Wu

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Wu may refer to:

Fictional characters

• Mr. Wu (1919 film), a 1919 British drama film based on the 1913 play
• Mr. Wu, a 1927 American silent movie starring Lon Chaney
• Mr. Wu, a 1913 play by Maurice Vernon and Harold Owen
• "Doctor Wu", a song on the 1975 album Katy Lied by the band Steely Dan
• Mr. Wu, a character referred to in several songs of the 1930s and 1940s by George Formby
• Mr. Wu, a character from the TV series Deadwood
• Sensei Wu, a character in the animated TV series Lego Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu
• Sgt. Wu, a character from the TV series Grimm

People

• Wu (surname) (or Woo), several different Chinese surnames
  • Chien-Shiung Wu (1912–1997), Chinese-born physicist
  • Chun Wu, past member of Fahrenheit 飛輪海 Fei Lun Hai (Taiwanese Band), actor and Own 3 Fitness Zone in Brunei
  • Wu Daozi, a Chinese artist of the Tang Dynasty
  • David Wu (1955–), a United States Congressman from Oregon
  • Harry Wu (1937–), a human rights activist
  • Jason Wu, Taiwanese Canadian fashion designer
  • John Ching Hsiung Wu (1899–1986), jurist and principal author of the constitution of the Republic of China (Taiwan)
  • Kevin Wu, better known as KevJumba, YouTube celebrity
  • Ta-You Wu (1907–2000), Chinese-born physicist
  • Tim Wu, a legal academic
  • Wu Wenjun (1919–), mathematician
  • Yi Wu (1912–1945), a member of Korea's imperial family
  • Wu Yi, Vice Premier of China
  • Wu Zixu, famous general in the Spring and Autumn period of Chinese history
  • Wu, nickname of the singer of alternative rock band This Et Al
  • Wu Qingyuan, better known by the Japanese pronunciation of his name, Go Seigen, leading player of the game Go
• A number of Chinese emperors
  • Emperor Wu of Han, one of the most influential and important emperors of the Han dynasty
  • Emperor Wu of Jin
  • Emperor Wu of Liang
  • Empress Wu (Wu Zetian) of the Zhou Dynasty
  • Cao Cao, also known as Emperor Wu of Wei
  • Mark Wu, Official Servers Build Specialist

Places

• Wu (region) (吳), a region in China, associated with:
  • Wu Chinese, a variety of spoken Chinese spoken in the Wu region
  • Wu (state), a state in the Wu region during the Spring and Autumn Period
  • Wu (city), its eponymous capital at modern Suzhou
  • Eastern Wu, also called Kingdom of Wu or Sun Wu, a state in southeastern China during the Three Kingdoms Period
  • Li Zitong, who declared a brief Wu Dynasty during the Sui–Tang interregnum
  • Wu (Ten Kingdoms), one of the kingdoms during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period
  • Wuyue, one of the kingdoms during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period

Other uses

• Wu (Chinese religion), a concept of awareness, consciousness or enlightenment in the Chinese folk religion
• Wú (negative), Zhaozhou's response to the question: "Does a dog have the Buddha-nature?"
• Wu (shaman), a kind of Chinese shaman
• Wu-style taijiquan, also Wu/Hao style Taijiquan
• Wu-Tang Clan, an American rap group with themes based on Chinese folk lore and martial arts movies
• Shen Gong Wu, fictional mystical artifacts from the animated series Xiaolin Showdown
• Wu wei, a principle of Taoism
• Wii U, a Nintendo video game console
• Wu Chinese, a group of linguistically similar and historically related varieties of Chinese primarily spoken in Zhejiang province

See also

• Woo (disambiguation)
• WU (disambiguation)