阎
yán · Yan
- Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
- No. 325
- Ancestral seat (junwang)
- 太原
- Wikidata
- Q4538396
In other languages
- German Yan
- English Yan
- Spanish Yan
- French Yan
- Japanese 閻
- Korean 옌
- Russian Янь
- Vietnamese Diêm
- Traditional Chinese 閻
Notable historical bearers
Deceased people recorded in Wikidata with this family name, ordered by how many Wikipedias cover them.
- Yen Hsi-shan1883 – 1960
Chinese military officer (1883–1960)
- Yan Liben600 – 673
Tang dynasty painter (c. 600-673)
- Empress Yan Ji100 – 126
2nd century Han dynasty empress
- Yan Ruoqu1636 – 1704
Chinese scholar (1636-1704)
- Yan Xiang101 – 101
Chinese politician
- Yan Xing150 – ?
early 3rd century Chinese official and general
- Yan Mingfu1931 – 2023
Chinese politician (1931–2023)
- Angela Yu Chien1942 – 2004
Chinese actress (1942-2000)
- Yan Su1930 – 2016
Chinese lyricist
- Yan Jingming1817 – 1892
Qing dynasty politician
- 閻溫150 – 213
- 阎贵妃 (明世宗)1515 – 1540
- Yan Dakai1913 – 1997
Chinese politician
- Yan Fu1236 – 1312
Yuan dynasty person CBDB = 29061
- Yan Ding? – 312
General from the Jin Dynasty
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 阎 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).