Chinese surnames

贲

bēn · Ben

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
No. 179
Ancestral seat (junwang)
宣城
Wikidata
Q15927076

In other languages

  • German Ben
  • English Ben
  • Japanese ベン
  • Korean 번
  • Russian Бен
  • Traditional Chinese 賁

Notable historical bearers

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

  • Miriam Ben-Porat1918 – 2012

    Supreme Court of Israel judge and the State Comptroller of Israel (1918-2012)

  • Menahem Ben1948 – 2020

    Israeli poet (1948-2020)

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).