高
gāo · Gao
- Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
- No. 153
- Ancestral seat (junwang)
- 渤海
- Wikidata
- Q713706
In other languages
- German Gao
- English Gao
- Spanish Gao
- French Gāo
- Korean 가오
- Russian Гао
- Vietnamese Cao
Notable historical bearers
Deceased people recorded in Wikidata with this family name, ordered by how many Wikipedias cover them.
- Charles K. Kao1933 – 2018
Hong Kong-British-American physicist
- Godfrey Gao1984 – 2019
Taiwanese-Canadian actor and model (1984-2019)
- Gao Shun200 – 199
General serving warlord Lü Bu (died 199)
- Gao Yaojie1927 – 2023
Chinese gynecologist, academic and AIDS activist (1927–2023)
- Gao Shi707 – 765
poet (707-765)
- Gao Gang1905 – 1954
Chinese politician (1905-1954)
- Emperor Wenxuan of Northern Qi526 – 559
Emperor of Northern Qi from 550 to 559
- Gao Wei556 – 577
Northern Qi emperor
- Emperor Wucheng of Northern Qi537 – 569
Northern Qi Emperor (537-569)
- Gao Panlong1562 – 1626
Chinese philosopher (1562–1626)
- Gao Qi1336 – 1374
Chinese writer and historian at the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty
- Gao Kegong1248 – 1310
Chinese artist (1248-1310)
- Gao Heng570 – 577
Northern Qi emperor
- Emperor Xiaozhao of Northern Qi535 – 561
Northern Qi emperor (535-561)
- Imperial Noble Consort Huixian1711 – 1745
Chinese imperial consort
- Gao Xianzhi? – 756
Tang Dynasty general (died 756)
- Gao Yun301 – 409
Later Yan emperor
- Gao Jixing858 – 929
founder of the Jingnan Kingdom (858-929) during the 10th-century Ten Kingdoms
- Gao Huan496 – 547
Chinese regent (496–547)
- Gao Lingwei1870 – 1940
Chinese politician (1870-1940)
- Emperor Fei of Northern Qi545 – 561
Northern Qi Emperor
- Shenhui670 – 762
Chinese Buddhist monk
- Gao Cheng521 – 549
Chinese emperor
- Gao Qifeng1889 – 1933
Chinese painter (1889–1933)
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.
Search 高 genealogies at the Shanghai Library ↗Sources: the Hundred Family Surnames (public domain) with ancestral seats from the chinese-poetry dataset (MIT); spellings and people from Wikidata (CC0).