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Gigi Leung Wing-kei (English: Gigi Leung Wing-kei, March 25, 1976 -), Hong Kong female singer, songwriter and actress. He won the 2003 Golden Horse Award for Best Original Film Song for his lead vocal role in the movie episode "The Terminal of the Carousel" from "Go Left, Go Right". In addition to composing many songs for herself (such as "Fireworks", "The Story of a High Girl", etc.), she has also composed songs for other singers (such as Hacken Lee's "High Girl", Sammi Cheng's "Skydiving", "The Wrong Car", etc.). Gigi Leung is also good at art design and illustration. She once served as a short-term shopping mall art consultant for Telford Plaza in Kowloon Bay, Hong Kong. She also collaborated with Venilla suite, a shoe brand under I.T., to launch the "Venilla suite de Gigi" series. In 2003, he was awarded the top ten outstanding young people in Hong Kong. She married her Spanish boyfriend in 2011, and they have a daughter together.

Liang Zongdai (September 5, 1903 - November 6, 1983), a native of Xinhui, Guangdong, was born in Baise, Guangxi. He was a modern Chinese poet, translator, literary critic and literary theorist, and a pioneer of Chinese symbolist poetics.

Liang Shiqiu (January 6, 1903 - November 3, 1987), whose given name was Zhihua, and whose courtesy name was Shiqiu. He also has pen names such as Zijia, Qiulang, Cheng Shu, etc. He is a famous Chinese essayist, scholar, literary critic, lexicographer, and translator. He is a native of Hang County, Zhejiang Province (now Yuhang District, Hangzhou City). He was born in Beijing and is the dean of the School of Liberal Arts of National Taiwan Normal University. He left more than 20 million words of works to the Chinese literary world in his lifetime, and his collection of essays set the highest record for the publication of modern Chinese prose works.

Tony Leung Ka Fai, a Hong Kong actor, is the youngest Best Actor (26 years old) in the history of the Hong Kong Film Awards. He is also the only actor to win Best Actor in every era from the 1980s to the 2020s. He made his debut in 1983's "The Curtain", and other classic performances include "Love in Another Season", "92 Black Roses vs. Black Roses", "Underworld", "Chill" and "Chasing the Wind and Shadows", etc.

Liang Xinyi (Russian: Лара Майкловна Веронин, English: Lara Liang Veronin, May 2, 1988 -), a Taiwanese artist, was born in Los Angeles, California, United States. She was a member of Nanquan Mama under Jay Chou's music group. She is well-known for her duet with Jay Chou in "Coral Sea".

Liang Shitai (?—?), a Cantonese, was one of the most important portrait photographers in China during the late Qing Dynasty. He specialized in portraits of high-ranking officials, as well as photos that would appeal to Chinese clients who favored literati paintings. As one of the first photographers to photograph important officials and other prominent figures of the Qing Dynasty, Liang Shitai's work first convinced the Qing court to accept photography as an artistic medium. In the early 1870s, he established his own studio in Hong Kong, then moved to Shanghai in the late 1870s and then to Tianjin in the 1880s. Leong Sze-tai's photographs are among the most historically significant and visually stunning of his time.

Liang Xiaosheng (September 22, 1949 -), formerly known as Liang Shaosheng, male, native of Rongcheng, Shandong, born in Harbin, Heilongjiang, is a contemporary Chinese writer. Most of his works are about educated youth, describing the years of educated youth in Beidahuang, which has had a great influence on the contemporary Chinese literary world. Liang Xiaosheng is considered China's "spokesperson for the common people" and often writes about civilian life and criticizes vested interests. He is a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, a member of the 11th Central Committee and Standing Committee of the China Democratic League, a member of the Chinese Writers Association (a member of the 5th, 6th and 7th National Committees of the Chinese Writers Association), a member of the Film Censorship Committee of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, and a member of the China Film Import Censorship Committee.

Tony Leung is a Hong Kong actor and singer. He has won the Best Actor at the Hong Kong Film Awards 6 times and the Best Actor at the Taiwan Golden Horse Awards 3 times. He is the actor who has won the most honors in these two categories. He has also won the Best Actor at the China Film Golden Rooster Award once. He is the first actor to collect the Best Actor at the three major award ceremonies in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. He has also won the Golden Lion Award for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Film Festival, the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival, and the Best Actor Award at the Asian Film Awards. He was described by the Venice Film Festival as the most influential Asian actor of our time.

Liang Dongcai (May 29, 1932 - January 18, 2026), male, from Guangzhou, Guangdong, was a Chinese molecular biophysicist and a researcher at the Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The second and fourth president of the National Biophysical Society. Part-time professor at the University of Science and Technology of China and part-time professor at South China Normal University. Died on January 18, 2026.

Liang Yongqi (English: Yongqi Liang, June 25, 1995 -), whose real name is Liang Qishun (English: Qi Shun Liang), is an actor from mainland China and graduated from the Central Academy of Drama. Now he is an artist under Huanyu Film and Television.

