The "Dictionary of Chinese Names" includes 653 celebrities with the surname Zhu in the past dynasties, accounting for 1.44% of the total number of names, ranking 11th among celebrity surnames; famous writers with the surname Zhu account for 11% of the total number of celebrities in Chinese literature of the past dynasties. 0.92% of the total number of medical scientists, ranking 21st; famous medical scientists surnamed Zhu accounted for 1.9% of the total number of medical scientists in China's past dynasties, ranking 12th; famous artists surnamed Zhu accounted for 10% of the total number of Chinese artists surnamed 2.57%, ranking sixth.
Name, Dynasty, Years of Birth and Death, Birthplace, Achievements/Honors, Zhu Ran, Three Kingdoms Period, 182-249, present day, Anji, Zhejiang, Soochow General Zhu Jingze, Tang Dynasty, 635-? Politician, historian, official to prime minister in Yongcheng, Henan Province. Zhu Gong, a medical scientist in Huzhou, Zhejiang Province from 1050 to 1125 years ago in the Northern Song Dynasty. His works include "Nanyang Book of Living Persons" and other works. Zhu Xi, a Confucian scholar and official in Wuyuan, Jiangxi Province in the Southern Song Dynasty from 1130 to 1200 years ago. Zhu Shuzhen, the minister and lecturer of Huanzhang Pavilion, lived in the Southern Song Dynasty from about 1135 to about 1180. She was a poetess in Shexian County, Anhui Province. She preserved the "Collection of Broken Heart Poems" and "The Broken Heart Ci" and handed them down to the world. Zhu Siben, Yuan Dynasty, 1273-? Zhu Yuanzhang, a geographer in Fuzhou, Jiangxi Province, Ming Dynasty 1328-1398, Zhu Yizun, the founding emperor of Ming Dynasty in Fengyang, Anhui Province, Qing Dynasty 1629-1709, poet, scholar, and bibliophile in Jiaxing, Zhejiang, founded the Western Zhejiang Ci School Zhu Ziqing, Republic of China 1898- 1948 Zhu Jiahua, writer and essayist in Donghai, Jiangsu Province 1893-1963, scientist and politician in Huzhou, Zhejiang, founder of modern Chinese geology Zhu De 1886-1976, politician and military officer in Yilong, Sichuan during the Republic of China 1886-1976 Zhu Liangcai, one of the main founders of the People's Liberation Army, founded the Republic of China in Rucheng, Hunan from 1900 to 1989. Zhu Guangqian, the founding general of the People's Republic of China in Rucheng, Hunan from 1897 to 1986, was an esthetician and literary theorist in Tongcheng, Anhui Province. The People's Republic of China in 1924 - 2011 Zhu Rongji, former president of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in Wuhan, Hubei Province The People's Republic of China in 1928 - Zhu Qingshi, the former Prime Minister of the State Council in Changsha, Hunan The People's Republic of China in 1946 - Southern Science and Technology in Chengdu, Sichuan Founding president of the university (the above are some people named Zhu)