武
wǔ · Wu
- Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
- No. 249
- Ancestral seat (junwang)
- 太原
- Wikidata
- Q7944838
In other languages
- German Võ
- English Wu
- Spanish Wu
- French Wǔ (武)
- Korean 우
- Vietnamese Vũ
Notable historical bearers
Deceased people recorded in Wikidata with this family name, ordered by how many Wikipedias cover them.
- Wu Zetian624 – 705
founding empress of Zhou dynasty (r. 690–705); de facto ruler of Tang dynasty from 665 to 690
- Vu Van Mau1914 – 1998
Prime Minister of South Vietnam (1914-1998)
- King Wu of Chu750 BCE – 690 BCE
King of Chu
- Peter Wu Junwei1963 – 2022
catholic priest (1963–2022)
- Wu Shihuo559 – 635
father of Wu Zetian
- Wu Sansi601 – 707
Tang prince, chancellor, politician, historian
- Wu Yuanheng758 – 815
tang Dynasty chancellor
- Consort Wu699 – 737
Tang dynasty empress
- Consort Ning? – 1734
Chinese imperial consort
- Wu Xun1838 – 1896
Chinese educational reformer (1838–1896)
- Wu Chengsi601 – 698
Chancellor of Tang Dynasty
- Vũ Văn Nhậm1755 – 1788
Tây Sơn dynasty general
- Võ Văn Tần1894 – 1941
Vietnamese revolutionary
- Wu Youji601 – 712
Tang/Zhou prince
- Vu Van Uyen1479 – 1550
- Võ Tánh1768 – 1801
Vietnamese military commander
- Wu Zongyuan980 – 1050
Song dynasty person CBDB = 42249
- Wu Dalang
Water Margin character (for Jin Ping Mei character, see Q107199550)
- Wu Yuanshuang? – 666
Tang dynasty person CBDB = 24644
- 武仲平1808 – 1898
- Wu Guangtang1908 – 1985
Chinese politician
- Consort Wu1050 – 1107
consort of Emperor Shenzong of Song
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 武 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).