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.

[edit] Famous people surnamed Hu: (胡)

Hu Jintao, PRC President
Hu Shih, writer and scholar
Ho Chi Minh, pseudonymn of the first leader of Communist Vietnam
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.