Chinese surnames

桑

sāng · Sang

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
No. 305
Ancestral seat (junwang)
黎阳
Wikidata
Q4407384

In other languages

  • German Sang
  • English Sang
  • Spanish Sang
  • French Sang
  • Korean 상
  • Russian Сан
  • Vietnamese Sang

Notable historical bearers

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

  • Sang Hongyang150 BCE – 80 BCE

    Economic official who served Emperor Wu of Han and his successor Emperor Zhao

  • Sang Weihan898 – 947

    Chinese general

  • Sang Guowei1941 – 2023

    Chinese pharmacologist and politician (1941–2023)

  • Ron Sang1938 – 2021

    New Zealand architect

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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).