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Rafael Nadal Parera (Catalan: Rafael Nadal i Parera; Spanish: Rafael Nadal Parera, pronounced: [rafaˈel naˈðal paˈɾeɾa]; June 3, 1986 -), nicknamed Rafa, is a former Spanish professional tennis player and the first Marquis of Levante of Mallorca. He is the first Spanish year-end champion, the seventh men's career singles Grand Slam and the second men's career singles Golden Slam winner in history. Nadal has won 92 ATP singles titles in his career, including 22 Grand Slam titles, including 14 French Open singles titles, an Olympic gold medal, and 36 Masters titles. Nadal is recognized as the best clay court player in history: he won the French Open for the first time in 2005, with a career record of 112 wins and 4 losses in the French Open (the first male player with 100 wins in the French Open), and set an unprecedented record of 14 championships in a single Grand Slam. Since April 2005, his 81-game winning streak on clay courts has set a record for the longest winning streak on a single court in men's tennis in the era of openness. In 2010, he won four major clay court events, creating the first "Clay Court Grand Slam". In his career, he won 12 titles at the Barcelona Open, 11 titles at the Monte Carlo Masters, and 10 titles at the Rome Masters. He demonstrated his dominance on clay courts, and is therefore known as the "King of Clay". After winning the Wimbledon championship in 2008, he began to gain competitiveness outside of clay courts, and successively won the Australian Open and US Open championships. In his career, he accumulated two grass-court and six hard-court Grand Slam championships, 2 slow and 4 fast. Because he looked like a pirate in the early days of his career, he was nicknamed "Pirate" and "Captain" by fans; and because of the similar Chinese pronunciation of his name, he was nicknamed "Natto" or "Douzi" by Chinese fans. Because of his abundant physical strength and speed, he also counts every point as his own. His "extraordinarily admirable fighting spirit" to make break or hold points was nicknamed "The Bull" by the media and fans. In addition, due to his amazing achievements on clay courts, he was also nicknamed "King of Clay", "God of Clay" and "Lord of Clay" by fans. Nadal and two other players of his generation, Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic, are called the "GOATs of tennis" by modern mass media. The competition between the three players is hailed as the golden age of tennis history, setting many classic battles and setting many tennis records. The competition between him and Federer was promised

Rafael Alcántara do Nascimento (Portuguese: Rafael Alcántara do Nascimento, commonly known as Rafinha (Portuguese: Rafinha, born February 12, 1993)) is a Brazilian football player who plays as an offensive midfielder and currently plays for Qatar Stars Football League club Doha Al Arabi. He once played for the Brazilian national football team.

Rafaela Lopes Silva (Portuguese: Rafaela Lopes Silva, April 24, 1992 -) was born in Rio de Janeiro. She is a Brazilian female judo athlete who specializes in the 57 kg category. Silva's first contact with sports was football. Later, due to frequent violence in the streets near her home, her parents sent her to judo training classes at the age of 7. Silva won the first gold medal for the Brazilian delegation at the 2016 Rio Olympics. She announced in an interview two days after winning the gold medal that she came out as gay. Her girlfriend is Thamara Cezar, and they both belong to the Institute Reaction club. In March 2017, she won the 2016 Brazilian Female Athlete of the Year award.

Lars von Trier (Danish: Lars von Trier, also translated as Lars von Trier, Lars von Trier, April 30, 1956 -) is a Danish director and playwright. He is one of the initiators of the avant-garde and radical filmmaking movement Douma 95 Manifesto, but his own filmmaking techniques are changeable and constantly experimental, with distinctive personal characteristics. He won the Jury Prize, Grand Jury Prize and Palme d'Or respectively at the Cannes Film Festival for Euro Express (1991), Breaking the Waves (1996) and Dancing in the Dark (2000).

Lars Onsager (Norwegian: Lars Onsager, November 27, 1903 - October 5, 1976) was a Norwegian-born American chemist. He won the 1968 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering the general relationship of non-equilibrium thermodynamics and proposing the reciprocity relationship.

Ralph Michael Ineson (English: Ralph Michael Ineson, December 15, 1969 -), British actor, was born in Leeds. He is best known for his roles as Dagmer Cleftjaw in the TV series "Game of Thrones"; Amycus Carrow in the "Harry Potter" film series; and Chris Finch in the TV series "The Office".

Rami Said Malek (Arabic: رامي مالك, English: Rami Said Malek, May 12, 1981 -), American actor. He is best known for his role in the United States TV series "The Matrix" Elliot Alderson won the Television Critics' Choice Award and the Primetime Emmy Award for Best Actor in a Drama Series. In 2019, he won the Screen Actors Guild/Golden Globe Award and the Oscar for Best Actor for "Bohemian Rhapsody" and became the Best Actor at the 91st Academy Awards. Malick became famous for his famous roles in movies and TV series, including playing Kenny, the gay neighbor of the protagonist's family in the Fox comedy series "Family Wars." Then he played the role of Meng Kara, the son of the Pharaoh, in the "Night at the Museum" series, Clark in "The Master", and Benjamin in "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn". In 2018, he played Freddie Mercury in the biographical film Bohemian Rhapsody, for which he won several awards, including the Academy Award for Best Actor, the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Drama, the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actor, and the BAFTA Award for Best Actor. He became the first Arab-American actor to win Best Actor at the Oscars.

