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Lee Byung-hun (Korean: Lee Byung-hun/plumByung-hun, Romanized: I Byeong-heon, July 12, 1970 -), a South Korean actor, was mistranslated into Chinese as Lee Byeong-hun. In 1991, he graduated from the 14th acting class of KBS TV station. In the first four years after entering the TV industry, he won the Best Newcomer Award at the KBS Drama Awards and the Best Actor Award at the KBS Drama Awards three times. He started acting in movies in 1995. He is a popular and capable actor in both film and television. He is a Korean national actor who is highly praised and trusted for his acting skills. He has won four Baeksang TV Awards and one Baeksang Movie Awards. In 2016, Lee Byung-hun swept the three major Korean film awards (Blue Dragon, Baeksang, and Daejong) with the movie "The Insiders" and became the third actor in the history of the Korean film industry to win the Grand Slam Best Actor in the same year. From 2005 to 2020, he was selected into Gallup Korea's "Most Active Movie Actors" TOP10 a total of 12 times, tying with Song Kang-ho for the most No. 1 selection among Korean movie stars. In 2006, he co-founded the brokerage company BH Entertainment with his agent Sun Xiyu. In 2025, the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) announced that acclaimed actor Lee Byung-hun won the Special Contribution Award.

Li Meng (December 14, 1971 -), male, Han nationality, entrepreneur and politician of the People's Republic of China, served as member of the Standing Committee of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce, vice chairman of the Shanxi Provincial Federation of Industry and Commerce, president of Shanxi Antai Group Co., Ltd., and member of the 11th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

Li Yugang is a Chinese singer, artist, and soloist with the China National Opera & Dance Drama Theater. A National First-Class Actor, he specialises in nándàn (male dan) roles, male performances of female parts, in Peking opera.

Li Qi (February 17, 1955-), male, from Datong, Shanxi Province, actor in the People's Republic of China.

Li Rui (January 16, 1991 -), male, native of Zhengzhou, Henan, is a former Chinese child actor. He is famous for his role as the male protagonist "Ding Kaile" in the TV series "Happy Planet".

Li Jing, Yuanzong of the Southern Tang Dynasty (916-September 12, 961), also known as Boyu, was originally known as Xu Jingtong and Xu Yao. After the establishment of the Southern Tang Dynasty, he changed his surname to Li and changed his name to Jing. After becoming a minister to the Later Zhou Dynasty, he changed his name to Jing, a native of Xuzhou, and the eldest son of Liezu of the Southern Tang Dynasty in order to avoid the taboo of the Later Zhou Dynasty. Li Jing was the second monarch of the Southern Tang Dynasty during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, so he was also called the central lord and heir lord. Li Jing's calligraphy is quite good and his poetry is also famous. Together with his son Li Yu, he is known as the "Two Masters of the Southern Tang Dynasty". His poems include "The dream of drizzle returns to the chicken plug far away, and the small building blows through the cold jade pipe." "The blue bird does not convey the clouds and foreign messages, and the lilacs are empty and sad in the rain." are all famous lines that have been immortalized through the ages. His works are included in "Two Main Ci Poems of the Southern Tang Dynasty".

Sam Lee Chan Sam (English: Sam Lee Chan Sam, September 27, 1975 -), also known as Li Cansen, formerly known as Li Weicong, is a Hong Kong actor. Representative works include "Made in Hong Kong", "New World", "Dog Eat Dog", etc. He has also collaborated with Ketchup; he is also a DJ now, codenamed DJ Becareful.

Li Ruijun (March 16, 1983 -), a native of Gaotai, Gansu, is a mainland Chinese film director.

