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Sugimoto Aya (July 19, 1968 -), whose real name is Matsuyama Kirei (Matsuyama Motoe), is a female artist, actress and erotic novel writer who was born in Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. She is also the founder and executive director of the agency Office Aya (officesai).

Lee De Forest (English: Lee De Forest, August 26, 1873 - June 30, 1961) was an American inventor and the inventor of the vacuum triode. He is known as the "Father of Radio", "The Forefather of Television" and "The Father of the Electron Tube". The invention of the vacuum triode made the electron tube a practical electronic component and promoted the development of radio and other electronic industries. In the following 20 years, various electronic equipment continued to emerge, such as radio, television, and radar. Lee DeForest holds more than 300 patents. On July 30, 1961, 88-year-old Lee DeForest died in Hollywood, California, and was buried in San Frando Cemetery surrounded by green trees.

Lee David Ingleby (January 28, 1976 -) is a British actor. He has appeared in films such as The Last of Us and TV series such as In the House.

Lee Ryan (English: Lee Ryan, June 17, 1983 -) is a British singer and actor. He is a member of the group blue. For many years he also participated in pantomime performances. Ryan has been a member of blue since 2000. In 2005, he released his debut single. He has also appeared in a number of films and TV series, including the BBC soap opera EastEnders.

Lido Anthony Iacocca (English: Lido Anthony Iacocca, October 15, 1924 - July 2, 2019), nicknamed Lee Iacocca, was an Italian-American entrepreneur. He successively served as the general manager of Ford Motor Company, president of Chrysler Motor Company, and the person in charge of the development of Ford's classic sports car "Ford Mustang". During his tenure as president of Chrysler, he successfully turned the company around and earned the title of "Hero of American Industry." In recent years, "Iacocca" has also begun to be commonly used as a metaphor for "an entrepreneur who turns a company's operations from losses to profits."

Clarence LeRoy Van Cleef Jr. (January 9, 1925 - December 16, 1989), commonly known as Lee Van Cleef (English: Lee Van Cleef), a famous American actor and movie star, was born on the same day as former US President Richard Nixon. IMDb praised Lee as "One of the great movie stars". villains" (the greatest villain movie star). He has performed in 91 movies and 109 TV series for 38 years. He is a prolific movie star. He was born in Somerville, New Jersey. He has starred in several classic western masterpieces. He mostly plays the villain bandit leader who is cold and silent, has excellent kung fu and wears black clothes, black pants and black hat (even if he plays the police chief, he is also a schemer for the bandit); in 1952, he starred in the first movie "Border Town Masked Man" (Kansas City Confidential) (Kansas City Confidential), famous for: "Sunday High" (1952), which also supported Jerry Cooper's second Academy Award for Best Actor; Lee's representative work is the "Dragon Trilogy" that started in 1965, and the series also made the then-unknown Clint Eastwood popular. His off-screen personality is also very good. Van Cleef passed away in December 1989 in Oxnard, California. The epitaph was engraved with "Lee Van Cleef Jan 9, 1925 - Dec 16, 1989 'Best of the Bad' Love and Light."

Li Yibo (May 19, 1953 -) was born in Beijing and his ancestral home is Hunan. Chinese writer and director.

Li Shihong (October 1957-), born in Bengbu, Anhui Province, is a Chinese Peking Opera actor and voice actor, an art consultant for the CCTV film and television channel, and one of the voice actors for Sun Wukong in the CCTV version of "Journey to the West" (the first 5 episodes were later handed over to Li Yang). In 1987, he won the China Film and Television Sound Society Award. In February 2018, he was a guest on "Sound on the Scene".

Li Shihe (1941-), a native of Chongqing, is the main promoter of TD-SCDMA technology. He once served as vice president and chief scientist of Datang Mobile Communications Equipment Co., Ltd. In his early years, he worked at the Telecommunications Science and Technology Research Institute of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications. Later, he was labeled as a counterrevolutionary during the Cultural Revolution and spent eight years in Xi'an through labor reform. In 1978, he was sent abroad by the government to study at the University of Montreal in Canada and received his doctorate after four years. Then return to China. He successively served as chief engineer and director of the Fourth Research Institute of the Post and Telecommunications Research Institute of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications. Vice President and Deputy Chief Engineer of the Institute of Posts and Telecommunications Science and Technology. After 1993, Chen Wei, a project manager who worked with Motorola's Semiconductor Department, and Xu Guanghan, an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin, proposed the initial concept of TD-SCDMA. After 1995, he became the chairman of YCDMA Company and began the research, development and promotion of TD-SCDMA. Li Shihe has been nominated as an academician of the Academy of Engineering many times.

