Chinese surnames

樊

fán · Fan

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
No. 157
Ancestral seat (junwang)
上党
Wikidata
Q11120911

In other languages

  • English Fan
  • Korean 판
  • Vietnamese Phàn

Notable historical bearers

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

  • Fan Kuai242 BCE – 189 BCE

    Chinese general

  • Fan Chou101 – 195

    Chinese politician and general (died 195)

  • Fan Jian101 – ?

    3rd century Chinese Shu Han official

  • Fan Qi1616 – 1694

    Chinese artist (1616-1694)

  • Ky Fan1914 – 2010

    Chinese-American mathematician (1914-2010)

  • Fan Ji700 BCE – 600 BCE

    consort of King Zhuang of Chu

  • 樊崇? – 27
  • Fan Shouyi1682 – 1753

    Chinese adventurer and writer

  • Fan Jinghui1965 – 2015
  • Fan Chuo? – 801

    Chinese politician

  • 樊宏50 BCE – 51
  • Pan Ji1241 – 1289

    Yuan dynasty military person

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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).