Bai (surname)

Family name
name = Bai


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Bai () is a common Mandarin Chinese surname, mostly found in the Mongolia region. With its variants, Bai was ranked 79th within the list of common Chinese surnames in 2006, up from 70th in 1990.

Another surname, , is written with a character normally also pronounced as "Bai", but as a surname is properly pronounced "Bo", according to the ancient reading of the character.

Alternate spellings

* Mandarin: Bái
* Cantonese: Baak6, Pak
* Min Nan (Hokkien (Fujian)/Teochew): Pe̍h, Pe̍k, Peh
* Vietnamese: Bạch
* Korean: Bae, Baek (백), Pae
* Japanese: Haku, Hyaku, Byaku

People

* Bai Qi (died 257 BC), Qin general of the Warring States Period
* Bai Juyi (772-846), Tang Dynasty poet
* Bai Renfu (1226-1306), Yuan Dynasty playwright
* Bai Chongxi (1893-1966), general of the Republic of China
* Pai Hsien-yung (born 1937), Chinese writer
* Lou Pai (born 1946), Chinese-American businessman and former Enron executive
* Pai Kun-Hong (born 1970), Taiwanese baseball player
* Pai Hsiao-yen (1980-1997), Taiwanese teenage idol and victim of a fatal kidnapping

ee also

* Pai (surname), the Konkani, India surname origin; plus people with the name