Hu (surname)

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Hu (Cantonese: Woo) is a Chinese family name mainly represented by the character 胡.

The spelling Hu can be used by numerous less common Chinese family names including but not limited to 瓠,護,戶,扈,虎,呼,忽,斛 etc.

Non-Chinese peoples in China sometimes took the name of their ethnic group as surname. The best example is Hu (胡), which originally referred to all "barbarian" groups on the northern frontier of China. In addition, some adopted Chinese surnames that sound similar to their name, such as Hu for Hussain.

Famous people surnamed Hu: (胡)

Main article: List of people by name: name Hu

• Hu Jintao, PRC President
• Hu Shih, writer and scholar
• Ho Chi Minh, pseudonymn of the first leader of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam as well.
• Hu Yaobang, PRC leader
• Hu Bei-Lok, theoretical physicist specializing in gravitation and spacetime
• Kelly Hu, American actress
• Richard Hu, former Finance Minister of Singapore
• Gordon Ying Sheung Wu (Chinese: 胡應湘, Cantonese Romanization: Wu Ying Sheung) chairman of the board of Hong Kong-listed Asian infrastructure firm Hopewell Holdings Ltd.

See also

• Ho, variant of surname Huzh:胡姓

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