# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hu-linyi
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:53:02.075Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hu-linyi"
name: "Hu Linyi"
slug: "hu-linyi"
description: "Hu Linyi (Chinese: 胡林翼; Wade–Giles: Hu2 Lin3-i1; July 14, 1812 – Sept 30, 1861) was a scholar and official during the late Qing Dynasty in China. He rose to prominence after being awarded the jinshi degree in the Imperial Civil Service Examinations in 1836, and in 1838 became a compiler of the Hanlin Academy in Beijing. After serving in several prefectural appointments in Guizhou, Hu was appointed the Governor of Hubei province in 1855. In that capacity, he merged multiple local militia groups to form a resistance force, the Hubei Army, to combat the Taiping Rebellion. He coordinated military efforts alongside other provincial leaders, such as Zeng Guofan and Zuo Zongtang. By 1857, Hu's Hubei Army was successful in recapturing Wuchang and much of Hubei from the Taiping. Deeply overworked by the campaign against the Taiping, however, Hu died in 1861 before the war's conclusion."
tagline: "Qing Chinese Official (1812–1861)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/%E8%83%A1%E6%9E%97%E7%BF%BC.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1812"
deathDate: "1861"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.53
  momentum:             0.3513071895424837
  historical:           5.512278666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%98%B8%EB%A6%BC%EC%9D%B5"
    title: "호림익"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hu_Linyi"
    title: "Hu Linyi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%83%A1%E6%9E%97%E7%BF%BC"
    title: "胡林翼"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikiquote.org/wiki/%E8%83%A1%E6%9E%97%E7%BF%BC"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://zh_classical.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%83%A1%E6%9E%97%E7%BF%BC"
    title: "胡林翼"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%83%A1%E6%9E%97%E7%BF%BC"
    title: "胡林翼"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6150378"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump