Chinese surnames

厉

lì · Li

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
No. 246
Ancestral seat (junwang)
南阳
Wikidata
Q10910874

In other languages

  • German Li
  • English Li
  • Spanish Li
  • French Li
  • Japanese 厲
  • Korean 리
  • Russian Ли
  • Vietnamese Li
  • Traditional Chinese 厲

Notable historical bearers

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

  • Li Linsi1896 – 1970

    politician

  • Tingye Li1931 – 2012

    Laser pioneer and optical fibers expert (1931–2012)

  • Li Yining1930 – 2023

    Chinese economist (1930-2023)

  • Li E1692 – 1752

    Chinese poet and scholar

  • Li Tianrun? – 1120

    Water Margin character

  • Zee Yee Lee1891 – 1944

    Chinese aviation pioneer

  • Li Shengjiao1935 – 2017

    senior Chinese diplomat, scholar and bilingual author (1935-2017)

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).