Fu is a common spelling for some Chinese surnames, such as 傅, 符, 付, 扶, 伏, and 富.

The following are people with this surname:

傅

According to ancient texts, the name 傅 originated in the time of the Shang dynasty king Wu Ding

Wu Ding

Wu Ding was a Shang Dynasty King of China.His is the first historically verifiable name in the history of Chinese dynasties...

 (1324–1266 BC). Wu Ding dreamed about a man looking like a prisoner, and was told by a god that this was the wise man that he had been seeking. Wu Ding immediately commissioned a portrait of the mysterious man and searched everywhere for him. Finally, a man who looked exactly like the man in the dream was found performing hard labor building walls in the Fu Cliffs (in present-day Shanxi province, by the Great Wall). Wu Ding rescued the man, whose name was Yue, and gave him the name Fu Yue. Fu Yue was made prime minister and, as expected, went on to become a great administrator. His descendants adopted Fu as their surname.

Fu Yue

Fu Yue

Fu Yue was a famous Minister from the Fu Cliffs under the Emperor Wu Ding of the Yin dynasty, who reigned BC 1324-1265. He was originally a poor man, and being unable to subscribe towards the repair of certain roads, worked upon them himself...

 (1200 BC)

Fu Chieh-tzu

Fu Chieh-tzu

Fu Chieh-tzu was a commander under the Emperor Zhao of Han dynasty. He killed An-kuei, the ruler of Loulan in 77 BCE.-Career:...

. A Han dynasty

Han Dynasty

The Han Dynasty was the second imperial dynasty of China, preceded by the Qin Dynasty and succeeded by the Three Kingdoms . It was founded by the rebel leader Liu Bang, known posthumously as Emperor Gaozu of Han. It was briefly interrupted by the Xin Dynasty of the former regent Wang Mang...

 officer who assassinated the king of the Xiongnu

Xiongnu

The Xiongnu were ancient nomadic-based people that formed a state or confederation north of the agriculture-based empire of the Han Dynasty. Most of the information on the Xiongnu comes from Chinese sources...

 in 77 BC.

Consort Fu

Consort Fu

Consort Fu was an imperial consort during Han Dynasty. She was a consort and a favorite of Emperor Yuan. She was known to be a domineering woman who wanted her son on the throne, and, failing that, wanted her grandson on the throne as Emperor Ai...

 (? - 3 BC)

Fu Hsi. A Han dynasty

Han Dynasty

The Han Dynasty was the second imperial dynasty of China, preceded by the Qin Dynasty and succeeded by the Three Kingdoms . It was founded by the rebel leader Liu Bang, known posthumously as Emperor Gaozu of Han. It was briefly interrupted by the Xin Dynasty of the former regent Wang Mang...

 Marshall of State from 6 - 1 BC.

Empress Fu (Ai)

Empress Fu (Ai)

Empress Fu , formally Empress Xiaoai , was an empress during Han Dynasty. Her personal name is unknown. Her husband was Emperor Ai.Empress Fu was the daughter of her husband's grandmother Consort Fu's cousin Fu Yan...

 (? - 1 BC)

Fu Yu (? - 87 AD). Colonel-protector in Han Dynasty

Han Dynasty

The Han Dynasty was the second imperial dynasty of China, preceded by the Qin Dynasty and succeeded by the Three Kingdoms . It was founded by the rebel leader Liu Bang, known posthumously as Emperor Gaozu of Han. It was briefly interrupted by the Xin Dynasty of the former regent Wang Mang...

 China. Killed in a Ch'iang rebellion in 87 AD.

Fu Hsieh (187 AD) Han dynasty

Han Dynasty

The Han Dynasty was the second imperial dynasty of China, preceded by the Qin Dynasty and succeeded by the Three Kingdoms . It was founded by the rebel leader Liu Bang, known posthumously as Emperor Gaozu of Han. It was briefly interrupted by the Xin Dynasty of the former regent Wang Mang...

 imperial court adviser.

Fu Tong

Fu Tong

Fu Rong was a military general of Shu Han during the Three Kingdoms period of Chinese history.-Biography:Fu Rong was a native of Yiyang . In 221, he followed Liu Bei in the campaign against Sun Quan's forces, leading to the Battle of Xiaoting. In 222, Sun Quan's general Lu Xun defeated Liu Bei's...

 (? - 222 AD)

Fu Qian

Fu Qian

Fu Qian was a military general of Shu Han during the Three Kingdoms era of Chinese history. He was the son of Fu Rong, also a Shu general.-Biography:...

