Chinese surnames

邹

zōu · Zou

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
No. 35
Ancestral seat (junwang)
范阳
Wikidata
Q4505446

In other languages

  • German Zou
  • English Zou
  • Spanish Zou
  • French Zou
  • Japanese 鄒
  • Korean 쩌우
  • Russian Цзоу
  • Vietnamese Trâu
  • Traditional Chinese 鄒

Notable historical bearers

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

  • Raymond Chow1927 – 2018

    Hong Kong film producer (1927–2018)

  • Zou Yan305 BCE – 240 BCE

    Zhou Dynasty philosopher

  • Zou Rong1885 – 1905

    Chinese writer (1885–1905)

  • Zou Taofen1895 – 1944

    Chinese journalist (1895–1944)

  • Zou Jiahua1926 – 2025

    former Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China

  • Zou Yigui1686 – 1772

    Chinese painter (1686-1772)

  • Zou Yuan? – 1120

    Water Margin character

  • Law-lin Tsi1924 – 2015

    Chinese actress and Cantonese opera singer from Hong Kong

  • Ju Boqi1819 – 1869

    Qing dynasty person CBDB = 79063

  • Chen-Lu Tsou1923 – 2006

    Chinese biochemist

  • Zou Shouyi1491 – 1562

    Ming dynasty person CBDB = 132043

  • Zou Lu1885 – 1954

    中华民国政治人物

  • Zou Zuohua1894 – 1973
  • Zou Lin1888 – 1984
  • Heng Zou1927 – 2005

    Chinese historian

  • Zou Yuanbiao1551 – 1624

    Ming dynasty person CBDB = 34747

  • Tsou Tang1918 – 1999

    Chinese-American political scientist (1918–1999)

  • Zou Quansun1902 – 1975

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).