Chinese surnames

苏

sū · Su

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
No. 42
Ancestral seat (junwang)
武功
Wikidata
Q450129

In other languages

  • German Su
  • English Su
  • Spanish Su
  • French Su
  • Japanese 蘇
  • Korean 쑤
  • Russian Су
  • Vietnamese Tô
  • Traditional Chinese 蘇

Notable historical bearers

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

  • Hua Guofeng1921 – 2008

    2nd Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, 2nd Premier of the People's Republic of China (1921–2008)

  • Su Shi1037 – 1101

    Chinese writer and politician (1037–1101)

  • Su Song1020 – 1101

    Chinese polymath and statesman (1020–1101)

  • Zhou Xuan1918 – 1957

    Chinese actress and singer (1920-1957)

  • Su Xun1009 – 1066

    Song dynasty person (CBDB = 3762)

  • Su Zhe1039 – 1112

    Chinese official and scholar

  • Su Qin? – 284 BCE

    Chinese political strategist in the Warring States period (died 284 BC)

  • Su Wu140 BCE – 60 BCE

    Han Dynasty politician

  • Su Manshu1884 – 1918

    artist (1884-1918)

  • Su Dingfang591 – 667

    Military general

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).