Mao (surname)

Mao is the romanization of several Chinese family names, including common names 毛 (Máo), 茅 (Māo) and some rare names 茆 (Máo), 卯 (Máo), 貌 (Mào) etc.

Mao/毛, 茅 etc.

Origin
Language(s)	Chinese

毛 originated from Ji (Chinese: 姬; pinyin: Jī), the clan name of Zhou Dynasty. 毛 is the 106th surname in the Hundred Family Surnames, and ranks 87th largest number of people with this surname in China (2007).[1]

茅 is the 119th surname in Hundred Family Surnames.[2]

Notable people surnamed Mao

毛

• Mao Chaofeng, politician born in 1965
• Mao Chi-kuo (b. 1948), a Republic of China politician
• Mao Jie (d. 216), a minister to Cao Cao
• Mao Sidi, pseudonym of Steven W. Mosher (born 1948), American social scientist and author
• Mao Wenlong, a commander of the Ming Dynasty
• Mao Zedong, (1893-1976), the founder of the People's Republic of China and Chairman of the Communist Party of China
  • Madame Mao (Jiang Qing), the fourth wife of Mao Zedong and a leading politician in the Cultural Revolution
  • Mao Zemin, (1896-1943), early Communist revolutionary, Mao Zedong's brother
  • Mao Zetan, brother of Mao Zedong
  • Mao Anying, the son of Mao Zedong
  • Mao Yuanxin, nephew of Mao Zedong
  • Mao Xinyu, (born 1970), grandson of Mao
  • Mao Zehong, the sister of Mao Zedong
• Mao Xiaobing, former party chief of Xining, investigated for corruption
• Mao Xiaoping, former mayor of Wuxi
• Mao Xinyuan, a Chinese race walker
• Empress Mao (d. 237), Empress of Cao Rui during the Three Kingdoms era
• Teresa Mo (b. 1958), Hong Kong actress
• Mao WeiJia, singer
• Mao Yingchu, (1910-2000), an ace-fighter pilot during the War of Resistance/WWII; former commander of the 4th Fighter Group

茅

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• Angela Mao, Taiwanese actress
• Mao Dun, pen name of a Chinese writer
• Mao Yisheng, a Chinese structural engineer.
• Mao Yushi, a Chinese economist, nephew of Mao Yisheng, critic of Mao Zedong.

See also

• Mao (given name), a feminine Japanese given name

References

1. 新百家姓排名：86
2. 茅姓 一、姓氏源流 茅（Máo）姓源出有一：