Chinese surnames

吕

lǚ · Lü

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
No. 22
Ancestral seat (junwang)
河东
Wikidata
Q1929459

In other languages

  • German Lü
  • English Lü
  • Spanish Lü
  • French Lü
  • Japanese 呂
  • Korean 뤼
  • Russian Люй / Лёй
  • Vietnamese Lữ
  • Traditional Chinese 呂

Notable historical bearers

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

  • Lü Bu160 – ?

    Chinese warlord and general

  • Lü Buwei291 BCE – 235 BCE

    Chinese merchant and politician of the Qin state (291–235 BC)

  • Empress Lü Zhi? – 180 BCE

    Empress Regent of the Han dynasty (241–180 BC)

  • Jiang Ziya1128 BCE – 1015 BCE

    military strategist of King Wen of Zhou and King Wu of Zhou

  • Lü Meng178 – 219

    General serving under warlord Sun Quan (178-220)

  • Lü Dongbin796 – 870

    Chinese Taoist scholar and poet during the Tang Dynasty

  • Taixu1890 – 1947

    Qing Dynasty Buddhist (1890-1947)

  • Mother Lü1 BCE – 18

    1st century AD Chinese rebel leader against the Xin dynasty

  • Lü Bicheng1883 – 1943

    writer and journalist (1883-1943)

  • Lü Ji1477 – 1505

    Chinese artist (1477-1505)

  • Lü Guang337 – 400

    emperor of Later Liang

  • Lü Dai161 – 256

    Eastern Wu general and official (161-256)

  • Lü Fan200 – 228

    Military general serving warlord Sun Quan (died 228)

  • Lü Zhengcao1904 – 2009

    Chinese general (1905-2009)

  • Lü Ju? – 256

    Chinese Eastern Wu state general (died 256)

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).