Lu Zhaolin (about 636-695), a poet from Fanyang of Youzhou (today's Zhuozhou City in Hebei Province) in the early Tang Dynasty, was one of the "Four Great Poets of Early Tang Dynasty", among which the others were Wang Bo, Yang Jiong and Luo Binwang.

Lu Zhaolin widely read different kinds of books in his childhood and was skillful in writing. Later he was appreciated and promoted by high officials for his cleverness and even was appointed as Duwei (an official name, a kind of Defender), but he caught a paralysis of feet and hands, so he had to retires from office. Afterwards he tried to be a hanger-on officials, but his disease became more and more serious, and both his feet atrophied and one hand was disabled. At the very end he failed to bear the torture of disease and committed suicide by drowning himself in Yingshui River.

Lu Zhaolin was good at seven-word poems, and his representative work was Ancient Chang'an, which was full of criticism and derision and reflected the then society by ancient affairs.