Chinese surnames

陆

lù · Lu

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
No. 198
Ancestral seat (junwang)
吴郡
Wikidata
Q1134877

In other languages

  • German Lu
  • English Lu
  • Japanese 陸
  • Korean 루
  • Russian Лу
  • Vietnamese Lục
  • Traditional Chinese 陸

Notable historical bearers

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

  • Lu You1125 – 1210

    Chinese historian and poet (1125–1210)

  • Lu Yu733 – 804

    Chinese tea master (733–804)

  • Lu Xun183 – 245

    Eastern Wu general and politician (183-245)

  • Lou Tseng-Tsiang1871 – 1949

    Chinese diplomat (1871-1949)

  • Lu Jiuyuan1139 – 1193

    Chinese scholar (1139-1192)

  • Lu Ji261 – 303

    Chinese writer, general and official (261–303)

  • Lu Jia240 BCE – 170 BCE

    Chinese politician during the Han dynasty

  • Lu Xiufu1236 – 1279

    Chinese statesman and military commander (1236–1279)

  • Lu Kang226 – 274

    State of Eastern Wu general (226-274)

  • Lu Rongting1859 – 1928

    Chinese warlord (1859-1928)

  • Lu Haodong1868 – 1895

    Chinese revolutionary

  • Lu Zhi1496 – 1576

    Chinese artist (1496-1576)

  • Lu Dingyi1906 – 1996

    Chinese politician (1906–1996)

  • Lu Guimeng? – 881

    Chinese writer

  • Lu Xiujing406 – 477

    Taoist compiler and ritualist (406–477) who catalogued the Lingbao canon

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).