Chu
Chu was a hegemonic, Zhou dynasty era state. From King Wu of Chu in the early 8th century BCE, the rulers of Chu declared themselves kings on an equal footing with the Zhou kings.
People born in Chu (First 49 people) - Page 208
Carl Greene
Actor
Will O'Neill
Ice hockey defenseman
Thomas A. Watson
Rita Stanwood
Actress
John Clough Holmes
Nehemiah Adams
American writer
Walter Sherman Gifford
Former United States Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the United Kingdom
Daniel C. Eddy
Former Massachusetts State Representative
Frederick W. Lander
Explorer
Robert Harney
Author
Nathaniel Hawthorne
American novelist
David M. Shribman
Journalist
Robert Buffum
American soldier
Frederick M. Davenport
Former United States Representative
Nathaniel Silsbee
Merchant
Stephen C. Phillips
Former Massachusetts State Senator
Benjamin Pickman Jr.
Former Massachusetts State Senator
Jacob Crowninshield
Former United States Representative
Stephen Higginson
American author
Benjamin Pitman
American businessman
Luis F. Emilio
American military officer
Philip Sartwell
Epidemiologist
Beverly Naidus
Artist
Maggie Connor
Frances Raymond
American film actress
Ozi William Whitaker
Ariana Reines
American poet
J. Michael Ruane
Former Massachusetts State Representative
Sheila Harrington
American legislator
Francis Mellus
Former California State Representative
William H. Osborn
Nathaniel Silsbee Jr.
Former Massachusetts State Representative ‧ Nathaniel Silsbee's son
Benjamin T. Pickman
Former President of the Massachusetts Senate
Richard Saltonstall Rogers
American Politician
Joseph Towne
William Towne's son
David O. Ives
J. H. Choate
Former United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom
Edward Augustus Holyoke Hemenway
Augustus Hemenway's father
Louisa Lander
American sculptor
Leverett Saltonstall II
American Politician
Horace Jacobs Rice
American attorney
Elizabeth Elkins Sanders
American author
Samuel Endicott Peabody
Israel Putnam, Jr.
Israel Putnam's son
Joseph S. Cabot
Politician
William Gardner Choate
Former Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
George Cheyne Shattuck Choate
American physician
