɛl sɔɛl sɔɛkaʁa]; December 21, 1949 – October 15, 1987), also known as Thomas, was the fifth Prime Minister of Upper Volta and the first President of Burkina Faso. He is a Marxist-Leninist and Pan-Africanist who admires the Cuban revolution and is known as the "Che Guevara of Africa." During his three years in power, he implemented radical and efficient modernization reforms. His political philosophy is called Sankaraism. He is also one of the few practitioners of development economics in West Africa.

Thomas Hunt Morgan (English: Thomas Hunt Morgan, September 25, 1866 - December 4, 1945) was an American evolutionary biologist, geneticist, embryologist, and the founder of chromosomal genetics. Morgan studied embryology at Johns Hopkins University, earning a doctorate in zoology in 1890, and engaged in embryology research while teaching at Bryn Mawr College. After Mendelian inheritance was rediscovered in 1900, Morgan began to study the genetic characteristics of Drosophila melanogaster. In the famous "Drosophila Laboratory" at Columbia University's Schermerhorn Hall, Morgan showed that genes are located on chromosomes, the physical basis of heredity. These discoveries laid the scientific foundation for modern genetics. In 1933, Morgan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for elucidating the role of chromosomes in inheritance. During his academic career, Morgan wrote 22 monographs and 370 scientific papers. Under his influence, Drosophila became the dominant model organism in modern genetics. The biology department he founded at Caltech later produced several Nobel Prize winners.