Lin Daoqian

Lin Daoqian was a 16th-century Chinese pirate of Teochew origin and a native of Huilai in Guangdong. From the 1560s he raided the coasts of Guangdong and Fujian; in 1566 he attacked Zhao'an with 50 ships and was driven off by the Ming navy under Yu Dayou, fleeing via Penghu to Taiwan.

Repeatedly pardoned and restive, he fled overseas in 1573 and in 1578 established a base with two thousand followers in Patani on the Malay Peninsula.

After 1581 he may have settled in Patani, where he served as customs chief and cast cannon for its queen. Patani tradition says he died testing one of them.