Chinese surnames

卢

lú · Lu

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
No. 167
Ancestral seat (junwang)
范阳
Wikidata
Q709486

In other languages

  • German Lu
  • English Lu
  • French Lu
  • Japanese 盧
  • Korean 루
  • Vietnamese Lư
  • Traditional Chinese 盧

Notable historical bearers

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

  • Huineng638 – 713

    semi-legendary Chinese Chan (Zen) patriarch

  • Lu Jun Hong1959 – 2021

    Chinese-Australian religous leader

  • Lu Tong795 – 835

    Chinese writer

  • Lu Zhi159 – 192

    Chinese scholar, official and general (159–192)

  • Lu Zhaolin634 – 680

    Tang dynasty Chinese poet

  • Lu Jiaxi1915 – 2001

    Chinese chemist and politician

  • Lu Muzhen1867 – 1952

    First Lady of the Republic of China (1867–1952)

  • Lu Han1895 – 1974

    Chinese general and politician (1895-1974)

  • Lu Lun739 – 799

    poet

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).