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Wardell Stephen Curry II (English: Wardell Stephen Curry II, March 14, 1988 -) is an American professional basketball player who plays as a point guard on the court and currently plays for the NBA Golden State Warriors. He is regarded as one of the greatest shooters in history and the all-time three-point shooter in NBA history. He joined the Golden State Warriors with the seventh overall pick in the first round of the 2009 NBA Draft. He was selected as the NBA Most Valuable Player twice in 2015 and 2016. He was also the first unanimously voted NBA Most Valuable Player in NBA history. He led the Golden State Warriors to the Finals 6 times in his career and led the team to win 4 NBA championships. Many players and analysts call Curry the greatest shooter in NBA history. Curry is credited with making many teams pay attention to the three-point shot and bringing revolutionary changes to the basketball game. On December 15, 2021, Curry surpassed Ray Allen's three-pointer record with 2,974 three-pointers and became the first person to make three-pointers in NBA history. On March 14, 2025, Curry became the first player to hit 4,000 three-pointers in NBA history with a record of 4,000 three-pointers.

Stephen Edwin King (English: Stephen Edwin King, September 21, 1947-) is an American writer known as the "King of Horror". He is best known for his horror novels, but also dabbles in suspense, crime, science fiction, fantasy and mystery and other genres. Although best known for his novels, King also wrote about 200 short stories, most of which were published in short story collections. King established his position in the horror literary world with his debut work "Carrie" in 1974. Later, "Tales of Four Seasons" (1982) included four novellas, which was his first major departure from the horror genre in terms of genre. Several of King's works have been adapted into films, including "Carrie" (1976), "Ghost Shop" (1980), "Die Again" and "Christine: Allure" (both 1983), "Stand By Me" (1986), and "Dangerous Days" (1990). Year), "The Big Apple" (1994), "The Big Apple" (1995), "The Green Miracle" (1999), "The Fog" (2007), "It" (2017) and "The Great Race" (2025) and other film and television works. He also published under the pseudonym "Richard Buckman" and co-authored with other writers, including his friend Peter Strobel and his sons Joe Hill and Irving King. In addition, King has written nonfiction, such as "Dead Light: A Study in Horror Fiction" (1981) and "On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft" (2000). King has won many literary awards, including the O. Henry Award for his short story "The Man in Black" (1994). He also won the Los Angeles Times Book Award in the Suspense/Thriller category for "11/22/6" (2011). He has also received many awards for his overall literary contributions, such as the 2003 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Literature, the 2007 Mystery Writers of America Masters Award, and the 2014 National Medal of Arts. Joyce Carol Oates said of King: "A deeply rooted, psychologically realistic author whose American life scenes have always been his source of inspiration, and American popular culture provides him with an inexhaustible treasure trove of possibilities."

Stephen James Merchant (November 24, 1974 -) is a British writer, director, radio host, comedian and actor. He has written and appeared in a number of British TV series and films. Best known for his collaborations with Regis Gervin, co-writing and directing the popular British sitcom The Office, and co-writing, directing and co-starring in Extras, Gervin's syndicated series for radio, podcasts, audiobooks and television. The show won a Bronze Medal at the Sony Awards.

Si Xingjian (March 11, 1901 - July 19, 1964), named Tianshi, male, was born in Zhuji, Zhejiang Province. He was a Chinese paleobotanist and a pioneer in the study of Chinese ancient plants. He once served as the director and researcher of Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Svetlana Alexandrovna Alexievich (Belarusian: Святлана Аляксандраўна Алексіевіч, Romanized: Svyatlana Alyaksandrawna Aleksiyevich (born May 31, 1948) is a Belarusian journalist and essayist who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2015 "for her retelling of writing methods that have established a monument to the suffering and heroism of contemporary people." She is also the first Belarusian to win the award.

Aragaki (yuán) Yui (Japanese: Aragaki Yui/Summary Yui, Romanized: Aragaki Yui (June 11, 1988 -) is a Japanese actress, singer and model. She was born in Naha City, Okinawa Prefecture. She is 169 cm tall and has blood type A. She was formerly affiliated with LesPros Entertainment. She announced her marriage to Gen Hoshino on May 19, 2021. At the same time, she announced her withdrawal from the agency and continued her activities as an individual.

