Chinese surnames

周

zhōu · Zhou

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
No. 5
Ancestral seat (junwang)
汝南
Wikidata
Q845135

In other languages

  • German Zhou
  • English Zhou
  • Spanish Zhou
  • French Zhou
  • Korean 저우
  • Russian Чжоу / Чау
  • Vietnamese Châu

Notable historical bearers

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

  • Lu Xun1881 – 1936

    Chinese novelist and essayist (1881–1936)

  • Zhou Enlai1898 – 1976

    1st Premier of the People's Republic of China

  • Zhou Youguang1906 – 2017

    Chinese linguist, sinologist (1906–2017)

  • Zhou Xuan1918 – 1957

    Chinese actress and singer (1920-1957)

  • Zhou Dunyi1017 – 1073

    Chinese cosmologist, philosopher and writer (1017–1073)

  • Zhou Yu175 – 210

    Chinese military general and strategist (175-210)

  • Han Suyin1917 – 2012

    physician and author (1917–2012)

  • Zhou Zuoren1885 – 1967

    Chinese writer (1885-1967)

  • Zhou Daguan1266 – 1346

    Chinese diplomat of the Yuan dynasty

  • Zhou Fohai1897 – 1948

    Chinese politician (1897–1948)

  • Zhou Tai200 – 228

    General serving warlord Sun Quan (died c.223)

  • 周昉730 – 810

    Chinese painter (730-810)

  • Zhou Yafu150 BCE – 143 BCE

    Han Dynasty general

  • Kathy Chow1966 – 2023

    Hong Kong actress (1966–2023)

  • Chou Wen-chung1923 – 2019

    Chinese American composer (1923–2019)

  • Zhou Yang1908 – 1989

    Chinese literary critic (1908-1989)

  • Daman Hongren601 – 674

    Chinese Buddhist patriarch

  • Zhou Bo? – 169 BCE

    Chinese military general and politician

  • Zhou Ziqi1869 – 1923

    Chinese educator and politician (1869–1923)

  • Zhou Fang200 – 230

    3rd century Eastern Wu general and official

  • Zhou Chen1460 – 1535

    Chinese painter (1460-1535)

  • Zhou Baozhong1902 – 1964

    Chinese military commander (1902–1964)

  • Zhou Tong? – 1121

    archer

  • Zhou Guangzhao1929 – 2024

    Chinese physicist

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).