Wèi (surname)
.svg) Wei character in ancient script on top, standard script at bottom | |
| Romanisation | Wei, Ngai |
|---|---|
| Origin | |
| Word/name | Wei ( from Mi 羋 |
Wei (
Notable people surnamed Wei (魏 )
[edit]During the Zhou dynasty, Wei (state) (
In 636 BC, Prince Chong’er became a Hegemon of China. One of his followers, Wei Wuzi had a son, Wei Qi. Prince Chong’er gave Wei Qi the fiefs of Lü and Chu. As a result, most of Wei Qi's descendants changed their last name to Lü
During the Ming dynasty, Gao (
In 2019 it was the 45th most common surname in mainland China.[1]
It is the 30th name on the Hundred Family Surnames poem.
- Vision Wei (
魏 晨), Chinese singer and actor - Wei Wei (murderer), executed for murder in Japan by Masako Mori
- Wei Pengyuan, sentenced to death for bribery
- Wei Hongtian, Chinese diplomat
- Wei Wenbo (
魏 文 伯 ), Chinese politician and revolutionary - Wei Jingsheng (
魏 京 生 ), Chinese dissident - Wei Kuo-yen (
魏 國 彥), Minister of Environmental Protection Administration of the Republic of China (2014–2016) - Wei Ming-ku (
魏 明谷 ), Magistrate of Changhua County (2014–2018) - Wei Qiuyue (
魏 秋月 ), Chinese volleyball player - Wei Tao-ming (
魏 道明 ), ambassador, mayor of Nanjing, governor of Taiwan, foreign minister - Wei Xiaoyuan (
魏 晓媛), Chinese artistic gymnast - Wei Yan (
魏 延 ), a military officer of Shu during the Three Kingdoms period - Wei Yao-chien (
魏 耀乾), member of Legislative Yuan (1990–1996) - Wei Yaxin (born 2000), Chinese badminton player
- Empress Xiaoyichun of Wei clan, consort of the Qianlong Emperor and Empress of the Qing dynasty
- Wei Yung (
魏 鏞), Minister of the Research, Development and Evaluation Commission of the Republic of China (1976–1988) - Wei Zheng (
魏 徵 ), the statesman of the Tang dynasty - Wei Zhongxian (
魏 忠 賢 ), eunuch, original name Li Jinzhong - Katherine Wei-Sender, Chinese American bridge player and spouse of C. C. Wei
- C. C. Wei (
魏 重 庆), Chinese American bridge player - Dexter Goei, Chinese-Indonesian American businessman
- Juncheng Wei, mathematician
Notable people surnamed Wei (尉 )
[edit]Wèi (
- Wei Liao (
尉 缭, Wèi Liáo)[citation needed] – a strategist of Warring States period, purported writer of the classic military text Wei Liaozi
Notable people surnamed Wei (蔿)
[edit]Wěi (蔿) family name from the Yuan (surname) (薳) the form a Xiong (surname) (
Other notable people surnamed Wei
[edit]- Belle Wei, American electric engineer and educator
See also
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