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Ruby Lin (January 27, 1976 -), Taiwanese actress, singer, executive producer, and producer. In 1993, he started his acting career as a part-time model. In 1998, she became widely known as "Ziwei" in the TV series "Huan Zhu Ge Ge". In 2001, she co-performed "Love in the Rain" with Zhao Wei and Leo Ku. In 2009, she established Ruby Lin Studio and began to engage in drama production. In 2010, he performed in "Beauty's Scheming" and was selected as the most popular Chinese actor at the Seoul International Television Festival. In 2011, she performed in the movie "Perfect" and won the 5th Huading Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Movie. In 2015, the long-running TV series "16 Summers" in which she participated won the 50th Golden Bell Award for Best Drama Program. In 2024, the long-running TV series "In This Lifetime" she produced once again won the 59th Golden Bell Award for Best Drama Program.

Sandy Lam Yik Lin (English: Sandy Lam Yik Lin, April 26, 1966 -), Hong Kong female singer, songwriter and music producer. In 1982, he joined Commercial Radio 2 as a part-time DJ and entered the entertainment industry. In 1985, she entered the music scene with the release of her first solo album "Lin Yi Lian". Since then, her music career has spanned Asia including Hong Kong, Taiwan, China and Japan. Lin Yilian won the "Golden Award for Female Singer" at the "All-In-One Music Chart Awards Ceremony" for three consecutive years from 1990 to 1992. In 1990, she released her first Mandarin album "Falling in Love with Someone Who Never Goes Home", which opened up the Asian market in one fell swoop and sold 600,000 copies in Taiwan. From May to November 1992, she held concerts in Guangzhou, Taipei, Shenzhen, Beijing and Shanghai, becoming the first female singer to complete a concert tour in Greater China. In 1993, she sang "When Love Is a Past", the theme song of the movie "Farewell My Concubine" with Li Zongsheng, and it became one of the most popular songs of the year. In 1995, the album "Love, Sandy" released on Rolling Stone Records sold more than 800,000 copies in Taiwan. In 2000, she joined Virgin Music and released the title song "At least I Still Have You" from the album "Ellen Lin's", which reached the peak of her career and became one of her most representative classic songs. At the Singapore Golden Melody Awards in 1995 and 2001, Lin Yilian won the "Best Female Singer Award" and the "Asia Pacific Most Recommended Female Singer Award" in 2002. In 2013, Lin Yilian won the "Best Mandarin Female Singer Award", "Best Mandarin Album Award" and "Best Album Producer Award" at the 24th Golden Melody Awards in Taiwan for her album "Gaia". Among them, she won the first "Golden Melody Diva" in her singing career with an overwhelming number of votes from the judges. In 2017, Lin Yilian participated in the China Hunan Satellite TV program "Singer 2017" and won the championship of the season. In 2019, Lin Yilian once again won the "Best Mandarin Female Singer Award" and the "Best Vocal Recording Album Award" with an overwhelming vote at the 30th Golden Melody Awards in Taiwan for her album "0".

Samantha Lam Chi Mei (English: Samantha Lam Chi Mei, April 9, 1963 -) is a Hong Kong female singer-songwriter. Her representative works include "First Love", "Encounter", "What is Fate", "Spark of Love", "Love Is Not Reserved" and so on.

Lam Ching-ying (English: Lam Ching-ying, December 27, 1952 - November 8, 1997), formerly known as Lam Genbao, was a Hong Kong actor known for his role as a Taoist priest in zombie movies. He was also Bruce Lee's dedicated martial arts instructor.

LIM, John Chuan-tiong, is a Taiwanese international politics scholar who was awarded a doctorate in law from the University of Tokyo School of Law in Japan in 2002. He has successively served as an associate researcher at the Institute of Modern History at Academia Sinica, an assistant researcher at the Fairbank Center for East Asian Studies at Harvard University, an associate professor at the Department of International Relations at the University of the Ryukyus, an adjunct lecturer at the Institute of Oriental Culture at the University of Tokyo, a Fulbright scholar at Harvard University, a visiting professor at the Department of History at Peking University and the Institute for Advanced Study in Humanities and Social Sciences at National Taiwan University, an adjunct associate professor at National Taiwan University, an executive member of the Center for Japanese Studies at National Taiwan University, a researcher at the Center for Comprehensive Japanese Studies at National Taiwan University, and a professor and executive director of the Center for Japanese Studies at Wuhan University. After the outbreak of the new coronavirus pneumonia in 2020, he successively taught at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and was the chief writer of the "Bi Zhen" of "Ming Pao". In 2024, his family moved back to Tokyo and became a distinguished researcher at the Institute of Oriental Culture at the University of Tokyo.

