Zhuge in Chinese, Jegal in Korean, Gia Cát in Vietnamese or Morokuzu in Japanese is a compound surname in East Asia. It is ranked 314th in ''

Hundred Family Surnames The ''Hundred Family Surnames'' (), commonly known as ''Bai Jia Xing'', also translated as ''Hundreds of Chinese Surnames'', is a classic Chinese language , Chinese text composed of common Chinese surnames. An unknown author compiled the book ...

'' in China. The surname has often been synonymous with wisdom in Chinese culture, due to the fame of

Zhuge Liang Zhuge Liang () (181September or October 234), also commonly known by his courtesy name Kongming, was a Chinese statesman, strategist, and inventor who lived through the End of the Han dynasty, end of the Eastern Han dynasty ( 184–220) and t ...

. It originated from a branch of the Ge family, who added a character to their name.尋根溯源中國人的姓氏: Genealogical Research on Chinese Surnames According to the statistics, in 2018 there are around 16,000

Chinese people The Chinese people, or simply Chinese, are people or ethnic groups identified with Greater China, China, usually through ethnicity, nationality, citizenship, or other affiliation. Chinese people are known as Zhongguoren () or as Huaren () by ...

who have the last name Zhuge.

List of notable people

Zhuge

* Zhuge Feng (諸葛豐; fl. 1st century BC),

Western Han dynasty The Han dynasty was an imperial dynasty of China (202 BC9 AD, 25–220 AD) established by Liu Bang and ruled by the House of Liu. The dynasty was preceded by the short-lived Qin dynasty (221–206 BC) and a warring in ...

official * Zhuge Gui (諸葛珪; fl. 2nd century AD),

Eastern Han dynasty The Han dynasty was an Dynasties of China, imperial dynasty of China (202 BC9 AD, 25–220 AD) established by Liu Bang and ruled by the House of Liu. The dynasty was preceded by the short-lived Qin dynasty (221–206 BC ...

official *

Zhuge Xuan Zhuge Xuan () (died February 197) was a Chinese politician who lived during the late Eastern Han dynasty of China. He is best known for briefly serving as the Administrator of Yuzhang Commandery (around present-day Nanchang, Jiangxi) in th ...

(諸葛玄; died 197), Zhuge Gui's cousin, Eastern Han dynasty official *

Zhuge Jin Zhuge Jin (174 – July or August 241), courtesy name Ziyu, was a Chinese military general and politician of the state of Eastern Wu during the Three Kingdoms period of China. Born in the late Eastern Han dynasty, Zhuge Jin started his career i ...

(諸葛瑾; 174–241), Zhuge Gui's first son,

Eastern Wu Wu (Chinese language, Chinese: 吳; pinyin: ''Wú''; Middle Chinese *''ŋuo'' < Eastern Han Chinese: ''*ŋuɑ''), known in historiography as Eastern Wu or Sun Wu, was a Dynasties of China, dynastic state of China and one of the three major sta ...

general of the

Three Kingdoms period The Three Kingdoms of Cao Wei, Shu Han, and Eastern Wu dominated China from AD 220 to 280 following the end of the Han dynasty. This period was preceded by the Eastern Han dynasty and followed by the Western Jin dynasty. Academically, the ...

** Zhuge Ke (諸葛恪; 203–253), Zhuge Jin's first son, Eastern Wu general and regent ** Zhuge Rong (諸葛融; died 253), Zhuge Jin's third son, Eastern Wu general *

(諸葛亮; 181-234), Zhuge Gui's second son,

Shu Han Han (; 221–263), known in historiography as Shu Han ( ) or Ji Han ( "Junior Han"), or often shortened to Shu ( zh, t=蜀, p=Shǔ; Sichuanese Pinyin: ''Su'' < Middle Chinese: *''źjowk'' < Eastern Han Chinese: *''dźok''), was a Dynasties in ...

statesman and military strategist of the Three Kingdoms period **

Zhuge Zhan Zhuge Zhan (227 – November 263), courtesy name Siyuan, was a Chinese military general and politician of the state of Shu Han during the Three Kingdoms period of China. He was a son of Zhuge Liang, the first Imperial Chancellor of Shu. Earl ...

(諸葛瞻; 227–263), Zhuge Liang's son, Shu Han general ***

Zhuge Shang Zhuge Shang (240s - November 263) was a Chinese military general of the state of Shu Han in the Three Kingdoms period of China. He was the eldest son of the Shu general Zhuge Zhan and a grandson of Zhuge Liang, the first Chancellor of Shu. In ...