Aragaki (yuán) Risa (October 20, 1988 -), born in Hodogaya District, Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture, has been affiliated with the brokerage company UP-FRONT AGENCY for a long time, and is a Japanese female idol group Morning Musume. Fifth term member. Height 155cm. Joined on August 26, 2001, took over as the sixth-generation vice-captain on June 2, 2007, took over as the seventh-generation captain on October 1, 2011, graduated on May 18, 2012, and has been enrolled for 10 years and 9 months (3918 days). After graduating from Morning Musume, she aimed to become an actress and was active in stage plays. On June 13, 2016, she married the actor Kaichi Kotani, who had co-starred in the stage play, but they announced their divorce on January 5, 2018. On August 1, 2020, he left the agency UP-FRONT AGENCY where he had been for nearly 20 years and became a youtuber.

Shinkai Makoto (Japanese: Shinkai Makoto/Shinkai Makoto, Romanized: Shinkai Makoto, February 9, 1973 -), whose real name is Shinkai Makoto (Shinkai Makoto/when Makoto, Niitsu Makoto), is a Japanese animation director and screenwriter. Makoto Shinkai was born in a rural area in Omi Town, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. He loved drawing and writing stories since he was a child. When he grew up, he went to Tokyo to attend university and graduated from the Faculty of Literature of Chuo University in 1996. Then he worked for the game company Japan Falcom, mainly responsible for graphic design, but also learned to make videos. Since 1997, Makoto Shinkai has independently produced three animated short films, of which "Her and Her Cat" (2000) is his first official film. The film received good results from public sales and became an opportunity for Makoto Shinkai to establish cooperation with CoMix Wave Films. In 2001, Xin Haicheng resigned from his regular job and concentrated on completing the 25-minute short film "Voice of the Stars" alone. After the film was released in 2002, it became a best-seller and won several awards. Xin Haicheng gained fame and fortune and began to attract attention. Afterwards, Makoto Shinkai tried to produce feature films of more than one hour, and organized an animation team to cope with the larger workload, but he still handled the scripts and storyboards. He successively released "Beyond the Clouds, The Promised Place" (2004), "5 Centimeters Per Second" (2007) and "Children Chasing Stars" (2011), all three of which have award-winning records. Among them, "Children Chasing Stars" was Makoto Shinkai's biggest work at the time, but it became a box office bomb after it was released. Makoto Shinkai began to focus more on audience acceptance with "The Garden of Words" (2013), which eventually achieved good box office success and launched his cooperation with mainstream film studio Toho. Toho's producer Genki Kawamura became the planner of Makoto Shinkai's subsequent works, and they released "Your Name" three years apart. "(2016), "Weathering With You" (2019) and "Suzuya's Journey" (2022). "Your name. "" sold 25.1 billion yen in one fell swoop, bringing a breakthrough to Makoto Shinkai's career. The subsequent two works failed to reproduce this result, but they both had a box office of more than 14 billion yen. These three films are all thematically related to the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, and are collectively referred to as the "Disaster Trilogy" by some media. In terms of story selection, Xin Haicheng drew inspiration from many aspects, including his own life experience, and

Arata Makkenyū (Japanese: Arata Makkenyū/Arata , Romanized: Arata Makkenyū, November 16, 1996 -), formerly known by his stage name Makkenyū, is a Japanese actor who was born in Los Angeles, California, United States. His agency is TOP COAT (Japan) and Asian Film Entertainment (United States). His father is the late Japanese actor, producer, director and martial artist Shinichi Chiba. On January 22, 2023, he announced his marriage to his outsider girlfriend of two years.

Fang Jietang (1783-1846), named Hengxing, was a giant businessman in Shanghai in the middle and late Qing Dynasty.

