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Gao Lian
Gao Lian (高濂, born 1527) was a Chinese playwright, book collector, and health-cultivation writer of the late Ming, author of The Jade Hairpin and the 1591 encyclopedia Eight Discourses on Nurturing Life.
Gao Ling
Gao Ling (高崚), born 1979 in Wuhan, Chinese badminton doubles specialist; only badminton player with four Olympic medals: mixed doubles gold 2000 and 2004 with Zhang Jun, women's doubles bronze 2000 and silver 2004.
Gao Lishi
Gao Lishi (高力士), 684 to 762, was a powerful Tang dynasty eunuch who served Emperor Xuanzong and controlled the flow of memorials to the throne.
Gao Liu
Gao Liu is a Senior Scientist and group leader at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, known for conductive polymer binders for silicon electrodes, and a Fellow of the Electrochemical Society.
Gao min
Gao min (告缗) was a Western Han campaign under Emperor Wu that rewarded informers who reported merchants concealing assets from the suan min property tax.
Gao Ming
Gao Ming (高鸣, 1209–1274) was a Yuan dynasty official and literary figure from Zhending, a Hanlin academician and Assistant Censor-in-chief known for blunt remonstrances that twice changed court policy.
Gao Panlong
Gao Panlong (高攀龙, 1562–1626) was a Ming dynasty scholar-official from Wuxi who rose to Left Censor-in-chief and led the Donglin Academy's revival with Gu Xiancheng.
Gao Pengfei
Gao Pengfei (高鹏飞) is a Chinese quantitative investor who founded Beijing Qianxiang Private Fund Management, known internationally as Metabit Trading, in 2018 and remains its chief executive.
Gao Pian
Gao Pian (高駢, 821–887) was a Tang dynasty military governor who recovered Annan from Nanzhao, rebuilt Chengdu's defenses, and later declined to fight the Huang Chao rebellion.
Gao Qi's execution
Gao Qi's execution (高启腰斩) was the 1374 killing by waist-cutting of the early Ming poet Gao Qi, 39, on the Hongwu emperor's order after a text he wrote angered him.
Gao Qifeng
Gao Qifeng (高奇峰, 1889–1933) was a Chinese painter from Panyu, Guangdong, one of the founders of the Lingnan school, known for eagles, lions, and tigers.
Gao Qing Lu
Gao Qing (Max) Lu (逯高清) is a Chinese-born Australian chemical engineer and nanomaterials researcher, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wollongong since May 2025 after leading the University of Surrey.
Gao Qiu
Gao Qiu (高俅) was a Song dynasty official who headed Emperor Huizong's palace guard for twenty years and became the chief villain of the novel Water Margin.
Gao Rou
Gao Rou (高柔), courtesy name Wenhui, was a legal official of Cao Wei who served twenty-three years as Minister of Justice, rose through all three excellencies, and died at ninety.
Gao Shi
Gao Shi (高适, 700–765, courtesy name Dafu) was a Tang dynasty poet and official who twice served as military commissioner, the only major Tang poet to reach high military office.
Gao Shida
Gao Shida (高士达) was a Sui dynasty rebel leader in the Bohai region who styled himself Donghai Gong and was killed in battle by Yang Yichen.
Gao Shiqi
Gao Shiqi (高士奇, 1645–1703) was a Qing dynasty scholar-official, poet, and art connoisseur who rose from private secretary to Vice Minister of Rites under the Kangxi Emperor.
Gao Shun
Gao Shun (高顺) was a Chinese general of the late Eastern Han dynasty who led Lv Bu's elite seven-hundred-strong Xianzhenying and died in 198 or 199.
Gao Song
Gao Song (高松), originally named Tanduo, was a Jin dynasty military officer from Chengzhou who served under Zong Bi and helped foil a plot against Emperor Shizong.
Gao Te Electronics
Gao Te Electronics (高特电子) is a Hangzhou-based maker of battery management systems for energy storage, founded in 1998 and listed on ChiNext in June 2026.
Gao Tingyu
Gao Tingyu (高亭宇), born 1997 in Yichun, China, is a long track speed skater; 500m Olympic champion (34.32 OR) at Beijing 2022 and bronze medalist at PyeongChang 2018, the first Chinese male Olympic medalist and champion in speed skating.
Gao Wei, Emperor Houzhu of Northern Qi
Gao Wei, Emperor Houzhu of Northern Qi, was the fifth Northern Qi emperor, reigning 556 to 578; he founded the Wenlin Institute and ruled through favorites.
Gao Wei's misrule and fall of Northern Qi
Gao Wei's misrule and fall of Northern Qi (高纬失政) refers to the corrupt government of Emperor Gao Wei, whose favoritism and sale of office preceded Northern Zhou's conquest in 577.
Gao Weiguang (高伟光)
Gao Weiguang (高伟光, English name Vengo), born 1983 in Heilongjiang, is a mainland Chinese actor and former model. Known as Dong Hua Dijun in the Three Lives, Three Worlds series and Zhe Gu Shao in Candle in the Tomb; twice Huading Award winner.
Gao Xianzhi
Gao Xianzhi (高仙芝) was a Tang dynasty general of Goguryeo descent who led campaigns in Central Asia and was executed in 755 during the An Lushan rebellion.
Gao Xing
Gao Xing (高兴) was a Yuan dynasty general who surrendered to the Mongols, fought in south China and Java, and rose to left chancellor, dying in 1313.
Gao Xingjian (高行健)
Gao Xingjian (高行健), born 1940 in Ganzhou, is a Chinese-born French novelist, playwright, painter, and filmmaker; first Chinese-language Nobel Literature laureate (2000), author of Soul Mountain, exiled to Paris since 1987.
Gao Xingzhou
Gao Xingzhou (高行周), courtesy name Shangzhi, was a general and governor of the Five Dynasties period who served six rulers and died in office in 952.
Gao Xiqing
Gao Xiqing (高西庆), born 1953, is a Chinese lawyer and Duke-trained investment executive who helped design China's stock markets and led sovereign fund China Investment Corporation from 2007 to 2014.
Gao Yang (geneticist)
Gao Yang (高扬), born 1980, is a Chinese geneticist and executive who co-founded Berry Genomics in Beijing in 2010, a pioneer of non-invasive prenatal testing in China.