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Han Jing
Han Jing (韩敬) was a Ming dynasty official and scholar from Gui'an, Zhejiang, who took first place in the palace examination through his teacher Tang Binyin's intervention.
Han Jue
Han Jue (韩厥), posthumously titled Han Xianzi, was a minister of Jin during the Spring and Autumn period who defeated Qi at the battle of An and restored the Zhao clan.
Han Kang
Han Kang (한강), South Korean novelist and poet, won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature as the first South Korean laureate; author of The Vegetarian (2016 Man Booker International) and Human Acts, on Gwangju 1980 trauma.
Han Kuang
Han Kuang (韩爌), courtesy name Xiangyun, was a Ming dynasty official from Puzhou who served as grand secretary under Guangzong and Xizong and became senior grand secretary after Ye Xianggao retired.
Han Kuangsi
Han Kuangsi (韩匡嗣), 918 to 983, was a Liao dynasty official and princely commander, son of the founding official Han Zhigu and father of the regent Han Derang.
Han Kun
Han Kun (韩坤) is a Chinese internet entrepreneur and chief executive who founded Beijing-based Yixia Technology in 2011, whose apps Miaopai, Xiaokaxiu, and Yizhibo powered Sina Weibo.
Han Kwang-song (한광성)
Han Kwang-song (한광성, 韓光成), born 1998, North Korean striker; first North Korean to play and score in Serie A (Cagliari 2017), later Perugia, Juventus, Al-Duhail; career ended by UN sanctions, returned 2024.
Han legal code
The Han legal code (汉律) was the statute law of China's Han dynasty; Xiao He's Nine Chapters Code shaped later imperial codes through the Tang.
Han Liang
Han Liang is a computational biologist and cancer researcher who is Interim Chair of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.
Han Lin'er
Han Lin'er (韩林儿), the Little Prince of Light, was the nominal emperor of the Red Turban Song regime from 1355 until his death in 1366.
Han Liu
Han Liu is a statistician and machine-learning researcher who won the 2015 PECASE award at Princeton and is now Orrington Lunt Professor of Computer Science at Northwestern University, directing the MAGICS lab.
Han Lue
Han Lue, also known as Han Seoul-Oh, is a fictional thief, street racer, and drifter played by Sung Kang, who debuted in Better Luck Tomorrow (2002) before joining the Fast & Furious franchise.
Hàn Mặc Tử
Hàn Mặc Tử was the pen name of Nguyễn Trọng Trí (1912–1940), a Vietnamese poet of the New Poetry movement known for "Đây thôn Vĩ Dạ".
Han Maotang
Han Maotang (韩茂棠; 1880–1939) was a Chinese writer, editor, and newspaper founder of the late Qing and early Republic, known for a drama about Qiu Jin and for founding Xiaoshan's first newspaper.
Han marriage alliances with the Wusun (Princesses Xijun and Jieyou)
The Han marriage alliances with the Wusun (细君、解忧公主和亲乌孙) sent the Han princesses Xijun, from 105 BC, and later Jieyou as brides to Wusun rulers, recorded in the Book of Han.
Han Mi-nyeo (한미녀)
Han Mi-nyeo (한미녀), Player 212 in Squid Game season 1, is a con artist played by Kim Joo-ryoung who allies with, betrays, and kills Jang Deok-su; known for the subtitle controversy and feminist criticism of her portrayal.
Han Myeong U
Han Myeong U (한명우, Han Myung-Woo), born 1956, South Korean freestyle wrestler; 1984 Olympic welterweight sixth, 1986 Asian Games 74 kg gold, and 1988 Seoul Olympic middleweight (≤82 kg) gold medalist.
Han Myeong-hoe
Han Myeong-hoe (한명회, 1415–1487) was a Joseon dynasty civil official who helped Grand Prince Suyang take the throne in the 1453 coup and later enthroned his son-in-law as Seongjong.
Han pictorial stone and brick carving
Han pictorial stone and brick carving (汉画像石、画像砖) is carved and molded imagery from China's Han dynasty, forming the largest surviving body of Han pictorial art.
Han Qi
Han Qi (韩琦, 1008–1075) was a Northern Song statesman and commander who directed the war against the Tanguts and settled the succession of two emperors.
Han Qinhu
Han Qinhu (韩擒虎) was a general of the Northern Zhou and Sui dynasties whose night crossing of the Yangtze and capture of Chen Shubao completed the Sui conquest of Chen.
Han Qiu
Han Qiu (韩球), courtesy name Meicheng, was a Song dynasty fiscal official who served as Director of the Bureau of General Accounts and Superintendent-in-chief of the Mint, dying in 1150.
Han Remaut
Han Remaut is a Belgian structural biologist known for work on bacterial pili and curli, and a VIB group leader and VUB professor in Brussels since 2009.
Han River (Korea)
Han River (한강), Korea's largest river by discharge, 514.8 km, formed by the South and North Han at Yangsuri, flowing through Seoul to the Yellow Sea; historic Joseon capital river, engineered 1967–1986, now restored with parks.
Han River Police (한강)
Han River Police (한강, Hangang) is a 2023 Disney+ Korean action-comedy series, six episodes, September 13–27, 2023, starring Kwon Sang-woo as Han River police sergeant Han Du-jin, directed by Kim Sang-chul.
Han Seong-sook (한성숙)
Han Seong-sook (한성숙) is South Korea's 50th prime minister (July 2026), former Naver CEO (2017–2022, first female leader), and ex-Minister of SMEs and Startups; second female PM after Han Myeong-sook.
Han Seung-yeon (한승연)
Han Seung-yeon (한승연), also known as Seungyeon, is a South Korean singer and actress born in 1988 who was KARA's main vocalist and later starred in the film Show Me the Ghost.
Han Shantong
Han Shantong (韩山童) was a Yuan-dynasty White Lotus preacher from Luancheng who claimed Song imperial descent and, with Liu Futong, raised the Red Turban revolt at Ying.
Han Shaogong
Han Shaogong (韩少功, born 1953) is a Chinese novelist and essayist from Changsha, Hunan, known for the root-seeking manifesto "The Root of Literature" and the novel A Dictionary of Maqiao.
Han Shizhong
Han Shizhong (韩世忠) was a Song dynasty general from Yan'an who fought the Western Xia, captured the rebel Fang La, and defended the Southern Song against the Jin.