Chinese surnames

龚

gōng · Gong

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
No. 192
Ancestral seat (junwang)
武陵
Wikidata
Q16260135

In other languages

  • German Gong
  • English Gong
  • Spanish Gong
  • French Gong
  • Japanese 龔
  • Korean 궁
  • Vietnamese Cung
  • Traditional Chinese 龔

Notable historical bearers

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

  • Faxian340 – 422

    Chinese Buddhist monk (bhikkhu), pilgrim to India, and travelogue author during the Jin and Liu Song dynasties

  • Ignatius Kung Pin-Mei1901 – 2000

    Catholic cardinal (1901–2000)

  • Gong Zizhen1792 – 1841

    Poet and calligrapher

  • Nina Wang1937 – 2007

    Hong Kong entrepreneur (1937–2007)

  • Gong Qiuxia1918 – 2004

    Chinese actress and singer (1918–2004)

  • Gong Peng1914 – 1970

    Chinese female diplomat

  • Gong Xian1618 – 1689

    Chinese artist (1618-1689)

  • Gong Dingzi1615 – 1673

    Poet and Chinese politician (1615–1673)

  • Gong Xinzhan1871 – 1943

    Chinese politician (1871-1943)

  • Gong Kai1222 – 1307

    Chinese artist and government official (1222-1307)

  • Gong Wang? – 1120

    Water Margin character

  • Nenghai1886 – 1967

    Chinese politician

  • Gong Hwang-cherng1934 – 2010

    Taiwanese linguist and tangutologist (1934–2010)

  • Gong Lu195 – 225

    Chinese Shu Han state official (195–225)

  • Alex Gong1970 – 2003

    American kickboxer (1970–2003)

  • Empress Dowager Gong? – 562

    Chinese empress dowager

  • Gong Pusheng1913 – 2007

    Chinese female diplomat

  • Kung Chao-Yuan1836 – 1897

    Chinese diplomat

  • Kong Jaw-sheng1955 – 2016

    Taiwanese banker (1955-2016)

Find printed genealogies

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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).