Lee Ji Eun (Korean: Ji-eun Lee, Romanized: I Ji Eun, born May 16, 1993), whose stage name is IU (Korean: IU, Romanized: A I Yu), is a South Korean singer-songwriter, idol star and Korean drama actor. IU is one of the best-selling singers of K-pop music that is popular all over the world. Her stage name "IU" is a combination of "I" and "You", which means connecting with fans through music. So far, IU has released 5 studio albums, 6 mini albums, and 3 song cover albums. She has 2 albums and 14 songs that have reached the number one spot on the Gaon Chart. From 2012 to 2016, and from 2018 to 2024, IU has been one of the top 40 Korean celebrities in Forbes magazine's annual power list. "Billboard" recognized IU as a pioneer on the K-Pop Top 100. In Gallup Korea's "Singer and Music Survey Report" in 2014 and 2017, IU ranked first in that year and had the highest number of Perfect all-kills on the Korean music chart. And was voted the number one artist in South Korea by Billboard. In 2025, IU ranked first on the "Korea Forbes Celebrity List"; at the end of the same year, she was once again named Gallup Korea's Best Singer of the Year. In the early days of IU's singing career, she was well known as a solo singer with the characteristics of a youth idol. With the development of her career, IU gradually transformed into a versatile music worker, becoming a singer with well-known names, song sales and awards, as well as a recognized songwriter and music producer. IU is also an actor and has played major roles in the TV series "My Uncle" and "Hotel Del Luna". In 2025, she starred in "Ku Jin Gan Comes to Meet You" and won the Best Actress Award in the TV series category of the Blue Dragon Series Award for this drama.

Lee Byung-cheol (February 12, 1910 - November 19, 1987), also known as Huyan, was the founder and first president of South Korea's Samsung Group. He was the first president of the Korean Economist Association from 1961 to 1962. He was awarded the Infinite Flower Medal of Korea and the First-class Ruibao Medal of Japan. Lee Byung-cheol was born on February 12, 1910 in Yinyeong County, Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea today. He started many businesses in his early years, but they were all destroyed due to force majeure factors such as war and political turmoil. On March 1, 1938, he established the "Samsung Chamber of Commerce" in Daegu and accumulated original capital from trade. After the Korean War, he began to enter the production field and successively founded "CheilJedang Co., Ltd.", "Cheil Wool Spinning Co., Ltd.", "Korea Fertilizer" and other productive enterprises engaged in import substitution. In the 1970s, Li Bingzhe began to enter the electronics industry, first producing home appliances, and then conducting research, development and production of semiconductors. In addition to production and international trade, he also founded cultural institutions such as Dongyang Broadcasting Company, JoongAng Daily, and Hoam Museum of Art, and funded the rescue of Daegu College (the predecessor of today's Yeongnam University) and Sungkyunkwan University, which were in trouble. Lee Byung-cheol is known as the "God of Korean Entrepreneurship" and the "Father of Korean Finance". The Washington Post of the United States called him "Korea's Rockefeller". He pursues the business principles of "serving the country with career", "talent first" and "reasonable pursuit". His employment philosophy is "Don't trust people when you hire them, and don't trust people when you doubt them." In his entrepreneurial practice, he flaunted the principle of "Samsung First" and "have the courage to be the first person."

Li Lihong (1964-) is a Chinese voice actor, program commentator, and director of the Performance Teaching and Research Section of the School of Drama, Film and Television, Communication University of China.

Li Li (January 20, 1961 -), born in Shanghai, People's Republic of China, later settled in Stockholm, is a Chinese poet and literary translator. Li Li studied Swedish in Beijing and went to Stockholm University in Sweden as an exchange student in 1988 to study Swedish literature. After the June 4th incident in June 1989, he decided to stay in Sweden. He won the Svenska Dagbladet Literary Award in 2008.

Li Weige (1867-1929), also known as Yiqin and Yiqin, was originally from Wuxian County, Jiangsu Province. He was a translator in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China and the founder of China's modern metallurgical industry.

Li Jitong (August 24, 1897 - December 12, 1961), male, born in Xinghua, Jiangsu, was a Chinese botanist, ecologist, educator, and academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. A pioneer of plant physiology in China and one of the founders of plant ecology and geobotany. He is an outstanding member of the Li family in Xinghua. His son Li Deping is also an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and has a good reputation.

