简
jiǎn · Jian
- Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
- No. 380
- Ancestral seat (junwang)
- 范阳
- Wikidata
- Q13220171
In other languages
- German Jian
- English Jian
- French Jian
- Japanese 簡
- Korean 젠
- Vietnamese Giản
- Traditional Chinese 簡
Notable historical bearers
Deceased people recorded in Wikidata with this family name, ordered by how many Wikipedias cover them.
- Regina Kent1967 – 1999
Hong Kong actress (1967–1999)
- Willy Kan1978 – 1999
Hong Kong female jockey (1978-1999)
- Tony Jian1955 – 2024
Taiwanese physician and politician
- Chien Chih-cheng1984 – 2016
Taiwanese veterinarian and animal welfare worker
- Jian Youwen1896 – 1978
Historian and Chinese politician (1896–1978)
- Ji Jian1903 – 1951
social activist and communist of Taiwan (1903–1951)
- Ai-Ai1919 – 2004
Taiwanese singer
- Chien Tung-ming1951 – 2024
Taiwanese politician
- Brian Kan1937 – 2022
Hong Kong horse trainer and politician
- Kan Yuet-keung1913 – 2012
Hong Kong politician
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 简 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).