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Erzhu Shilong (爾朱世隆) (500 – 20 May 532[1]), courtesy name Rongzong (榮宗), was an official of the Xianbei-led Northern Wei dynasty of China. He first became prominent when after his cousin Erzhu Rong overthrew Emperor Xiaoming's mother Empress Dowager Hu (after she poisoned Emperor Xiaoming) and made Emperor Xiaozhuang emperor. Later, when Emperor Xiaozhuang killed Erzhu Rong in 530, Erzhu Shilong participated in the counterattack that overthrew Emperor Xiaozhuang, and thereafter controlled the imperial government during the reign of Emperor Jiemin. When the general Gao Huan, in turn, rebelled in response to Emperor Xiaozhuang's death, the officials in the imperial capital Luoyang rebelled against the Erzhus, and Erzhu Shilong was executed after failing to flee Luoyang.
- ^ jia'zi day of the 4th month of the 2nd year of the Zhong'xing era, per Emperor Houfei's biography in Book of Wei. ([中兴二年]夏四月甲子朔，...，执尔朱世隆、彦伯，斩于都街) Wei Shu, vol.11. Erzhu Shilong's biography in the same work indicate that he was 33 (by East Asian reckoning) when he died.