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Lim Goh Tong

Lim Goh Tong (林梧桐) was a Malaysian entrepreneur who founded the Genting Group in 1965 and built Genting Highlands, the hilltop resort holding Malaysia's only casino license.

Lim Guan Eng (林冠英), born 1960, Malaysian DAP politician and accountant: MP for Kota Melaka 1986–1999, jailed 1998–1999 for sedition, Penang Chief Minister 2008–2018, Finance Minister 2018–2020, now DAP national adviser facing ongoing corruption trial.

Lim Hariyanto Wijaya Sarwono

Lim Hariyanto Wijaya Sarwono is an Indonesian billionaire businessman who founded and controls the Harita Group, a family-owned conglomerate spanning palm oil, bauxite, and nickel.

Lim Hock Chee

Lim Hock Chee is a Singaporean retail entrepreneur who co-founded Sheng Siong, Singapore's second-largest supermarket chain, with his brothers in 1985 and serves as its chief executive.

Lim Hyun-sik

Lim Hyun-sik (임현식), also known as Hyunsik or Im Hyun-sik, is a South Korean singer-songwriter and composer, born in Seoul in 1992, best known as lead vocalist of BtoB.

Lim Ji-yeon (임지연)

Lim Ji-yeon (임지연), born 1990, is a South Korean actress known for Obsessed, The Glory villain Park Yeon-jin, The Tale of Lady Ok, and SBS's My Royal Nemesis.

LIM JIMIN

Lim Jimin (임지민) is a South Korean singer under Bluedot Entertainment, active as a soloist and as a member of the boy group JUST B since 2021.

Lim Ju-hwan (임주환)

Lim Ju-hwan (임주환, born 1982, Seoul) is a South Korean actor and former model known for Tamra, the Island, Ugly Alert, Uncontrollably Fond, The Bride of Habaek, and MBC and KBS Drama Awards acting honors.

Lim Kit Siang

Lim Kit Siang (林吉祥), Malaysian opposition leader and DAP co-founder; secretary-general 1969–1999, longest-serving Parliamentary Opposition Leader, twice detained under the ISA, retired 2022 without ever holding ministerial office.

Lim Koon Teck

Lim Koon Teck (林坤德), Singapore-born barrister in the Colonial Legal Service, Deputy Registrar and Sheriff of the Supreme Court (1932), magistrate in Penang, and Legislative Assembly member for Paya Lebar, 1955–1959; father of sculptor Kim Lim.

Oct 22, 2026

Lim Yew Hock

Lim Yew Hock (林有福) was a Singaporean politician who served as the colony's second Chief Minister from 1956 to 1959, later becoming a Malaysian High Commissioner.

Lim-Pendé

Lim-Pendé is a prefecture of the Central African Republic in the northwest, capital Paoua, created in the 2021 reorganization; population about 442,151 (2021), area 13,208 km², sub-prefectures Kodi, Ngaoundaye, Paoua.

Lima

Lima, founded 18 January 1535 by Francisco Pizarro as Ciudad de los Reyes, is Peru's capital and largest city, former capital of the Viceroyalty of Peru, a UNESCO World Heritage historic center of about 10 million people in a desert seismic zone.

LIMA (dataset)

LIMA is a supervised fine-tuning dataset of exactly 1,000 curated prompts and responses, released in May 2023, whose 65B LLaMA model matched GPT-4 in 43% of comparisons.

Oct 22, 2026

Lima Barreto

Lima Barreto, born Afonso Henriques de Lima Barreto, was a Brazilian novelist and journalist (1881–1922) whose fiction attacked racism and official nationalism in the First Republic.

Lima bean

Lima bean (Phaseolus lunatus L.), also called butter bean or Pallar, a Phaseolus legume domesticated separately in the Andes and Mesoamerica, heat- and drought-tolerant, with cyanogenic glucosides in seeds.

Oct 15, 2026

Lima Locomotive Works

The Lima Locomotive Works was an American steam locomotive manufacturer in Lima, Ohio, best known for the Shay geared logging locomotive and for introducing the 2-8-4 Berkshire design in 1925.

Oct 20, 2026

Lima Province

Lima Province, colloquially the City of Lima, is a province of Peru containing the national capital. It is the most populous province, with 9.6 million inhabitants in 2025.

Lima, Ohio

Lima, Ohio: Allen County seat founded by 1831 legislation, population 35,579 (2020). Site of the 1885 Trenton Limestone oil boom, once the world's most productive oilfield, and home to an Army Abrams tank plant.

Oct 20, 2026

LIMA1

LIMA1 (EPLIN, SREBP3, LDLCQ8), gene ID 51474 at 12q13.12, encodes a human actin-cross-linking LIM-domain protein stabilizing stress fibers and adherens junctions; loss promotes cancer invasion, and the K306fs variant lowers LDL cholesterol.

Limacina helicina

Limacina helicina, the sea butterfly, is an Arctic-subarctic thecosome pteropod snail with a sinistrally coiled aragonite shell up to 10–13 mm, sole prey of Clione limacina, and a leading bioindicator of ocean acidification via shell dissolution.

Limacina rangii

Limacina rangii (d'Orbigny, 1835), a southern-hemisphere shelled pteropod or sea butterfly, circumglobal south of 50°S; split from Limacina helicina on COI evidence; formerly L. helicina rangii.

Limacodidae

Limacodidae, the slug caterpillar moths or cup moths, is a pantropical family of about 1,800 Zygaenoidea species whose larvae glide on suckers and often bear venomous spines; reclassified into four subfamilies in 2025.

Limaçon

The limaçon, also called Pascal's snail, is a plane algebraic curve of order 4, the conchoid of a circle taken with respect to a point on its circumference.

Limahl

Limahl (Christopher Hamill, born 1958, Wigan) is an English pop singer, ex-lead vocalist of Kajagoogoo ('Too Shy', UK No. 1, 1983) and solo hitmaker of the 1984 Giorgio Moroder-produced 'The NeverEnding Story' theme.

Liman (landform)

Liman: a coastal lagoon formed where a sand bar partially bars a drowned river mouth, common on the Black Sea coast; from Turkish liman 'port', from Greek limēn 'bay'.

Sep 24, 2026

Liman von Sanders

Liman von Sanders, born Otto Liman and ennobled in 1913, was a Prussian general who reorganized the Ottoman army and commanded the Ottoman Fifth Army at Gallipoli in 1915.

Limanda aspera

Limanda aspera, yellowfin sole (Japanese Kogane-garei), a righteye flatfish of the North Pacific from Korea to the Beaufort Sea, target of the world's largest flatfish fishery in the Bering Sea, IUCN Least Concern.

Limanda limanda

Limanda limanda, the common dab (Kliesche, limande commune), is a small righteye flatfish of the northeast Atlantic from Bay of Biscay to the Barents Sea, abundant in the southern North Sea, IUCN Least Concern, caught mainly as trawl bycatch.