Chinese surnames

丘

qiū · Qiu

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
No. 151
Ancestral seat (junwang)
河南
Wikidata
Q16934544

In other languages

  • German Qiu
  • English Qiu
  • Spanish Qiu
  • French Qiu
  • Vietnamese Qiu

Notable historical bearers

Deceased people recorded in Wikidata with this family name, ordered by how many Wikipedias cover them.

  • Qiu Chuji1148 – 1227

    founder of the Longmen school of Quanzhen Taoism

  • Chiu Feng-chia1864 – 1912

    Chinese patriot (1864-1912)

  • Qiu Wei694 – 789

    Tang poet

  • Qiu Jun1421 – 1495

    Chinese politician during the Ming dynasty

  • Qiu Fu1343 – 1409

    Ming dynasty person CBDB = 66687

  • Guhe552 – 637

    Sui dynasty (552-637)

  • Qiu Chi464 – 508

    person, CBDB ID = 439086

  • Seng Sae Khu1845 – ?

    Chinese-Siamese tax farmer

  • Qiu Ti1906 – 1958

    Chinese modernist oil painter

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Sources: the Hundred Family Surnames (public domain) with ancestral seats from the chinese-poetry dataset (MIT); spellings and people from Wikidata (CC0).