Xu Tingyao

Xu Tingyao (; 9 October 1892 – 16 December 1974), courtesy name Yuexiang was a Republic of China Army general who served during the Second-Sino Japanese War and Chinese Civil War.

Xu commanded the 17th Army during the Defense of the Great Wall in 1933, taking temporary command of the 8th Army Group when its commander was relieved. In July of the same year his army took control of the Beiping-Suiyuan Railroad, following orders to blockade the Chahar People's Anti-Japanese Army. From 1934 to 1935 he was the head of a Chinese military delegation to Europe and the United States. In October 1935 he took charge of the training schools for China's developing mechanized forces.

During the war with Japan, Xu commanded the 38th Army Group in the Battle of South Guangxi from December 1939 to April 1940. His forces, including the mechanized troops of the 5th Corps and 200th Division defeated the Japanese in the Battle of Kunlun Pass. He later went to Taiwan in 1949 and retired in 1952. He died on 16 December 1974 in Taipei.