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George Ritchie Hodgson (English: George Ritchie Hodgson, October 12, 1893 - May 1, 1983), Canadian male swimmer. He won gold medals in the men's 400-meter freestyle and 1,500-meter freestyle in the 1912 Summer Olympics swimming competition.

George Stanley McGovern (English: George Stanley McGovern, July 19, 1922 - October 21, 2012), American historian, author, and former United States Representative and Senator.

Giovanni Lanfranco was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active in Parma, Rome and Naples. Giovanni Lanfranco is one of the greatest painters of the Emilia School, together with the Carracci brothers, Guido Reni, Francesco Albani, Domenichino and Guercino.

Giovanni Bellini (Italian pronunciation: [dʒoˈvanni belˈliːni]; approximately 1430 - November 29, 1516) was an Italian Renaissance painter of the Venetian School. He was raised in the home of Jacopo Bellini, who was considered his father; however, their kinship was later questioned in studies. Gentile Bellini is his elder brother. Andrea Mantegna was his sister's husband. Giovanni Bellini is considered an innovator in Venetian painting, leading the Venetian School towards a more sensual, colorful style. Bellini used clear, slow-drying oil paints to create rich, deep tones and delicate variations of light and dark. His gorgeous use of color and fluid, atmospheric landscapes had a profound influence on the Venetian School, especially on his students Giorgione and Titian. He is also the name behind the Bellini cocktail.

Jonah Hill (full name Jonah Hill Feldstein, born December 20, 1983) is an American actor, producer and screenwriter. He often performs supporting roles in comedies or voices in animated films. His well-known works include "How to Train Your Dragon" (2010), "How to Train Your Dragon" (2010), "McMan" (2010), "Moneyball" (2011), "The Wolf of Wall Street" (2013), "True Story" (2015) and "The Wire" (2016).

Jonas Edward Salk (English: Jonas Edward Salk, October 28, 1914 - June 23, 1995) was an American Jewish experimental medicine scientist and virologist. He is mainly famous for developing the world's first safe and effective "polio vaccine". In 1963, he founded the Salk Institute in California, United States, which focuses on life science research. Salk graduated from the City College of New York and New York University, and later engaged in postdoctoral research at the University of Michigan. In 1947, Salk became a professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, where he conducted research on poliovirus and successfully developed the first polio vaccine a few years later. During the research and development process, Salk successfully conducted preliminary human trials on himself, his family, and other volunteers. In 1954, a large-scale vaccination trial of millions of children (6-9 years old) was carried out across the United States. In April 1955, the trial proved that the vaccine was safe and effective. In order to make the vaccine more widely available for vaccination, Salk never patented the vaccine or profited from it. In 1959, about 90 countries around the world adopted Salk's polio vaccine. Before the invention of this vaccine, poliomyelitis (poliomyelitis) was one of the diseases that posed the greatest threat to public health in the United States after World War II. On average, more than 45,000 people in the United States were infected every year. By 1962, the number of infections dropped to 910, and the disease was completely eliminated in 1979.

Sir Jonathan Paul Ive, KBE (English: Sir Jonathan Paul Ive, February 27, 1967-), also known as Jony Ive, is a designer from the United Kingdom. He once served as the chief design officer of Apple, responsible for product design and human-computer interface design. He is the main designer and concept creator of many Apple products, including Macbook Pro, iMac, MacBook Air, iPod, iPod touch, iPhone and iPad, etc., and has participated in explaining Apple products many times. In November 2019, Ive resigned from Apple and co-founded a new design company, LoveFrom, with designer Marc Newson, and continues to provide design services to client Apple. Ive ended her relationship with Apple in July 2022. In 2025, the company io founded by Yves and others in 2024 was acquired by OpenAI, and Yves joined OpenAI.

Jonathan Swift (English: Jonathan Swift, November 30, 1667 - October 19, 1745), an Anglo-Irish, Irish writer, famous for his works such as "Gulliver's Travels" and "The Tale of a Bucket". According to historical records, he had multiple identities. Includes clergy, political pamphleteers, satirists, writers, poets and radicals.

Jonathan Harshman Winters III (English: Jonathan Harshman Winters III, November 11, 1925 - April 11, 2013), a well-known American comedian and film and television actor.

Joshua Lederberg (English: Joshua Lederberg, May 23, 1925 - February 2, 2008), an American molecular biologist whose main research interests are genetics, artificial intelligence and space exploration. He won the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of bacterial genetic material and gene recombination phenomena. The other half of the award was awarded to George Wells Biddle and Edward Laurie Tatum.

Qiao Liang (January 9, 1955 -), a native of Qixian County, Henan Province, was born in Xin County, Shanxi Province (now Xinfu District, Xinzhou City). He is a military writer, military theorist and critic of the People's Republic of China, and a major general of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Air Force. He is currently the deputy director of the creative office of a certain Air Force unit, a strategy professor at the Air Force Command College, deputy secretary-general of the National Security Policy Research Committee, a member of the Chinese Writers Association, and enjoys special government allowances. He once gave a lecture on "New Interpretation of Thirty-Six Strategies" on CCTV-10's "Hundred Forum" program.

Jomo Kenyatta (English: Jomo Kenyatta, approximately 1897 - August 22, 1978), Kenyan politician, dictator, the first Kenyan president, and the founding father of Kenya.

Josiah Bartlett (English: Josiah Bartlett, November 21, 1729 - May 19, 1795), American physicist, politician, member of the Democratic-Republican Party of the United States, and former governor of New Hampshire (1790-1794). Bartlett was a signer of the American Declaration of Independence.

