Chinese surnames

路

lù · Lu

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
No. 138
Ancestral seat (junwang)
内黄
Wikidata
Q13391111

In other languages

  • German Lu
  • English Lu
  • Korean 루

Notable historical bearers

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

  • Lu Bode

    Chinese military general during the Western Han dynasty

  • Empress Dowager Lu Huinan412 – 466

    Chinese Grand Empress dowager

  • Lu Zhongyi1849 – 1925

    I-Kuan tao Patriarch

  • Lu Xuechang1964 – 2014

    Chinese film director (1964-2014)

  • Lu Sui776 – 835

    Chinese Chancellor

  • Lu Yan829 – 874

    chancellor of Tang Dynasty

  • Lu Zhen957 – 1014

    Song dynasty person (CBDB = 3629)

  • 路粹150 – 214
  • Lu Sigong703 – 773

    Tang dynasty person CBDB = 32961

  • Lu Qun? – 834

    Tang dynasty person CBDB = 32954

Find printed genealogies

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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).