Marriages
- Koo's first wife, surname Chang (T: 張潤娥, S: 张润娥, Zhāng Rùn'é), married 1908, divorced prior to 1912.
- Tang Pao-yu "May" (T: 唐寶玥, S:唐宝玥, P: Táng Bǎoyuè, c. 1895-1918), who was the youngest daughter of the former Chinese prime minister Tang Shaoyi and a first cousin of the painter and actress Mai-Mai Sze. Their marriage took place soon after Koo's return to China in 1912; she died in an influenza epidemic in 1918. The Koos had two children: a son, Teh-chang Koo (1916–1998), and a daughter, Patricia Koo (b. 1918).
- Oei Hui-lan (T: 黃蕙蘭, S: 黄蕙兰, Huáng Huìlán, 1899–1992), married to Koo in Brussels, Belgium, 1921. (She was reportedly previously the wife of Count Wittingham or of Count Hoey Stoker.) Much admired for her adaptations of traditional Manchu fashion, which she wore with lace trousers and jade necklaces, Oei Hui-lan was one of the 42 acknowledged children of the Peranakan Chinese sugar magnate Oei Tiong Ham and wrote two memoirs: Hui-Lan Koo (Mrs. Wellington Koo): An Autobiography (written with Mary Van Rensselaer Thayer, Dial Press, 1945) and No Feast Lasts Forever (written with Isabella Taves, Quadrangle/The New York Times, 1975). By her, Koo had two sons: Yu-chang Koo (b. 1922, a.k.a. Wellington Koo Jr) and Fu-chang Koo (b. 1923, a.k.a. Freeman Koo). The Koos were divorced after World War II.
- Yen Yu-ying (aka Juliana Yen/Juliana Koo, T: 嚴幼韵, S: 严幼韵, P: Yán Yòuyùn, 1905- ), the widow of Clarence Kuangson Young, whom he married on 3 September 1959. Koo had three stepdaughters from this marriage: Genevieve, Shirley, and Frances Loretta Young.
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