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Hacken Li Hacken Li Musicians · British Hong Kong

Hacken Lee / Stephen Lee Hacken; December 6, 1967 -), a Hong Kong male singer, TV host, football commentator, lyricist and actor. Chang and Alan Tam are collectively known as "Left Lin Right Lee". He is one of the few singers who has maintained popularity and regularly released albums across the five decades from the 1980s to the 2020s. He is also one of the singers who won awards at the Hong Kong music awards from the 1980s to the 2010s. So far, he has won the "Most Popular Male Singer" at the "Top Ten Golden Song Awards" four times and the "Outstanding Pop Singer Award" at the "Top Ten Chinese Golden Melody Awards Concert" 18 times. In 2004, he won the "Best Popular Male Singer Award" at the "Top Ten Chinese Golden Melody Awards Concert", and in 2017, he won the "Golden Award for Male Singer" at the "Top Ten Chinese Golden Melody Awards Ceremony". Since 2015, Hacken Lee has been involved in the mainland music scene, participating in mainland China's "The Masked Singer", "I Am a Singer", "Our Song", "The Voice of China" (as a mentor for two seasons), "The Voice" and other large-scale music variety shows. His popularity continues to rise and he has become one of the most popular Hong Kong singers in mainland China. In 2021, Hacken Li will serve as the host and star chief mentor of the TVB singing talent show "Legend of Dreams".

Li Bingbing Li Bingbing Film & TV · People's Republic of China

Li Bingbing (February 27, 1973 -), born in Wuchang County, Heilongjiang Province, with ancestral home in Taigu, Shanxi, is an actress and singer in the People's Republic of China. Graduated from the Music Department of Jixi Normal College of Technical Secondary School, worked as a primary school music teacher, and was admitted to the Performance Department of Shanghai Theater Academy in 1993. Member of China Zhi Gong Party. She made her debut in 1994 and won the Best Actress Award at the 13th Singapore International Film Festival in 2000 for the movie "Going Home for the New Year". In 2007, she won the Outstanding Actress Award at the 12th China Film Huabiao Awards for "The Ballad of Clouds and Waters". In 2008, she won the "Best Actress" award at the 29th Popular Film Hundred Flowers Awards (17th Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival) for "The Ballad of Clouds and Waters". In 2009, she won the Best Actress at the 46th Golden Horse Awards for "The Wind". Together with Xu Jinglei, Zhou Xun, Zhao Wei, Zhang Ziyi and Fan Bingbing, Li Bingbing is known as the "Four Dangers" and has become one of the six most representative and most watched first-line actresses in the mainland entertainment industry.

L Li Qiankuan Political figures · People's Republic of China

Li Qiankuan (January 4, 1941 - August 12, 2021), male, Han nationality, born in Dalian, Liaoning, is a director and political figure in the People's Republic of China. After graduating in 1964, he entered the Chinese film industry and mainland China's entertainment industry. He has successively served as Vice Chairman of the Jilin Federation of Literary and Art Circles, Chief Director of Changchun Film Studio, and Honorary Chairman of the China Film Association. He has directed films such as "The Founding Ceremony of the People's Republic of China". Member of the China Association for the Promotion of Democracy and member of the 11th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

Li Qianna Li Qianna Film & TV · Republic of China

Li Qianna (November 22, 1984 -), who used the stage name Li Qianna from 2018 to 2022, is a Taiwanese female singer and actress. In 2007, he participated in the second "Super Avenue of Stars" singing competition and won the tenth place. His voice was appreciated by Zhou Chuanxiong and he was accepted as his apprentice, officially entering the entertainment industry. In 2010, he won the "Best New Actor" at the 47th Golden Horse Awards for his outstanding performance in the film "Juliet". He was also the first star singer to win the Golden Horse Award after graduating from the "Super Avenue of Stars" contestant. The dramas she performed subsequently were also shortlisted for the Golden Bell Award for "Actress in a Drama Program" several times. In 2017, she won the "Supporting Actress in Mini Series/TV Movie Award" at the 52nd Golden Bell Awards for the TV series "Psychic Girl". In 2018, the first Taiwanese album "Cha Mou Girl" was released. In 2019, her Taiwanese album "Cha" was shortlisted for three awards in the 30th Golden Melody Awards: "Best Taiwanese Female Singer", "Best Taiwanese Album" and "Album of the Year". She became the first film, television, song and music artist from the Star Gang to be nominated for three gold medals. Hosted the 54th Golden Bell Awards for Broadcasting with Hou Changming for the first time. In 2023, he will independently release his fifth album "Guan·With You" under the name of his personal company.

