Chinese surnames

柯

kē · Ke

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
No. 164
Ancestral seat (junwang)
济阳
Wikidata
Q986819

In other languages

  • German Ke
  • English Ke
  • Spanish Ke
  • French Ke
  • Korean 커
  • Russian Кэ
  • Vietnamese Kha

Notable historical bearers

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

  • Ke Jiusi1290 – 1343

    Chinese artist (1290-1343)

  • Blackie Ko1953 – 2003

    Taiwanese actor and film director (1953–2003)

  • Kwa Geok Choo1920 – 2010

    Singaporean lawyer (1920-2010)

  • Ke Shaomin1850 – 1933

    Republic of China person CBDB = 61262

  • Ko Chun-hsiung1945 – 2015

    Taiwanese actor

  • Ke Qingshi1902 – 1965

    mayor of Nanjing, Shanghai and held other political positions. (1902–1965)

  • Ke Huibing1979 – 2020

    Chinese professor

  • Ke Zhi-zhang1910 – 2001

    rugby union player (1910-2002)

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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).