 (216 - 263 AD)

Fu Xuan

Fu Xuan

Fu Xuan was a Chinese poet of the Western Jin Dynasty. An impoverished orphan, he became rich due to his literary fame...

 (217 - 278 AD)

Fu Liang

Fu Liang

Fu Liang , courtesy name Jiyou , was a high level official of the Chinese dynasty Liu Song, who, along with his colleagues Xu Xianzhi and Xie Hui, deposed Emperor Shao after the death of Emperor Wu due to their belief that Emperor Shao was not fit to be emperor...

 (374 - 426 AD)

Fu Yi

Fu Yi

Fu I. AD 554-639. An official of the Sui dynasty, who became Historiographer under the first Emperor of the Tang dynasty. He presented a memorial asking that the Buddhist religion might be abolished; and when Hsiao Yu questioned him on the subject, he said, “You were not born in a hollow...

 (554 - 639)

Fu Yau-yu

Fu Yau-yu

Fu Yao-yu was an upright official of the Chinese Song Dynasty, and a vigorous opponent of the reforms of Wang Anshi, for which opposition he was banished to act as a superintendent of pastures. At his death, the empress said, “Truly he was a perfect man, as it were of gold or jade!”-References:...

 (1024 - 1091 AD)

Fu An

Fu An

Fu An was a Supervising Censor, who was dispatched in 1385 with two other Censors and a eunuch named Liu Wei, to open communications with the nations of Central Asia. They traversed the desert of Gobi and reached Hami; thence on to Karakhodjo and Ilbalik, the ancient capital of Kuldja...

 (? - 1429 AD)

Fu Shan (1607 - 1684 AD)

Fu Hung-lieh

Fu Hung-lieh

Fu Hung-lieh was a native of Kiangsi, who gave his allegiance to the Manchus in 1657 and was employed as a Prefect.For reporting the treasonable designs of Wu San Gui in 1688 he was condemned to death, but the sentence was commuted to banishment to Kuang-si. Here he was when Wu revolted, and the...

 (? - 1680 AD)

Fu La-t'a

Fu La-t'a

Fu-la-t’a was an imperial clansman, who rose rapidly by service in Peking and the provinces to be Viceroy of the Two Kiang in 1688, a post he worthily filled until his death...

 (? - 1694 AD)

Fu Ch'ing

Fu Ch'ing

Fu-ch’ing was a Manchu who began his career in the Imperial Guard, and in AD 1744 was sent as Resident to Tibet where he remained until the danger of a Tibetan-Sungar alliance seemed over. The last king of Tibet would not submit to the tutelage of China, and having poisoned his elder brother,...

 (? - 1750 AD)

Fuheng

Fuheng

Fuheng was a senior official at the court of the Qianlong Emperor from the 1750s to his death in 1770. He is best known for leading the Qing troops in the fourth and last invasion of Burma in the Sino-Burmese War...

 (? - 1770 AD)

Fu Nai

Fu Nai

Fu Nai was a statesman who made himself famous by his skillful treatment of the aborigines of Hunan. He first conquered and disarmed them, and then set to work to teach them to cultivate the arts of peace. He was particularly successful as a military leader, though himself actually a civilian...

 (1758 - 1811 AD)

Fu Zuoyi

Fu Zuoyi

Fu Zuoyi was a Chinese military leader. He began his military career in the service of Yan Xishan, and he was widely praised for his defense of Suiyuan from the Japanese. During the final stages of the Chinese Civil War, Fu surrendered the large and strategic garrison around Beiping to Communist...

 (1895 - 1974 AD)

符

From a character meaning ‘symbol’, ‘tally’, or ‘magic figure’. This was one of the characters in a title meaning ‘keeper of the royal seals’. During the Spring and Autumn period (722-481 BC), a grandson of a duke of the state of Lu held a post as the keeper of royal seals. His descendants adopted a character from the job title as their surname.

Fu Pi

Fu Pi

Fu Pi , courtesy name Yongshu , formally Emperor Aiping of Qin , was an emperor of the Chinese/Di state Former Qin...

(? - 386 AD)

富

Name borne by descendants of Fu Chen, a senior minister during the Zhou dynasty (1122-221 BC), and of Fu Fu, a member of the royal family of the state of Lu dring the Spring and Autumn period (722-481 BC).

Fu Bi (1004 - 1083 AD)