L Li Zhuozhao Film & TV · Unknown nationality

Li Zhuozhao (December 17, 2004 -) is a mainland Chinese actor who was born as a child actor. He is famous for his role as Liu Qi in his teenage years in the movie "The Wandering Earth".

Li Keran Li Keran Artists · People's Republic of China

Li Keran (March 26, 1907 - December 5, 1989), formerly known as Li Yongshun, was born in Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province. He was a contemporary Chinese painter and the core founder of the modern transformation of Chinese landscape painting. He mainly creates landscape paintings and animal paintings, especially painting cows.

L Li Ye Entrepreneurs · People's Republic of China

Li Ye (July 11, 1988 -), also known as Melody Tan Tan Yip (English: Melody Tan Tan Yip), entrepreneur, former Hong Kong ice dancer.

Li Siqi Li Siqi Film & TV · People's Republic of China

Louise Lee Sze-kee (English: Louise Lee Sze-kee; September 26, 1950 -), formerly known as Li Rong, was born in Tianjin and is a Hong Kong actress. She debuted as a Hong Kong princess in 1968. She was one of the leading actresses of TVB from the 1970s to the 1980s. She immigrated to Canada in the late 1980s and returned to Hong Kong in the 1990s. In 2007, she won the "Best Actress" award at the "Thousands of Stars Awards Ceremony 2007" for "The Storm". In 2008, she won the "My Favorite TV Female Character" award at the "Thousands of Stars Awards 2008" for her sister work "The Full Moon", and then won the highest honor "The Thousands of Stars Performer Award" at the "Thousands of Stars Awards 2010", becoming the first actress to win three major awards at the awards ceremony.

Li Xiangzhe Li Xiangzhe Film & TV · People's Republic of China

Li Xiangzhe (November 2, 1992 -), a pop singer and film and television actor in Mainland China, was born in Nanning, Guangxi. In 2014, he became a trainee of the idol boy group COSMOS. In 2017, he debuted with the group and joined the Youku video variety show "Super Dimension Idol". In March 2018, he starred in the online drama "The Splash"; in October of the same year, he participated in the first season of the Hunan Satellite TV Bel Canto Idol Men's Group competition as a bass singer in the development reality show "Voice into the Heart". In May 2019, attended the "Beautiful Children's Journey" Angel Baby charity dinner of ifeng.com.

Li Ka-shing Li Ka-shing Entrepreneurs · Republic of China

Sir Ka-shing Li, Grand Bauhinia Honor, KBE, JP (English: Sir Ka-shing Li, July 29, 1928 -), is a Hong Kong entrepreneur. He was born in Chao'an, Guangdong and grew up in Hong Kong. He has lived in Hong Kong since 1940. He has been the richest man in Asia for many years and has been the richest man in Hong Kong for many years. The Cheung Kong Group (Cheung Kong Holdings) he founded has become one of the largest companies in Hong Kong. On March 16, 2018, the 90-year-old Li Ka-shing and the CK Hutchison Group announced his retirement on May 10 of the same year and became a senior consultant. The chairman of the board of directors of the CK Hutchison Group was succeeded by his eldest son Li Zeju.

