Chinese surnames

祖

zǔ · Zǔ

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
No. 248
Ancestral seat (junwang)
范阳
Wikidata
Q4505444

In other languages

  • German Zu
  • English Zǔ
  • Spanish Zu
  • French Zu
  • Korean 쭈
  • Russian Цзу
  • Vietnamese Tổ

Notable historical bearers

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

  • Zu Chongzhi429 – 501

    Chinese mathematician-astronomer

  • Zu Gengzhi480 – 525

    Chinese mathematician

  • Zu Mao200 – 189

    Chinese general during the Han dynasty

  • Zu Ti266 – 321

    Jin dynasty general

  • Zu Dashou1550 – 1656

    Chinese General

  • Zu Yong699 – 746

    Chinese poet

  • Zu Xiaosun501 – 601

    Sui and Tang dynasty musician

  • Zu Yue266 – 330

    jin dynasty minister and warlord

  • Zu Ting? – 570

    Chinese Ofiicial

  • 祖君彦? – 618

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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).