Shue is a surname. It may be an
Americanized spelling of the
German surnames Schue or Schuh. Additionally, it is an ad hoc
romanization of various
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 ...
s, including those spelled in
pinyin as
Xǔ () and
Xuē
Xue () is the pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname 薛 (Xuē). It is romanized as Hsüeh in Wade-Giles. In Hong Kong and Macau it is usually romanized through its Cantonese pronunciation Sit. In Korean, it corresponds to Seol (설), i ...
().
The
2010 United States Census
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found 3,155 people with the surname Shue, making it the 10,215th-most-common name in the country, up from 3,091 (9,648th-most-common) in the
2000 Census. In both censuses, slightly less than nine-tenths of the bearers of the surname identified as
non-Hispanic white
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, and slightly less than one-tenth as
Asian.
People with this surname include:
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Andrew Shue (born 1967), American actor
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Elisabeth Shue (born 1963), American actress; sister of Andrew
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Gene Shue (1931–2022), American basketball player and coach
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Henry Shue (born 1940), American philosopher
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Larry Shue (1946–1985), American playwright and actor
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Shue Meei-Shya (; born 1949), Taiwanese archer
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Shue Ming-fa (; born 1950), Taiwanese cyclist
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Shue Ming-shu (; born 1940), Taiwanese cyclist
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Vivienne Shue (; born 1944), American sinologist
See also
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Scheu, surname
References
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Americanized surnames
Multiple Chinese surnames