Chinese surnames

甘

gān · Gan

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
No. 244
Ancestral seat (junwang)
渤海
Wikidata
Q4133392

In other languages

  • English Gan
  • Korean 간
  • Russian Гань
  • Vietnamese Cam

Notable historical bearers

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

  • Gan Ying100 – ?

    Late first century Chinese military ambassador

  • Gan De400 BCE – 400 BCE

    4th-century BC Chinese astronomer and astrologer

  • Gan Ning175 – 222

    General serving warlord Sun Quan (died c. 220)

  • Lady Gan150 – 210

    Liu Bei's concubine and Liu Shan's mother (died c.210)

  • Gan Zhuo250 – 322

    jin dynasty official

  • Gan Siqi1903 – 1964

    Chinese general (1903-1964)

  • Gan Naiguang1897 – 1956
  • 甘渭汉1908 – 1986
  • Gan Jiehou1897 – 1984
  • Gan Yetao1907 – 2002

    Chinese diplomat

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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).