明
míng · Ming
- Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
- No. 111
- Ancestral seat (junwang)
- 吴兴
- Wikidata
- Q11087786
In other languages
- German Ming
- English Ming
- Spanish Ming
- French Ming
- Korean 밍
- Vietnamese Minh
Notable historical bearers
Deceased people recorded in Wikidata with this family name, ordered by how many Wikipedias cover them.
- Ming Yuzhen1331 – 1366
Emperor of Ming Xia from 1362 to 1366
- Ming Sheng1356 – 1396
son of Yuan emperor, Goryeo & Joseon citizen (1355 ~ 1396)
- John Joseph Ming1838 – 1910
Swiss philosopher and writer
- Ming Ji1923 – 2012
Taiwanese filmmaker
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.
Search 明 genealogies at the Shanghai Library ↗Sources: the Hundred Family Surnames (public domain) with ancestral seats from the chinese-poetry dataset (MIT); spellings and people from Wikidata (CC0).