Chen Lin is a gunsmith and machinist in Columbia in BioShock Infinite. Moving to Columbia in 1905, he made a name for himself as an excellent gunsmith and began manufacturing weapons for Fink Manufacturing. His Chinese decent lead to prejudice from the upperclass and his support for the Vox Populi.
Booker and Elizabeth encounter Chen Lin when they are forced to collect weapons from him for Daisy Fitzroy in exchange for the First Lady Airship. However, when they reach Chen Lin he has been beaten to death. Through tears to other world sthey find Chen's equipment, but find Chen and his wife dead due to the Vox Populi not needing his weapons anymore.