Chinese surnames

包

bāo · Bao

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
No. 185
Ancestral seat (junwang)
上党
Wikidata
Q10901565

In other languages

  • German Bao
  • English Bao
  • Vietnamese Bao

Notable historical bearers

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

  • Bao Zheng999 – 1062

    magistrate, judge, politician, mayor of Kaifeng, Northern Song dynasty (999-1062)

  • Yue-Kong Pao1918 – 1991

    Hong Kong businessman (1918-1991)

  • Bao Shichen1775 – 1855

    Qing dynasty person CBDB = 33908 (1775–1855)

  • Bao Zunxin1937 – 2007

    Chinese historian

  • Bao Tianxiao1876 – 1973

    Chinese writer and translator (1896–1973)

  • Tsun-Peng Pao1916 – 1970

    Chinese journalist and official (1916–1970)

  • Bao Daoyi? – 1120

    Water Margin character

  • Laishi Ye1911 – 1994

    Chinese esperantist

  • Huiseng Bao1894 – 1979

    Chinese politician

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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).