Wèi (surname)
Wei is the English spelling of a Chinese surname.
Notable people surnamed Wei (魏)
During the Zhou dynasty, Wei (state) the Ji family acquired the surname Wèi. During the Northern Wei, Xiaowen family got the surname Wei with the state name.In 636 BC, Prince Chong’er became a Hegemon of China. One of his followers, Wei Wuzi had a son, Wei Qi. Prince Chong’er gave Wei Qi the fiefs of Lü and Chu. As a result, most of Wei Qi's descendants changed their last name to Lü
During the Ming dynasty, Gao and Li family changed their surname to Wei. Wei is also a surname used by some Chinese minorities.
In 2019 it was the 45th most common surname in mainland China.
It is the 30th name on the Hundred Family Surnames poem.
- Vision Wei, Chinese singer and actor
- Wei Wei (murderer), executed for murder in Japan by Masako Mori
- Wei Pengyuan, sentenced to death for bribery
- Wei Hongtian, Chinese diplomat
- Wei Wenbo, Chinese politician and revolutionary
- Wei Jingsheng, Chinese dissident
- Wei Kuo-yen, Minister of Environmental Protection Administration of the Republic of China
- Wei Ming-ku, Magistrate of Changhua County
- Wei Qiuyue, Chinese volleyball player
- Wei Tao-ming, ambassador, mayor of Nanjing, governor of Taiwan, foreign minister
- Wei Xiaoyuan, Chinese artistic gymnast
- Wei Yan, a military officer of Shu during the Three Kingdoms period
- Wei Yao-chien, member of Legislative Yuan
- Wei Yaxin, Chinese badminton player
- Empress Xiaoyichun of Wei clan, consort of the Qianlong Emperor and Empress of the Qing dynasty
- Wei Yung, Minister of the Research, Development and Evaluation Commission of the Republic of China
- Wei Zheng, the statesman of the Tang dynasty
- Wei Zhongxian, eunuch, original name Li Jinzhong
- Katherine Wei-Sender, Chinese American bridge player and spouse of C. C. Wei
- C. C. Wei, Chinese American bridge player
- Dexter Goei, Chinese-Indonesian American businessman
- Alan Budikusuma, Indonesian badminton player
- Daniel Gooi Zi Sen, Malaysian politician
- Gooi Hsiao Leung, Malaysian politician
- Juncheng Wei, mathematician
- Wee Ka Siong, Malaysian politician
Notable people surnamed Wei (尉)
Wèi family name originated from Wei family of Zheng, Yu family of Xia dynasty, and royal of Northern Wei, and many more.- Wei Liao – a strategist of Warring States period, purported writer of the classic military text ''Wei Liaozi''
Notable people surnamed Wei (蔿)
Wěi family name from the Yuan (surname) the form a Xiong (surname) of Chu (state).Other notable people surnamed Wei
- Belle Wei, American electric engineer and educator