He (surname)

He (surname)

He is the Romanised transliteration of several Chinese family names. Of these family names, (Pinyin: Hé) is the most common at 21st and (Traditional: ; 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 (Pinyin: Hé), (Pinyin: Hé), and (Pinyin: Hè).

A common alternative spelling of this surname is Ho, the Mandarin dialect Wade-Giles romanization and the Cantonese dialect romanization of several Chinese family names.

Romanization

Notable people

* He Depu (何德普) dissident in the People's Republic of China
* Ho Feng Shan (何鳳山) was a Chinese diplomat who saved a large number of Jews during World War II, known as “China’s Schindler”
* He Jifeng (何積豐) is a Chinese computer scientist
* He Kexin, Chinese gymnast
* He Ping (何平) Chinese film director
* 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 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, 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).
* Ho Ching (何晶) is the executive director of Temasek Holdings and wife of Singapore prime minister Lee Hsien Loong
* Ho, Cyd (何秀蘭) founding member of The Frontier, a local pro-democracy political group.member of Legislative Council from 2000 to 2004
* Ho, David (何大一) Taiwanese American AIDS researcher famous for the use of protease inhibitors in treating HIV infected patients
* Ho, Denise (何韻詩) Hong Kong singer, actress
* Ho, Don (何大來) Hawaiian musician and entertainer
* Ho, Edmund (何厚鏵) Chief Executive of the Macau Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China
* Ho Fuk Yan (何福仁) teacher, Chinese language author and poet in Hong Kong
* 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, Mae-Wan, born in Hong Kong, is a reader in genetics and biophysics in the United Kingdom
* Ho Ping (何平) Taiwanese film director
* 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.

Notable people with family name 贺/賀

* He Long
* He Weifang
* He Zizhen

ee also

*List of common Chinese surnames

External links

* [http://english.people.com.cn/200603/02/eng20060302_247341.html Chinese surname history: He]


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