Li Lihua (August 17, 1924 - March 19, 2017), born in Shanghai, film actor and singer. Her acting career was active from 1940 to 1980. She won the Golden Horse Award for Best Actress twice. In 2015 and 2016, she was awarded the Golden Horse Award for Lifetime Achievement Award and the Hong Kong Film Award for Lifetime Achievement Award respectively.

Li Yeting (1807-1867), a famous shipping businessman in the late Qing Dynasty, once monopolized the sand ship industry in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai. The founder of the famous Shanghai family business group "Xiaogang Li Family".

Li Shufu (June 25, 1963 -), native of Taizhou, Zhejiang, entrepreneur, founder and current chairman of Geely Holding Group. Bachelor of Management Engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology, Master of Science from Yanshan University, PhD from Harbin Institute of Technology. He once served as a member of the 11th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, vice chairman of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce, and a representative of the Taizhou Municipal People's Congress. He ranked 68th on Forbes' 2019 list of the world's billionaires, with assets reaching US$23.8 billion.

Li Yunshu (1867-1928), named Houyou, was a native of Zhenhai County, Ningbo Prefecture, Zhejiang Province, and a national capitalist in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China.

Li Yundi, a native of Chongqing, is a Chinese pianist. In 2000, he won the gold medal and the "Best Polonaise Performance Award" at the 14th Chopin International Piano Competition, becoming the youngest gold medal winner since the competition began, and thus became famous. In 2015, he was invited to serve as a judge for the Chopin International Piano Competition, becoming the youngest judge in the history of this competition.

Li Botan (December 1963-), male, politician and entrepreneur of the People's Republic of China.

Li Peifu (1953-), a native of Xuchang, Henan, is a contemporary Chinese writer, a member of the Communist Party of China, a member of the Chinese Writers Association, vice chairman (elected in 1996) and chairman (elected in 2016) of the Henan Provincial Writers Association, and enjoys special government allowances from the State Council. In 2012, he published the work "Book of Life" and won the 9th Mao Dun Literature Award in 2015.

Ali Lee Kai Sum (Ali Lee Kai Sum, November 27, 1983 -), formerly known as Li Jiaxin, is a Hong Kong actress, host and model. She was a Hong Kong cable TV artist, a TVB manager contract artist, and one of the former TVB leading actresses. She won the "Most Improved Female Artiste" (2016), "Best Actress" (2018) and "Most Popular TV Female Character" (2021) at the "Thousands of Stars Awards Ceremony". In 2021, she also won the "People's Choice Best Actress" at the 6th "Audience Folk TV Awards" hosted by TV critic Fang Yiwen, becoming a people-elected TV queen.

Li Jun (March 2, 1922 - January 7, 2013), male, was born in Xia County, Shanxi Province, and was a third-generation film director in China.

Li Xiuxian (August 6, 1952 -), formerly known as Li Xiude, male, Hong Kong actor, director, producer, known for his expertise in producing police and gangster films. He won the "Best Actor" award at the 4th Hong Kong Film Awards and the "Best Actor" award at the 21st Taiwan Golden Horse Awards for the 1984 Hong Kong film "Public Servant".

Li Jian (September 23, 1974 -), male, born in Harbin, Heilongjiang, is a Chinese male singer, songwriter, and music producer. He graduated from the Department of Electronic Engineering of Tsinghua University and served as a tutor for two seasons of "The Voice of China" series. In 2001, he formed the Shuimunianhua group with Tsinghua alumnus Lu Gengxu, and debuted with campus folk songs. After the group released their second album "The True Story of Youth" in 2002, Li Jian went solo, and his music style changed to lyrical and pop.

