Chinese surnames

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.

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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).