Huo () is a
Chinese surname
Chinese surnames are used by Han Chinese and Sinicized ethnic groups in China, Taiwan, Korea, Vietnam, and among overseas Chinese communities around the world such as Singapore and Malaysia. Written Chinese names begin with surnames, unlike the ...
. It is pronounced as Fok in
Cantonese.
During the
Zhou Dynasty,
King Wu awarded land to his brother Shuchu (叔處) in "Huo" (modern
Huozhou,
Shanxi
Shanxi (; ; formerly romanised as Shansi) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China and is part of the North China region. The capital and largest city of the province is Taiyuan, while its next most populated prefecture-lev ...
), and Shuchu's descendants adopted "Huo" as their family name.
Notable people
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Huo Qubing (霍去病; 140–117 BC), Western Han Dynasty general
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Huo Guang (霍光; d. 68 BC), Huo Qubing's half-brother, Western Han Dynasty statesman
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Huo Chengjun (霍成君; d. 54 BC), Huo Guang's daughter, Western Han Dynasty empress
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Huo Jun
Huo Jun ( 178–217), courtesy name Zhongmiao, was a military general serving under the warlord Liu Bei in the late Eastern Han dynasty of China. Liu Bei thought very highly of Huo Jun and in a letter to Zhuge Liang praised him as a great warrio ...
(霍峻; 177–216), Eastern Han Dynasty general
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Huo Yi (霍弋), Huo Jun's son, Shu general of the Three Kingdoms period
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Huo Ji
Huo () is a Chinese surname. It is pronounced as Fok in Cantonese.
During the Zhou Dynasty, King Wu awarded land to his brother Shuchu (叔處) in "Huo" (modern Huozhou, Shanxi), and Shuchu's descendants adopted "Huo" as their family name.
Nota ...
(霍冀; 1516–1575), Ming Dynasty official
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Huo Yuanjia (霍元甲; 1868–1910), Qing Dynasty martial artist
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Henry Fok Ying-tung (霍英東; Huo Yingdong; 1923–2006), Hong Kong businessman
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Timothy Fok Tsun-ting (霍震霆; Huo Zhenting; b. 1946), Henry Fok's eldest son, Hong Kong politician and entrepreneur
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Ian Fok Tsun-wan (霍震寰; Huo Zhenhuan; b. 1949), Henry Fok's second son, Hong Kong entrepreneur
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Canning Fok Kin-ning
Canning Fok Kin-ning (); born 1951 in Hong Kong) is a Hong Kong business executive. He is a director or chair of numerous management board in companies of Cheung Kong Holdings and Hutchison Whampoa. He is hailed as the "King of Employees" since ...
(霍建寧; Huo Jianning; b. 1951), Hong Kong entrepreneur
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Anthony Fok, Singapore, economics tutor, professor
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Clarence Fok Yiu-leung (霍耀良; Huo Yaoliang; b. 1958), Hong Kong film director and producer
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Serge Huo-chao-si (霍 ??; Huo Chaosi; b. 1968), French cartoonist
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Wallace Huo Chien-hwa (霍建華; Huo Jianhua; b. 1979), Taiwanese actor and singer
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Huo Siyan (霍思燕; b. 1981), actress
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Raulito Carbonell Huo, Puerto Rican actor, comedian, singer and lawyer of Catalan and Chinese descent
Chinese-language surnames
Individual Chinese surnames
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