Fang Zhaoxiang (born in 1942) was born in Anqing, Anhui Province. Politician of the People's Republic of China. Graduated from the Department of Agricultural Sciences of Anhui Agricultural College. In 1988, he was promoted to Secretary of the Anqing Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China. In 1991, he served as Secretary-General of the Anhui Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China. In 1993, he served as deputy secretary of the Anhui Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China. In 2000, he was elected Chairman of the Anhui Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

Alex Fong Lik-sun (English: Alex Fong Lik-sun, February 26, 1980 -) is a Hong Kong male singer and actor. He was one of the top ten outstanding young people in Hong Kong in 2014. He is a retired member of the Hong Kong swimming team. He once held 11 Hong Kong swimming records. After he set a new Hong Kong record in the 200-meter backstroke and 400-meter medley at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, he held the Hong Kong record for more than 21 years before it was broken. Alex Fong joined the entertainment industry after the 2000 Sydney Olympics and started his college career. He started a "three-dimensional life" of singing, swimming and reading. Later, he gradually faded out of swimming and devoted himself to the entertainment industry. In 2018, he and his partner opened a swimming school, Hong Kong Swimming Academy, to train swimmers. On November 5, 2019, Alex Fong launched the "Hong Kong Island Swimming 45km Charity Challenge" for the charity "Every Little Bit is Life" and completed the entire course in a conference record-breaking time of 10 hours, 43 minutes and 06 seconds, becoming the first native Hong Konger to swim the entire distance.

Fang Junbi (1898-1986), a native of Houguan County, Fuzhou Prefecture (now Minhou County, Fuzhou City), was a Chinese female painter living in France.

Khalil Fong Tai Tung (English: Khalil Fong Tai Tung, July 14, 1983 - February 21, 2025), a Hong Kong-American male singer-songwriter and music producer, was born in Hawaii and settled in Hong Kong in 1997. In 2005, he released his first solo album "Soulboy" and entered the music scene. Fang Datong is a pioneer in integrating root blues and soul music into Chinese pop music. His works contain a large number of harmonies and rhythms of black music, which has brought important influence to the Chinese music scene. In 2008, he won the "Golden Music Male Singer Gold Award" of the "Chizha Music Popular Chart Award Ceremony" and became the youngest male singer gold medal winner since the award ceremony was established. He has been nominated for the Taiwan Golden Melody Awards 24 times, including 6 nominations for the Best Mandarin Male Singer. He won the award in 2017 for the album "JTW Journey to the West"; in 2021, he won the Golden Melody Award for Best Single Producer for the song "Mian Mian". Since 2020, Fang Datong has settled in Yunnan to recuperate. On March 1, 2025, Fang Datong's personal music label "FU MUSIC" issued a statement, revealing that he passed away on February 21, 2025, at the age of 41. In the same year, Fang Datong won the Jury Award at the 36th Golden Melody Awards for his album "Dreamer" and the Best Composer Award for his song "Only Twenty-Three". The International Songwriters Association (ISA) also included Fang Datong in the "Songwriter Hall of Fame".

Fang Shouxian (October 28, 1932 - January 19, 2020), male, was born in Taiping, Anhui, and was born in Shanghai. He is a Chinese accelerator physicist, researcher and former director of the Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, director of the Beijing Electron Positron Collider National Laboratory, and director of the Department of Mathematical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Fang Zhanrong (September 1948 -), a native of Chaoshan, was born in a pear garden family in Hongyang Town, Puning City. He is a famous Chinese Teochew opera performing artist, Gong Chouxing, and a national first-class actor. He is one of the most representative clown actors in the Teochew opera world and is known as the "Ugly King" of Teochew opera. In 2017, he won the "Second Guangdong Literature and Art Lifetime Achievement Award". He has won the Peony Award for Chinese Opera, the 7th Shanghai Magnolia Drama Award and other awards. He is known as the representative inheritor of Teochew Opera in China's national intangible cultural heritage project and served as the leader of the second troupe of Guangdong Teochew Theater. He is known for his superb acting skills and vivid stage image. He is especially good at showing the civilian characteristics of his characters through exaggerated body language and humorous narration. In Teochew opera, ugly students (also known as "peanuts") are a favorite character type among the audience, and Fang Zhanrong is known as the "King of Ugly Students" and his performances in classic plays such as "Chai Fang Hui" are widely praised.

