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niú · Niu
- Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
- No. 308
- Ancestral seat (junwang)
- 陇西
- Wikidata
- Q4328445
In other languages
- German Niu
- English Niu
- Spanish Niu
- French Niu
- Korean 뉴
- Russian Ню
- Vietnamese Ngưu (họ)
Notable historical bearers
Deceased people recorded in Wikidata with this family name, ordered by how many Wikipedias cover them.
- Niu Fu101 – 192
Chinese military general (died 192)
- Niu Sengru780 – 849
chancellor of Tang Dynasty
- Niu Jin
3rd century Chinese general serving warlord Cao Cao
- Thomas Niu Hui-qing1895 – 1973
Chinese Catholic priest
- Wolong Sheng1930 – 1997
Chinese writer (1930–1997)
- Ma Hong1920 – 2007
Chinese economist (1920-2007)
- Niu Xianke675 – 742
General and chancellor of Tang Dynasty (675-742)
- Niu Gao1086 – 1147
Song dynasty general
- Niu Jinxing? – 1652
Ming dynasty rebel (died 1652)
- Niu Hong545 – 610
Sui dynasty person CBDB = 32044
- Niu Jian1785 – 1858
Qing dynasty politician
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 牛 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).