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Li Si
Chinese politician of the Qin Dynasty
Michael Szilágyi
Governor (Regent) of Hungary
Chao Cuo
Chinese writer and government official (c.200–154 BC)
Gao Qi
Chinese writer and historian at the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty
Fang Xiaoru
Chinese scholar
Ashina Yuanqing
xingxiwang Khagan
Bianji
Bianji () was a Buddhist monk who lived in the Tang dynasty. A disciple of Xuanzang, he compiled the Great Tang Records on the Western Regions and translated Sanskrit sutras into Chinese. He was executed by Emperor Taizong for having an illicit affair with the emperor's daughter Princess Gaoyang.

Wang Ya
Tang Dynasty chancellor