Kevin Lin (林義傑, November 19, 1976) is a Taiwanese ultramarathon runner from Taipei and politician who served as the vice chairperson of the Cultural Communication Commission of the Kuomintang (Nationality Party).

Lin, together with Charlie Engle and Ray Zahab, became the first modern runner to cross the Sahara Desert on February 21, 2007.

The expedition was filmed and edited into a documentary, Running the Sahara, narrated by Matt Damon and released in November 2007 with the logistics support of Sam Rutherford.

The Running the Sahara project began in Senegal and went through Mauritania, Mali, Niger, and Libya before culminating in Egypt.

[1] In 2016, he executive produced the sports film 10,000 Miles which stars Sean Huang, Megan Lai and Darren Wang.