Pu (Chinese surname)

• , meaning "reed" or "rush". According to the Lushi, this character was adopted as a surname during the Xia Dynasty by the Youhu clan due to the rushes which grew in their family gardens. It is the 269th character in the Hundred Family Surnames.
• . This is a toponymic surname, from the Pu River in Shandong. According to the Xingshi Kaolue, descendants of Jiang Ziya who lived on the banks of the Pu River changed their surname from Jiang to Pu. It is the 318th character in the Hundred Family Surnames.
• . This is also a toponymic surname, from the Pu River in Henan; it was also used to write the name of a vassal state of the State of Qi. People with this surname spread out from there to Puyang and Hua Counties in Henan. It is the 309th character in the Hundred Family Surnames.
• ; meaning Celtis sinensis. This is used to write the Korean surname Park. It is pronounced "Piáo" in China.

Notable people

蒲

• Pu Songling, Qing Dynasty Chinese writer
• Pu Hua, Qing Dynasty Chinese landscape painter and calligrapher
• Pao Ming Pu, Chinese mathematician, pioneer of systolic geometry
• Pu Tiansheng, Taiwanese sculptor
• Mu-chou Poo, Taiwanese Egyptologist
• Pu Tze-chun, Republic of China Navy admiral
• Pu Zhongjie, Chinese businessman
• Ai-jen Poo, American labour activist
• Pu Jun Jin, Chinese racing driver

  浦

• Pu Wei, Chinese football player
• Pu Qiongying, birth name of Zhuo Lin, last wife of Chinese leader Deng Xiaopeng
• Pu Zhiqiang, Chinese civil rights lawyer

  樸

• Pu Shu, Chinese singer

  濮

• Pu Shunqing, Chinese screenwriter and playwright
• Pu Cunxin, Chinese stage actor

  普

• Pu Chaozhu, Communist Party of China politician from Yunnan
• Pu Yixian, Chinese road cyclist

  Unknown

• Chermaine Poo, Malaysian actress
• Pu Yiqi, Chinese former swimmer who competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics
• Pu Qifeng, Chinese sport shooter
• Cliff Pu, Canadian ice hockey player
• Sam Poo, Chinese bushranger in New South Wales, Australia