Chinese surnames

夏侯

xià hóu · Xiahou

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
No. 411
Ancestral seat (junwang)
谯郡
Wikidata
Q1813165

In other languages

  • German Xiahou
  • English Xiahou
  • Spanish Xiahou
  • French Xiahou
  • Russian Сяхоу
  • Vietnamese Hạ Hầu

Notable historical bearers

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

  • Xiahou Dun155 – 220

    Chinese Han dynasty general (died 220)

  • Xiahou Yuan200 – 219

    Chinese military general (died 219)

  • Xiahou Ba187 – 262

    3rd century Chinese Cao Wei state general

  • Xiahou Shang185 – 226

    State of Cao Wei general (died 226)

  • Xiahou Xuan209 – 254

    Cao Wei official, historian and philosopher (209-254)

  • Xiahou Ying250 BCE – 172 BCE

    Han dynasty politician

  • Xiahou Wei200 – 300

    Chinese general

  • Xiahou Mao200 – 300

    3rd century Cao Wei state general

  • Xiahou En167 – 208

    fictional person from Romance of the Three Kingdoms

  • Xiahou Hui211 – 234

    Cao Wei noblewoman and wife of Sima Shi (211-234)

  • Qingliang Chengguan738 – 839

    Chinese Buddhist monk

  • Xiahou Jie188 – 208

    character from Luo Guanzhong's Romance of the Three Kingdoms

  • Xiahou De? – 218

    fictional character in Romance of the Three Kingdoms

  • Xiahou Zi750 – 801

    Tang Dynasty chancellor

  • 夏侯湛243 – 291

    Chinese author

  • Xiahou Rong207 – 219

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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).