Chew (surname)
The surname Chew is a Cantonese, English or Korean name. In its Cantonese origin it is a variant of the Chinese surname Zhou. Some would argue that it is an Hokkien version of Zhou, and that the Cantonese version is Chow. If you look at the list of notable Chinese people with Chew as a surname, they are mostly Malaysian or Singaporean, where Hokkien is the main Chinese dialect. The British colonialists were responsible for the transliteration from the Chinese. Chew is also a Scottish and Somerset, England, surname.
Notabe people with the surname include:
- Benjamin Chew (1722 – 1810), American jurist
- Evelyn Chew (21st century), Malaysian-Canadian actor
- Samuel Chew (justice) (1699 – 1744)
- Samuel Chew (captain) (c. 1750 - 1778), captain in the American Continental Navy
- Ng Poon Chew (1866 - 1931), Chinese-American writer and publisher
- Geoffrey Chew (born 1924), American theoretical physicist
- Paddy Chew (1960 - 1999), Singaporean AIDS victim
- Betty Chew (born 1964), Malaysian Chinese politician
- Chew Chor Meng (born 1968), Singaporean television actor
- Chew Pok Cheong (born 1970), Malaysian cricketer
- Chew Choon Eng (born 1976), Malaysian badminton player
- Chew Sin Huey (born 1981), Malaysian pop singer
- Patricia Chew, CNN Hong Kong news anchor
- Ray Chew, American jazz musician
- Robert F. Chew, American actor
- Roger Preston Chew, Confederate officer in the American Civil War and West Virginia businessman
- Wee-Lek Chew (born 1932), botanist
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