Phu or ''variation'', may refer to:

Places

Phủ Fu () is a traditional administrative division of Chinese origin used in the East Asian cultural sphere, translated variously as commandery, prefecture, urban prefecture, or city. They were first instituted as a regular form of administrative di ...

, prefecture in 15th–19th century Vietnam

People

Given name

Phu Dorjee Phu Dorjee (also spelled Phu Dorji) was a Sherpa and the first Indian to summit Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen. He did so on May 5, 1984 on a solo ascent from the South East Ridge. Dorjee died in 1987 on the Kanchanjunga Expedition of ...

(died 1987), first Indian to climb Mount Everest without oxygen *

Phu Dorjee Sherpa Phu Dorjee Sherpa was the first Nepali man and twenty-third person in the world to climb Mount Everest. He was a member of the third Indian Everest Expedition 1965, led by Captain M S Kohli, which was the first successful Indian Everest Ex ...

(died 1969), first Nepali to climb Mount Everest *

Phu Lam On December 29, 2014, 53-year-old Phu Lam went on a killing spree in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He shot to death eight people, including two children, most of whom were his relatives. He then committed suicide at a Vietnamese/Chinese restaurant, V ...

(1961–2014), perpetrator in the 2014 Edmonton killings *

Trần Phú Trần Phú (1 May 1904 in Tuy An District – 6 September 1931) was a Vietnamese revolutionary and the first general secretary of the Indochinese Communist Party, later renamed the Communist Party of Vietnam. Biography Trần Phú was born ...

(1904–1931), Vietnamese communist revolutionary *

Trương Phụ Zhang Fu (; vi, Trương Phụ; 1375–1449), courtesy name Wenbi (), was a Chinese military general of the Ming dynasty. He was the eldest son of general Zhang Yu, one of Zhu Di's (later Yongle Emperor) finest generals. Zhang Yu was killed in ...

(1375–1449), general of the Ming Dynasty of China

Surname

* Charles Phu, architect and set designer *

Phu Pwint Khaing Phu Pwint Khaing (born 23 July 1987) is a women's footballer from Myanmar who was a defender for the Myanmar women's national football team Myanmar women's national football team is a female association football team representing Myanmar ...

(born 1987), Burmese soccer player * Sunthorn Phu (1786–1855), Siamese poet

Linguistics

Phuan language Phuan or Northeastern Lao is a Tai language spoken in Laos, Thailand and Cambodia. Distribution The Phuan (, ''Phouan'', ) are a tribal Tai people originally inhabiting Xiangkhouang and parts of Houaphan provinces of Laos. As a result of slave ...

(ISO 639 language code: phu) *

Phu Thai language Phu Thai (Phuu Thai; Thai, Phu Thai: ''Phasa Phuthai'', ภาษาผู้ไท or ภูไท) is a Southwestern Tai language spoken in Laos and Thailand. Although it appears different from the Isan and the Lao languages, it is spoken in ...

, the Phu language of Thais *

Nar Phu language Nar Phu, or ’Narpa, is a Sino-Tibetan variety spoken in the two villages of Nar and Phu, in the Valley of the Nar Khola in the Manang district of Nepal. It forms a dialect continuum with Manang Manang ( ne, मनाङ) is a town in the Ma ...

, the Nar and the Phu languages

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