Chinese surnames

白

bái · Bai

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
No. 266
Ancestral seat (junwang)
南阳
Wikidata
Q15711104

In other languages

  • German Bai
  • English Bai
  • Spanish Bai
  • French Bai
  • Korean 바이
  • Russian Бай
  • Vietnamese Bạch

Notable historical bearers

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

  • Bai Juyi772 – 846

    Chinese poet of the Tang Dynasty (772-846)

  • Pai Chung-hsi1893 – 1966

    Chinese military officer and politician (1893-1966)

  • Bai Qi250 BCE – 257 BCE

    Chinese Qin state military general ( c. 332 BC – 257 BC)

  • Bai Guang1921 – 1999

    Chinese actor and singer (1921-1999)

  • Bai Renfu1226 – 1306

    playwright

  • Bai Hong1920 – 1992

    Chinese actor and singer (1920-1992)

  • Hsuan Hua1918 – 1995

    American Buddhist monk (1918-1995)

  • Joachim Bouvet1656 – 1732

    French Jesuit active in China

  • Bai Xingjian776 – 826

    Chinese writer

  • Bai Jing1983 – 2012

    Chinese actress (1983-2012)

  • Bai Yanhu1830 – 1882

    hui military commander and rebel from China

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.

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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).