He (surname)
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Region of origin | China |
Language(s) of origin | Chinese |
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He (/ˈhə/) or Ho is the Romanised transliteration of several Chinese family names. Of these family names, 何 (Pinyin: Hé) is the most common at 17th (14 million, according to 2012 survey)[1] and 贺 (Traditional: 賀; Pinyin: Hè) is the second most common at 71st in the list of the top 100 most common Chinese family names. Other less common family names include 河 (Pinyin: Hé), 佫 (Pinyin: Hé), and 赫 (Pinyin: Hè).
A common alternative spelling of this surname is Ho, the Mandarin Wade-Giles romanization and the Cantonese romanization of several Chinese family names.
In Vietnam, the equivalent surname is Hà or Ha. Not be confused with Hu surname in Vietnamese, it's literally called Hồ. In Korea, the equivalent surname is Ha.
origin from Ji clan of Zhou Dynasty, and Jiang clan of Yandi
Romanization
Char. | Mandarin | Cantonese | |||
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S. | T. | Pinyin | Wade-Giles | Jyutping | HK Gov't |
何 | Hé | Ho2 | Ho4 | Ho | |
贺 | 賀 | Hè | Ho4 | Ho6 | Ho |
河 | Hé | Ho2 | Ho4 | Ho | |
佫 | Hè | Ho4 | Hok6 | ||
赫 | Hè | Ho4 | Haak1 Hak1 | Hak |
Notable people
Family name 何
- Science and mathematics
- He Jifeng (何積豐) is a Chinese computer scientist.
- He Zehui (何泽慧) was a prominent Chinese nuclear physicist.
- Ho, David (何大一) Chinese American AIDS researcher famous for the use of protease inhibitors in treating HIV infected patients
- Ho, Mae-Wan, born in Hong Kong, is a reader in genetics and biophysics in the United Kingdom.
- He Zuoxiu, a Chinese physicist and member of Chinese Academy of Sciences.
- Politics
- Ho, Feng-Shan, also spelled "He, Fengshan" (何鳳山) was a Chinese diplomat who saved a large number of Jews during World War II, known as "China's Schindler"
- He Depu (何德普) dissident in the People's Republic of China.
- Ho, Albert (何俊仁) solicitor and a member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, is currently the secretary general of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements in China and the vice-chairman of the Democratic Party (Hong Kong).
- Cyd Ho (何秀蘭) founding member of The Frontier, a local pro-democracy political group and member of Legislative Council from 2000 to 2004.
- Ho, Edmund (何厚鏵) Chief Executive of the Macau Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China
- Hou Kok Chung (何国忠), an ethnic Chinese politician and was one of the Deputy Ministers for Higher Education in Malaysia.
- Finance
- Ho Kwon Ping, the Executive Chairman of Banyan Tree Holdings.
- Ho Ching (何晶) is the executive director of Temasek Holdings and wife of Singapore prime minister Lee Hsien Loong
- Hotung, Robert (formerly Ho, Tung何東) famous businessman and philanthropist in Hong Kong
- Ho, Stanley (何鴻燊) entrepreneur in Hong Kong and gambling magnate Macau.
- Filmography and entertaintment
- He Meitian (何美钿) Hong Kong actress and former gymnast.
- He Ping (何平) Chinese film director.
- He Zhuoyan (何琢言), Chinese actress and singer.
- Ho, Denise (何韻詩) Hong Kong singer, actress
- Ho, Dennis, a Filipino actor known by his stage name Dennis Trillo.
- Ho, Don (何大來) Hawaiian musician and entertainer.
- Ho, Godfrey Hong Kong-based movie director best known for his "Ninja" films
- Ho, Hoku American musician and actress
- Ho, Josie (何超儀) singer and actress from Hong Kong
- Ho Ping (何平) Taiwanese film director
- Ho, Godfrey Hong Kong-based movie director best known for his "Ninja" films
- Others
- He Kexin (何可欣) Chinese Olympic gymnast
- He Pingping (何平平), one of the world's smallest men, from Inner Mongolia
- He Qifang (何其芳) a Chinese poet and essayist
- He, Qiu Xia (何秋霞) is a Chinese pipa player
- He Xuntian (zh:何训田) is a modern Chinese composer, famous his compositions for Dadawa.
- He Ying (何影) is an athlete/archer from the People's Republic of China.
- He Yingqin (何應欽) was one of the senior generals of Kuomintang in during Republican China, and ally of Chiang Kai-shek
- He Yong (何勇) Chinese rock musician.
- He Zhi Wen (何誌文) is a Sino-Spanish male table tennis player.
- Ho Fuk Yan (何福仁) teacher, Chinese language author and poet in Hong Kong.
- Sui He (何穗) Chinese fashion model.
Family name 贺/賀
- He Zhizhang(贺知章) a Chinese poet lived in Tang Dynasty.
- He Long(贺龙) a Chinese military leader and one of the Ten Marshals of the People's Republic of China.
- He Zizhen(贺子珍) the third wife of Mao Zedong from May 1930 to 1937.
- He Guoqiang(贺国强) a retired senior leader of the Communist Party of China (CPC).
- He Weifang(贺卫方) a professor at Peking University of China.
- He Junxiang(賀軍翔) a Taiwanese actor.
See also
References
- ↑ "China's Surnames". Cdn.theatlantic.com. Retrieved 2013-11-05.