Liao (surname)

Liao (surname)

Liao (zh-c|廖) is a Chinese surname, most commonly found in Southern China. Statistics show it is among the 100 most common surnames in mainland China. In Cantonese Romanization, one of the most common schemes for transliterating Standard Cantonese, it is read as Liu.

Famous people

* Liao Hua (廖化), Chinese general during the Eastern Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms era.
* Liao Zhongkai (廖仲愷), Kuomintang leader and an important promoter of the first KMT-CCP alliance in the 1920s.
* Zi Lan Liao (廖子岚), Chinese guzheng player.
* Liao Hsi-Wen (廖希文), a famous neuroscientist at Harvard Medical School.
* Bernice Liu (廖碧兒), Actress based in Hong Kong.
* Liu Kai Chi (廖啟智), Actor Based in Hong Kong.
* Jerry Yan birth name (廖洋震), member of Taiwanese boyband JVKV.


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