侯
hóu · Hou
- Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
- No. 229
- Ancestral seat (junwang)
- 上谷
- Wikidata
- Q4500455
In other languages
- English Hou
- Spanish Hou
- French Hou
- Korean 허우
- Russian Хоу
- Vietnamese Hầu
Notable historical bearers
Deceased people recorded in Wikidata with this family name, ordered by how many Wikipedias cover them.
- Hou Bo1924 – 2017
photographer (1924–2017)
- Hou Jing503 – 552
Chinese emperor during the Liang dynasty (503-552)
- Hou Cheng101 – ?
Military officer serving warlord Lü Bu
- Hou Yao1903 – 1942
Chinese film director, screenwriter, and film theorist
- Hou Junji? – 643
Major general and chancellor of Tang Dynasty
- Hou Lan101 – 172
Chinese Han dynasty eunuch-official (died 172)
- Hou Jian? – 1120
Water Margin character
- Hou Debang1890 – 1974
Chinese scientist (1890–1974)
- Hou Zongbin1929 – 2017
Chinese politician
- Hou Renzhi1911 – 2013
Chinese geographer (1911–2013)
- Hou Tian510 – 561
chen dynasty general (510–561)
- Hou Yimin1930 – 2023
Chinese artist (1930-2023)
- Hou Jie1931 – 2000
Chinese politician
- Hou Fangyu1618 – 1655
writer and poet of the late Ming Dynasty
- Hou Ba50 BCE – 37
中国古代历史人物
- 侯渊? – 535
- Hou Wailu1903 – 1987
Chinese historian and politician (1903–1987)
- Hou Yaowen1948 – 2007
Chinese xiangsheng actor and comedian (1948–2007)
- Chou Sien1365 – 1438
Ming dynasty person CBDB = 129273
- Hou Baolin1917 – 1993
Chinese xiangsheng actor and comedian
- 侯希逸720 – 781
- Hou Zhi1760 – 1829
Qing dynasty person CBDB = 84970
- Hou Feng1928 – 2020
Chinese agronomist
- Hou Youtang1919 – 2010
Chinese paleontologist
Find printed genealogies
The Shanghai Library holds one of the largest collections of Chinese family genealogies (jiapu). Its genealogy platform lists each genealogy's title, ancestral place, founding ancestor, hall name and holding library. Search there by surname and your family's ancestral place.
Search 侯 genealogies at the Shanghai Library ↗Sources: the Hundred Family Surnames (public domain) with ancestral seats from the chinese-poetry dataset (MIT); spellings and people from Wikidata (CC0).