Chinese surnames

江

jiāng · Jiang

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
No. 141
Ancestral seat (junwang)
济阳
Wikidata
Q3498693

In other languages

  • German Jiang
  • English Jiang
  • Spanish Jiāng
  • French Jiang
  • Korean 장
  • Russian Цзян
  • Vietnamese Giang

Notable historical bearers

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

  • Jiang Zemin1926 – 2022

    former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (1926–2022)

  • Jiang Qing1914 – 1991

    Chinese political figure and wife of Mao Zedong (1914–1991)

  • Jiang Ping1930 – 2023

    Chinese Jurist (1930–2023)

  • Jiang Kanghu1883 – 1954

    Chinese politician (1883-1954)

  • Kang Bûn-iā1910 – 1983

    Taiwanese composer (1910–1983)

  • Hongren1610 – 1663

    Chinese artist (1610-1663)

  • Jiang Yan444 – 505

    Chinese poet and politician

  • Chiang Peng-chien1940 – 2000

    Taiwanese politician (1940-2000)

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).