Li Siguang Li Siguang Political figures · People's Republic of China

Li Siguang (October 26, 1889 - April 29, 1971), courtesy name Zhonggong, formerly known as Li Zhongkui, was a Mongolian nationality and a native of Huanggang, Hubei Province. He was a geologist, paleontologist, social activist, revolutionary and political figure in modern China. He was the main leader and founder of China's geological work and modern earth science. In 1904, Li Siguang studied in Japan and graduated from the Marine Machinery Department of Osaka Technical College in 1910. After returning to China, Li Siguang went to Beijing to take the study tour graduation examination and was awarded the title of Jinshi in Engineering by the Qing government. In 1911, as the youngest and first member of the Chinese Tongmenghui, Li Siguang participated in the revolution and served as the branch secretary of the Hubei Tongmenghui and the minister of the Industrial Department of the Hubei Military Government. After 1913, Li Siguang studied in the United Kingdom, studied geology at the University of Birmingham, and obtained a master's degree in 1918. In 1920, Li Siguang was recalled to China by Ding Wenjiang and became the director of the Geology Department of Peking University the following year. In 1927, Li Siguang presided over the establishment of the Institute of Geology, Academia Sinica, and became its director the following year. In 1934, Li Siguang went to England to teach "Chinese Geology" and published a book of the same name. During the Anti-Japanese War, he taught at Chongqing University and went to the UK to attend the International Geological Society meeting in 1948. In the same year, he was elected as the first academician of Academia Sinica. After March 1950, Li Siguang secretly returned to China and subsequently served as Minister of Geology, Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chairman of the Chinese Geological Society, Chairman of the China Association for Science and Technology, Vice Chairman of the World Association of Scientists, Vice Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, foreign academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union, member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, leader of the Science and Education Group of the State Council, and other important positions. He was a deputy national leader of the People's Republic of China. In his early years, Li Siguang studied the fossils of the family Li family and proposed ten identification standards, thus becoming a pioneer in micropaleontology research in China. Li Siguang also discovered the existence of Quaternary glaciers in China, founded the school of geomechanics, and proposed the concept of tectonic systems. Based on this, Li Siguang rejected the "China's oil-poor theory" and believed that oil could be explored through subsidence zones and uranium deposits could be found through "combination of geological structures and radiation surveys", making groundbreaking contributions to the development of China's petroleum and atomic energy industries. In his later years, Li Siguang proposed the method of monitoring earthquakes through in-situ stress and predicted four major earthquake zones: Tangshan, Sichuan, Xingtai and Linyi, three of which were confirmed.

L Li Guowei Political figures · People's Republic of China

Li Guowei (August 19, 1893 - 1978), formerly known as Zhongshu, male, was a native of Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, a modern Chinese industrialist, and the son-in-law of Rong Desheng.

L Li Shiyu Entrepreneurs · Unknown nationality

Li Shiyu (1855-1917), courtesy name Youxiang, was a native of Tianjin and his ancestral home was Kunshan County, Jiangsu Province (now part of Suzhou). He was a businessman in the late Qing Dynasty. The second generation of the Li family among the Eight Great Families of Tianjin.

L Li Duokui Film & TV · Republic of China

Li Duokui (November 20, 1898 - July 25, 1974), formerly known as Li Wanxuan, also known as Ziqing, was a native of Hejian, Hebei Province, a Peking opera actor and a Gong Lao Dan. Born in Qingshouhe College, he studied under Mr. Luo Fushan. Created the Peking Opera Lao Dan art school known as Duo Pai or Li Pai. His disciples include Li Shengquan and Li Jinquan who were recruited before the founding of the People's Republic of China; Zhao Minghua, An Hui, Li Mingyan, Lin Lijuan, Cheng Jinghua, Li Duofen, Wang Mengyun, Wang Xiaolin, Jia Xiaodong, Xu Dongxiang, Lu Huiqiu, Xiao Caiqin, Xu Aihua, etc. were recruited after the founding of the People's Republic of China.

Li Datong Li Datong Media figures · People's Republic of China

Li Datong (1952-), male, native of Nanchong, Sichuan, journalist and editor of the People's Republic of China, former reporter of China Youth Daily, and founding editor of Freezing Point weekly. His wife Jiang Fei is also a senior reporter for China Youth Daily and they have a son.

L Li Tian Scientists · People's Republic of China

Li Tian (October 2, 1938 - April 11, 2018), a native of Jilin City, Jilin Province, is a Chinese aircraft aerodynamics expert and a researcher at the Shenyang Aircraft Design Institute of China Aviation Industry Corporation.

L Li Aoxuan Musicians · People's Republic of China

Li Aoxuan, born in Beijing, China, is a popular male singer and double-key electronic organ player. In 2017, he signed a contract with Japan's avex and became its trainee. In December 2018, he officially debuted with the release of the cross-border single "321".

