魏
wèi · Wei
- Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
- No. 30
- Ancestral seat (junwang)
- 巨鹿
- Wikidata
- Q842157
In other languages
- German Wei
- English Wei
- Spanish Wei
- French Wei
- Korean 웨이
- Russian Вэй
- Vietnamese Ngụy
Notable historical bearers
Deceased people recorded in Wikidata with this family name, ordered by how many Wikipedias cover them.
- Wei Zheng580 – 643
Tang Dynasty chancellor (580-643)
- Wei Yan200 – 234
State of Shu Han general (died 234)
- Empress Xiaoyichun1727 – 1775
Qing Dynasty empress
- Wei Yuan1794 – 1857
Qing dynasty Chinese scholar (1794-1857)
- Wei Zhongxian1568 – 1627
Ming dynasty court eunuch (1568–1627)
- Wei Wei1920 – 2008
Chinese writer (1920-2008)
- Marquess Wen of Wei? – 396 BCE
ruler of Wei from 446 to 396 BC
- Paul Wei1877 – 1919
Chinese Christian leader (1877–1919)
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 魏 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).