Lee Young-ae (Korean: Youngae Lee/Lee Young-ae, Romanized: Yi Yeong-Ae, January 31, 1971 -) is a famous Korean actress, known as the "Oxygen Beauty". Since entering the entertainment industry, he has set off a strong Korean Wave craze in East and Southeast Asia, and is very popular among movie fans. In the following years, it further became popular around the world, and the craze expanded to South Asia, the Middle East (especially Iran), Africa (especially Zimbabwe) and Europe. Song Hye Kyo, Jun Ji Hyun, and Kim Tae Hee are also known as the four queens of the advertising industry. On August 24, 2009, she married Jung Ho-young, a Korean entrepreneur living in the United States. The two were 20 years apart. In 2011, a pair of twins, a boy and a girl, were born. In 2017, he returned to the small screen after 14 years with "Saimdang, Diary of Light".

Li Yinghua (Indonesian: Ivana Lie Ing Hoa, March 7, 1960 -), a former Indonesian women's badminton player, was a world-class player from the late 1970s to the late 1980s.

Li Ronghao (July 11, 1985 -), a male singer-songwriter from mainland China, was born in Bengbu, Anhui. In 2005, he signed a contract with Avex Records and became its behind-the-scenes producer. He has collaborated with artists such as Chen Kun and Zhao Wei. In 2010, he released his first solo mini album "Xiao Huang". In 2013, he released his first solo album "Model" and became popular. He won the Best Newcomer Award at the 25th Taiwan Golden Melody Awards. Later, he also served as a mentor for the talent show "Idol Producer" (2018), two seasons of "Youth with You" (2018; 2022), and four seasons of "The Voice of China" (2019-2022).

Li Sha (20th century? -) female, native of Guanghan, Sichuan, Sichuan Opera actress, first-class actor, winner of the Chinese Drama Plum Blossom Award.

Li Shamin (mín) (July 27, 1993 -), born in Changsha City, Hunan Province, is a singer-songwriter, film and television actor and variety show host in Mainland China. He attended Yali Middle School in Changsha City, and later graduated from the School of Journalism and Communication of Wuhan University in 2011, majoring in broadcasting and hosting arts. In August 2013, she became popular on the Internet due to a group photo "Yali, I'm Marrying You Today" with her alma mater Yali Middle School. She was called "Yali Goddess" by netizens. Later, she participated in hosting programs such as "One Stop to the End", "Open the Door", "News Truth", "Idols Are Broken" and other programs. In September 2015, he began to host the Mango TV quiz show "Million Seconds Questions and Answers". In December of the same year, he began to host "I Am a Singer - Who's Going to Play?" and officially signed a contract with Hunan Radio and Television Station with his outstanding performance in the above two programs. Now he has started trying his hand at songwriting and TV series and movie performances.

Li Wanchun (1911-September 14, 1985), Manchu, Chinese Peking Opera performing artist, Gongshengxing, major disciple of Ma Lianliang, once learned monkey opera from Zai Tao. He founded the Mingchun Social Science Class and trained many Peking Opera actors. His younger brothers Li Tongchun and Li Huanchun were actors trained by Mingchun Club. They went to Taiwan to perform in 1949 and settled in Taiwan. They have many disciples in Taiwan.

Li Yanda (October 12, 1936 -), male, originally from Nanhai, Guangdong, was born in Dongguan, Guangdong. He is an expert in signal processing and intelligent control in China, a professor at Tsinghua University, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Li Yongqi (jié) (?—), female, political figure of the People's Republic of China, member of the Communist Party of China, and senior expert on World Trade Organization law. He once served as a member of the Party Leadership Group of the Ministry of Commerce and deputy representative for international trade negotiations (deputy ministerial level). He is currently the Permanent Representative and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People's Republic of China to the WTO.

Li Yongshang (1860-1953) was a shipping industrialist and banker in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China.

Li Dan (October 2, 1989 -), whose real name is Li Ruichao, is from Inner Mongolia. He is a Chinese talk show actor, program planner, writer, screenwriter and poet. He graduated from the Sociology Department of South China Agricultural University. Co-founder and Chief Content Officer of Xiaoguo Culture.