Chinese surnames

茅

máo · Mao

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
No. 119
Ancestral seat (junwang)
东海
Wikidata
Q16260509

In other languages

  • English Mao

Notable historical bearers

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

  • Mao Kun1512 – 1601

    Ming dynasty politician and scholar (1512–1601)

  • Mao Yuanyi1594 – 1640

    Ming dynasty military strategist and writer, 1594-1640

  • Mao Zhu Quan1883 – 1952

    Nationalist China's first Justice Minister

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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).