Lian may refer to:
Fiction
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Gao Lian (''Water Margin''), a character in the ''Water Margin'' series of novels
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Lian the Great
Lian or Lien the Great () was a figure in Chinese mythology. In the '' Records of the Grand Historian'', Sima Qian's account of the origins of the House of Ying states that he was one of Fei the Great's two sons, along with Ruomu. He is said to ...
(, ''Dalian''), a figure in Chinese mythology
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Jia Lian, a character in the novel ''Dream of the Red Chamber''
People
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Lian (given name) Lian is a given name, and may refer to:
Given Name
* Gao Lian (dramatist) (16th century), Chinese writer
* Hu Lien (1907–1977), Chinese general
* Ju Lian (1828–1904), Chinese painter
* Lian Ann Tan (born 1947), Chinese Singaporean chess mast ...
, a list of people with this given name
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Lian (surname) (連 and 廉), Chinese surname
Places
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Lian, Batangas, a municipality in the province of Batangas in the Philippines
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Lian, Iran
Lian ( fa, ليان, also Romanized as Līān) is a village in Baraan-e Jonubi Rural District
Baraan-e Jonubi Rural District ( fa, دهستان براآن جنوبي) is a rural district (''dehestan'') in the Central District of Isfahan County, ...
, a village in Isfahan Province, Iran
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Lian, Norway, a recreational area located in the border between Bymarka and Byåsen in Trondheim, Norway
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Lian (station), the terminus of Gråkallbanen
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Lian Island, the largest island in Lianyungang, Jiangsu, China
Other
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Lian Ensemble Lian Ensemble is a Persian classical music ensemble based in Los Angeles, California, USA.
History
The Lian Ensemble was established in 1996 by Pirayeh Pourafar Pirayeh Pourafar (Born) is an Iranian musician, tar player, and expert on Persian ...
, a Persian classical music ensemble
See also
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Chuu-Lian
Chuu-Lian Terng () is a Taiwanese-American mathematician. Her research areas are differential geometry and integrable systems, with particular interests in completely integrable Hamiltonian partial differential equations and their relations to ...
, a Taiwanese-American mathematician
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Kim-Lian (born 1980), Dutch musical actress, presenter and a singer-songwriter
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