1. Marlon Brando

Marlon Brando in The Godfather

American actor, awarded two Academy Awards for best actor, known for his use of the naturalistic "method" style of acting. He received an Academy Award for best actor for his performance in On the Waterfront (1954). He was selected to receive the Academy Award for best actor for his performance in The Godfather (1972) but he refused it, citing the film industry's exploitation of Native Americans. 馬龍·白蘭度最著名的角色是在《欲望號街車》（1951年）中飾演的斯坦利·科瓦爾斯基。《教父》是他的后期代表作品。

Marlon Brando won an Academy Award for his performance as Don Vito Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola's 1972 motion picture The Godfather. The film's critical acclaim and box-office success signaled the beginning of a revival in the motion-picture industry. In the 1970s, a new generation of directors that included Coppola, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, and Martin Scorsese began to reshape Hollywood studios and redefine the blockbuster phenomenon.

2. Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau

Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862) is American writer, philosopher, and naturalist who believed in the importance of individualism. Thoreau's best-known work is Walden; or, Life in the Woods (1854), which embodies his philosophy and reflects his independent character. The book records Thoreau's experiences in a hand-built cabin, where he spent two years in partial seclusion, at Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts.
梭羅是美國思想史上一個有創(chuàng)見的人物，他一生大部分時間在肯考德和馬薩諸塞度過，在這些地方他同新英格蘭的先驗論者來往并在瓦爾登湖的岸邊住了兩年。他的主要作品還有《公民的反抗》。