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Lin Shuipan
Lin Shuipan (林水盘) is a Chinese sportswear entrepreneur who founded the Xidelong athletic brand in Jinjiang, Fujian, took it to Nasdaq in 2009, and was later imprisoned for loan fraud.
Lin Tian
Lin Tian is a neuroscientist known for engineering genetically encoded fluorescent sensors of brain activity, including GCaMP, dLight, and psychLight, and has led the Max Planck Florida Institute since 2023.
Lin Tianfu (Guirenniao)
Lin Tianfu (林天福, born 1962) is a Chinese entrepreneur who founded the sportswear company Guirenniao in Jinjiang, Fujian, and took it public on the Shanghai Stock Exchange in 2014.
Lin Tuqiu
Lin Tuqiu (林土秋) is a Chinese farmer and entrepreneur from Yangdai village, Chendai town, Jinjiang, Fujian, credited with founding Jinjiang's first shoe factory in 1979.
Lin Weining
Lin Weining (林伟宁), Chinese weightlifter born 1979 in Changyi, Shandong; won women's 69 kg gold at the 2000 Sydney Olympics with a 242.5 kg total on a bodyweight tiebreak, and set multiple world records in 1999.
Lin Wencha
Lin Wencha (林文察, 1828–1864) was a Qing dynasty military commander from Taiwan who rose to commander-in-chief of Fujian, fighting Taiping rebels and suppressing the Dai Chaoschun uprising.
Lin Wenyue
Lin Wenyue (林文月, 1933–2023) was a Taiwanese scholar, essayist, and translator who taught Chinese literature at National Taiwan University and made the first complete Chinese translation of The Tale of Genji.
Lin X. Chen
Lin X. Chen is a chemist at Northwestern University and Argonne National Laboratory known for time-resolved X-ray studies of the structures molecules take after absorbing light.
Lin Xi
Lin Xi (林希), courtesy name Zizhong, was a Song dynasty civil official serving emperors Shenzong, Zhezong, and Huizong, remembered for drafting the dismissal edicts against Sima Guang, Su Shi, and dozens of others.
Lin Xiangru
Lin Xiangru (蔺相如) was a statesman and diplomat of Zhao during the Warring States period, famous for facing down the King of Qin twice without war.
Lin Yan
Lin Yan is an astronomer at the California Institute of Technology, on its professional staff since 2000, who studies infrared extragalactic astronomy and time-domain transients.
Lin Yi (林一)
Lin Yi (林一) is a Chinese actor and former competitive ballroom dancer who rose to fame in the 2019 youth drama Put Your Head on My Shoulder.
Lin Yu Ting
Lin Yu Ting (林郁婷), born 1995 in Taoyuan, is a Taiwanese featherweight boxer, 2024 Paris Olympic gold medalist and Taiwan's first Olympic boxing champion, twice world champion (2018, 2022), cleared by World Boxing in 2026.
Lin Yue
Lin Yue (林跃), Chinese platform diver born 1991 in Chaozhou, Guangdong; two Olympic golds in men's synchronized 10m platform (Beijing 2008 with Huo Liang, Rio 2016 with Chen Aisen), sixth in 2012 individual platform, three world titles.
Lin Yun (林允)
Lin Yun (林允, Jelly Lin, born Fei Xia, 1996) is a Chinese actress from Huzhou, Zhejiang, who debuted in Stephen Chow's The Mermaid (2016) and later starred in A Dream of Splendor and Imperfect Victim.
Lin Yutang
Lin Yutang (林语堂) was a Chinese writer, linguist, and inventor whose bestsellers explained China to the West and who spent three decades building the MingKwai Chinese typewriter.
Lin Zexu
Lin Zexu (林则徐, 1785–1850) was a Qing dynasty official who served emperors Jiaqing and Daoguang as governor-general and imperial commissioner, best known for destroying foreign opium at Humen in 1839.
Lin Zexu (1959 film)
Lin Zexu (林则徐, The Opium Wars) is a 1959 Chinese color historical biographical film by Shanghai Haiyan Film Studio, directed by Zheng Junli and Cen Fan, starring Zhao Dan as the Qing commissioner who destroyed opium at Humen; a tenth-anniversary tribute film.
Lin Ziye (林子烨)
Lin Ziye (林子烨, Lester), born 2011 in Xiamen, Fujian, is a Chinese mainland child actor signed to Sinian Film and Television, known for young Pei Zhi in The Heart of Genius, Xue Chongzi in My Journey to You, and the film 731.
Lin-Fa Wang
Lin-Fa Wang (王林发) is a Singapore-based virologist at Duke-NUS Medical School known for identifying bats as the SARS virus's natural host and for bat immunology research.
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Lin-Manuel Miranda (born 1980) is an American songwriter, actor, and director, creator and original star of In the Heights and Hamilton; Pulitzer, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony winner, one Oscar short of EGOT.
Lin‐Wang Wang
Lin-Wang Wang (Wang, Lin-Wang) is a computational materials scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory who invented methods simulating systems with hundreds of thousands of atoms.
Lin–Kernighan heuristic
The Lin–Kernighan heuristic is a local search algorithm for the traveling salesman problem, published by Shen Lin and Brian W. Kernighan at Bell Labs in 1973.
Lin'an City Site
临安城遗址 (Lin'an City Site): archaeological site of the Southern Song capital beneath Hangzhou, Zhejiang. Palace city of about 665,000 m² at Phoenix Hill; national key protection unit; five top-ten archaeological discoveries including the Imperial Street and Deshou Palace sites.
Lin'an Mountain Games
Lin'an Mountain Games (风之谷户外乐园) is a large outdoor amusement and sports park in Changhua Town, Lin'an district, Hangzhou, China, covering about 2,382 mu with a 550-million-yuan investment, six zones, grassland rides, camping, and seasonal water play.
LIN28A
LIN28A (LIN28, CSDD1, ZCCHC1) is a human chromosome 1p36.11 gene encoding a 209-amino-acid cytoplasmic RNA-binding protein that blocks let-7 microRNA maturation via TUT4, maintains stem-cell pluripotency, and acts as an oncogene overexpressed in about 15% of cancer types.
LIN28B
LIN28B (lin-28 homolog B) is a human chromosome 6 gene encoding a 250-amino-acid RNA-binding protein with a cold-shock domain and CCHC zinc knuckles that blocks let-7 microRNA maturation, marks fetal hematopoietic stem cells, and acts as an oncogene.
Lina Aebersold
Lina Aebersold, Swiss race walker, set the women's 20 km walk world record of 1:59:02 in Zürich on 9 June 1934, the first sub-two-hour time, unbeaten until 1962; sister of walker Adolf Aebersold.
Lina Andersson
Lina Marie Andersson (born 1981, Malmberget, Sweden), Swedish cross-country skier; won gold in the women's team sprint with Anna Dahlberg at the Turin 2006 Olympics, with World Championship silvers in 2005 and 2009; retired 2011.
Lina Backlin
Lina Bäcklin (Lina Backlin), born 1994 in Gävle, Swedish ice hockey defender for Brynäs IF; 2012 Youth Olympic gold, 2014 Sochi Olympian, Riksserien best defender 2013/14, retired 2018 at 24.