Dai (surname)

Dai (戴)
Pronunciation	Dài (Mandarin)
Language(s)	Chinese
Other names
Variant(s)	Tai

Dai is the pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname written with the Chinese character 戴. It is romanized as Tai in Wade-Giles and in Hong Kong Government Cantonese Romanisation. Dai is the 96th most common surname in China, according to a report on the household registrations released by the Chinese Ministry of Public Security on April 24, 2007.^[1]

Notable people

Business

• Dai Chunning (戴春宁, born 1962), Chinese finance businessman
• Dai Min (戴敏, born 1958), Chinese water treatment businesswoman
• Weili Dai (戴伟立), Chinese-born American technology businesswoman

Academia and literature

• Dai Yi (戴逸, born 1926), Chinese historian
• Dai Qing (戴晴, born 1941), Chinese journalist
• Dai Sijie (戴思杰, born 1954), Chinese-born French author and filmmaker
• Dai Jinhua (戴锦华, born 1959), Chinese feminist cultural critic
• Dai Xu (戴旭, born 1964), Chinese author, social commentator, and the president of Marine Institute For Security And Cooperation
• Benny Tai (戴耀廷, born 1964), associate professor of law at the University of Hong Kong
• Hongjie Dai (戴宏杰, born 1966), Chinese-born American chemist

Entertainment

• Leon Dai (戴立忍, born 1966), Taiwanese actor and film director
• Penny Tai (戴佩妮, born 1978), Malaysian Mandopop singer
• Dai Jiaoqian (戴娇倩, born 1982), Chinese actress
• Dantes Dailiang (戴亮，borm 1978), French Mandopop Singer

Politics and government

• Tai Chi-tao (戴季陶, 1891–1949), journalist and Kuomintang leader
• Dai Li (also Tai Li; 戴笠, 1897–1946), Republic of China spy chief
• Dai Bingguo (戴秉国, born 1941), Chinese politician and diplomat
• Dai Xianglong (戴相龙, born 1944), Chinese politician, former governor of the People's Bank of China
• Tai Chin-wah (戴展華, born 1952), Hong Kong former politician and lawyer
• Dai Weimin (戴维民, born 1962), People's Liberation Army general
• Tai Cheuk-yin (戴卓賢), Hong Kong politician, former chairman of the 123 Democratic Alliance
• Irving H.C. Tai (戴豪君), Taiwan politician, former Deputy Commissioner of the Research, Development and Evaluation Commission

Sport

• Tai Chao-chih (戴兆智, born 1930), Taiwanese sport shooter
• Dai Guohong (戴国红, born 1977), Chinese swimmer
• Dai Yun (戴韫, born 1977), retired Chinese female badminton player
• Dai Xianrong (戴宪荣, born 1982), China League One footballer
• Dai Lili (戴丽丽, born 1986), Chinese table tennis player
• Dai Lin (戴琳, born 1987), Chinese Super League footballer
• Tai Hung-hsu (戴宏旭, born 1987), Taiwanese football striker
• Dai Xiaoxiang (戴小祥, born 1990), Chinese archer
• Dai Jun (戴骏, born 1992), Chinese swimmer
• Tai Tzu-ying (戴資穎, born 1992), Taiwanese badminton player
• Olivia Tai Qing Tong (戴辛彤, born c. 1998), Malaysian rhythmic gymnast

Other

• Tai Kwok Yuen (戴國源, born 1941), Hong Kong member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• Ian Day (Dai) (戴 可 堯 born 2003), No affiliation to any group crossbow maker.

See also

• Yūki Tai, of unrelated Japanese surname Tai

References

1. "公安部统计：'王'成中国第一大姓 有9288万人 [Public Security Bureau Statistics: 'Wang' Found China's #1 'Big Family', Includes 92.88m People]." 24 Apr 2007. Accessed 27 Mar 2012.(Chinese)