Chinese surnames

权

quán · Quán

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
No. 401
Ancestral seat (junwang)
天水
Wikidata
Q47087363

In other languages

  • English Quán
  • French Kwon
  • Japanese 権
  • Korean 취안
  • Vietnamese Quyền
  • Traditional Chinese 權

Notable historical bearers

Deceased people recorded in Wikidata with this family name, ordered by how many Wikipedias cover them.

  • Kwŏn Yul1537 – 1599

    Korean Army General and the Commander-in-chief of the Joseon Dynasty

  • Quan Deyu759 – 818

    Chinese chancellor

  • Consort Gwon1391 – 1410

    consort Xian (賢妃)

  • Kwon Pil1569 – 1612

    Joseon writer & scholar (1569-1612)

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Sources: the Hundred Family Surnames (public domain) with ancestral seats from the chinese-poetry dataset (MIT); spellings and people from Wikidata (CC0).