Chinese surnames

谭

tán · Tan

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
No. 291
Ancestral seat (junwang)
齐郡
Wikidata
Q2354177

In other languages

  • German Tan
  • English Tan
  • Spanish Tan
  • French Tan
  • Japanese 譚
  • Korean 탄
  • Russian Тань
  • Vietnamese Đàm
  • Traditional Chinese 譚

Notable historical bearers

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

  • Tan Sitong1865 – 1898

    Chinese philosopher (1865-1898)

  • Tan Yankai1880 – 1930

    Chinese politician (1880-1930)

  • Tan Yuling1920 – 1942

    Concubine of Chinese Emperor Puyi (1920–1942)

  • Roman Tam1945 – 2002

    Hong Kong singer (1945-2002)

  • Tan Zhenlin1902 – 1983

    Chinese military leader and politician (1902-1983)

  • Tan Xinpei1847 – 1917

    actor (1847–1917)

  • Pingshan Tan1886 – 1956

    Chinese politician

  • Tan Zheng1906 – 1988

    Chinese general

  • Tam Kong-pak1911 – 2006

    Hong Kong footballer (1911-2006)

  • Tam Ping-Man1933 – 2020

    Hong Kong voice actor, actor, and singer (1934-2020)

  • Tan Zhonglin1822 – 1905

    Qing dynasty politician

  • Yuanchun Tan1586 – 1637

    Ming dynasty person CBDB = 133498

  • Tan Guansan1908 – 1985

    Chinese military

  • Tan Haoming1871 – 1925

    Chinese military governor

  • Tan Shaowen1929 – 1993

    Chinese politician, Communist Party Chief of Tianjin (1929-1993)

  • Tan Qixiang1911 – 1992

    Chinese geographer and historian (1911–1992)

  • Tan Chuduan1123 – 1185

    Song dynasty patriarch of the Quanzhen school of Taoism, a disciple of Wang Chongyang

  • Tan Shaoguang1835 – 1863

    Chinese rebel (1835-1863)

  • Tan Quanbo834 – 918

    general

  • Sheung-Wai Tam1934 – 2021

    Hong Kong academic

  • Tan Lun1520 – 1577

    Ming Dynasty general

  • W. N. T. Tam1900 – 1976

    Hong Kong judge

  • Tan Renfeng1860 – 1920

    Republic of China person CBDB = 91170

  • Tan Tiwu1902 – 1997

    Chinese female 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.

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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).