Chinese surnames

郦

lì · Li

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
No. 301
Ancestral seat (junwang)
新蔡
Wikidata
Q13588410

In other languages

  • German Li
  • English Li
  • Spanish Li
  • French Li
  • Russian Ли
  • Vietnamese Lịch
  • Traditional Chinese 酈

Notable historical bearers

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

  • Li Daoyuan401 – 527

    Chinese geographer, writer, and politician during the Northern Wei dynasty

  • Li Yiji268 BCE – 204 BCE

    Han dynasty advisor

  • Li Shang? – 180 BCE

    Han Dynasty Chinese general and minister

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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).