Chinese surnames

蒲

pú · Pu

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
No. 268
Ancestral seat (junwang)
河东
Wikidata
Q15940241

In other languages

  • English Pu
  • Korean 푸
  • Vietnamese Bồ

Notable historical bearers

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

  • Pu Songling1640 – 1715

    Chinese writer (1640–1715)

  • Pu Shougeng1245 – 1284

    Yuan dynasty person CBDB = 14502

  • Pao Ming Pu1910 – 1988

    Chinese-born mathematician

  • Pu Hua1834 – 1911

    Chinese artist (1834-1911)

  • Pu Dianjun1875 – 1934

    Republic of China person CBDB = 90684

  • Pu Tiansheng1912 – 1996

    sculptor (1912-1996)

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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).