Chinese surnames

施

shī · Shi

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
No. 23
Ancestral seat (junwang)
吴兴
Wikidata
Q4523552

In other languages

  • German Shi
  • English Shi
  • Spanish Shi
  • French Shi
  • Korean 스
  • Russian Ши
  • Vietnamese Thi

Notable historical bearers

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

  • Shi Nai'an1296 – 1372

    Chinese writer (1296-1372)

  • Xi Shi506 BCE – 500 BCE

    one of the renowned Four Great Beauties of ancient China (b. 506 BC)

  • Shi Lang1621 – 1696

    Chinese admiral (1621-1696)

  • Shih Ming-teh1941 – 2024

    Taiwanese politician (1941–2024)

  • Zhu Ran182 – 249

    Chinese Eastern Wu general (182 – 249)

  • Shi Ping1911 – 2024

    former party secretary of East China Normal University

  • Nansun Shi1951 – 2026

    Hong Kong film producer and entrepreneur (1951–2026)

  • Su Beng1918 – 2019

    Activist and former Senior Advisor to the President of Taiwan (1918–2019)

  • Simon Sze1936 – 2023

    American electrical engineer (1936–2023)

  • Shi Jianqiao1905 – 1979

    20th-century Chinese assassin of Sun Chuanfang

  • Alfred Sao-ke Sze1877 – 1958

    Chinese politician

  • Shi Ji250 – 270

    Chinese Eastern Wu general (died 270)

  • Shi En? – 1120

    Water Margin character

  • Shi Guangnan1940 – 1990

    Chinese composer (1940–1990)

  • Shi Zhecun1905 – 2003

    Chinese writer

  • Shih Chi-yang1935 – 2019

    Taiwanese politician

  • Shih Chun-jen1923 – 2017

    politician (1923–2017)

  • Shi Shilun1659 – 1722

    Chinese politician

  • Shi Cuntong1899 – 1970

    early Chinese Communist Party figurehead

  • Shi Yu1875 – 1930

    Republic of China person CBDB = 85153

  • 施嘉炀1902 – 2001

    Chinese engineer (1902-2001)

  • Shi Jianwu780 – 861

    Tang dynasty government official, Taoist author and poet

  • George She1904 – 1979

    Hong Kong social activist

  • Shi Lüben1885 – 1938

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).