Chinese surnames

凌

líng · Ling

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
No. 159
Ancestral seat (junwang)
河间
Wikidata
Q4261869

In other languages

  • German Lăng
  • English Ling
  • Spanish Lăng
  • French Lăng
  • Korean 링
  • Russian Лин
  • Vietnamese Lăng
  • Traditional Chinese 淩

Notable historical bearers

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

  • Ling Tong189 – 217

    General serving under warlord Sun Quan (189–217)

  • Ling Mengchu1580 – 1644

    Chinese writer of the Ming Dynasty

  • Ling Cao200 – 203

    Military officer serving Sun Ce and Sun Quan (died 203)

  • Eryue He1945 – 2018

    Chinese writer

  • Ling Zhen

    Water Margin character

  • Ling Shuhua1900 – 1990

    Chinese writer (1900-1990)

  • Ling Yun1917 – 2018

    Chinese politician (1917-2018)

  • Ling Daoyang1888 – 1993

    Chinese forester (1888-1993)

  • Ling Zifeng1917 – 1999

    Chinese film director (1917-1999)

  • Hung-Chang Lin1919 – 2009

    American electronics engineer (1919-2009)

  • Ling Yian1912 – 2010

    原吳興縣參議院議長

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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).