Tu (surname)
Tu (Chinese: 屠; pinyin: Tú) is a Chinese family name, and the 279th family name in Hundred Family Surnames (百家姓).
Origin
From one of the characters in the name of the ancient city of Zoutu. The legendary emperor Yellow Emperor (2697–2595 BC) used this city as a military base.
People with the surname Tu (屠)
- Tu Youyou (屠呦呦), a Chinese female medical scientist awarded the 2011 Lasker Award in Clinical Medicine and the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly with William C. Campbell and Satoshi Ōmura.
See also
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