Lin Hao (December 9, 1998 -), male, native of Wenchuan, Sichuan, public figure of the People's Republic of China, now a self-media practitioner, was a primary school student who suffered the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake. He once represented China with Yao Ming in the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Lim Yoon-a (ē) (Korean: Lim Yoona/Lin Yun, Romanized: Lim Yoon-a, May 30, 1990 -), whose stage name is Yoon-a (Korean: Yoona), is a South Korean female singer, host and actress. She graduated from Dongguk University and is a member of the Korean girl group Girls' Generation and its sub-group Girls' Generation-Oh! The leader of GG, he serves as the facade, center, sub-vocalist, sub-dancer, and sub-rapper of the team. In 2002, Yoona participated in the Saturday Open Casting Audition audition held by SM Entertainment in Seoul, passed the selection, and entered the company as a trainee. Before his debut, he made his debut in the MV of his senior TVXQ. Then she appeared in the MVs of seniors Tianzhang Jixi, Super Junior, etc. On July 22, 2007, Yoona made her debut as an actress in the MBC drama series 2 out of 9. She debuted with the girl group Girls' Generation on August 5, 2007, and served as the center, sub-vocalist, lead dancer, and face of the group. In 2018, he formed Girls' Generation's sub-group Girls' Generation-Oh! GG with Taeyeon, Sunny, Hyoyeon and Yuri, and served as the leader of the sub-group. As an actress, Run'e made her solo debut. Since 2008, she has starred in film and television works such as "You Are My Destiny", "Male Version of Cinderella", "Love Rain", "The Prime Minister and Me", "Martial God Zhao Zilong", "THE K2", "The King in Love", "Extreme Escape", "Hush", "Bad Lawyer", "Secret Mission", "Secret Mission 2", and won multiple popularity awards and acting awards. In addition to music and performance fields, since 2009, Run'e has begun to host large-scale award ceremonies and many other celebrations. She is also known as the "CF Queen" because of her endless advertising endorsements.

Im Jin-ah (Korean: Jinah Lim, Romanized: Im Jin-ah, September 14, 1991 -), stage name Nana (Korean: Nana), is a South Korean actress, model, and singer. He was a member of the third phase of the girl group After School and a member of the sub-group Orange Caramel and the sub-unit After School Red. On August 30, 2024, his contract with Pledis Entertainment expired and was not renewed. He officially graduated from the group and was the last graduating member of the team.

Lin Bai (1958-), whose real name is Lin Baiwei, is a native of Beiliu, Guangxi, and a contemporary Chinese female writer. He joined the team for two years, during which he worked as a private teacher. After graduating from the Library Science Department of Wuhan University in 1982, he worked in books, movies, and journalism. He used to work at Wuhan University of Literature, a subsidiary of Wuhan Federation of Literary and Art Circles, and retired in 2014.

Lin Shu (shū) (November 8, 1852 - October 9, 1924), whose original name was Qunyu, was given the courtesy name Qinnan, and his nickname was Weilu. His other name was Leng Hongsheng, and his later nicknames were Lisou, Jianzhuoweng, Liuqiao Buliuweng, Chang'an Painting Weng, Dinying layman, Chunjuezhai owner, Shejiu, and his room names were Chunjuezhai, Yanyunlou, etc. A native of Min County, Fuzhou Prefecture, Fujian Province (now Taijiang District, Fuzhou City), he was an ancient writer, novelist and translator in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China.

Linus Benedikt Torvalds, born in Helsinki, Finland, has American nationality and is the earliest author of the Linux kernel. He later launched this open source project and served as the chief architect and project coordinator of the Linux kernel. He is one of the most famous programmers and hackers in the world today. He is the initiator and main developer of the open source project Git.

Lin Shaoji (?—?) was a native of Min County (now Fuzhou), Fujian, and a businessman in the late Qing Dynasty.

Hayashi Yoshimasa (Japanese: Hayashi Yoshimasa/Hayashi Yoshimasa, romanization: Hayashi Yoshimasa, January 19, 1961 -), a politician from the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan, was born in Tokyo. He served as the Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications, the Prime Minister of the Cabinet on a temporary basis (third in the order of appointment), and a member of the House of Representatives for the 3rd District of Yamaguchi Prefecture. Lin has served as Chief Cabinet Secretary, Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Minister in Charge of Economic and Fiscal Policy, Minister of Defense, Minister of Foreign Affairs and other government offices. He was a member of the Senate from 1995 to 2021 (5 terms), and was later elected to the House of Representatives and has been elected to this day (2 terms). He once belonged to the Hiroshikai (Kishida faction) in the Liberal Democratic Party. He was widely regarded as a pro-China faction in Japanese politics because he served as the president of the Japan-China Friendship Parliamentarians Alliance.

