Miáo (surname)

Miáo (苗) is a Chinese language surname. In 2013 it was counted as the 157th most common surname with 1 million people sharing the name or 0.075% of the total population, the province with the largest population of people with the name is Henan.[1] It is the 53rd name on the Hundred Family Surnames poem.[2]

Not to be confused with Miao (surname 缪).

Notable people
  • Nora Miao (stagename, Chinese: 苗可秀, born 陳詠憫 1952-) is a Hong Kong actress who appeared in many kung-fu films in the 1970s
  • Miao Miao (Chinese: 苗苗; pinyin: Miáo Miao) (born 14 January 1981, Tianjin, China) is an Australian table tennis player who represented Australia at the Sydney, Athens, Beijing and London Olympic Games
  • Miao Wei (Chinese: 苗圩; born May 1955) is a politician and business executive of the People's Republic of China. He is the Minister of Industry and Information Technology and former Communist Party Chief of Wuhan, capital of Hubei province
  • Miao Pu (born 22 February 1977) is a Chinese actress.

References
  1. 中国四百大姓 Front Cover, 袁义达, 邱家儒, Beijing Book Co. Inc., Jan 1, 2013
  2. K. S. Tom. [1989] (1989). Echoes from Old China: Life, Legends and Lore of the Middle Kingdom. University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 0-8248-1285-9.
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