Chinese surnames

孔

kǒng · Kong

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
No. 25
Ancestral seat (junwang)
鲁郡
Wikidata
Q1043077

In other languages

  • German Kong
  • English Kong
  • Spanish Kong
  • French Kong
  • Korean 쿵
  • Vietnamese Khổng

Notable historical bearers

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

  • Confucius551 BCE – 479 BCE

    5th-century BCE Chinese philosopher and politician

  • H. H. Kung1881 – 1967

    Chinese banker and politician (1881–1967)

  • Zisi483 BCE – 402 BCE

    Chinese philosopher, grandson of Confucius (c. 481–402 BCE)

  • Kong Rong153 – 208

    Chinese official, scholar and writer (153–208)

  • Kong Shangren1648 – 1718

    Chinese writer

  • Kong Anguo156 BCE – 74 BCE

    Chinese scholar and historian during the Han dynasty, responsible for editing the Book of Documents

  • Shuliang He622 BCE – 548 BCE

    father of Master Kong (Confucius)

  • Leslie Kong1933 – 1971

    Chinese-Jamaican record producer

  • Kong Yingda574 – 648

    Chinese philosopher (574 – 648)

  • Kong Te-cheng1920 – 2008

    Ceremonial Official to Confucius (1920–2008)

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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).