Chinese surnames

容

róng · Rong

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
No. 334
Ancestral seat (junwang)
敦煌
Wikidata
Q10951026

In other languages

  • English Rong
  • French Rong
  • Korean 룽

Notable historical bearers

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

  • Rong Guotuan1937 – 1968

    Chinese table tennis player (1937-1968)

  • Yung Wing1828 – 1912

    Chinese-American diplomat and businessman (1828–1912)

  • Rong Geng1894 – 1983

    Chinese philologist (1894-1983)

  • Rong Baisheng1930 – 2019

    Chinese architect and civil engineer (1930-2019)

  • Yuk-Yi Yung1918 – 2008

    Hong Kong actress

  • Yung Siu-Yi1919 – 1974

    Hong Kong actress

  • Sanford Yung1927 – 2013

    Hong Kong politician, accountant and racehorse owner (1927-2013)

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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).