Which Sanrio cartoon character, born in London in 1974 in her official backstory, had a four-day Los Angeles convention in 2014 that drew over 25,000 fans, and a Malaysian theme park in Iskandar Puteri, Johor that operated from 2012 to 2019?

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Hello Kitty. Hello Kitty, designed by Yuko Shimizu in 1974, has grown from a coin purse motif into a global merchandising empire worth billions of dollars a year. Sanrio explicitly clarifies that Hello Kitty is a British schoolgirl named Kitty White, not a cat.