Lin Yutang (October 10, 1895 - March 26, 1976), a writer and scholar in the Republic of China, was born in Longxi, Fujian (now Banzai Town, Pinghe County). Her name was Hele, Yutang, and later changed to Yutang. He holds a bachelor's degree in English from St. John's University, a master's degree in comparative literature from Harvard University, and a doctorate in linguistics from the University of Leipzig in Germany. He once served as professor of the English Department of Peking University, dean of the School of Liberal Arts of Xiamen University, and the first president of Nanyang University. Finally settling in Hong Kong, he served as a research professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, director of Fine Arts and Literature at UNESCO, and vice president of PEN International. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature six times between 1940 and 1973.

Dante LAM Chiu-Yin, BBS (English: Dante LAM Chiu-Yin, July 1, 1964 -), is a Hong Kong film producer and film director who has worked as a film actor, action director and assistant director. "Beast Detective", a collaboration between Lin Chaoxian and Chen Jiashang, won the Best Film and Best Director at the 18th Hong Kong Film Awards. However, "The Supreme Scoundrel", a collaboration between Lin Chaoxian and Chen Jiashang, was shortlisted for the Worst Director Award in the 2007 Golden Flower Film Awards. Its leading actor is Liao Qizhi. Among Lin's team, the famous screenwriter Wu Weilun is one of them. They have been working together since 2001's "The End of the Road" and are known for their hot plots and solid writing. Lin Chaoxian's movies are very particular about the details of police operations and the use of firearms. In addition, starting from "The Witness", Lin's works began to pursue detailed descriptions of the psychological changes and struggles of each character, opening up a new path for literary drama in action films. From 2008 to 2012, Lam Chiu-yin collaborated with artists such as Nick Cheung Ka-fai and Nicholas Tse Ting-fung to film "The Witness", which not only made Nicky Cheung the best actor in the film industry, but also brought Liu Qizhi to the spotlight again. "The Informer" transformed into an offensive and intense chase scene, and the "Little Ghost" played by Nicholas Tse won the Best Actor award at the Hong Kong Film Awards.

Lin Yixin (November 5, 1985 -), Taiwanese female singer, actress, and musician. Graduated from the Department of Music, National Taiwan Normal University. When he entered the industry, he initially served as the host of the travel program "Taiwan Foot Tour Mainland".

Lin Rong (March 27, 1903 - May 28, 1981), a native of Danyang, Jiangxi, was a Chinese botanist and researcher at the Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences. One of the pioneers of mycology research in China. More than 100 new taxa of the Asteraceae genus and various plants were discovered. Made significant contributions to the classification of Asteraceae plants and flora in China. In 1928, he received a doctorate in science from the University of Paris, France. In 1955, he was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (member of the academic department).

Brigitte Lin (November 3, 1954 -), Taiwanese actress and writer. In 1973, when she was only 19 years old, she made her official debut in Qiong Yao's film "Outside the Window". She was one of Taiwan's Qiong Yao-style romance film superstars in the late 1970s. She was known as the "Two Qin and Two Lins" together with Qin Xianglin, Qin Han, and Lin Fengjiao. In the mid-to-late 1980s, she gradually shifted her focus to the Hong Kong film industry. In the 1990s, she successfully transformed into costumed martial arts movies. The Invincible East is her most representative movie role. Brigitte Lin has been in the film industry for more than 20 years. She retired from the film industry after getting married in 1994. Before her retirement, she had appeared in more than 100 films, half of which were literary and romantic films. In 1976, she won the Best Actress at the 22nd Asian Film Festival for her role as Yang Huimin in the patriotic and anti-Japanese film "Eight Hundred Heroes". In 1990, she won the Best Actress at the 27th Golden Horse Awards for her role as the female writer Shen Shaohua in "Red Dust". In 2023, he was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 60th Golden Horse Awards.

