Chinese surnames

余

yú · Yu

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
No. 90
Ancestral seat (junwang)
下邳
Wikidata
Q1946438

In other languages

  • German Yu
  • English Yu
  • Spanish Yu
  • French Yu
  • Korean 위
  • Russian Юй
  • Vietnamese Dư

Notable historical bearers

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

  • Yu Xu1986 – 2016

    Chinese aviator

  • Yu Ying-shih1930 – 2021

    American China historian (1930-2021)

  • Yu Kwang-chung1928 – 2017

    Taiwanese poet

  • Yu Qiuli1914 – 1999

    Vice Prime Minister of China

  • Bartholomew Yu Chengti1919 – 2009

    Chinese bishop (1919–2009)

  • Yu Yan1879 – 1954

    Chinese physician and writer (1879–1954)

  • Liu Shahe1931 – 2019

    Chinese writer and poet (1931-2019)

  • Eu Tong Sen1877 – 1941

    Chinese businessman

  • Yu Hanmou1896 – 1981

    Chinese politician (1896–1981)

  • 余孝頃? – 567

    南北朝南梁、南陳官員

  • Yu Jiaxi1884 – 1955
  • Yu Songlie1921 – 2016

    Chinese agricultural scientist (1921–2016)

  • Yu Cing-fang1879 – 1915

    西來庵事件領導者

  • Yu Teng-fa1904 – 1989

    Taiwanese politician

  • Yue Chi Ming1943 – 2022

    Hong Kong actor (1943–2022)

  • Dora Yu1873 – 1931

    Chinese Protestant missionary (1873–1931)

  • Yu Pengnian1922 – 2015

    Chinese businessman

  • Xiangdou Yu1550 – 1637

    Chinese writer and publisher (c. 1560–c. 1637)

  • Yu Ji1738 – 1823

    Qing dynasty person CBDB = 66039

  • Yu Lai-Zhen1923 – 2004

    Chinese actress and Cantonese opera singer

  • Yu Ching-tang1896 – 1985

    Taiwanese politician

  • Yu Jiaju1898 – 1976

    Chinese educator

  • Yu Zhengui1946 – 2019

    Chinese historian and scholar of Islam

  • Jiyuan Yu1964 – 2016

    American philosopher (1964-2016)

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).