Chinese surnames

顾

gù · Gu

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
No. 93
Ancestral seat (junwang)
武陵
Wikidata
Q4151201

In other languages

  • German Gu
  • English Gu
  • Spanish Gu
  • French Koo
  • Japanese 顧
  • Korean 구
  • Russian Гу
  • Vietnamese Cố
  • Traditional Chinese 顧

Notable historical bearers

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

  • Wellington Koo1888 – 1985

    Diplomat and former President of the Republic of China

  • Gu Kaizhi345 – 406

    Chinese painter and politician (c. 344–406)

  • Gu Yanwu1613 – 1682

    Chinese philologist and geographer (1613–1682)

  • Gu Cheng1956 – 1993

    Chinese poet (1956–1993)

  • Gu Jiegang1893 – 1980

    Chinese historian (1893-1980)

  • Joseph Koo1931 – 2023

    Hong Kong composer (1931–2023)

  • Gu Hongzhong937 – 975

    Chinese artist (937-975)

  • Gu Zhutong1893 – 1987

    Chinese general, administrator (1893-1987)

  • Gu Hengbo1619 – 1663

    Chinese courtesan, poet and painter (1619–1664); CBDB ID = 86216

  • Gu Yong168 – 243

    State of Eastern Wu Minister and Chancellor (168-243)

  • Gu Xiancheng1550 – 1612

    Chinese bureaucrat (1550-1612)

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).