雷
léi · Lei
- Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
- No. 69
- Ancestral seat (junwang)
- 冯翊
- Wikidata
- Q2168308
In other languages
- German Lei
- English Lei
- Spanish Lei
- French Lei
- Korean 레이
- Russian Лэй
- Vietnamese Lôi
Notable historical bearers
Deceased people recorded in Wikidata with this family name, ordered by how many Wikipedias cover them.
- Lei Feng1940 – 1962
Chinese soldier and communist icon (1940–1962)
- Kenneth Lay1942 – 2006
former chairman and CEO of Enron Corporation (1942-2006)
- Evelyn Laye1900 – 1996
actress (1900-1996)
- Lei Heng? – 1120
Water Margin character
- Lei Tong150 – 218
general
- Lei Chen1897 – 1979
Taiwanese activist
- Lei Jieqiong1905 – 2011
Chinese sociologist, activist, and politician (1905-2011)
- Simon Loui1964 – 2026
Hong Kong actor, programme host, and writer (1964-2026)
- Lei Xu? – 209
Chinese officer and rebel
- Oliver Ingraham Lay1845 – 1890
American painter (ca. 1845-1890)
- Simon Lei Zhenxia1915 – 1970
Chinese bishop (1915-1970)
- Lei Man801 – 901
Warlord and military governor
- Lei Yangong801 – 901
warlord
- Lei Cizong386 – 448
- Richard Lai1946 – 2008
Hong Kong buniessman and politician (1946-2008)
- Haizong Lei1902 – 1962
Chinese historian
- Lei Zhenbang1916 – 1997
Chinese composer (1916-1997)
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.
Search 雷 genealogies at the Shanghai Library ↗Sources: the Hundred Family Surnames (public domain) with ancestral seats from the chinese-poetry dataset (MIT); spellings and people from Wikidata (CC0).