Chinese surnames

谷

gǔ · Gǔ

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
No. 227
Ancestral seat (junwang)
上谷
Wikidata
Q15920963

In other languages

  • English Gǔ
  • French Gǔ
  • Korean 구
  • Vietnamese Cổc

Notable historical bearers

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

  • Gu Chaohao1926 – 2012

    Chinese mathematician (1926–2012)

  • Ku Cheng-kang1902 – 1993

    politician

  • Gu Li? – 201

    Chinese general of the Eastern Wu

  • Gu Mu1914 – 2009

    Vice-Premier of the People's Republic of China between 1975 and 1982

  • Ku Cheng-ting1903 – 1974

    Chinese-born politician

  • Gu Yong50 BCE – 8 BCE

    minister to Emperor Cheng of Han

  • Sik Kok Kwong1919 – 2014

    Hong Kong Buddhist leader (1919-2014)

  • Gu Yingtai1620 – 1690

    Qing dynasty historian

  • Ku Chung-hsiu1874 – 1949

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).