Lee Kun-hee (Korean: Lee Kun-hee/Li Junhee, Romanized: I Geon-hui; January 9, 1942 - October 25, 2020), a South Korean entrepreneur, the third son of Samsung founder Lee Byung-cheol, and the second chairman of Samsung Group. He ranked 65th on Forbes' 2019 list of the world's billionaires, with assets of US$16.9 billion. Lee Kun-hee was born in Gyeongsangnam-do, Japanese-occupied Korea in 1942 and graduated from Waseda University. In 1966, after returning from studying abroad for an MBA in the United States, he joined Toyo Broadcasting Company, a subsidiary of Samsung. Two years later, he was appointed as a director of Toyo Broadcasting. In 1978, he was promoted to vice chairman of Samsung C&T, and the following year he was promoted to vice chairman of Samsung Group. In 1987, after Lee Byung-cheol passed away, he took over as chairman of Samsung Group. Three months after taking office as Chairman of Samsung, he proposed the "Second Entrepreneurship Declaration", "New Management" in 1993, "Extraordinary Management" from 1997 to 2000, and the "Talent Pool" vision in 2004.

Li Ruxin (October 1969-), a native of Jianou, Fujian, is a Chinese optician. Graduated from Tianjin University in 1990, majoring in optoelectronics technology. In 2017, he became an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Currently serving as Secretary of the Party Committee and Vice President of ShanghaiTech University. Alternate member of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. The research field is mainly optics, especially ultra-high peak power and ultra-short pulse lasers.

Lee Shau-kee, Grand Bauhinia Honoror (English: Lee Shau-kee, February 20, 1928 - March 17, 2025), known as the "Fourth Uncle", was a Hong Kong entrepreneur, philanthropist, businessman, and real estate tycoon. He was once the second richest man in Hong Kong, the richest man in Hong Kong, and the richest man in Asia. From 1995 to 1997, he was the fourth richest man in the world. He started business independently at the age of 15, went to Hong Kong for development at the age of 20, founded Henderson Land at the age of 48, and the company went public at the age of 53. He ranked fourth among the world's richest people from 67 to 69 years old. When he retired at the age of 91 in 2019, he ranked 29th on the Forbes Global Rich List. Li Shauji was born in Daliang Town, Shunde, Guangdong. His family was quite wealthy when he was born. His family was engaged in gold, exchange and foreign currency trading in his hometown. From the age of 6 (that is, in 1934), he was arranged by his father to learn how to run the family business. When he was 20 years old (that is, in 1948), he came to Hong Kong alone to start a business with a capital of 1,000 Hong Kong dollars (equivalent to approximately 150,000 Hong Kong dollars based on the 2020 inflation rate) given to him by his father. At the age of 30 (that is, in 1958), Lee Shau Kee, Kwok Desheng and Feng Jingxi, together with Hu Zhaochi, Huang Shaoxuan, Qi Zonghuang, Lu Xianzao and Guo Jintao jointly founded "Yongye Enterprise Company" to engage in real estate business. In 1963, Li, Guo and Feng founded Sun Hung Kai Properties Limited. In 1972, Li, Guo and Feng successfully listed Sun Hung Kai Properties, and the Three Swordsmen decided to separate. In 1973, Lee Shau Kee set up his own business and founded Henderson Land Development Co., Ltd. In 1981, Henderson was officially listed. In 1996, Lee Shau Kee's wealth accumulated to US$12.7 billion, making him the fourth richest person in the world. Lee Shau-kee has been the chairman of the board of directors of Henderson Land Development and Towngas, and was the deputy chairman of the board of directors of Sun Hung Kai Properties until his retirement. On July 1, 2007, Lee Shau Kee was awarded the Grand Bauhinia Medal. In 2015, Lee Shau Kee had a net worth of HK$195 billion, ranking second according to the Forbes Hong Kong Rich List. In 2018, Lee Shau Kee's net worth was HK$256.6 billion, ranking second according to the "Forbes Hong Kong Rich List". In March 2019, Lee Shau Kee ranked 26th on Forbes' list of the world's billionaires, with assets reaching US$28.1 billion. He will pass away in 2025, leaving an inheritance of US$30 billion to his five children, charitable trusts and family trusts.

Lee Kuan Yew GCMG CH SPMJ DK (September 16, 1923 - March 23, 2015), the first Prime Minister of Singapore, the founder, elder and first Secretary-General of the People's Action Party. Lee Kuan Yew served as Prime Minister from 1959 to 1990, a period of 31 years. He later transferred to the Cabinet Counselor and State Counselor and continued to hold power until his retirement from the Cabinet in 2011.