Yu Dan (June 28, 1965 -), a native of Beijing, originally from Yuyao, Zhejiang, has a master's degree in ancient Chinese literature and a doctorate in film and television. He is the assistant to the dean of the School of Art and Media of Beijing Normal University, the director of the film and television media department, and a master's tutor. He studied at Beijing No. 4 Middle School, his undergraduate degree at Beijing Vocational and Technical Normal College (now Beijing Union University), and his master's and doctoral degree at Beijing Normal University. He is currently a member of the China Television Artists Association, secretary-general of the University Art Committee of the China Television Association, a special researcher of the China Television Association Theoretical Research Society, a visiting researcher of the China Central Television Research Office, the China Journalism Research Society, the China Radio and Television Society Host Research Society, the standing judge of the Legal Program Committee of the China Radio and Television Society, and the chief consultant of the Australian News Corporation. Currently, he is the chief planning consultant of Beijing Television Station and regularly teaches in the graduate class of television studies at the School of Broadcasting, Beijing Normal University. His father is Yu Lian, deputy general manager of Zhonghua Book Company. In 2009, "Yu Dan's Insights on "The Analects of Confucius"" was selected into the "600 Most Influential Books in China in the 60 Years of New China" jointly sponsored by the China Booksellers Newspaper and the China Publishing Science Institute.

Yu Zhanyuan (September 27, 1908 - September 8, 1997), a famous martial artist in Peking Opera, was born in Zhengding, Hebei Province. He was born in Beijing. He became famous in Shanghai in the 1940s and was a well-known martial arts teacher and backstage martial arts manager. Later, due to changes in the political environment in mainland China, he moved south to Hong Kong. In the 1960s, he founded the "Chinese Theater Research Institute" in a tenement building near Bridges Street in Sheung Wan.

Jürgen Habermas (German: Jürgen Habermas, pronunciation: [ˈjʏʁɡn̩ ˈhaːbɐmaːs]; June 18, 1929 - March 14, 2026), one of the most important contemporary philosophers and sociologists in Germany, is a backbone of the second generation of the Frankfurt School of Western Marxism. Habermas served successively as a professor at the University of Heidelberg, a professor at the University of Frankfurt, director of the Institute for Social Research at the University of Frankfurt, and director of the Lifeworld Institute of the Max Planck Society. He retired in 1994. He inherited and developed Kant's philosophy, devoted himself to rebuilding the "Enlightenment" tradition, regarded modernity as an "unfinished project", put forward the famous theory of communicative rationality, and conducted profound dialogue and powerful criticism of postmodernism.

Yu Min (August 16, 1926 - January 16, 2019), male, native of Ninghe, Tianjin, was a Chinese nuclear weapons scientist and a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was awarded the Medal of Merit for Two Bombs and One Star and the National Highest Science and Technology Award. He is known as the "Father of China's Hydrogen Bomb" for his contribution to the development of China's hydrogen bomb.

Yu Xiaoguang (May 16, 1981 -), born in Dandong, Liaoning, is a Chinese actor, pop singer, and composer. He graduated from the Performance Department of the Central Academy of Drama.

Yu Benzheng (August 1941 -), male, Dandong, Liaoning, born in Shanghai, Chinese director, former director and director of Shanghai Film Studio, director of China Film Association.

Yu Jiwei (July 27, 1994 -), male, native of Qingdao, Shandong Province, actor from Mainland China, grade 13 acting major at Shanghai Theater Academy. In 2016, he starred in the role of "Lu Quan" in "Havoc in the East China Sea". In 2018, he starred as "Ning Ming" in "Return". In 2018, he starred as "Xiang Yu", the overlord of Western Chu in "God's Will".

Yu Zhenhuan (September 30, 1977-) is known as "China's first hairy boy". According to Guinness World Records, he is the person with the largest body hair coverage in the world, reaching more than 96%, with a density of 41 hairs per square centimeter and an average hair length of 4.2 centimeters.

Wu Lao Ba Middle School was the name given to the Chinese Department of Wuhan University during its heyday in the 1950s, when it ranked first among Chinese departments in colleges and universities across the country due to its strong team of teachers, forming a nationally renowned academic group.

Inoue Naoya (Japanese: Inoue Naoya/Inoue Naoya, Romanized: Inoue Naoya, April 10, 1993 -) is a Japanese professional boxing athlete, nicknamed "The Monster", and belongs to the Ohashi Boxing Gym. So far, Inoue Naoya has won all 33 fights in his career, with a KO rate of 81.8%. He is the world boxing champion in four levels. In the bantamweight and super bantamweight levels, he has unified the gold belts of the four major boxing organizations. He is the second boxer in history to unify the gold belts of the four major boxing organizations in two weight classes. Naoya Inoue is the first undisputed super bantamweight champion in history. Since 2023, he has held the super bantamweight WBC, WBA, WBO, IBF gold belts and the "Ring" magazine gold belt. In June 2022, Inoue Naoya became the first Japanese boxer in history to rank first in the P4P rankings. In 2023, he was named Fighter of the Year by Ring Magazine, the Boxing Writers Association of America (BSAA) and ESPN.

Inoue Marina (Japanese: Inoue Marina/Inoue Marina, Romanized: Inoue Marina, January 20, 1985 -), a Japanese female voice actress and narrator. Belongs to Aoji Production. Born in Tokyo. Height 162cm. AB blood type. His main representative works include "Tengen Breakthrough Gurren Lagann" (Yoko), "I Have Few Friends" (Mikazuki Yozora), "Library War" (Kasahara Iku), "The Three Minami Sisters" (Minami Kana), "Smile Pretty Cure!" "(Nao Midorikawa/Shin Angel), "Attack on Titan" (Armin Aluret), "Reincarnation of the Realm" (Sakura Mamiya), etc.