Chinese surnames

鲁

lǔ · Lu

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
No. 49
Ancestral seat (junwang)
扶风
Wikidata
Q13391149

In other languages

  • German Lu
  • English Lu
  • Spanish Lu
  • Japanese 魯
  • Korean 루
  • Vietnamese Lỗ
  • Traditional Chinese 魯

Notable historical bearers

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

  • Lu Su172 – 217

    Chinese politician, general and diplomat (172–217)

  • Lu Zhishen? – 1120

    fictional character in Chinese novel "The Water Margin"

  • Lu Diping1887 – 1935

    Chinese general (1887-1935)

  • Lu Gwei-djen1904 – 1991

    Chinese biochemist and historian (1904–1991)

  • Lu Zhonglian305 BCE – 245 BCE

    Chinese debater

  • Lu Guanqiu1945 – 2017

    Chinese businessman

  • Lu Shu217 – 274

    Eastern Wu official

  • Lu Ping1927 – 2015

    Chinese diplomat (1927-2015)

  • 鲁爽? – 454

    中国古代历史人物

  • 魯軌? – 449
  • 魯宗之? – 415

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).