Qi (surname 齊)

Qi (齊/齐, also commonly written as Ch’i in Wade–Giles, and Chai (Jyutping: cai4) in Cantonese) is Chinese surname originated from the Qi (state) (齊/齐). In 2013 it was the 113th most common name, shared by 1,760,000 people or 0.130% of the population, with the province with the most being Hebei.[1] It is the 87th name on the Hundred Family Surnames poem.

Notable people
  • Qi Baishi (齐白石; 齊白石), painter in the 20th century
  • Chyi Yu (齊豫), singer
  • Chyi Chin (齊秦), singer
  • Qi Xin (齐心), mother of Xi Jinping
  • Chi Po-lin (齊柏林), documentary filmmaker
  • Qi Ying (齊映) (748 – 795), formally Baron Zhong of Hejian (河間忠男), was an official of the Tang Dynasty
  • Qi Kerang (齊克讓) was a general of the Tang Dynasty, who was part of Tang's resistance against the major agrarian rebel Huang Chao
  • Qi Xieyuan (齊燮元), Chinese warlord
  • Qi Xueting (齐雪婷; born 1986) is a Chinese ice hockey player
  • Qi Yaolin (齊耀琳) (1863 – ?) was a Chinese politician of the late Qing Dynasty and early period of the Republic of China. He was born in Jilin
  • Qi Yaoshan (齊耀珊; 1865 - 1954), courtesy name Zhaoyan, was a statesman and government official in the Qing dynasty and Republic of China
  • Qi Kang (architect), Southeast University. Qi's family is originally from Tiantai County, Zhejiang Province, China. Qi's family is descendant Qi Zhaonan (齊召南), a notable Chinese
  • Qi Kang (official), (齊抗; 740 – 804), courtesy name Xiaju (遐舉), was an official of the Chinese dynasty Tang
  • Chai Po Wa (齊寶華) or Qi Baohua is a table tennis player from Hong Kong
  • Qi Guangpu (齐广璞; born 1990) is a Chinese aerial skier
  • Pamelyn Chee (Chinese: 齐騛) a Singaporean actress.

References
  1. 中国四百大姓, 袁义达, 邱家儒, Beijing Book Co. Inc., 1 January 2013
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