# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/li-kui
# Generated: 2026-08-12T21:28:37.616Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/li-kui"
name: "Li Kui"
slug: "li-kui"
description: "Li Kui was a Chinese hydraulic engineer, philosopher, and politician. He served as minister and court advisor to Marquess Wen of Wei. In 407 BC, he wrote the Canon of Laws. Said to have been a main influence on Shang Yang, it served the basis for the codified laws of the Qin and Han dynasties."
tagline: "Chinese philosopher"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Li_Kui.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "-455"
deathDate: "-395"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.12
  momentum:             0.08819538670284939
  historical:           15.58686533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "李悝"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bo.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%BD%A3%E0%BD%B2%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%81%E0%BD%B4%E0%BD%A0%E0%BD%BA%E0%BC%8D"
    title: "ལི་ཁུའེ།"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Kui"
    title: "Li Kui"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Kui"
    title: "Li Kui"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Kui_(legalist)"
    title: "Li Kui (legalist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Kui_(l%C3%A9giste)"
    title: "Li Kui (légiste)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Kui"
    title: "Li Kui"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%8E%E5%85%8B"
    title: "李克"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%9D%B4%ED%9A%8C_(%EB%B2%95%EA%B0%80)"
    title: "이회 (법가)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Kui"
    title: "Li Kui"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Kui"
    title: "Li Kui"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B8_%D0%9A%D1%83%D0%B9_(%D1%8E%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82)"
    title: "Ли Куй (юрист)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Kui_(legalizam)"
    title: "Li Kui (legalizam)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Лі Куй"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%BD_Kh%C3%B4i_(Chi%E1%BA%BFn_Qu%E1%BB%91c)"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://wuu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%8E%E6%82%9D"
    title: "李悝"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh_classical.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%8E%E6%82%9D"
    title: "李悝"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh_min_nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%AD_Khoe"
    title: "Lí Khoe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh_yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%8E%E6%82%9D"
    title: "李悝"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q716190"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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