Chinese surnames

庞

páng · Pang

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
No. 120
Ancestral seat (junwang)
始平
Wikidata
Q869739

In other languages

  • German Pang
  • English Pang
  • Spanish Pang
  • French Pang
  • Japanese 龐
  • Korean 팡
  • Russian Пан
  • Vietnamese Bàng
  • Traditional Chinese 龐

Notable historical bearers

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

  • Pang Tong179 – 214

    Advisor to Chinese warlord Liu Bei (179-214)

  • Pang De170 – 219

    Chinese Han dynasty general (died 219)

  • Pang Juan385 BCE – 342 BCE

    Military general of the Wei state

  • Pang Xun801 – 869

    Leader of a major rebellion

  • Pang Wanchun? – 1120

    Water Margin character

  • Pang Xunqin1906 – 1985

    Chinese painter (1906–1985)

  • Pang Ji988 – 1063

    Chinese Northern Song Dynasty official (988–1063)

  • Layman Pang740 – 808

    Tang dynasty Buddhist

  • Pang Meng? – 30
  • Pang Chien-kuo1953 – 2022

    Taiwanese politician

  • Pang Shigu? – 897

    person, CBDB ID = 379070

  • Pang Laichen1864 – 1949

    People's Republic of China person CBDB = 83635

Find printed genealogies

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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).