文
wén · Wen
- Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
- No. 353
- Ancestral seat (junwang)
- 雁门
- Wikidata
- Q1130812
In other languages
- German Wen
- English Wen
- Spanish Wen
- French Wen
- Korean 원
- Russian Вэнь
- Vietnamese Văn
Notable historical bearers
Deceased people recorded in Wikidata with this family name, ordered by how many Wikipedias cover them.
- Wen Tianxiang1236 – 1283
Chinese politician of the Song Dynasty
- Wen Zhengming1470 – 1559
Chinese painter, calligrapher and poet from the Ming dynasty (1470-1559)
- Wen Tong1018 – 1079
Chinese painter of the Song dynasty (1018-1079)
- Wen Chou101 – 200
General serving warlord Yuan Shao (died 200)
- Wen Qimei1867 – 1919
mother of Mao Zedong (1867-1919)
- Wen Ping150 – ?
general
- Elias Wen1896 – 2007
Eastern Orthodox priest
- Wen Jia1499 – 1582
Chinese painter (1501-1583)
- Wen Yang238 – 291
Jin Dynasty general (238–291)
- Wen Chu1595 – 1634
Chinese painter who worked under the pen-name Hanshan (1595-1634)
- Mun Segwang1951 – 1974
South Korean failed assassin (1951–1974)
- Wen Qin250 – 257
Cao Wei state general and politician (died 258)
- Wen Yanbo1005 – 1096
Song dynasty politician
- Wen Zhenheng1585 – 1645
painter, poet and garden designer (1585-1645)
- Wen Hu? – 291
general
- Wen Boren1502 – 1575
Chinese artist (1502-1575)
- Wen Zengxian1952 – 2020
Chinese politician
- Mun Ik-chŏm1329 – 1398
politician of the Goryeo Dynasty and a Neo-Confucian scholar (1329–1398)
- Wen Peng1498 – 1573
painter (1498-1573)
- Wen Yimin1890 – 1978
Chinese film director
- Wen Hsia1928 – 2022
Taiwanese singer and actor
- Wen Zhenmeng1574 – 1636
Chinese artist (1574-1636)
- Suk-ui Nampyeong Mun? – 1776
- Wen Chuanyuan1918 – 2019
Chinese aeronautical and automation engineer (1918-2019)
Find printed genealogies
The Shanghai Library holds one of the largest collections of Chinese family genealogies (jiapu). Its genealogy platform lists each genealogy's title, ancestral place, founding ancestor, hall name and holding library. Search there by surname and your family's ancestral place.
Search 文 genealogies at the Shanghai Library ↗Sources: the Hundred Family Surnames (public domain) with ancestral seats from the chinese-poetry dataset (MIT); spellings and people from Wikidata (CC0).