Edmond Leung Hon-man (English: Edmond Leung Hon-man, November 5, 1971 -), Hong Kong male singer and actor. He was once selected into the youth team of the Hong Kong football team. His uncle is the late Hong Kong football player Yin Zhiqiang.

Liang Shuming (October 18, 1893 - June 23, 1988). His original name was Huanding and his courtesy name was Shouming. He once used the pen names Shou Ming, Shao Min, and Shu Ming, and later became known as Shu Ming. Male, a native of Beijing, he is a modern Chinese thinker, philosopher, educator, one of the early representatives of modern New Confucianism, a social activist, and a patriotic democrat. At the same time, he is also a social transformation practitioner who spares no effort to promote rural construction. His native place is Kaifeng, Henan, and he traveled to Guilin, Guangxi in the mid-Qing Dynasty. His ancestor is Hu Gechi, the sixth son of the Yuan Shizu, and he is a descendant of the Liang King who was granted the title of the Yuan Dynasty. His mother Zhang Ying came from the Zhang Yaozeng family in Xizhou, Dali, Yunnan.

Liang Yusheng (April 5, 1924 - January 22, 2009), whose real name is Chen Wentong, is a Hong Kong martial arts novel writer and is known as the originator of "new martial arts novels". His debut novel "Dragon and Tiger Fighting Beijing" was published in 1954, which launched a new school of martial arts creation. Together with Jin Yong and Gu Long, he is known as the three masters of Chinese martial arts novels in the 20th century. His writing career lasted for more than thirty years, and he has completed a total of thirty-five martial arts novels, including classics such as "The Legend of the White-Haired Witch", "The Shadow of the Shadow", and "Seven Swordsmen Down the Mountain", with a total word count of over 10 million, as well as many essays, couplets and reviews. His works are famous for their integration of Chinese historical background, traditional poetry and the literati spirit of "conquering martial arts with chivalry". They are deeply loved by readers and have far-reaching influence. Liang Yusheng graduated from the Economics Department of Lingnan University in his early years. He moved to Hong Kong in 1949 and first served as editor of "Ta Kung Pao" and later as supplement editor of "New Evening News". In 1954, inspired by the martial arts competition between the Tai Chi sect and the White Crane sect in Hong Kong, he began writing martial arts novels at the invitation of Luo Fu, the editor-in-chief of the New Evening News, creating a new martial arts style with historical background and emphasis on literature. He announced that he would stop writing in 1984 and immigrated to Sydney, Australia in 1987. He converted to Christianity in his later years and devoted himself to religious and literary research. He died of illness in Sydney on January 22, 2009 and was buried in Macquarie Park Cemetery. Jin Yong wrote an elegiac couplet for him: "A good friend who is also crazy, chivalrous and literary" and spoke highly of his character and literary achievements. Liang Yusheng's literary contributions were widely recognized, and Lingnan University in Hong Kong awarded him an honorary doctorate in literature in 2004 in recognition of his influence on Chinese literature. His hometown, Mengshan County, Guangxi, and Southern Metropolis Daily established the "Liang Yusheng Literary Award" in 2018 to commemorate his achievements and promote martial arts literature. Scholars generally believe that Liang Yusheng and Jin Yong jointly laid the foundation for the new school of martial arts, but they have different styles: Liang's works focus on historical research and traditional poetic conception, while Jin Yong incorporates Western narrative techniques. The two complement each other and promote the modernization of martial arts novels.

Liang Yaohui (June 1967-), a native of Dongguan, Guangdong, Han nationality, is a Chinese entrepreneur. He is the former chairman of Owais Group (subsidiaries of Owais Prince Hotel and Zhongyuan Petroleum) and a deputy to the 11th and 12th National People's Congress. On April 14, 2014, he was dismissed from his position as a deputy to the National People's Congress due to suspicion of serious violations of the law. On the same day, he was criminally detained by the police for organizing prostitution. He was sentenced to life imprisonment on August 11, 2017.

Fish Leong (English: Fish Leong) (June 16, 1978 -), whose real name is Leong Chui Peng (English: Leong Chui Peng), is a Malaysian Chinese female singer originally from Foshan, Guangdong. She debuted in the Taiwanese entertainment industry in 1999. Known as the "Queen of Love Songs", her works have also been dubbed the "Original School of Love Songs" and "Liang Style Love Songs". To date, it has released 14 studio albums and 2 compilations, with cumulative record sales approaching 20 million, and a total of nearly 200 world tour ticketed concerts, of which the number of world tour concerts exceeded 2 million, and it has a high reputation and a large number of fans in the Chinese world. In addition to her singing career, Leong Jingru also participates in charity activities and has served as a charity ambassador for World Vision Malaysia and a charity ambassador for the Creation Foundation.