Raphael Dwamena (English: Raphael Dwamena, September 12, 1995 - November 11, 2023) was a former Ghanaian professional football player who served as a forward.

Larry Joe Bird (English: Larry Joe Bird, December 7, 1956 -) was born in Spring Valley, West Bayton, Indiana. Nicknamed "Big Bird", "Larry Legend", "The Hick from French Lick", etc., he is a former American professional basketball player and served as the head coach and general manager of the Indiana Pacers. He is recognized as one of the greatest basketball players of all time. Bird Bird and Magic Johnson were the leaders of the NBA in the 1980s. They were known as the Black and White Twins and the West Devil and the East Bird. They were also one of the best players in NBA history and were known as "the people with the highest basketball IQ in history." He spent all 12 years of his professional playing career with the Boston Celtics, where he was either a small forward or a power forward.

Lawrence Edward "Larry" Page, an American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur, founded Google in 1998 with Sergey Brin.

Larry Craig (English: Larry Craig; July 20, 1945 -) is an American politician who served as a U.S. Senator from Idaho from 1991 to 2009. Including his term as a member of the House of Representatives, he has been elected to Congress for a total of 28 years, ranking second in Idaho history. Clegg advocated against same-sex marriage and LGBT rights, but was arrested by police in 2007 after he attempted to perform oral sex on an undercover police officer at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.

Lawrence Joseph "Larry" Ellison, born in the Bronx, New York, United States, is the co-founder and chairman of Oracle. According to statistics from Forbes magazine in 2013, his personal assets are as high as US$43 billion, ranking fifth in the world. In the 2019 list of the 400 richest people in the United States, he ranked 5th with assets of US$65 billion. In April 2020, Ellison ranked fifth in the world's richest list published by Forbes with a net worth of US$59 billion. He ranked fifth on the list of the top 400 richest people in the United States published by Forbes in September 2020, with assets of US$72 billion.

Laurence Douglas Fink (English: Laurence Douglas Fink, November 2, 1952 -) is an American billionaire businessman. He is the co-founder, chairman and CEO of BlackRock, an American multinational investment management company. BlackRock is the world's largest money management company, with more than $10 trillion in assets under management. In April 2024, according to Forbes estimates, Fink's net worth was $1.2 billion. He is a board member of the World Economic Forum.

Larry King (English: Larry King, November 19, 1933 - January 23, 2021), formerly known as Lawrence Harvey Zeigler, was a native of Brooklyn, New York, and an award-winning television host. He hosts Larry King Live, a talk show broadcast every night on CNN, and is known for his signature image of suspenders, big glasses and an old-fashioned microphone.

Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyangar (Tamil: ஶ்ரீநிவாஸ ராமாநுஜையங்கார், Romanized: Śrīnivāsa Rāmānujaiyaṅgār (December 22, 1887 – April 26, 1920) was an Indian mathematician active in the early 20th century. He made profound contributions in the fields of mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series and continued fractions, and even solved mathematical problems that were considered unsolvable at the time. Ramanujan initially conducted his mathematical research alone in relative isolation. According to Hans Eysenck, "He tried to interest the leading professional mathematicians of the day in his work, but mostly failed. What he showed people was too new, too unfamiliar, and presented in an unusual way; they almost ignored him." Looking for mathematicians who could better understand his work, in 1913 he began a correspondence with the British mathematician G. H. Hardy at the University of Cambridge. Hardy recognized the extraordinary nature of Ramanujan's work and arranged for him to travel to Cambridge. In Hardy's notes, he commented that Ramanujan had proposed ground-breaking new theorems, some of which "were completely beyond my comprehension; I had never seen anything even remotely like them before" and some of which were mathematical results that had just been proven but were extremely advanced at the time. During his lifetime, Ramanujan independently compiled nearly 3,900 mathematical results (mainly identities and equations). Many of these results were completely novel; his highly original and unconventional discoveries, such as Ramanujan's prime numbers, Ramanujan's theta function, the integer splitting formula, and the pseudo-theta function, opened up entirely new areas of research and inspired much later research. Of his thousands of formulas, the vast majority have been proven correct. The scientific journal "Ramanujan's Journal" was founded precisely to publish works in all fields of mathematics influenced by Ramanujan; and his notebooks recording published and unpublished results have been deeply analyzed and studied in the decades after his death, becoming the source of new mathematical ideas. Until 2012, researchers continued to discover that the few words about "simple properties" and "similar outputs" written in his notes in response to certain discoveries turned out to be profound and subtle results in number theory, and these results were not discovered until nearly a century after Ramanujan's death. He became one of the youngest fellows in the history of the Royal Society and

Napoleon Bonaparte, a French military strategist and politician, served as the first consul of the French Republic and the emperor of the French Empire, named Napoleon I. He led the French army to conquer Europe from 1796 to 1815 during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. In addition to ruling France, he also served as King of Italy and Protector of the Rhine Confederation, and implemented many reforms in the areas he ruled.

