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Liang Ji
Liang Ji (梁冀) was a grand general of the Eastern Han who dominated the court for over twenty years until his fall and suicide in 159.
Liang Ji's domination of the court
Liang Ji's domination of the court (梁冀專權) was the period of Later Han government when general-in-chief Liang Ji controlled the court, from 144 until his fall in 159.
Liang Jiang
Liang Jiang is a quantum information scientist and professor of molecular engineering at the University of Chicago since 2019, known for quantum error correction and fault-tolerant quantum computing.
Liang K'ai (Mercurian crater)
Liang K'ai is an impact crater on Mercury about 140 km in diameter, named for the Southern Song Chinese painter Liang K'ai; the IAU adopted the name in 1979.
Liang Kai
Liang Kai (梁楷) was a Southern Song painter at the Imperial Painting Academy in Hangzhou who refused the court's gold belt and pioneered reduced-brush figure painting.
Liang Na
Liang Na (梁妠), posthumously Empress Shunlie, was the empress of Emperor Shun of the Eastern Han dynasty and, after his death in 144, regent for three emperors.
Liang Province Rebellion
The Liang Province Rebellion was an uprising against the Eastern Han dynasty in China's northwestern frontier, led by Bian Zhang and Han Sui, that nearly saw the province abandoned in 185.
Liang Qichao
Liang Qichao (梁启超, 1873 to 1929) was a Chinese reformist journalist, thinker, and politician whose journals shaped public debate in the late Qing and early Republic.
Liang Qingde
Liang Qingde (梁庆德) is a Chinese entrepreneur from Shunde, Guangdong, who founded Galanz in 1978 and built the family-controlled appliance group into the world's largest microwave-oven manufacturer.
Liang Rubo
Liang Rubo (梁汝波) is a Chinese technology executive who co-founded ByteDance, owner of TikTok and Douyin, with Zhang Yiming in 2012 and became its chief executive in 2021.
Liang Rui
Liang Rui (梁睿), courtesy name Shide, was a general and statesman of Western Wei, Northern Zhou, and Sui, best known for crushing Wang Qian's rebellion in Sichuan.
Liang Shicheng
Liang Shicheng was a powerful eunuch official at the Northern Song court of Emperor Huizong, nicknamed the hidden chancellor for forging imperial documents; later critics counted him among the six bandits.
Liang Shidu
Liang Shidu (梁师都, died 628) was a Sui-dynasty commandery magnate who rebelled, declared himself emperor of the state of Liang, and ruled for twelve years until the Tang destroyed him in 628.
Liang Shiqiu
Liang Shiqiu (梁實秋, born Liang Zhihua, 1903–1987) was a Chinese essayist, literary critic, and translator, the first Chinese to translate Shakespeare's complete plays into vernacular prose.
Liang Shuming
Liang Shuming (梁漱溟, 1893–1988) was a Chinese philosopher, educator, and rural reformer who taught Indian philosophy at Peking University and is regarded as the founder of Modern New Confucianism.
Liang Tong
Liang Tong (童亮) is a protein crystallographer and William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor at Columbia University, known for crystal structures of metabolic enzymes and RNA-processing machinery.
Liang Wenfeng
Liang Wenfeng (梁文锋, born 1985) is a Chinese engineer and entrepreneur who co-founded the hedge fund High-Flyer and then DeepSeek, the Hangzhou AI lab whose low-cost open-weight R1 model shook global tech markets in January 2025.
Liang Wengen
Liang Wengen (梁稳根), born 1956 in Lianyuan, Hunan, founded the construction machinery maker Sany in 1986 and chaired its listed flagship, Sany Heavy Industry, from 2000 to 2022.
Liang Xiaojing
Liang Xiaojing (梁小静), born 1997 in Zhaoqing, China, is a sprinter; 2014 Youth Olympic 100 m champion, 2018 Asian Indoor 60 m champion, and Asian Games and Asian Championships 4x100 m relay gold medallist.
Liang Xinjun
Liang Xinjun (梁信军) is a Chinese businessman who co-founded Fosun International in Shanghai in 1992 and served as its vice chairman and CEO until resigning in 2017, citing health reasons.
Liang Yan
Liang Yan (梁艳), Chinese volleyball player born 1961 in Chengdu, 1984 Olympic gold medalist and the only member of China's 1981–1986 five-consecutive-championships women's volleyball team; distinct from Paralympic thrower Liwan Yang and a bodybuilder of the same name.
Liang Yongqi (梁永棋) (actor)
Liang Yongqi (梁永棋, birth name Liang Qishun 梁祺顺), born 1995 in Haikou, is a mainland Chinese actor, Central Academy of Drama graduate, and Huanyu Film artist known for Shen Yurong in The Double (2024), distinct from singer-actress Gigi Leung.
Liang Yusheng
Liang Yusheng (梁羽生), born Chen Wentong (1924–2009), was a Chinese novelist from Guangxi who wrote the first new school wuxia novel and 35 such novels between 1954 and 1983.
Liang Zhang
Liang Zhang is a Chinese materials scientist who studies battery electrodes with in-situ synchrotron X-ray spectroscopy and has been a professor at Soochow University since 2019.
Liang Zhaoxian
Liang Zhaoxian (梁昭贤, born 1963) is a Chinese business executive who chairs Galanz Group, the Foshan appliance maker known for microwave ovens, which he took over in 2000.
Liang-Shih Fan
Liang-Shih Fan is a chemical engineer at The Ohio State University known for fluidization and chemical looping clean-energy processes, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2001.
Liangbing Hu
Liangbing Hu, born 1982, is a Chinese-born materials scientist and endowed professor of electrical engineering at Yale, known for Superwood, ultrafast high-temperature sintering, and co-founding InventWood.
Liangdu Fu
Liangdu Fu (两都赋, "Rhapsody on the Two Capitals") is a pair of rhapsodies by Ban Gu defending Luoyang over Chang'an as capital, opening the capital fu genre.
LiAngelo Ball
LiAngelo Ball (born 1998), middle brother of Lonzo and LaMelo Ball, is a rapper (G3) and former basketball player; UCLA shoplifting incident, Lithuania, G League Swarm, unplayed NBA, 2025 Def Jam deal for 'Tweaker'.
Liangfang Zhang
Liangfang Zhang (张良方) is a Chinese-American nanoengineer and professor at the University of California, San Diego, known for inventing cell membrane-coated nanoparticles, a biomimetic drug delivery platform.