梅
méi · Mei
- Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
- No. 145
- Ancestral seat (junwang)
- 汝南
- Wikidata
- Q712260
In other languages
- German Mei
- English Mei
- Spanish Mei
- French Mei
- Korean 메이
- Russian Мэй
- Vietnamese Mai
Notable historical bearers
Deceased people recorded in Wikidata with this family name, ordered by how many Wikipedias cover them.
- Anita Mui1963 – 2003
Hong Kong singer and actress (1963–2003)
- Mei Lanfang1894 – 1961
Peking opera artist (1894-1961)
- Mei Yaochen1002 – 1060
poet
- Ann Mui1959 – 2000
Hong Kong actress and singer (1959-2000)
- Mei Qing1623 – 1697
Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher, writer and poet (1623-1697)
- Mei Ju-ao1904 – 1973
Chinese jurist, professor, politician, and author (1904-1973)
- Bernardino Mei1612 – 1676
Italian painter (1612-1676)
- Mei Baojiu1934 – 2016
Peking opera artist (1934-2016)
- Mai Tai Sing1923 – 2018
actor (1923-2018)
- Mei Yiqi1889 – 1962
President of Tsinghua University.
- Mei Wending1633 – 1721
Chinese mathematician, astronomer (1633-1721)
- Chiang C. Mei1935 – 2026
American fluid dynamicist
- Mei Quong Tart1850 – 1903
Chinese merchant
- Zhi Mei1914 – 2004
Chinese writer
- Mei Juecheng1681 – 1763
Qing dynasty person CBDB = 57793
- Afong Moy1819 – ?
first female Chinese immigrant to the United States
- Mei Siping1896 – 1946
Chinese politician
- Mei Dingzuo1549 – 1615
Ming dynasty writer, 1549–1615
- Mei Shaowu1928 – 2005
son of Mei Lanfang
- Mei Tsu-lin1933 – 2023
Chinese-born linguist (1933–2023)
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 梅 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).