Liu Baiyu (kinesisk: 刘白羽 / 劉白羽, pinyin: Liú Báiyǔ, Wade-Giles: Liu Pai-yu eller Liu Pai-yü, født 2. september1916 i Beijing i Kina; død 24. august2005 samme sted) var en kinesisk forfatter og kulturpolitiker. I løpet av drøye 60 års forfattervirke publiserte han over femti verker. Han tilhører sammen med Yang Shuo, Qin Mu og Wei Wei de mest betydelige essayister fra sin samtid.
1950 Stalinprisen for filmmanuset til 《中国人民的胜利》 (Zhōngguórénmín de shènglì; Det kinesiske folks seier)
1989 Prisen for fremragende essay (优秀散文奖) for essaysamlingen 《芳草集》 (Fāngcǎojí)
1991 Mao Dun-prisen for 《第二个太阳》 (Dì'èr gè tàiyáng; Den andre sol)
1986-1994 Goldpokal for folkelitteratur
1990-1994 Den kinesiske pris for fremragende biografiske verker (中国优秀传记文学作品奖, Zhōngguó yōuxiù zhuànjì wénxué zuòpǐn jiǎng) for 《心灵的历程》 (Xīnlíng de lìchéng)
The Glow of Youth, Tr. Gladys Yang and Yang Hsien-yi. Chinese Literature 11 (1959): 5-57
A Heart-warming Snowy Night, Tr. Sidney Shapiro, Chinese Literature 2 (1959): 3-13. Also in I Knew All Along and Other Stories By Contemporary Chinese Writers, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1960, 147-57
Landmark, Chinese Literature 9 (1960): 17-32
The Most Marvelous Day in Her Life, Tr. Gladys Yang, Chinese Literature 12 (1964): 54-61.
Night on the Grassland, Tr. Gladys Yang, Chinese Literature 12 (1964): 54-61.
On the Dusty Highway, Tr. Tang Sheng, Chinese Literature 3 (1955): 52-59. auch als On the Dusty Road in: Kai-yu Hsu (red.): Literature of the People's Republic of China, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1980, 125-32.
Six A.M. and Other Stories, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1953.
Sunrise, Tr. Gladys Yang. Chinese Literature 11 (1960): 33-37.
Typhoon Tr. Sidney Shapiro, Chinese Literature 5 (1960): 3-11.
Fajrolumo en la fronto, Ŝanhajo: Ŝanhaja esperantista ligo, 1951.
Lieou Pai-Yu: Six heures du matin: nouvelles, Pékin: Editions en langues étrangères, 1953
Chen Tan-chen: Liu Pai-yu's Writings in: Chinese Literature 3 (1963), 88-94
Charles Laughlin: Incongruous Lyricism: Liu Baiyu, Yang Shuo and sanwen in Chinese Socialist Culture in: Martin Woesler (ed.): The Modern Chinese Literary Essay: Defining the Chinese Self in the 20th Century, Bochum: Bochumer Universitätsverlag, 2000, 115-129, ISBN 3-934453-15-5