He or Ho is the romanized transliteration of several Chinese family names. According to a 2012 survey, 14 million people had Hé (何) listed as their surname, making it the 17th most common surname in Mainland China, a spot it retained in 2019. Hé was listed as the 21st most common surname in the Hundred Family Surnames, contained in the verse 何呂施張 (He Lü Shi Zhang). Other less common family names that are romanized as He include 河 (Pinyin: Hé), 佫 (Pinyin: Hè), 赫 (Pinyin: Hè), and 和. A common alternative spelling of the surname is Ho, which is the Mandarin Wade-Giles romanization and the Cantonese romanization of the Chinese family names. In the Korean language, the equivalent surname is Ha (하). In the Vietnamese language, the equivalent surname is Hà. History The surname originates from the Ji clan of the Zhou Dynasty, and the Jiang clan of Yandi. It was taken as a surname by the Sogdians when they came to China; therefore, it is considered to be one of the "Nine Sogdian Surnames." Romanization Notable people Family name 何 Science and mathematics He Jifeng (何積豐), Chinese computer scientist He Zehui (何泽慧), Chinese nuclear physicist David Ho (scientist) (何大一), Chinese American AIDS researcher Mae-Wan Ho (1941–2016), Hong Kong-born geneticist and biophysicist Tin-Lun Ho (born 1951), Chinese-American theoretical physicist Xuhua He (何旭华, born 1979), Chinese mathematician He Zuoxiu, Chinese physicist and member of Chinese Academy of Sciences Politics Albert Ho (何俊仁), Hong Kong Legislative Council member with the Democratic Party Cyd Ho (何秀蘭), Hong Kong Legislative Council member with The Frontier Edmund Ho (何厚鏵), Chief Executive of the Macau Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China He Depu (何德普) dissident in the People's Republic of China Ho Chih-chin (何志欽), Minister of Finance of the Republic of China (2006-2008) Ho Chi-kung (何啟功), Deputy Minister of Health and Welfare of the Republic of China Ho Feng-Shan (), diplomat who saved a large number of Jews during World War II, known as "China's Schindler" Ho Mei-yueh (何美玥), Minister of the Council for Economic Planning and Development of the Republic of China (2007–2008) Ho Pei-shan (何佩珊), Deputy Secretary-General of the Executive Yuan of the Republic of China Hou Kok Chung (何国忠), Malaysian Deputy Minister for Higher Education Finance He Qiaonü (何巧女) entrepreneur and philanthropist Ho Kwon Ping, executive chairman of Banyan Tree Holdings Ho Ching (何晶), executive director of Temasek Holdings and