Fang Qianmin (February 15, 1906 - January 19, 1984), male, was born in Wenling City today. He was a Chinese oil painter, sculptor, art educator, and one of the pioneers of modern Chinese art. In 1925, he studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France, becoming one of the first Chinese painters to study in France. In 1929, he returned to China to teach at the Shanghai Xinhua Art College and the National West Lake Academy of Art (now the China Academy of Art). Fang Qianmin once served as the dean of the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, a professor of the Oil Painting Department, and the president of the Chinese Art Research Association, and founded the "Changfeng Western Painting Research Association". Fang Ganmin is one of the famous professors of the Western Painting Department of Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts. He has cultivated talents throughout his life. Painters such as Zhu Dequn, Zhao Wuji, Wu Guanzhong, Luo Gongliu and Wang Zhaomin are all his students. Influenced by Expressionism, Fang Ganmin is one of the few painters in the history of modern Chinese and Asian art who explored Cubism. His unique artistic creation style is known as the "Fang School".

Fang Bin, a businessman from mainland China. During the COVID-19 epidemic, he used YouTube and WeChat as channels to distribute images of Wuhan city, and was arrested multiple times from February 1 to 9, 2020. On April 1, 2020, Jim Banks, a Republican congressman from Indiana, submitted a request to the U.S. State Department to investigate the disappearance of three Chinese journalists, including Li Zehua, Chen Qiushi and Fang Bin. Three years after Fang Bin's arrest, the US Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) issued a statement on February 9, 2023, calling on "the Chinese Communist Party to immediately release citizen journalist Fang Bin and all those detained for reporting on the COVID-19 epidemic in China." Fang Bin is a dissident registered in the CECC's "political prisoner database." The CECC pointed out that Fang Bin's whereabouts and the legal basis for his detention by the authorities are still unknown. According to reports, Fang Bin will be released from prison on April 30, 2023. Fang Bin was secretly sentenced to more than three years in prison by the Wuhan Jiang'an District Court. During this period, his family did not receive any legal documents or verdicts, and they were not informed of his charges.

Fang Shuqiao (November 1935-), a native of Wuqiao County, Cangzhou City, Hebei Province, graduated from Shenyang No. 8 Senior High School. He is a well-known cartoon voice actor. His representative works include "Smart Ikkyu", "The Adventures of Antelope", "Time Ship", etc.

Fang Jiaobo (November 25, 1885 - May 24, 1968), whose given name was Jifan and whose courtesy name was Jiaobo, was born on November 25, 1885 (October 19th, the 11th year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty). Male, native of Zhenhai, Zhejiang, Shanghai lawyer and industrialist during the Republic of China. He has successively served as chairman of the Ningshao Shipping Company, chairman of the Shanghai Public Settlement Taxpaying Chinese Association, and vice president of the Shanghai General Chamber of Commerce.

Fang Bingwen (1903-August 26, 1944), male, born in Shexian County, Anhui Province, was a pioneer in ichthyology research in China. He had many original ideas in the research of fish morphological structure and classification system. He once served as a technician in the zoology department of the National Museum of Natural History, Academia Sinica, and engaged in zoological research. In 1938, he was hired by the French Museum of Natural History and went to Paris to engage in fish research. He was killed in an air raid on Paris on the evening of August 26, 1944.

Charmaine Fong Ho-man, May 1, 1980 -), nicknamed "Xiao Ming", formerly known as Wu Jiaxin, a Hong Kong female singer. The major awards she has won include "Chizha Music Pop Chart Award Ceremony" and "Chizha" "Silver Award for Singer-Songwriter in the Music Circle", "My Favorite Female Singer in the Music Circle" and "My Favorite Song Award in the Music Circle", as well as "Top Ten Outstanding Singers" in the "Metro Awards Ceremony".

Fang Weihai (December 22, 1955-), a native of Dingyuan, Anhui, is a Chinese physical chemist.

Fang Weigui (1957-), a native of Shanghai, is a professor at the School of Liberal Arts of Beijing Normal University. He is mainly engaged in research in the fields of comparative literature and conceptual history.