Liang Hongzhi (1882-November 9, 1946), also known as Yusou, was a Chinese political figure and poet. One of the main figures of the Reform Government of the Republic of China and the National Government of Wang Jingwei, a puppet regime established with Japan's support, he was executed for traitorous crimes after World War II.

Melissa Joan Hart (English: Melissa Joan Hart, April 18, 1976 -) is an American actress, screenwriter, television director, television producer, singer and entrepreneur. Melissa is best known for her role in the American teen TV series Clarissa. and the special-shot comedies “Sarina the Magical Girl” and “The Housekeeper.”

Mei Guangdi (January 2, 1890 - December 27, 1945), also known as Dickson, was a modern Chinese scholar and writer. Born in Wanling Zhangwuwang of the Mei family in Xuancheng, he is a representative of the Xueheng School and one of the founders of the "Xueheng" magazine. He is the first Chinese doctoral student in literature to study in the United States. He studied under the sinologist James Babbitt. He served as an assistant professor of Chinese at Harvard University and later became the dean of the School of Liberal Arts and director of the Department of Foreign Languages ​​and Literature at National Zhejiang University. He was both friends and enemies with Hu Shi, a modern scholar and representative figure of the New Culture Movement, and they had long-term debates with each other.

Mei Hong (May 1963 -), male, originally from Chongqing, was born in Yuqing, Guizhou. He is a Chinese computer software expert and a professor at Peking University. He is currently the director of the Key Laboratory of High-Reliability Software Technology of the Ministry of Education (Peking University). He once served as Vice President of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Vice President and Executive Vice President of Beijing Institute of Technology, and Vice President of the Academy of Military Sciences. He is currently the Chairman of the Computer Federation of China (2020-2024).

Mel Colmcille Gerard Gibson (English: Mel Colmcille Gerard Gibson, January 3, 1956 -) is a famous American, Australian, Irish film actor, director and producer. Famous works include the film series "Mad Max", the film series "Lethal Weapon", "Braveheart" and "The Passion of the Christ" which he directed.

Megan Anna Rapinoe (/rəˈpiːnoʊ/), July 5, 1985 -) is a former American professional women's soccer player who played as a midfielder and forward. She played for the OL Monarchs of the National Women's Soccer League and served as captain. As a member of the U.S. Women's National Soccer Team, she won the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup for the United States, a gold medal at the 2012 London Olympics and second place at the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup. Since 2018, he has served as captain of the national team with Carli Lloyd and Alex Morgan, and announced his retirement in 2023. Rapinoe is known around the world for her crafty play, including her precise pass to Abby Wambach in the 122nd minute of the quarterfinals against Brazil at the 2011 Women's World Cup, who scored the equalizer that the U.S. won in a shootout. The last-minute goal set a game-winning goal record, and the game won ESPN's 2011 Sports Excellence Award for Game of the Year. At the 2012 London Olympics, she scored three goals and set a team-high four assists, leading the United States to the gold medal. She is the first player in Olympic history to score directly from a corner kick. Rapinoe is active in several LGBT groups, including the Lesbian, Gay and Straight Education Network and Athletes Allies. In 2013, she won the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center Board of Directors Award. She has been sponsored by Nike, Samsung and DJO Global, and has appeared in several promotional videos for clothing company Wildfang and Nike. Previously, she played for the Chicago Red Stars, Philadelphia Independence and Magic Jacks of the U.S. Women's Professional Soccer League, as well as Olympique Lyonnais of the French Serie A women's soccer league.

Meagan Duhamel (English, French: Meagan Duhamel, born December 8, 1985 in Greater Sudbury, Ontario, is a Canadian female figure skater, specializing in pairs skating. DuAmell grew up in Walden. She started skating when she was three years old. At the age of 14, she moved to Bari to receive more professional training. Du Amel decided to become a vegetarian in December after seeing a book about vegetarianism at the airport one day in 2008. In July 2014, she became engaged to figure skating coach Bruno Marcotte, and the two were officially married in June 2015 in Bermuda.

Anita Mui Yim-fong (English: Anita Mui Yim-fong; October 10, 1963 - December 30, 2003), a Hong Kong female singer, actress, and social activist, known as the "big sister in the music industry". On December 30, 2003, Anita Mui died of cervical cancer complicated by lung failure at the age of 40. Before her death, she regretted the ups and downs in her love life. Anita Mui's bronze statue was erected on the Avenue of Stars in Hong Kong in 2014. The base of the bronze statue has the inscription "Hong Kong Daughter Anita Mui" written by Andy Lau.

Mian Mian (August 28, 1970 -), formerly known as Wang Xin, is a female and Chinese writer. Mian Mian was born in Shanghai. He began writing poetry and short stories at the age of 16. Between the ages of 17 and 25, he lived in Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Hong Kong and other places. He began publishing works in 1997, most notably the novel "Sugar" published in 2000. She is considered one of the representatives of China's new generation of writers.