Chinese surnames

毛

máo · Mao

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
No. 106
Ancestral seat (junwang)
西河
Wikidata
Q1043021

In other languages

  • German Mao
  • English Mao
  • Spanish Mao
  • French Mao
  • Korean 마오
  • Russian Мао
  • Vietnamese Mao

Notable historical bearers

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

  • Mao Zedong1893 – 1976

    1st chairman of the Chinese Communist Party and founder of the People's Republic of China (1893–1976)

  • Mao Anying1922 – 1950

    Chinese soldier, son of Chairman Mao Zedong of China (1922-1950)

  • Mao Zemin1896 – 1943

    Mao Zedong's brother (1896–1943)

  • Mao Anqing1923 – 2007

    Chinese translator (1923-2007)

  • Mao Zetan1905 – 1935

    Mao Zedong's brother (1905-1935)

  • Empress Mao150 – 237

    Empress of Cao Wei (died 237)

  • Máo Fúméi1882 – 1939

    Mother of Chiang Ching-Kuo (1882-1939)

  • Mao Yichang1870 – 1920

    father of Mao Zedong (1870–1920)

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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).