Zou

Zou surname in regular script
Romanization	Zōu (Pinyin) Chau (Pe̍h-ōe-jī) Tsou (Wade-Giles)
Language(s)	Chinese, Vietnamese
Origin
Language(s)	Old Chinese
Derivation	Zou (state)
Other names
Variant form(s)	Zou, Tsou (Mandarin) Chow (Hong Kong) Chou (Teochew) Chau, Chao (Hokkien) Trâu (Vietnamese)
Cognate(s)	Zhu 朱

Zou (traditional Chinese: 鄒; simplified Chinese: 邹; Wade–Giles: Tsou) is the 67th most common Chinese surname, which originated from the state of Zou of the Spring and Autumn period in ancient China.^[1] Depending on Chinese variety, Zou can be transliterated as Chow, Chau, Tsau, Trau, Tsou, Tjeuw or Chew. It is the 35th name on the Hundred Family Surnames poem.

Notable people

• Zou Yan (鄒衍; 305 BC–240 BC), Chinese philosopher best known as the representative thinker of the Yin and Yang School (or School of Naturalists) during the Hundred Schools of Thought era
• Zou Rong (1885–1905), anti-Qing revolutionary
• Zou Zhe: 鄒喆; pinyin: Zōu Zhé; Wade–Giles: Tsou Che 1636–ca. 1708), Chinese painter during the Qing dynasty
• Zou Taofen (1895–1944), Chinese journalist
• Zou Jiahua (born 1926), Vice Premier of China, son of Zou Taofen
• Chen-Lu Tsou (1923–2006), Chinese biochemist
• Zou Yinglong (deputy prime minister, Song dynasty)^[1]
• Zou Yuanbiao (judge, Ming dynasty)^[1]
• Zou Yiguai (judge, Qing dynasty)^[1]
• Olivia Chow (鄒至蕙; born 1957), Canadian politician, federal New Democratic Party (NDP) member of Parliament
• Zou Jiayi (邹加怡; born 1963), Chinese politician and economist
• Collin Chou (born 1967), Taiwanese-born Hong Kong-based actor
• Shuping Wang (1959–2019), original surname Zou, Chinese-American medical researcher and public health whistleblower
• Zou Taixin (邹太新; born 1966), Chinese former politician
• Ryan Choo (邹联福; born 1969 or 1970), Singaporean former actor
• Zou Yuchen (邹雨宸; born 1996) Chinese male professional basketball player
• Zou Yu (邹瑜; born 1920), a politician of the People's Republic
• Zou Yucheng (邹宇成; pinyin: Zōu Yǔchéng; born 1991), Chinese footballer
• Zou Yigui (邹一桂, 1686–1772), style name as Yuanbao (原褒), sobriquet
• Zou Lunlun (simplified Chinese: 邹伦伦; traditional Chinese: 鄒倫倫; pinyin: Zōu Lúnlún), player and teacher of the guzheng, a Chinese zither
• Zou Dehai (Chinese: 邹德海; pinyin: Zōu Déhǎi; born 1993), a Chinese footballer who plays for Beijing Guoan in the Chinese Super
• Zou Zhenxian (邹振先; born 1955), Chinese triple jumper