Chinese surnames

于

yú · Yu

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
No. 82
Ancestral seat (junwang)
河内
Wikidata
Q985858

In other languages

  • German Yu
  • English Yu
  • Spanish Yu
  • French Yu
  • Korean 위
  • Vietnamese Vu

Notable historical bearers

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

  • Paul Yü Pin1901 – 1978

    Chinese cardinal (1901-1978)

  • Yu Menglong1988 – 2025

    Chinese actor (1988–2025)

  • Yu You-ren1879 – 1964

    Taiwanese politician (1879-1964)

  • Gan Ji101 – 200

    Chinese Taoist priest (died 200)

  • Yu Qian1398 – 1457

    Chinese general, imperial scholar and poet (1398-1457)

  • Yu Lan1921 – 2020

    Chinese actress (1921-2020)

  • Yu So-chow1930 – 2017

    Hong Kong actress (1930–2017)

  • Yu Jim-yuen1905 – 1997

    Master of the China Drama Academy (1905–1997)

  • Yu Min1926 – 2019

    Chinese nuclear physicist

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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).