杜
dù · Du
- Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
- No. 129
- Ancestral seat (junwang)
- 京兆
- Wikidata
- Q709747
In other languages
- German Du
- English Du
- Spanish Du
- French Du
- Korean 두
- Russian Ду
- Vietnamese Đỗ
Notable historical bearers
Deceased people recorded in Wikidata with this family name, ordered by how many Wikipedias cover them.
- Du Fu712 – 770
Tang dynasty Chinese poet (712–770)
- Du Mu803 – 852
Chinese calligrapher, poet and politician (803–852)
- Du Yuesheng1888 – 1951
Chinese mob boss (1888-1951)
- Du Yu222 – 285
Chinese classicist, general and politician (222–285)
- Kenneth To1992 – 2019
Australian swimmer (1992–2019)
- Du Shenyan645 – 708
poet
- Du Yuming1904 – 1981
Chinese lieutenant general (1904–1981)
- Du Ruhui585 – 630
Chinese chancellor (585-630)
- Du Xigui1875 – 1933
Chinese admiral (1875–1933)
- Du Wei1962 – 2020
Ambassador of China to Israel, Ambassador of China to Ukraine
- Du Shi50 BCE – 38
1st century engineer, metallurgist and politician
- Du Guangting850 – 933
Taoist priest and writer from the Tiantai Mountain during the Tang dynasty and the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period
- Du You735 – 812
Chancellor of Tang Dynasty and historian (735–812)
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 杜 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).