Chinese surnames

宋

sòng · Song

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
No. 118
Ancestral seat (junwang)
京兆
Wikidata
Q717770

In other languages

  • German Song
  • English Song
  • Spanish Song
  • French Song
  • Korean 쑹
  • Russian Сун
  • Vietnamese Tống

Notable historical bearers

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

  • Soong Ching-ling1893 – 1981

    former Vice President of the People's Republic of China and third wife of Sun Yat-sen (1893–1981)

  • Soong May-ling1898 – 2003

    Chiang Kai-shek's wife, First Lady of the Republic of China (1898–2003)

  • T. V. Soong1891 – 1971

    Chinese businessman and politician (1894-1971)

  • Song Jiaoren1882 – 1913

    Chinese revolutionary (1882-1913)

  • Song Si-yŏl1607 – 1689

    Korean philosopher (1607-1689)

  • Song Renqiong1909 – 2005

    Chinese general (1909-2005)

  • Soong Ai-ling1889 – 1973

    wife of H. H. Kung (1889-1973)

  • Song Yingxing1587 – 1666

    Chinese scholar (1587-1666)

  • Song Yu298 BCE – 222 BCE

    Chinese poet of the Chu State (the Warring States Period)

  • Song Ping1917 – 2026

    Chinese communist revolutionary and politician (1917–2026)

  • Song Lian1310 – 1381

    literary and political adviser (1310-1381)

  • Charlie Soong1863 – 1918

    Methodist Episcopal missionary, late Qing revolutionary, businessman (1863-1918)

  • Song Ci1186 – 1249

    Chinese forensic medical scientist from the Song Dynasty era, known as the world's first forensic entomologist (1235)

  • José Song Sui-Wan1941 – 2012

    Chinese bishop (1941–2012)

  • Song Shilun1907 – 1991

    Chinese general (1907-1991)

  • Song Binbin1949 – 2024

    Chinese revolutionary (1947-2024)

  • Empress Song156 – 178

    Chinese Han dynasty empress (died 178)

  • Song Zheyuan1885 – 1940

    a senior general of the National Revolutionary Army of the Republic of China, one of Feng Yuxiang's "Five Tiger Generals" (1885–1940)

  • Song Ikp'il1534 – 1599

    Korean scholar (1534-1599)

Find printed genealogies

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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).