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Lin Bu
Lin Bu (林逋, 957–1028) was a Song dynasty poet and calligrapher who lived as a recluse on Gushan by West Lake, Hangzhou, and received the posthumous title Master Hejing.
Lin Cai
Lin Cai is a Canadian researcher in wireless communications and networking, President's Chair Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Victoria since 2005.
Lin Chi-ling (林志玲)
Lin Chi-ling (林志玲), Taiwan's first supermodel, rose to fame in 2004, starred in Red Cliff (2008), married EXILE's AKIRA in 2019, and briefly served as a Taiwan Creative Content Agency director in 2026 before resigning.
Lin Chien-hsun
Lin Chien-hsun, known in English as Jeff Lin (林建勋), is a Taiwanese executive who leads Wistron Corporation as chief executive, transforming it into an AI server manufacturer.
Lin Dan (林丹)
Lin Dan (林丹), born 1983, nicknamed Super Dan, Chinese left-handed badminton men's singles great; two Olympic golds (2008, 2012), five world titles, six Thomas Cups, retired 4 July 2020.
Lin Dongliang
Lin Dongliang (林栋梁) is a Chinese venture capitalist and general partner of IDG Capital since 1995, whose early investments in Soufun and NetDragon led to Baidu's record US$1.9 billion acquisition of 91 Wireless in 2013.
Lin Fanghua
Lin Fanghua (林芳华) is a Silver Professor of Mathematics at NYU's Courant Institute, known for the mathematical theory of liquid crystals and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2025.
Lin Fengmian
Lin Fengmian (林風眠, 1900–1991) was a Chinese painter and educator who merged Chinese ink painting with European modernism and founded the National Art Academy in Hangzhou.
Lin Gengxin
Lin Gengxin, also known as Kenny Lin, is a Chinese actor born in 1988 who rose to fame as the 14th Prince in the 2011 drama Scarlet Heart.
Lin Gu
Lin Gu (谷林) is a Chinese materials scientist known for atomic-scale electron microscopy of ferroelectric oxides and battery cathodes, and a professor at Tsinghua University since 2022.
Lin Haiyin
Lin Haiyin (林海音, 1918–2001), born Lin Hanying, was a Taiwanese writer and editor best known for the autobiographical collection My Memories of Old Beijing and for championing postwar Taiwanese writers.
Lin He
Lin He (何琳) is a Chinese-American molecular biologist at UC Berkeley who showed that a microRNA cluster can act as an oncogene and won a 2009 MacArthur Fellowship.
Lin Huiyin
Lin Huiyin (林徽因) was a Chinese architect, architectural historian, and writer who surveyed ancient buildings across China and helped design the national emblem of the People's Republic.
Lin Jinlan
Lin Jinlan (林斤澜; born Lin Qinglan, 1923–2009) was a Chinese short story writer from Wenzhou, Zhejiang, who wrote about 200 stories and never a novel, grouped with Wang Zengqi as a peak of post-1976 short fiction.
Lin King
Lin King (金翎, born 1993) is a Taiwanese-American writer and translator whose English translation of Yang Shuang-zi's Taiwan Travelogue won the 2024 National Book Award for Translated Literature and the 2026 International Booker Prize, the first Mandarin-translated winner.
Lin Li (olympedia 46089)
Lin Li (林莉), Chinese swimmer born 1970 in Nantong, Jiangsu; won 200m IM gold at Barcelona 1992 in world record 2:11.65, plus two silvers and a 1996 bronze across three Olympics.
Lin Liang
Lin Liang (林良) was a Chinese court painter of the Ming dynasty who served from about 1465 and founded the bold ink freehand school of bird-and-flower painting.
Lin Lin
Lin Lin is a Chinese-American applied mathematician who joined UC Berkeley's mathematics department in 2014, known for numerical methods for electronic structure, quantum many-body problems, and quantum computing algorithms.
Lin Lin Yi
Lin Lin Yi (邻邻壹) was a Chinese community group-buying platform founded in Suzhou in March 2018 by Xiao Zhilong, selling groceries through WeChat neighborhood group leaders.
Lin Mei
Lin Mei (梅林) is a Chinese-born neuroscientist who studies synapse formation, known for identifying LRP4 as the receptor for agrin and for myasthenia gravis biomarkers.
Lin Muqin
Lin Muqin (林木勤), born 1964 in Guangdong, is the founder, chairman, and CEO of Shenzhen-based Eastroc Beverage, which overtook Red Bull to lead China's energy drink market.
Lin Onus
Lin Onus, born William McLintock Onus and known by the Koori name Burrinja, was an Aboriginal Australian painter, sculptor, and activist who died in 1996.
Lin Qi (林奇) (businessman)
Lin Qi (林奇) was a Chinese gaming entrepreneur who founded Yoozoo Games in Shanghai in 2009 and acquired the rights to Liu Cixin's Three-Body trilogy.
Lin Qiao
Lin Qiao is a technology executive who co-created PyTorch during seven years at Meta before founding Fireworks AI, an AI inference platform, in Redwood City, California, in 2022.
Lin Qingfeng
Lin Qingfeng (林清峰), Chinese weightlifter born 1989 in Changle, Fujian; Olympic gold medalist in men's 69 kg at London 2012 with a 344 kg total and 2014 Asian Games champion.
Lin Sanzhi
Lin Sanzhi (林散之, 1898–1989), born Lin Lin, was a Chinese calligrapher, poet, and painter whose late-life cursive script earned him the title "contemporary Sage of Cursive."
Lin Shaye
Lin Shaye, American character actress born 1943 in Detroit; sister of New Line founder Robert Shaye. Known for Farrelly brothers comedies and as Elise Rainier in the Insidious horror franchise.
Lin Shihong
Lin Shihong (林士弘, died 622) was a Sui dynasty rebel leader who declared himself emperor of the state of Chu in 617, ruling territory from Jiujiang to Panyu.
Lin Shu
Lin Shu (林紓, 1852–1924) was a Chinese writer and translator who rendered more than 160 Western and Japanese novels into classical Chinese without knowing any foreign language.
Lin Shuangwen
Lin Shuangwen (林爽文) was a Qing-dynasty settler farmer in Changhua, Taiwan who led the largest uprising against Qing rule there, from late 1786 until his capture and execution in 1788.