Li Na Li Na Athletes · People's Republic of China

Li Na (February 26, 1982 -), native of Wuhan, Hubei Province, is a former professional tennis player in China. She is the winner of two Grand Slam championships. Her highest world ranking is No. 2. She has won nine WTA Tour singles championships in her career. After winning the French Open in 2011, Li Na became the first Grand Slam champion born in Asia in tennis history. He turned professional in 1999 and retired briefly from 2002 to 2004 to return to school. After her comeback in 2004, she won the Guangzhou International Women's Tennis Open and became the first Chinese player in history to win a WTA Tour championship. In 2006, she reached the quarterfinals of a Grand Slam for the first time and became the first Chinese player to win a WTA Tour title. After that, she reached the Grand Slam quarter-finals 10 times in her career, including four Grand Slam women's singles finals, and finally won 2 championships and 2 runner-up results. At the 2011 French Open, Li Na defeated four top ten players to win the final championship, becoming the first Asian female player to win a Grand Slam championship. At the 2014 Australian Open, Li Na advanced to the Australian Open women's singles final for the third time and won the final championship, becoming the first Asian player to win the Australian Open women's singles championship. In the 2013 WTA year-end finals, Li Na reached the finals for the first time. Although she won the runner-up, her career ranking reached a new high, rising to the third position in the world. In February 2014, Li Na's world ranking rose to second in the world, becoming the first Asian player in history to reach second in the world. (Also the highest-ranked Asian player, surpassed by Naomi Osaka in 2019.) After Wimbledon in July 2014, Li Na suffered a knee injury that kept her away from the court for two months. In September, she sent a farewell letter and decided to retire. In 2019, Li Na was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame. Li Na is a pioneer of Chinese tennis and has made many histories. She was once the most successful tennis player in Asia and was selected into Time's 100 People in 2013. In her fifteen-year career, Li Na reached the WTA women's singles finals 21 times, and won a total of 9 WTA and 19 ITF singles championships. Her total career record was 503 wins and 188 losses, and she retired as the sixth ranked player in the world.

Li Tingting Li Tingting Media figures · People's Republic of China

Li Tingting (1989-), pseudonym Li Maizi, is a mainland Chinese women's rights activist currently living in New York, United States. She was detained by the police on the eve of International Women's Day in 2015, along with four other human rights activists (Wei Tingting, Wu Rongrong, Zheng Churan, and Wang Man, collectively known as the "Five Feminist Sisters"). They originally planned to conduct anti-sexual harassment operations on buses during Women's Day.

Li Zixiong Li Zixiong Film & TV · People's Republic of China

Waise Lee Chi Hung (English: Waise Lee Chi Hung, December 19, 1959 -), a Hong Kong actor and a former Hong Kong TVB contract male artist. He is a member of the Hong Kong Star Football Team.

Lee Hyori Lee Hyori Musicians · Republic of Korea

Lee Hyo Ri (Korean: Hyori Lee, Romanized: Lee Hyo Ri, May 10, 1979 -) is a well-known female singer and actress in South Korea. She is a representative figure of sex symbols and has the title of National Fairy. In 1998, she debuted as the leader of the Korean singing group Fin.K.L. and became the first girl group to win the Korean Music Awards. He debuted as a solo artist in 2003. In that year, he won the KBS and SBS Music Awards, MBC Music Awards, Seoul Music Awards and other awards. He became the first artist to win the Music Awards as a group and as an individual. It also allowed conservative Koreans to redefine sexiness, creating a "hypocritical effect". In addition to soaring popularity, it also established her status as a diva! In 2009, he won the Joint Entertainment Award with Yoo Jae Suk for "The Birth of a Family". He was the first artist in Korean history to win two major awards, the Music Awards and the Entertainment Awards. In 2020, he won the first place in the music program with the mixed vocal group SSAK3, becoming the only singer in Korean history to win the first place in the TV music program in the 10th, 20th, 30th and 40th generations.

Li Ning Li Ning Athletes · People's Republic of China

Li Ning (March 10, 1963 -), male, Zhuang ethnic group, guest from Guangxi, Chinese entrepreneur, retired gymnast, known as "China's first generation gymnastics prince" and "Chinese gymnastics king". He served as the last torchbearer for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, lighting the Olympic flame.

Ang Lee Ang Lee Film & TV · Republic of China

Ang Lee, born in Chaozhou, Pingtung, is a Taiwanese director. Representative works include "Pushing Hands", "The Wedding Banquet", "Eat Drink Man and Woman", "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", "Brokeback Mountain" and "The Life of Pi". He has won two Oscars for Best Director, two Golden Globes for Best Director in a Motion Picture, two Golden Lions at the Venice Film Festival, two Golden Bears at the Berlin Film Festival, and a Lifetime Achievement Award at the British Academy Film Awards. In recognition of his contribution to film, he was awarded the First and Second Class Order of the Star of the Republic of China, the French Knight of the Order of Culture and Arts, Japan's Takamatsu Palace Memorial World Culture Award and the Presidential Cultural Award.

L Li Anmin Scientists · Unknown nationality

Li Anmin (September 1946-), male, native of Dazhu, Sichuan, born in Chongqing, Chinese mathematician, professor of Sichuan University, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.