廖
liào · Liao
- Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
- No. 340
- Ancestral seat (junwang)
- 汝南
- Wikidata
- Q1929472
In other languages
- German Liao
- English Liao
- Spanish Liao
- French Liao
- Korean 랴오
- Russian Ляо
- Vietnamese Liệu
Notable historical bearers
Deceased people recorded in Wikidata with this family name, ordered by how many Wikipedias cover them.
- Liao Zhongkai1877 – 1925
Chinese politician (1877-1925)
- Liao Hua? – 264
Shu Han state general (died 264)
- Liu Kai-chi1953 – 2021
Hong Kong actor (1953–2021)
- Liao Chengzhi1908 – 1983
Chinese politician (1908-1983)
- Liao Tianding1883 – 1909
Taiwanese Robin Hood character
- Thomas Liao1910 – 1986
Taiwanese activist (1910-1986)
- Liao Xilong1940 – 2026
Chinese retired general
- Liào Hànshēng1911 – 2006
Chinese defense minister
- Donald Liao1929 – 2026
Taiwanese-born Hong Kong architect and civil servant
- Xitang Zhizang738 – 817
- Liao Shantao1920 – 1997
Chinese mathematician (1920-1997)
- Liao Ping1852 – 1932
Chinese historian of the Doubting Antiquity School
- Liao Feng-teh1951 – 2008
Taiwanese politician and writer (1951-2008)
- Liao Yaoxiang1906 – 1968
National Revolutionary Army general
- Liao Jingwen1923 – 2015
wife of Xu Beihong
- Liao Guoxun1963 – 2022
politician of the People's Republic of China
- Liāu Kè-chhun1902 – 1976
Taiwanese artist (1902–1976)
- Liao Shouheng1839 – 1903
Qing dynasty politician
- Liao Yongzhong1323 – 1375
Chinese general
- Liao Mosha1907 – 1990
Chinese writer
- 廖湛? – 26
- Liao Lei1891 – 1931
Chinese general (1891–1931)
- Subong1943 – 1994
American Buddhist monk (1943–1994)
- Liao Mengxing1904 – 1988
Chinese female political activist
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.
Search 廖 genealogies at the Shanghai Library ↗Sources: the Hundred Family Surnames (public domain) with ancestral seats from the chinese-poetry dataset (MIT); spellings and people from Wikidata (CC0).