Chinese surnames

杜

dù · Du

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
No. 129
Ancestral seat (junwang)
京兆
Wikidata
Q709747

In other languages

  • German Du
  • English Du
  • Spanish Du
  • French Du
  • Korean 두
  • Russian Ду
  • Vietnamese Đỗ

Notable historical bearers

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

  • Du Fu712 – 770

    Tang dynasty Chinese poet (712–770)

  • Du Mu803 – 852

    Chinese calligrapher, poet and politician (803–852)

  • Du Yuesheng1888 – 1951

    Chinese mob boss (1888-1951)

  • Du Yu222 – 285

    Chinese classicist, general and politician (222–285)

  • Kenneth To1992 – 2019

    Australian swimmer (1992–2019)

  • Du Shenyan645 – 708

    poet

  • Du Yuming1904 – 1981

    Chinese lieutenant general (1904–1981)

  • Du Ruhui585 – 630

    Chinese chancellor (585-630)

  • Du Xigui1875 – 1933

    Chinese admiral (1875–1933)

  • Du Wei1962 – 2020

    Ambassador of China to Israel, Ambassador of China to Ukraine

  • Du Shi50 BCE – 38

    1st century engineer, metallurgist and politician

  • Du Guangting850 – 933

    Taoist priest and writer from the Tiantai Mountain during the Tang dynasty and the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period

  • Du You735 – 812

    Chancellor of Tang Dynasty and historian (735–812)

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.

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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).