Johan Jurriaensz. van Linga was an officer of the Dutch East India Company in Taiwan. Most of what the Company's papers record of him has to do with sending out troops.

On 19 April 1636 he led the second expedition to Lamey, with Sinkan warriors alongside. On the 26th they found the coral cave where the islanders were hiding, sealed the entrances and left one small opening to feed in burning coal and sulphur. When the cave was opened on 4 May there were two to three hundred bodies inside; 323 people were taken back to Tayouan.

Early in 1638 he led troops round the Hengchun peninsula and north along the coast from Taimali into the Taitung plain, looking for the gold said to lie in a river to the east. He made an alliance with Magol, headman of Pimaba, and left a warehouse and a garrison there. That January the Company, allied with the lord of Lonckjouw, took Liwangh in the southern East Rift Valley.

The gold was never found. The alliance with Pimaba lasted more than twenty years, until in 1662 Pimaba escorted the eastern garrison to its ships.

Chinese sources spell his name two ways: 范林哈 and 范林佳.