Chinese surnames

胡

hú · Hu

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
No. 158
Ancestral seat (junwang)
安定
Wikidata
Q1132594

In other languages

  • German Hu
  • English Hu
  • Spanish Hu
  • French Hu
  • Korean 후
  • Russian Ху
  • Vietnamese Hồ

Notable historical bearers

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

  • Hu Yaobang1915 – 1989

    Chinese politician (1915-1989), former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party

  • Hu Shih1891 – 1962

    Chinese scholar, writer and philosopher (1891–1962)

  • Hu Han-min1879 – 1936

    Chinese politician (1879-1936)

  • King Hu1932 – 1997

    Chinese film director and screenwriter (1932-1997)

  • Hu Zhengyan1584 – 1674

    Chinese painter and printer (1584–1674)

  • Hu Die1908 – 1989

    Chinese actress (1908–1989)

  • John Wu1925 – 2002

    Chinese cardinal (1925-2002)

  • Hồ Quý Ly1336 – 1407

    Vietnamese emperor (1400–1401)

  • Hu Xiansu1894 – 1968

    Chinese botanist (1894-1968)

  • Hu Zongnan1896 – 1962

    Taiwanese politician (1896–1962)

  • Shiu-Ying Hu1910 – 2012

    Chinese botanist and university teacher (1910-2012)

  • Hu Weide1863 – 1933

    Chinese politician (1863-1933)

  • Hu Bo1988 – 2017

    Chinese novelist and film director (1988-2017)

  • Hu Weiyong1350 – 1380

    Ming Dynasty chancellor

  • Hu Xueyan1823 – 1885

    Chinese banker

  • Hu Qiaomu1912 – 1992

    contemporary of founders of People's Republic of China (1912–1992)

  • Hu Hesheng1928 – 2024

    Chinese mathematician (1928–2024)

  • Hu Zongxian1512 – 1565

    Chinese politician (1512-1565)

  • Empress Dowager Hu401 – 528

    early 6th-century Empress of Northern Wei

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).