The present invention provides a backlight module including a waveguide, a backboard, and a light source, wherein the waveguide is disposed onto the backboard, and the light source is arranged adjacent to a light incident surface of the waveguide, wherein the backlight module includes at least a limiter securely disposed onto the backboard and abuts against to the light source so as to ensure a preset distance between the light source and the incident surface of the waveguide. According to the backlight module and the liquid crystal display, by providing the limiter of the backlight module to abut against the light source, the coupling distance between the light source and the incident surface of the waveguide can be effectively kept constant without being compromised to zero (0) as resulted from expansion under heat or moisture or the accuracy during installation. By this arrangement, the leakage of the backlight module can be readily prevented. In addition, in order to have the limiter readily made as well as reducing the cost, the limiter can be made as a standard part so as to be implemented on the liquid crystal display with different dimension.