Chinese surnames

闻人

wén rén · Wenren

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
No. 413
Ancestral seat (junwang)
河南
Wikidata
Q15918709

In other languages

  • English Wenren
  • Japanese 聞人
  • Traditional Chinese 聞人

Notable historical bearers

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

Wikidata has no deceased bearers with enough coverage.

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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).