Liu Xiang (1983-), Chinese gold-medal hurdler of the 2004 Olympic Games

Liu Shaoqi (1898-1969), Chinese communist leader, a martyr of the Cultural Revolution

hair cut so that it hangs over the forehead

Andy Lau (1961-), Hong Kong Cantopop singer and actor

Liu Bei (161-223), warlord at the end of the Han dynasty and founder of the Han kingdom of [[蜀汉|蜀漢|Shu3 Han4]] (221-263), later the Shu Han dynasty

Liu Bang (256 or 247-195 BC), first emperor of the Han dynasty, known as Han Gaozu (reigned 202-195 BC)

Liu Yu, founder of the Liu Song Dynasty of the Southern dynasties, who broke away from Eastern Jin in 420 and reigned as Emperor Wu of Song.

Liu Yang (1978-), China's first female astronaut in space (June 16, 2012)

Liu Biao (142-208), a warlord during the late Eastern Han dynasty

Liu Xinwu (1942-), novelist

Gordon Liu (1955-), Hong Kong action actor

Liu Yunshan (1947-), PRC politician, background in journalism in Inner Mongolia, head of the Central Propaganda Department 2002-2012

Lau Ching-Wan (1964-), Hong Kong actor

General of the Eastern Jin dynasty (died 412 AD).

Liu Yuan (c. 251–310), warlord at the end of the Western Jin dynasty [[西晋|西晉|Xi1 Jin4]], founder of Cheng Han of the Sixteen Kingdoms [[成汉|成漢|Cheng2 Han4]] (304–347)

Liu Xiang (77-6 BC), Han Dynasty scholar and author

Liu Yuxi (772-842), Tang poet

Personal name of Han emperor Han Wendi

Liu Jinbao (1952-), CEO of the Bank of China (Hong Kong) 1997-2003, jailed after being convicted of embezzlement

Liu Ji (1311-1375), also known as Liu Bowen, a general under the first Ming emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, renowned as a military genius.

Liu An (179-122 BC), King of Huainan under the Western Han, who commissioned the writing of the Huainanzi.

Liu Bowen (1311-1375), general under the first Ming emperor [[朱元璋|朱元璋|Zhu1 Yuan2 zhang1]], with a reputation as a military genius, also called [[刘基|劉基|Liu2 Ji1]].

Liu Xi (late Han, c. 200 AD), possibly the author of the Shiming ([[释名|釋名|Shi4 ming2]])

Liugong Island in the Yellow Sea

Liu Shipei (1884-1919), Chinese anarchist and revolutionary activist

Liu Tianhua (1895-1932), Chinese musician and composer

Liu Binyan (1925-2005), Chinese journalist and novelist, condemned as a rightist in 1957 and later a prominent dissident writer.

Liu Cixin (1963-), Chinese science fiction writer

Liu Guijin (1945–), Chinese diplomat, ambassador to South Africa (2001–2007)

Liu Xiaobo (1955-2017), Chinese writer, human rights activist, and 2010 Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

Liu Yiqing (403-444), writer of South Song Dynasty, compiler and editor of A New Account of the Tales of the World [[世说新语|世說新語|Shi4 shuo1 Xin1 yu3]]

Liu Guangdi (1859-1898), one of the Six Gentlemen Martyrs [[戊戌六君子|戊戌六君子|Wu4 xu1 Liu4 jun1 zi3]] of the unsuccessful reform movement of 1898

Liu Jianfeng (1936-), second governor of Hainan

Liu Juanzi, a legendary alchemist and creator of magic potions

Ferdinand Augustin Hallerstein (1703-1774), Slovenian Jesuit missionary, astronomer and mathematician, spent 35 years at Emperor Qianlong's court

Liu Shi, personal name of Han Emperor Yuandi

Liu Heng (202-157 BC), the fourth Han emperor Han Wendi, who reigned from 180-157 BC

Song of the Southern dynasties (420-479), with capital at Nanjing

Song of the Southern dynasties (420-479), with capital at Nanjing

Liu Xu (887-946), politician in Later Jin of the Five Dynasties, lead compiler of the Old Book of Tang (History of Early Tang Dynasty)

Granny Liu visits the Grand View gardens (a classic episode from the novel Dream of the Red Chamber)

Liu Juanzi's medical recipes bequeathed by the ghost Huang Fugui

Emperor of Shu Han (reigned 223–263) during the Three Kingdoms period and son of Liu Bei.

Liu Houzong (1904-1949), originally Hunan guerilla leader, rewarded by Chiang Kaishek for killing [[项英|項英|Xiang4 Ying1]] during the 1941 New Fourth Army incident [[皖南事变|皖南事變|Wan3 nan2 Shi4 bian4]]

Liu E (1857-1909), late Qing novelist, author of The Travels of Lao Can ([[老残游记|老殘遊記|Lao3 Can2 You2 ji4]])