Lin Fengmian (November 22, 1900 - August 12, 1991), formerly known as Lin Fengming, was a native of Xiyang, Meixian County, Guangdong Province. He was a Chinese painter and educator, an enlightener of modern Chinese art, and one of the pioneers of modern Chinese painting that integrated Chinese and Western elements. Together with Yan Wenliang, Xu Beihong and Liu Haisu, he was known as one of the "Four Principals". Six years old was in trouble, and his loving mother was sold, and the lifelong search failed. He copied "The Mustard Seed Garden Painting Biography" since he was a child, and went to France to study at the Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He was exposed to modern artistic styles such as Post-Impressionism and Fauvism. He also traveled to Germany and came into contact with Expressionism and Abstractionism. He returned to China in 1925 and was appointed as the principal of the Peking Art College, launching the art movement. In 1928, he founded the Hangzhou National Academy of Art (now the China Academy of Art) and served as its dean and professor. Together with Fang Qianmin and Wu Dayu, he became famous in the Western Painting Department, and his students Zhao Wou-ki, Zhu Dequn, and Wu Guanzhong became famous. During the Anti-Japanese War, the studio was covered in dust and many paintings were destroyed. He was dismissed from his post in 1937 and turned to study Western modern art. He was killed during the Cultural Revolution. He destroyed three thousand paintings and was imprisoned for four and a half years. He moved to Hong Kong in 1977 and lived in seclusion in Taikoo Shing. He died in Hong Kong in 1991.

Golda Meir (commonly known as Mrs. Meir, or translated as Mrs. Meir, Mrs. Meir, etc., Hong Kong current affairs program translated as "Mrs. Meir"; Hebrew: גולדה מאיר; May 3, 1898 - December 8, 1978), formerly known as Golda Mabovitch (Golda Mabovitch), Golda Meir (Golda Meir) Meyerson is an Israeli Jewish female politician, diplomat and social activist. Born in Kiev, Russian Empire (now part of Ukraine), he was a Ukrainian Jew. He immigrated to the United States in his early years. As an adult, he devoted himself to the Zionist movement and participated in the preparation of the State of Israel. He was one of the founding fathers of Israel and the fourth Prime Minister (1969-1974). He was a member of the Israel Workers' Party and the Israeli Labor Party. Before Margaret Thatcher became British Prime Minister, Mrs. Meir was considered by the outside world to be Israel's "Iron Lady". Israel's founding father David Ben-Gurion also called her "the best person in the cabinet." Meir is the first and so far the only female Prime Minister of Israel, and the third non-hereditary female government leader of a sovereign country in the modern world.

Plato, an ancient Greek philosopher and an Athenian, most of his works are recorded in the form of dialogues, and he founded the famous Plato Academy. Plato was a student of Socrates and a teacher of Aristotle. The three of them are generally considered the founders of Western philosophy and are known in history as the "Three Saints of the West" or the "Three Greek Philosophers".

Kashiwagi Yuki (Japanese: Kashiwagi Yuki/Kashiwagi snow, Romanized: Kashiwagi Yuki, July 15, 1991 -) is a Japanese female artist, a former member of the female idol group AKB48, and a member of NMB48 and NGT48. Born in Kagoshima Prefecture, his agency is Watanabe Entertainment. He debuted as a member of the third generation of AKB48 in 2007. Relying on his stage skills developed over many years to connect with fans, he became one of the iconic figures of AKB48 and the entire AKB48 group. He officially graduated from AKB48 on April 30, 2024. He is the longest member of AKB48 with 6233 days in the group.

Bo Yang (March 7, 1920 - April 29, 2008), whose real name was Guo Dingsheng, changed his name to Guo Libang when he applied for high school, and changed his name to Guo Yidong after college. He also had the pen name Deng Kebao. Born in Kaifeng County, Henan Province, his native place is Huixian County, Henan Province. Writer of the Republic of China and Counselor of the Presidential Office of the Republic of China. Bo Yang is regarded as a writer, thinker, historical novelist, historical critic, cultural critic, etc. Although he has many history-related works, he is not a historian because he does not conform to the norms of the historical discipline and does not aim at historical academic research. His masterpiece "The Ugly Chinese" caused widespread controversy on both sides of the Taiwan Strait and was banned by the government of the People's Republic of China for a long time. It was not lifted until 2000. Although he is not an academic historian, his historical works such as "Boyang Edition of Zizhi Tongjian" have influenced many Chinese readers in popular language. Chen Jiangong, director of the Museum of Modern Chinese Literature, called it "a miracle in the history of contemporary literature." Bo Yang was imprisoned for nearly ten years for political cases during the White Terror. After his release from prison, he continued to focus on issues such as freedom, human rights, and dignity. He founded the Taiwan branch of Amnesty International and served as its president, and served as the presidential adviser in the Chen Shui-bian government.

Charles Warren Fairbanks was an American Republican politician who served as the 26th Vice President and U.S. Senator.