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Jin Sheng

Jin Sheng (金声, 1598–1645), courtesy name Zhengxi, was a Ming dynasty scholar-official from Xiuning in Huizhou who commanded loyalist resistance to the Qing conquest and died a martyr in 1645.

Jin Shengtan

Jin Shengtan (金圣叹, 1608–1661) was a Chinese literary critic of the late Ming and early Qing who annotated the Water Margin and Romance of the Western Chamber.

Jin state

Jin state (진국, 辰國) was an Iron Age confederacy of chieftain-led polities in the central and southern Korean peninsula, known mainly from Chinese records like the Shiji.

Jin Sung-joon

Jin Sung-joon (born 1967) is a South Korean politician of the Democratic Party of Korea who chairs the National Defense Committee of the National Assembly, after serving under President Moon Jae-in.

Jin Suntivich

Jin Suntivich is a materials scientist and associate professor at Cornell University who works on electrocatalysis and energy materials, known for the 2011 e_g orbital-filling descriptor of oxygen-evolution catalysis.

Jin Tripitaka (Zhaocheng canon)

The Jin Tripitaka (趙城金藏) is a Chinese Buddhist canon carved on woodblocks in Jin-dynasty China between 1139 and 1173, rediscovered at Guangsheng Temple in 1933.

Jin Wang (biophysicist)

Jin Wang (王进) is a Chinese-American biophysicist and Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and Physics at Stony Brook University, known for the landscape and flux theory of nonequilibrium biological networks.

Jin Weiying (金维映)

Jin Weiying (金维映, 1904–1941), original name Jin Aiqing, was a Zhejiang-born CCP revolutionary, Daishan salt workers organizer, Yudu and Shengli county party secretary, and one of 30 women on the Long March; she died near Moscow in 1941.

Jin Wu (吴京)

Jin Wu (吴京, 1934–2008) was an ocean engineer and fluid dynamicist elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 1995, who served as Taiwan's Minister of Education from 1996 to 1998.

Jin Wu Cang Jiao

金屋藏骄 (Jin Wu Cang Jiao, also 金屋藏娇) is a 2025 Chinese vertical micro short drama on Hongguo, directed by Huo Huo, starring Deng Lingshu and Wu Tianhao, 73 two-minute episodes, adapted from the novel 《姐,我想逐梦娱乐圈》, peaking at 1.07亿 heat.

Jin Xing (金星)

Jin Xing (金星), Chinese modern dancer, choreographer, and TV host; founder of Shanghai's Jin Xing Dance Theatre (1999), China's first private modern dance company; creator of Shanghai Tango and Half Dream; underwent 1995 sex reassignment surgery.

Jin Xue Jie

Jin Xue Jie (進學解) is a short essay in rhythmic prose by the Tang dynasty writer Han Yu, traditionally dated 813, in which a schoolmaster defends himself with self-mockery.

Jin Yang

Jin Yang (金杨), Chinese pair figure skater born 1994 in Harbin; 2012 Youth Olympic pairs champion with Yu Xiaoyu, two-time Olympian with Peng Cheng (17th in 2018, 5th in 2022). Distinct from Korean shooter Jiin Yang and other namesakes.

Jin Yellow River Control and Canal Transport System

The Jin Yellow River control and canal transport system combined river-defense posts attached to local officials with the Hefangling (河防令), the 1202 flood-control ordinance under Emperor Zhangzong.

Jin Yong

Jin Yong, pen name of Zha Liangyong, also known as Louis Cha (1924–2018), was a Hong Kong wuxia novelist and Ming Pao founder whose fifteen martial-arts novels are among the most adapted in Chinese fiction.

Jin Yong (Chinese chemical engineer)

Jin Yong (金涌), born 1935 in Beijing, is a Chinese chemical engineer at Tsinghua University known for fluidization research and elected to the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 1997.

Jin Young Kim

Jin Young Kim (김진영) is a South Korean energy engineer and professor at UNIST who leads the Next Generation Energy Laboratory and set a certified perovskite solar cell efficiency record in 2021.

Jin Young Oh

Jin Young Oh (오진영) is a South Korean chemical engineer and Associate Professor at Kyung Hee University, known for the 2016 Nature demonstration of a stretchable, healable semiconducting polymer.

Jin Yuzhang (爱新觉罗·毓嶂)

Jin Yuzhang (金毓嶂, born 1942), grandson of Prince Chun Zaifeng and son of Jin Youzhi, is head of the House of Aisin Gioro since 2015, a former Qinghai field geologist, and a Beijing CPPCC ethnic-affairs politician.

Jin Z. Zhang

Jin Z. Zhang, also published as Jin Zhong Zhang, is a professor of chemistry and biochemistry at UC Santa Cruz known for ultrafast laser spectroscopy of semiconductor and metal nanomaterials.

Jin Zhang (molecular biologist)

Jin Zhang is a Chinese-American biochemist at the University of California San Diego who builds fluorescent biosensors showing how cell signaling is organized in space and time.

Jin Zhijiang

Jin Zhijiang (金志江) is a Chinese business executive, general manager of BBK Education Electronics in Dongguan and the leader behind the Xiaotiancai kids' phone watch.

Jin zhongxing shu

Jin zhongxing shu (晋中兴书) is a lost history of the Eastern Jin dynasty, attributed to He Fasheng of the Liu Song dynasty and surviving in reconstructions.

Jin Ziwei

Jin Ziwei (金紫薇, born 1985) is a Chinese rower who won gold in the women's quadruple sculls at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, China's first Olympic rowing title.

Jin Zou

Jin Zou is a materials scientist, Emeritus Professor and Chair in Nanoscience at the University of Queensland, known for electron-microscopy studies of nanomaterials and thermoelectric materials research.

Jin-Quan Yu

Jin-Quan Yu (余金权) is a synthetic chemist at Scripps Research known for palladium-catalyzed C–H activation with directing groups and bifunctional ligands, widely used in drug discovery.

Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade (人狼)

Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade (人狼) is a 1999 Japanese animated political thriller directed by Hiroyuki Okiura, written by Mamoru Oshii, produced by Bandai Visual and Production I.G, set in German-occupied alternate postwar Japan, released in Japan 3 June 2000, and remade in Korea in 2018.

Jin-Yi Cai

Jin-Yi Cai is a theoretical computer scientist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison who works in computational complexity theory, best known for proving dichotomy theorems for counting problems and winning the 2021 Gödel Prize.

Jin‐Ho Choy

Jin-Ho Choy (최진호), born in 1948, is a South Korean inorganic and materials chemist known for two-dimensional nanohybrid materials and drug and gene delivery research.

Jin‐Hong Park

Jin-Hong Park is a South Korean electrical engineer and professor of semiconductor devices at Sungkyunkwan University, working on 2D materials, multi-valued logic, and neuromorphic hardware.