Lín Bǎo 林寶 (fl. 812), native of Jǐnán 濟南, was a mid-Táng Cháoyì láng tàicháng bóshì 朝議郎太常博士. He has no biography in either of the two Táng Histories; his name is preserved only by his self-styling in the preface of his one surviving work and by Wáng Yá’s preface. He is the compiler of the Yuánhé xìngzuǎn 元和姓纂 (KR3k0007), the most important Táng-period surname-pedigree compendium, produced in 200 days during Yuánhé 7 (812) on the order of Zǎixiàng Lǐ Jífǔ 李吉甫 and under Wáng Yá’s literary patronage. The work was misattributed in the Táng huìyào to Wáng Yá (since Wáng wrote the preface) and in Zhèng Qiáo’s Tōngzhì · Yìwén lüè to a ghost-author “Lǐ Línbǎo” 李林寳 (the result of conflating 李吉甫 with 林寳 through scribal loss). Jiāo Hóng’s Guóshǐ jīngjí zhì perpetuates the same error. The Sìkù tíyào establishes the correct attribution by parsing Zhèng Qiáo’s other writings (which mock “Lín Bǎo” by surname, confirming the Yìwén lüè reading is corrupt).