Zhou (surname)
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Zhōu is the Hanyu Pinyin transliteration of the Chinese family name 周, which now ranks the 9th most common surname in Mainland China. It has been one of the most popular ten surnames in China since the Yuan Dynasty.
In places which use the Wade-Giles romanization such as Taiwan, Zhou is usually spelled as "Chou", and it may also be spelled "Chau", "Jhou", "Joe", "Chiau" or "Chow". Zhōu can also stand for another, rare Chinese family name, 洲.
The surname is the same as that of the Zhou Dynasty.
[edit] Prominent individuals with the surname Zhou
- Alphabetized by surname, then by given name.
- Wakin Chau (Emil Chau), singer
- Simon Chau Sui-Cheong, Hong Kong social and environmental activist
- Jay Chou, singer
- Endy Chow, singer
- Niki Chow, actress
- Norm Chow, American football coach
- Stephen Chow, actor & director
- Vivian Chow, singer
- Wei-Liang Chow, mathematician
- Wen Tsing Chow, missile guidance scientist
- Chow Yun-Fat, actor
- Ju Sigyeong, Korean linguistist
- Zhou Enlai, People's Republic of China politician
- Zhou Long, composer
- Zhou Shuren, writer using the pseudonym Lu Xun
- Zhou Tong (monk), famous archer and teacher of Song Dynasty General Yue Fei
- Zhou Xiaochuan, economist
- Zhou Xuan, actress
- Zhou Yafu, a Han dynasty general
- Zhou Yu, a great general of the Kingdom of Wu
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