Pu is the Pinyin transcription of a number of distinct Chinese surnames, including:

These surnames may also be transcribed as Poo. People with these surnames include:

Notable people

  • Pu Songling (蒲松齡; 1640–1715), Qing Dynasty Chinese writer
  • Pu Hua (蒲華; 1834–1911), Qing Dynasty Chinese landscape painter and calligrapher
  • Pao Ming Pu (蒲保明; 1910–1988), Chinese mathematician, pioneer of systolic geometry
  • Pu Tiansheng (蒲添生; 1912–1996), Taiwanese sculptor
  • Mu-chou Poo (蒲慕州; born 1952), Taiwanese Egyptologist
  • Pu Tze-chun (蒲澤春, born 1956), Republic of China Navy admiral
  • Pu Zhongjie (蒲忠杰; born 1963), Chinese businessman
  • Ai-jen Poo (蒲艾真; born 1974), American labour activist
  • Pu Jun Jin (蒲俊錦; born 1984), Chinese racing driver

  • Pu Wei (浦瑋; born 1980), Chinese football (soccer) player
  • Pu Qiongying (浦瓊英; 1916–2009), birth name of Zhuo Lin, last wife of Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping
  • Pu Zhiqiang (浦志强; born 1965), Chinese civil rights lawyer

  • Pu Shu (樸樹; born 1973), Chinese singer

  • Pu Shunqing (濮舜卿, 1902–?), Chinese screenwriter and playwright
  • Pu Cunxin (濮存昕; born 1953), Chinese stage actor

  • Pu Chaozhu (普朝柱; 1929-2002), Communist Party of China politician from Yunnan
  • Pu Yixian (普译娴, born 1992), Chinese road cyclist

Unknown

  • Chermaine Poo (born 1978), Malaysian actress
  • Pu Yiqi (born 1981), Chinese former swimmer who competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics
  • Pu Qifeng (born 1986), Chinese sport shooter
  • Cliff Pu (born 1998), Canadian ice hockey player
  • Sam Poo (1838–1865), Chinese bushranger in New South Wales, Australia

See also

Notes

  1. 1 2 Chao 2000, p. 151
  2. Chao 2000, p. 150
  3. Eom, Ik-sang (2015). Wang, William S.-Y.; Sun, Chaofen (eds.). The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Linguistics. Oxford University Press. p. 233. ISBN 978-0-19-026684-4. Retrieved 25 March 2020.

References

  • Chao, Sheau-yueh J. (2000). Genealogical Research on Chinese Surnames. Genealogical Publishing Company. ISBN 9780806349466.
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