Chinese surnames

葛

gé · Ge

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
No. 44
Ancestral seat (junwang)
顿丘
Wikidata
Q4153205

In other languages

  • English Ge
  • Korean 거
  • Russian Гэ (фамилия)
  • Vietnamese Cát

Notable historical bearers

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

  • Ge Hong284 – 364

    4th century Chinese scholar and philosopher

  • Grace Chang1933 – 2026

    Hong Kong actress and singer (1933–2026)

  • Ge Xuan164 – 244

    Chinese Taoist of the late Eastern Han to the early Sun Wu (164–244)

  • Frankie Kao1950 – 2014

    Taiwanese singer (1950-2014)

  • Ge Rong? – 528

    rebel leader against Northern Wei dynasty

  • Ge Congzhou801 – 916

    General serving under Emperor Taizu of Later Liang

  • Ge Yunfei1789 – 1841

    Chinese general

  • Ke T'ing-sui1913 – 2000

    Chinese physicist and writer (1913–2000)

  • Gusukuma Shūshin1507 – 1585

    Sanshikan of Ryukyu

  • Ge Hongsheng1931 – 2020

    Chinese politician

  • Ge Cunzhuang1929 – 2016

    Chinese actor (1929-2016)

  • Cát Anh250 BCE – 208 BCE
  • Ge Cuilin1930 – 2022

    Chinese children's writer (1930–2022)

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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).