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Li Xin (Qin)
Li Xin (李信) was a young, daring general of Qin under King Ying Zheng in the unification wars of 230–221 BCE; he captured the Yan heir Dan and led 200,000 men, with Meng Tian, against Chu after underestimating it against Wang Jian's 600,000.
Li Xinchuan
Li Xinchuan (李心传, 1167–1244) was a Song dynasty historian and official from Longzhoujingyan in present-day Sichuan, known for the Jianyan yilai xinian yao lu and the Jianyan yilai chaoye zaji.
Li Xinghao
Li Xinghao (李兴浩) is a Chinese entrepreneur, founder and chairman of Chigo Air Conditioning in Foshan, Guangdong, a former popsicle seller who listed the company in 2009.
Li Xinhe
Li Xinhe (李欣贺) is a Chinese finance entrepreneur who co-founded and leads the P2P lending platform Renrendai, once ranked third in China by loan balance, founded in Beijing in 2010.
Li Xinrong
Li Xinrong (李新荣), also known as Allen Lee, is a semiconductor executive who spent 15 years at AMD and has been co-CEO of Biren Technology since 2021.
Li Xiong
Li Xiong (李雄), courtesy name Zhongjun, was the third son of Li Te who captured Chengdu, declared himself emperor in Shu, and reigned thirty years until his death.
Li Xiting
Li Xiting (李西廷), also written Xiting Li, is a Chinese-born Singapore businessman who co-founded the medical device maker Mindray in Shenzhen in 1991 and serves as its chairman and controlling shareholder.
Li Xiucheng
Li Xiucheng (李秀成, 1825–1864) was a Taiping military commander who led the regime's armies in its final years and was executed after the fall of Nanjing.
Li Xubin
Li Xubin (李续宾), 1818 to 1858, was a Qing dynasty Xiang Army commander from Xiangxiang, Hunan, who fought the Taiping rebels and died leading his army at Sanhe.
Li Xueling
Li Xueling (李学凌), known internationally as David Xueling Li, is a Chinese entrepreneur who co-founded the live streaming company JOYY and served as its chief executive from 2005 to 2024.
Li Xuerui
Li Xuerui (李雪芮), Chinese badminton player, born 1991 in Chongqing; 2012 London Olympic women's singles gold medalist, world No. 1 for 119 weeks, retired 2019 after Rio ACL injury.
Li Xueying
Li Xueying (李雪英, born 1990, Henan) is a Chinese weightlifter, 2012 London Olympic champion in the women's 58 kg with an Olympic-record 246 kg total, and 2009 world champion.
Li Xun
Li Xun (李训), born Li Zhongyan, was a Tang dynasty chancellor who led a plot to exterminate the court eunuchs that collapsed in the Sweet Dew incident, after which he was beheaded.
Li Yajun
Li Yajun (黎雅君), Chinese weightlifter born 1993 in Huizhou, Guangdong; 2013 world champion at 53 kg, 2018 55 kg snatch world record holder (102 kg, Ashgabat), and 2016 Rio Olympian who did not finish.
Li Yan (venture capitalist)
Li Yan, also known as Yan Li (严力), is a Chinese venture capitalist who founded Eastern Bell Capital in Shanghai in 2010 to invest in logistics.
Li Yanjun
Li Yanjun (李延军), born 1963 in Liaoning, China, is a former volleyball player who won gold at the 1984 Olympics and later the 1985 World Cup and 1986 World Championship.
Li Yannian
Li Yannian (李延年) was a Han dynasty court musician, a native of Zhongshan, who set Emperor Wu's sacrificial hymns to music as Commandant of Harmonized Pitch before his family's fall.
Li Yanshou
Li Yanshou (李延寿) was a Tang dynasty historian who completed the Nanshi and Beishi, histories of the southern and northern dynasties presented to Gaozong in 659.
Li Ye (mathematician)
Li Ye (李冶, 1192–1279) was a Chinese mathematician and writer, one of the four great mathematicians of the Song–Yuan period, who wrote the earliest surviving works on tianyuan shu.
Li Yi
Li Yi (李益), courtesy name Junyu, was a Tang dynasty poet who served some twenty years on the northern frontiers and retired as minister of rites under Emperor Xianzong.
Li Yifei
Li Yifei (李逸飞), legal name Li Weiwei (李卫伟), born 1977, is a Chinese games entrepreneur who co-founded 37 Interactive Entertainment in Guangzhou in 2011 and serves as its chairman.
Li Yifeng
Li Yifeng (李易峰, alias Li He), Chinese actor, singer, and producer born 1987 in Chengdu; debut via 2007's 加油好男儿, breakthrough with 古剑奇谭 (2014), Hundred Flowers and Golden Eagle award winner.
Li Yifu
Li Yifu (李义府) was a Tang dynasty chancellor who rose under Emperor Gaozong, nicknamed "a dagger behind the smile" for his hidden viciousness, and died in exile in 666.
Li Yiji
Li Yiji (郦食其) was a Chinese strategist and envoy of the late Qin and Chu–Han periods who won over 70 Qi cities for Han by persuasion alone and was boiled alive.
Li Yiji boiled by the King of Qi
Li Yiji boiled by the King of Qi (郦食其烹于齐) was the boiling alive of the Han envoy Li Yiji by Tian Guang, King of Qi, around 204 BC.
Li Ying
Li Ying (李膺), courtesy name Yuanli, was an Eastern Han official from Yingchuan, Henan, famed for cowing the eunuchs and jailed in the Partisan Prohibitions.
Li Yong (Chinese entrepreneur)
Li Yong (李勇) is a Chinese education-technology entrepreneur, co-founder and chief executive of Yuanfudao, the Beijing online-education company he started in 2012 after a journalism career and a senior role at NetEase.
Li Yongjin
Li Yongjin (黎勇劲) is a Chinese internet entrepreneur who founded the Shanghai online property brokerage Aiwujiwu, which raised US$350 million, reached a US$1 billion valuation, and collapsed in 2019.
Li Yongping
Li Yongping (李永平, 1947–2017), Sarawak-born Taiwanese novelist and translator, author of Jiling Chunqiu and the Moon River trilogy; first Malaysian-Chinese winner of Taiwan's National Award for Arts.
Li You
Li You (李由) was a Qin dynasty official, eldest son of the chancellor Li Si, who served as governor of Sanchuan commandery and defended Xingyang against the rebel Wu Guang.