(諸葛尚; died 263), Zhuge Zhan's son, Shu Han military officer ** Zhuge Qiao (諸葛喬; 204-228), Zhuge Jin's second son and Zhuge Liang's adopted son, Shu Han official *** Zhuge Pan (諸葛攀), Zhuge Qiao's son * Zhuge Jun (諸葛均; fl. 2nd and 3rd centuries AD), Zhuge Gui's third son, Shu Han official *

Zhuge Dan Zhuge Dan (died 10 April 258), courtesy name Gongxiu, was a Chinese military general and politician of the state of Cao Wei during the Three Kingdoms period of China. When he held key military appointments throughout his middle to late career, h ...

(諸葛誕; died 258), Zhuge Jin and Zhuge Liang's cousin,

Cao Wei Wei () was one of the major Dynasties in Chinese history, dynastic states in China during the Three Kingdoms period. The state was established in 220 by Cao Pi based upon the foundations laid by his father Cao Cao during the end of the Han dy ...

general of the Three Kingdoms period ** Zhuge Jing (諸葛靚), Zhuge Dan's son,

Western Jin dynasty Western may refer to: Places *Western, Nebraska, a village in the US * Western, New York, a town in the US * Western Creek, Tasmania, a locality in Australia * Western Junction, Tasmania, a locality in Australia *Western world, countries that ...

official *** Zhuge Hui (諸葛恢; 284–345), Zhuge Jing's son, Western Jin dynasty official *

Zhuge Xu Zhuge Xu ( 250 – 260s) was a Chinese general and politician of the state of Cao Wei during the Three Kingdoms period of China. Life Zhuge Xu was from Yangdu County (), Langya Commandery (), which is in present-day Yinan County, Shandong. He wa ...

(諸葛緒; fl. 255–260s), Cao Wei official ** Zhuge Chong (諸葛沖), Zhuge Xu's son, Western Jin dynasty official. *

Zhuge Changmin Zhuge in Chinese, Jegal in Korean, Gia Cát in Vietnamese or Morokuzu in Japanese is a compound surname in East Asia. It is ranked 314th in ''Hundred Family Surnames'' in China. The surname has often been synonymous with wisdom in Chinese culture ...

(諸葛長民; died 413),

Eastern Jin dynasty Eastern or Easterns may refer to: Transportation Airlines *China Eastern Airlines, a current Chinese airline based in Shanghai * Eastern Air, former name of Zambia Skyways *Eastern Air Lines, a defunct American airline that operated from 192 ...

general *

Zhuge Shuang Zhuge Shuang () (d. 886) was a general of the Chinese Tang dynasty, who controlled Heyang Circuit (河陽, headquartered in modern Jiaozuo, Henan) for some time and who vacillated between allegiance to Tang and to the Qi state of the agrarian rebel ...

(諸葛爽; died 886),

Tang dynasty The Tang dynasty (, ; zh, c=唐朝), or the Tang Empire, was an Dynasties of China, imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 618 to 907, with an Wu Zhou, interregnum between 690 and 705. It was preceded by the Sui dynasty and followed ...

general * Zhuge Yujie, (诸葛宇杰; born 1971), Chinese politician

Jaegal

Jaegal Sung-yeol Jaegal Sung-yeol (; born 24 March 1970 in Uijeongbu, Gyeonggi Province) is a former speed skater from South Korea. At the 1992 Winter Olympics The 1992 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XVI Olympic Winter Games () and commonly known ...

(諸葛成烈; born 1970), former speed skater * Jegal Sam (諸葛森; born 1925), pianist

Gia Cát

* Gia Cát Thi (諸葛施; died 1796), one of the editors of the book Việt Điện U Linh Tập.

Morokuzu

* Morokuzu Nobuzumi (諸葛信澄; 1849–1880), educator of the

Meiji period The was an era of Japanese history that extended from October 23, 1868, to July 30, 1912. The Meiji era was the first half of the Empire of Japan, when the Japanese people moved from being an isolated feudal society at risk of colonizatio ...

* Morokuzu Muneo (諸葛宗男; born 1946), public policy professor at the

University of Tokyo The University of Tokyo (, abbreviated as in Japanese and UTokyo in English) is a public research university in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Founded in 1877 as the nation's first modern university by the merger of several pre-westernisation era ins ...

References

External links

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