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Ji Bowen
Ji Bowen (季博文, born 2002 in Zhejiang, China) is a Chinese sprint canoeist who won the C-2 500 meters gold at the 2024 Paris Olympics with Liu Hao.
Ji Chang-wook (지창욱)
Ji Chang-wook (지창욱, born 1987, Anyang) is a South Korean actor and singer, known for Healer, The K2, The Worst of Evil, Queen Woo, and the 2026 Cannes film Colony; agented by Spring Company.
Ji Chengtian Si Ye You
Ji Chengtian Si Ye You (记承天寺夜游) is a short prose piece by Song writer Su Shi, recording a moonlit stroll with Zhang Huaimin in 1083.
Ji Cheong-cheon
Ji Cheong-cheon (지청천, 1888–1957) was a Korean soldier and independence activist, commander-in-chief of the Korean Independence Army and later of the Korea Liberation Army during the Japanese colonial period.
Ji Huang
Ji Huang (嵇璜, 1710–1794) was a Qing dynasty official who rose through the heir-apparent establishment to serve as Minister of Works and Minister of War under the Qianlong Emperor.
Ji Hyun-woo (지현우)
Ji Hyun-woo (지현우, real name Joo Hyung-tae), born 1984, is a South Korean actor and former guitarist of The Nuts, known for Queen In-hyun's Man, The Awl, and the 2021 KBS Daesang-winning Young Lady and Gentleman.
Ji Jin-hee (지진희)
Ji Jin-hee (지진희), born 1971, is a South Korean actor who rose to fame as Min Jeong-ho in Dae Jang Geum (2003), later starring in Dong Yi, Designated Survivor: 60 Days, Misty, and Undercover, and winning the 2010 MBC Drama Grand Prize.
Ji Junxiang
Ji Junxiang (纪君祥), also written Ji Tianxiang, was an early Yuan dynasty playwright best known for The Orphan of Zhao, the first Chinese drama translated into a European language.
Ji Kang
Ji Kang (嵇康), courtesy name Shuye, was a philosopher, poet, and musician of China's Three Kingdoms period and one of the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove.
Ji Luo
Ji Luo is a cancer biologist and Senior Investigator at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, who studies how the KRAS oncogene keeps tumor cells alive.
Ji Qi
Ji Qi (季琦, born 1966) is a Chinese serial entrepreneur who co-founded Ctrip, co-founded Home Inns, and founded Huazhu (H World Group), where he is executive chairman and CEO.
Ji Soo
Ji Soo (지수, Kim Ji-soo, born 1993) is a South Korean actor of Angry Mom, Strong Girl Bong-soon, and Moon Lovers, distinct from Blackpink's Jisoo; his 2021 school bullying scandal ended his Korean career, and he rebuilt it in Philippine television from 2024.
Ji Sung
Ji Sung (지성; born 1977, birth name Kwak Tae-geun) is a South Korean actor who debuted in the 1999 SBS drama KAIST. Known for All In, Secret Love, Kill Me, Heal Me, Defendant, The Devil Judge, and The Apartment Job, he won the 2015 MBC Drama Awards Daesang and is married to actress Lee Bo-young.
Ji Xinpeng
Ji Xinpeng (吉新鹏), born 1977 in Shashi, Hubei, is a retired Chinese badminton player and the first Chinese men's singles Olympic champion, winning gold at Sydney 2000 by beating Hendrawan, and later a Chinese national team coach from 2008.
Ji Ye-eun
Ji Ye-eun (지예은, born 1994) is a South Korean actress and entertainer, a Korean National University of Arts graduate who rose via SNL Korea, joined Running Man as a regular, won SBS Entertainment Awards, and recorded music as Chungju J's; distinct from the 2006-born influencer of the same name.
Ji Yun
Ji Yun, also known as Ji Xiaolan (纪昀), was a Qing dynasty scholar-official who served the Qianlong Emperor and directed the twenty-year compilation of the Siku Quanshu.
Ji Zha
Ji Zha (季札), also called Yanling Jizi, was the youngest son of King Shoumeng of Wu in the Spring and Autumn period, famous for repeatedly declining the throne.
Ji Zhi Biao
Ji Zhi Biao (荐季直表) is a small regular-script memorial attributed to the Wei calligrapher Zhong Yao, written in 221 to recommend the official Ji Zhi.
Ji-Cheng Zhao
Ji-Cheng Zhao is an American materials scientist and metallurgist, Dean of Engineering at the University of Connecticut, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2023.
Ji-Joon Song
Ji-Joon Song (송지준) is a South Korean structural biologist and professor at KAIST in Daejeon, known for the first Argonaute crystal structure and full-length Huntingtin characterization.
Ji-man Choi (최지만)
Ji-man Choi (최지만), born 1991 in Incheon, South Korean MLB first baseman/DH for the Angels, Yankees, Brewers, Rays, Pirates, and Padres; first Korean-born position player in a World Series (2020), career .234 with 67 home runs.
Ji-shū
Ji-shū (時宗), also called the Yugyō-shū, is a Japanese Pure Land school founded by the wandering monk Ippen in 1274, known for its dancing nembutsu.
Ji-yeong (Squid Game)
Ji-yeong (지영), Player 240 in Squid Game season 1, is a young ex-convict who killed her abusive father, befriends Sae-byeok, and sacrifices herself in the marbles game; played by Lee Yoo-mi, who won a 2022 Emmy for the role.
Ji‐Guang Zhang
Ji-Guang Zhang, also published as Jason Zhang, is a battery scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory known for localized high-concentration electrolytes and as the first DOE Lab Innovator of the Year.
Ji‐Seon Kim
Ji-Seon Kim is a solid state physicist who studies organic semiconductor devices such as solar cells and LEDs, moving from Imperial College London to Oxford as Professor of Electronic Materials in 2025.
Ji‐Won Yoon
Ji-Won Yoon is a molecular diabetologist who showed viruses can trigger diabetes in animals and led the Julia McFarlane Diabetes Research Centre at the University of Calgary.
Ji‐Xin Cheng
Ji-Xin Cheng is a Chinese-born biophotonics scientist who developed label-free vibrational microscopy, including mid-infrared photothermal microscopy, and is the inaugural Theodore Moustakas Chair Professor at Boston University.
Jia Chong
Jia Chong (贾充, courtesy name Gonglü, 217–282) was a Chinese statesman of Cao Wei and Western Jin who rose to Grand Commandant and directed the Jin law code.
Jia Dan
Jia Dan (贾耽, 730–805) was a Tang dynasty official, military commissioner, chancellor, and geographer from Cangzhou in modern Hebei, who held the chancellorship for thirteen years and compiled maps of the western frontiers.
Jia Dao
Jia Dao (贾岛, 779–843) was a Tang-dynasty poet, a follower of Han Yu who never passed the jinshi examination and ended his career in minor Sichuan posts.