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Aung San Suu Kyi
Aung San Suu Kyi is a Burmese politician, diplomat, author, and a 1991 Nobel Peace Prize laureate who served as State Counsellor of Myanmar from 2016 to 2021. As the leader of the National League for Democracy and the first State Counsellor, she played a vital role in Myanmar's transition from military junta to partial democracy in the 2010s, but was detained and removed from office in a coup d'état on 1 February 2021.
Puyi
Puyi was the last Emperor of China as the eleventh and final Qing dynasty ruler. Becoming the Xuantong Emperor at age two, forced to abdicate on 12 February 1912 due to the Xinhai Revolution, he later served as the nominal ruler of the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo during World War II.
Lin Ching-yi
Lin Ching-yi is a Taiwanese physician and politician. She was first elected to the Legislative Yuan in 2016.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi was a Hungarian-American psychologist. He recognised and named the psychological concept of flow, a highly focused mental state conducive to productivity. He was the Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Management at Claremont Graduate University. He was the former head of the department of psychology at the University of Chicago and of the department of sociology and anthropology at Lake Forest College.
Michy Batshuayi
Michy Batshuayi-Atunga is a Belgian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Crystal Palace, on loan from fellow Premier League club Chelsea, and the Belgian national team.
Béla Károlyi
Béla Károlyi is a Hungarian-born Romanian-American gymnastics coach. Early in his coaching career he developed the Romanian centralised training system for gymnastics. One of his earliest protégés was Nadia Comăneci, the first Olympic Games gymnast to be awarded a perfect score. Living under the dictatorship of Nicolae Ceausescu, Károlyi frequently clashed with Romanian officials. He and his wife defected to the United States in 1981.
Indra Nooyi
Indra Nooyi is an Indian-American business executive and former chairperson and chief executive officer (CEO) of PepsiCo.
Justus von Dohnányi
Justus von Dohnányi is a German actor, best known for portraying Wilhelm Burgdorf in 2004 film Der Untergang.
Ju Jingyi
Ju Jingyi is a Chinese singer, dancer, and actress. She rose to fame as a member of Chinese idol girl group SNH48.
Jay Ajayi
Jay Ajayi is an English former professional American football running back and professional gamer. He played college football at Boise State and was drafted by the Miami Dolphins in the fifth round of the 2015 NFL draft. He was traded to the Eagles in 2017 and won Super Bowl LII that year over the New England Patriots.
Liu Xueyi
Liu Xueyi is a Chinese actor.
Márta Károlyi
Márta Károlyi is a Hungarian-born Romanian-American gymnastics coach and the former national team coordinator for USA Gymnastics. She and her husband, Béla, are ethnic Hungarians from Transylvania, Romania, and trained athletes in Romania, but defected to the United States in 1981. Béla and Márta Károlyi have trained nine Olympic champions, fifteen world champions, sixteen European medalists and many U.S. national champions, including Mary Lou Retton, Betty Okino, Kerri Strug, Teodora Ungureanu, Phoebe Mills, Nadia Comăneci, Kim Zmeskal, and Dominique Moceanu.
Huan Yi
Huan Yi was a general of the state of Qin in the late Warring States period. General Pang Nuan of Zhao occupied several towns of the state of Yan in 236 BCE, whereupon Yan asked the state of Qin for help. Huan Yi, Yang Duan, and Wang Jian commanded the relief campaign against Zhao and took its towns Ye and Anyang (Hebei), as well as Eyu, and Liaoyang.
Kevin Kurányi
Kevin Dennis Kurányi Rodríguez is a German former professional footballer. He played as a striker and possessed great aerial ability and finishing skills. From 2003 to 2008, Kurányi was part of the German national team, for which he scored 19 goals in 52 games. He participated in two UEFA Euro and one Confederations Cup.
Artem Milevskyi
Artem Volodymyrovych Milevskyi is a Ukrainian former professional footballer who played as a second striker.
Hans von Dohnányi
Hans von Dohnanyi was a German jurist of Hungarian ancestry, Righteous Among the Nations, and German resistance member against the Nazi régime.
Sima Yi
Sima Yi, courtesy name Zhongda, was a Chinese military general, politician, and regent of the state of Cao Wei during the Three Kingdoms period of China.
Lee Sang-yi
Lee Sang-yi is a South Korean actor, musical actor and singer. He is best known for his roles in Once Again (2020), Youth of May (2021) and as a member of MSG Wannabe (2021)
Cheng Yi
Cheng Yi, is a Chinese actor and singer. He made his television debut in Chinese television drama Beauty World (2011) and graduated from Central Academy of Drama in 2012. In 2016, he featured in the hit Chinese television drama, Noble Aspirations, which helped him garnered increased popularity in China.
Zhang Ziyi
Zhang Ziyi is a Chinese actress and model. Her first major role was in The Road Home (1999). She later gained international recognition for her role in Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), which was nominated for 10 Academy Awards. Zhang has also appeared in Rush Hour 2 (2001), Hero (2002), and House of Flying Daggers (2004). Her most critically acclaimed works are Memoirs of a Geisha (2005), which earned her nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama, the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role; and The Grandmaster (2013), for which she won 12 different Best Actress awards to become the most awarded Chinese actress for a single film.
Charlyne Yi
Charlyne Amanda Yi is an American actress, comedian, musician and writer. Her performances include music, magic, games and often audience participation.
Ihor Kolomoyskyi
Ihor Valeriyovych Kolomoyskyi is a Cypriot-Ukrainian billionaire business oligarch and the former Governor of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.
Klaus von Dohnanyi
Klaus von Dohnanyi is a German politician. He served as Mayor of Hamburg between 1981 and 1988.
Song Yi
Song Yi, born in Jingmen City, Hubei Province, is an actress from Mainland China. She is a graduate of the Acting Department of the Central Academy of Drama who made her debut in the movie industry in 2009.
Tamás Erdélyi
Tamás Erdélyi is a Hungarian-born mathematician working at Texas A&M University. His main areas of research are related to polynomials and their approximations, although he also works in other areas of applied mathematics.
Chen Shiang-chyi
Chen Shiang-chyi is a Taiwanese actress. She has appeared in most of Tsai Ming-liang's feature films.
Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi
Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi is an American documentary filmmaker. She was the director, along with her husband, Jimmy Chin, for the film Free Solo, which won the 2019 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. The film profiled Alex Honnold and his free solo climb of El Capitan in June 2017.
Ruslan Mostovyi
Ruslan Mostovyi was a Ukrainian professional football coach and player.
Lin Yi
Lin Yi is a Chinese actor and model. He gained popularity after starring in the 2019 romantic web drama Put Your Head on My Shoulder, which brought him wider recognition.
Wang Yi
Wang Yi is a Chinese diplomat and politician. He formerly served as China's Vice Foreign Minister, Ambassador to Japan and Director of the Taiwan Affairs Office. He has served as the Foreign Minister since March 2013 and a State Councilor since March 2018.