Chinese surnames

欧

ōu · Ou

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
No. 359
Ancestral seat (junwang)
平阳
Wikidata
Q1015565

In other languages

  • German Ou
  • English Ou
  • Spanish Ou
  • French Ou
  • Korean 어우
  • Russian Оу
  • Vietnamese Âu
  • Traditional Chinese 歐

Notable historical bearers

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

  • Francisco Ou1940 – 2021

    Diplomat and former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Taiwan

  • Ou Peng? – 1120

    Water Margin character

  • Ou Daren1516 – 1596

    Scholar and poet

  • Ou Guangchen? – 1653

    Chinese general

  • Ou Jujia1870 – 1911

    Qing dynasty person CBDB = 82775

  • Au Ho-nien1935 – 2024

    Chinese painter (1935–2024)

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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).