He (surname)
Surname list
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He or Ho is the romanized transliteration of several Chinese family names. According to a 2012 survey, 14 million people had Hé (何) listed as their surname, making it the 17th most common surname in Mainland China,[1] a spot it retained in 2019.[2] Hé was listed as the 21st most common surname in the Hundred Family Surnames. A common alternative spelling of the surname is Ho, which is the Mandarin Wade–Giles romanization and the Cantonese romanization of the Chinese family names.
| He | |||||
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| Chinese | 何 | ||||
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| Vietnamese alphabet | Hà | ||||
| Chữ Hán | 何 | ||||
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| Hangul | 하 | ||||
| Hanja | 何 | ||||
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| Kanji | 何 | ||||
| Kana | か | ||||
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In the Korean language, the equivalent surname is Ha (하). In the Vietnamese language, the equivalent surname is Hà.
Other less common family names that are romanized as He include 河 (Pinyin: Hé), 佫 (Pinyin: Hè), 赫 (Pinyin: Hè), and 和.
History
The surname 何 is of diverse origins. The 2nd earliest originates from Han, the name of a kingdom during the Warring States period, and the Jiang clan of Yandi.[citation needed]
After the barbarian Xianbei became Han Chinese, a group of originally Heba surnamed Xianbei took the surname 何.
Numerous Boat Dwellers have the 何 surname too.
Romanization
Notable people
Academia
- He Jifeng (何積豐), Chinese computer scientist
- He Zehui (何泽慧), Chinese nuclear physicist
- David Ho (何大一), Chinese American AIDS researcher
- Mae-Wan Ho (1941–2016), Hong Kong-born geneticist and biophysicist
- Tin-Lun Ho (born 1951), Chinese-American theoretical physicist
- Xuhua He (何旭华, born 1979), Chinese mathematician
- He Zuoxiu, Chinese physicist, member of Chinese Academy of Science
Politics
- Solomon Hochoy governor of Trinidad and Tobago
- Albert Ho (何俊仁), Hong Kong Legislative Council member with the Democratic Party
- Cyd Ho (何秀蘭), Hong Kong Legislative Council member with The Frontier
- Edmund Ho (何厚鏵), Chief Executive of the Macau Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China
- He Depu (何德普) dissident in the People's Republic of China
- Ho Chih-chin (何志欽), Minister of Finance of the Republic of China (2006–2008)
- Ho Chi-kung (何啟功), Deputy Minister of Health and Welfare of the Republic of China
- He Siyuan: mayor of Beijing
- Ho Feng-Shan (何鳳山), diplomat who saved a large number of Jews during World War II, known as "China's Schindler"
- Ho Mei-yueh (何美玥), Minister of the Council for Economic Planning and Development of the Republic of China (2007–2008)
- Ho Pei-shan (何佩珊), Deputy Secretary-General of the Executive Yuan of the Republic of China
- Ho Peng Kee (何炳基), Singaporean legal academic and former politician
- Hou Kok Chung (何国忠), Malaysian Deputy Minister for Higher Education
Finance
- He Qiaonü (何巧女) entrepreneur and philanthropist
- Ho Ching (何晶), executive director of Temasek Holdings and wife of Singapore senior minister Lee Hsien Loong
- Ho Kwon Ping, executive chairman of Banyan Tree Holdings
- Stanley Ho (何鴻燊), Hong Kong and Macau businessman
- Robert Hotung (何東), Hong Kong businessman and philanthropist
Filmography and entertainment
- Keishla He (何嘉裟), Puerto Rican social media personality
- He Meitian (何美钿), Hong Kong actress and former gymnast
- He Ping (何平), Chinese film director
- He Ying Ying (何盈莹), Singaporean actress
- He Yu (何宜谦), Chinese actor
- He Zhuoyan (何琢言), Chinese actress and singer
- A. Kitman Ho (何傑民), Hong Kong-born American film producer
- Daniel Ho, American musician, composer and producer specializing in Slack-key guitar, ukulele, and Hawaiian music.
- Denise Ho (何韻詩), Hong Kong singer and actress
- Dennis Trillo (also known as Dennis Ho), Filipino actor
- Don Ho (何大來), Hawaiian musician and entertainer.
- Godfrey Ho, Hong Kong–based movie director best known for his Ninja films
- Hoku Ho, American musician and actress
- Josie Ho (何超儀), singer and actress from Hong Kong
- Ho Ping (何平), Taiwanese film director
- He Jiong (何炅), Chinese singer and actor
- Ho Ho Ying (何和应), Singaporean artist
Others
- Siobhán Haughey (何詩蓓) Hong Kong swimmer
- He Bingjiao (何冰娇) Chinese badminton player
- He Jin (何進) Eastern Han dynasty general
- Empress He (Han Dynasty) (何皇后) Second wife of Emperor Ling of Han, sister of He Jin
- Empress He (Tang Dynasty) (何皇后) Wife of Emperor Zhaozong of Tang
- He Jianshi (何剑士), Chinese cartoonist
- Kevin He, Chinese Canadian ice hockey player
- He Kexin (何可欣), Chinese Olympic gymnast
- He Luli (何鲁丽) Chinese doctor and politician
- Sui He (何穗) Chinese fashion model
- He Pingping (何平平), one of the world's smallest men, from Inner Mongolia
- He Qifang (何其芳), Chinese poet and essayist
- Qiu Xia He (何秋霞), Chinese pipa player
- He Xuntian (何训田), modern Chinese composer, famous for his compositions for Dadawa
- He Yanwen (何燕雯), Chinese female rower
- He Ying (何影), Chinese athlete and archer
- He Yingqin (何應欽), senior Kuomintang general
- He Yong (何勇), Chinese rock musician
- He Zhi Wen (何誌文), Chinese-born Spanish male table tennis player
- Ho Fuk Yan (何福仁), teacher, Chinese language author and poet in Hong Kong
- James C. Ho, Taiwanese-born American federal judge
- Teck-Hua Ho (何德华), Singaporean academic
- Ho Yuen Hoe (何润好), Chinese humanitarian and Venerable Bhikkhuni
