Chinese surnames

秦

qín · Qin

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
No. 18
Ancestral seat (junwang)
天水
Wikidata
Q13391671

In other languages

  • German Qin
  • English Qin
  • Spanish Qin
  • French QIn
  • Korean 친
  • Russian Цинь
  • Vietnamese Tần

Notable historical bearers

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

  • Qin Jiushao1208 – 1261

    mathematician of Southern Song dynasty, wrote Shu shu jiu zhang (1247)

  • Bo Gu1904 – 1946

    Chinese politician (1907-1946)

  • Qin Hui1090 – 1155

    Chinese politician of the Song Dynasty (1090-1155)

  • Qin Jiwei1914 – 1997

    Chinese general (1914–1997)

  • Bian Que401 BCE – 310 BCE

    ancient Chinese physician

  • Qin Liangyu1574 – 1648

    Chinese female general in Ming dynasty

  • Qin Yi1922 – 2022

    Chinese actress (1922–2022)

  • Qin Guan1049 – 1100

    Chinese writer and poet

  • Qin Shubao571 – 638

    Tang Dynasty general

  • Ren-Chang Ching1898 – 1986

    Chinese botanist (1898-1986)

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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).