Chinese surnames

谈

tán · Tán

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
No. 117
Ancestral seat (junwang)
广平
Wikidata
Q2960259

In other languages

  • English Tán
  • French Tan
  • Japanese 談
  • Korean 談
  • Traditional Chinese 談

Notable historical bearers

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

  • Tan Yunxian1461 – 1554

    physician during China's Ming Dynasty era

  • Ing Yoe Tan1948 – 2020

    Dutch lawmaker (1948-2020)

  • Tan Qian1594 – 1658

    Qing dynasty person CBDB = 34834

Find printed genealogies

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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).