John Smith (Anglican priest)
The Rev. John Smith( 1799 – 3 March 1870) was the Rector of St Mary's church in Baldock in Hertfordshire and is noted for being the first person to transcribe the Diary of Samuel Pepys.
Smith was the first to decipher the complete text of the Diary of Samuel Pepys while a student at Magdalene College, Cambridge where the Diary is kept( others had previously deciphered sections of it).
Smith laboured on the Diaries for three years, from 1819 to 1822, and had assumed that they were written in code.
He broke the code by comparing the section in the Diary concerning the escape of Charles II from Worcester Castle with the longhand version of the same event Pepys published later.
Later Smith was told that the diary was actually written in a shorthand system devised by Thomas Skelton and that the textbook Pepys learnt it from was on the bookshelf above Smith's head.
Smith's transcription, which is kept in the Pepys Library, was the basis for the first published edition of the diary, edited by Lord Braybrooke, released in two volumes in 1825.
Smith also worked on other material by Pepys, transcribing the so- called" Tangier Diary" of 1683 in the Bodleian Library.
Sturla Gunnarsson
Sturla Gunnarsson (born August 30, 1951) is an Icelandic-Canadian film and television director and producer.
Gunnarsson was born in Reykjavík in 1951.
He moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, with his parents when he was seven years old.
As he grew up he became interested in filmmaking and went to the University of British Columbia where he completed undergraduate studies in English literature and graduate work in film studies.
Part of the graduate program requires the production of a film.
His, "A Day Much Like the Others", went on to win top honours at the Canadian Student Film Festival and the European Student Film Festival.
It was also screened at New York City's Museum of Modern Art.
With his formal education behind him, Gunnarsson moved to Toronto and worked initially at the National Film Board (NFB).
His first NFB project, "After the Axe", received an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary Feature.
He has since won a number of awards including Emmy Award, Genie Award and Gemini Awards, a Prix Italia, and the Prix Villes de Cannes.
His documentary about David Suzuki, , won the People’s Choice Documentary Award at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival.
In 2018, Gunnarsson worked with film and story editor Nick Hector to complete the movie "Sharkwater Extinction" after the death of Rob Stewart.
Sandra Oh
Sandra Miju Oh( born July 20, 1971) is a Canadian- American actress.
She is best known for her roles as Cristina Yang on the ABC medical drama series" Grey's Anatomy"( 2005 – 2014) and Eve Polastri in the BBC America spy thriller series" Killing Eve"( 2018 – present).
She has received many accolades, including two Golden Globe Awards, four Screen Actors Guild Awards, and eight Primetime Emmy Award nominations.
Oh first gained recognition for her role as Rita Wu on the HBO sitcom" Arliss"( 1996 – 2002).
Her later television credits include" Judging Amy" and" American Crime", as well as voice roles on" American Dad!, The Proud Family", and" Phineas and Ferb".
She has appeared in films such as" Bean"( 1997)," Last Night"( 1998)," The Princess Diaries"( 2001)," Under the Tuscan Sun"( 2003)," Sideways"( 2004)," Wilby Wonderful"( 2004)," Sorry, Haters"( 2005)," Hard Candy"( 2005)," The Night Listener"( 2006)," Blindness"( 2008)," Rabbit Hole"( 2010), and" Catfight"( 2016).
Oh starred in the Asian- Canadian films" Double Happiness"( 1994)," The Diary of Evelyn Lau"( 1994)," Long Life, Happiness& Prosperity"( 2002), and" Meditation Park"( 2017).
She won two Genie Awards for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role for" Last Night" and" Double Happiness", and won a Gemini Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series for" The Diary of Evelyn Lau".
Oh hosted the 28th Genie Awards on March 3, 2008, and became the first Asian woman to host the Golden Globe Awards at the 76th ceremony in 2019.
In March 2019, she became the first Asian- Canadian woman to host" Saturday Night Live," and was just the third actress of Asian descent, after Lucy Liu in 2000 and Awkwafina in 2018.
She is the first actress of Asian descent to be nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series and the first Asian woman to win two Golden Globes.
In 2019," Time" magazine named
Oh as one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
Anne no Nikki
, also known as The Diary of Anne Frank, is a 1995 Japanese anime film based on Anne Frank's" The Diary of a Young Girl".
It is a feature film by Madhouse, was directed by Akinori Nagaoka and released August 19.
The Diary of Evelyn Lau
The Diary of Evelyn Lau is a 1994 Canadian television film directed by Sturla Gunnarsson and starring
Sandra Oh as Evelyn Lau, a teenager who runs away from home and becomes a drug-addicted prostitute, later writing a book about her experiences.
The film was shot in Vancouver, British Columbia.
James Woodforde
James Woodforde( 1740 – 1803) was an English clergyman, known as the author of The Diary of a Country Parson.
The diary was published posthumously in the 20th century.
Evelyn Lau
Evelyn Lau; is a Canadian poet and novelist.
William Holland (diarist)
William Holland( 9 May 1746 – 17 April 1819) is now best remembered for his diary, which he kept from 1799 to 1818.
The diary chronicles his life as the vicar of Over Stowey, Somerset.
In a similar fashion to the diary of Thomas Turner, Holland's diary is a personal consideration of the workings of country life during a time of considerable national tension.
The diary is broad in scope, with limited discussion of national events such as the Napoleonic Wars occurring alongside treatment of local matters.
Not all of the diary's original 99 volumes survive; particularly, entries written both before and after the current known time- span of the diary are thought to have existed.
Extracts from Holland's diary were published by C.F. Johnston in 1984.
In 2003, the book" Paupers& Pig Killers: The Diary of William Holland", ed. Jack Ayres, was published by Sutton Publishing.
Comic excerpts were dramatized by BBC Radio in 2008- 2012.
Grayson Russell
Grayson Russell( born May 1, 1998) is an American film and television actor.
He is best known for his roles in and the" Diary of a Wimpy Kid" film series.
The diary of Miss Idilia
The Diary of Miss Idilia: A Tragic Tale of Young Love Lost is a book edited by Genevieve Hill.
It presents itself to be the original diary of a young girl who disappeared whilst on holiday with her parents in the German Rhineland in 1851.
First published under the title Das verschwundene Mädchen: die Aufzeichnungen der Idilia Dubb(" The missing girl: the records of Idilia Dubb") by Bertelsmann in München in 2002, the diary was later translated into Dutch by Mistral in 2009, and published in English by Short Books in 2010.
The authenticity of the diary and the historicity of the events described in it have been challenged.

Question: Where did the director of film The Diary Of Evelyn Lau study?
Answer: University of British Columbia