Timothy John Ryan (English: Timothy John Ryan; July 16, 1973 -) is an American politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Ohio from 2003 to 2023. He is a Democrat who has represented Ohio's 13th Congressional District since 2013 and previously represented Ohio's 17th Congressional District before redistricting. Ryan's district now includes a swath of Northeast Ohio, from Youngstown to Akron. He is the Democratic nominee for the 2022 Ohio U.S. Senate election. A native of Niles, Ohio, Ryan served as an aide to U.S. Rep. James Trafficante after majoring in political science at Bowling Green State University and earning his J.D. from the University of New Hampshire School of Law. He served in the Ohio Senate from 2001 to 2002 before winning election to succeed Trafic Kent. In November 2016, Ryan launched an unsuccessful challenge to unseat Nancy Pelosi as House Democratic leader. He was also a candidate in the Democratic primary for the 2020 U.S. presidential election, and then ended his campaign in 2019 to run for re-election. Ryan was re-elected to his tenth term in 2020. In 2021, Ryan announced his candidacy for a Senate seat in Ohio and won the Democratic nomination with 70% of the vote. He lost to Republican nominee James David Vance in the general election on November 8, 2022.

Tim Johnson (English: Tim Johnson; December 28, 1946 -) is an American politician who served as a U.S. Senator from South Dakota from 1997 to 2015. His party affiliation is the Democratic Party. Johnson said in 2014 that he would not seek re-election to the Senate.

Tiziano Vecelli (Italian: Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio, 1488 (some say 1490) - August 27, 1576), often referred to as Titian (Latin: Titianus), was a representative painter of the Venetian School of the late Renaissance in Italy. Titian was born in Cadore in the Alps in northeastern Italy. When he was 10 years old, he followed his elder brother to Venice and studied painting in the studio of Giovanni Bellini. He was a classmate of the painter Giorgione. In Titian's time, he was known as the "Sun among the Stars" and was one of the most talented painters in Italy. He also specialized in portraits, landscapes and historical paintings of mythological and religious themes. His use of color not only influenced Italian painters during the Renaissance, but also had a profound impact on Western art.

Morgan Freeman is an American actor and director who has won an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award respectively. Morgan Freeman became famous in the early 1990s and has appeared in many Hollywood movies.

Baroness Thatcher Margaret Hilda Thatcher, LG, OM, PC, FRS, FRIC, formerly known as Roberts, commonly known as Mrs. Thatcher, was a British politician who served as the British Prime Minister and leader of the Conservative Party from 1979 to 1990. She was the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and the longest-serving British Prime Minister in the 20th century. Thatcher was once described by a Soviet journalist as the "Iron Lady," a nickname that reflected her conservative and stubborn political stance and leadership style that refused to compromise. Thatcher's series of policies and propositions during her tenure as prime minister were later called "Thatcherism."

Sa (Sǎ) Bening (March 23, 1976 -), formerly known as Sabo, native of Hexian, Anhui, was born in Zhanjiang, Guangdong, and is a program host at China Central Radio and Television.

Ernst Wilhelm "Wim" Wenders (German: Ernst Wilhelm "Wim" Wenders, August 14, 1945 -) is a film director and photographer born in Dusseldorf, Germany. His works have won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. He is one of the contemporary German film masters and an important member of the German New Wave. His film style is famous for its fresh lyricism and graceful lensing.

Moon Junhui (Korean: Junhwi Moon, June 10, 1996 -), stage name JUN (Korean: June, Romanized: Jun, Japanese: Jun, Romanized: Jun), is a Chinese actor and singer who mainly develops in China and South Korea. He debuted as a child actor in 1998. In 2007, he starred in the movie "Wild Dogs" and was nominated for the "Best New Actor" at the 27th Hong Kong Film Awards. He also won the Silver Award for "New Actor of the Year" at the 2nd Hong Kong Film Directors Association Annual Awards. He is currently a member of SEVENTEEN, a men's pop music group under PLEDIS Entertainment, and is also a member of the sub-unit Performance Team. The stage name comes from the fact that the members used to call him "Jun" (which sounds close to the Chinese character of their real name "Junhwi") before their debut. In 2023, the online drama "Exclusive Fairy Tale" starring in the film will be broadcast.