Chinese surnames

万

wàn · Wan

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
No. 162
Ancestral seat (junwang)
扶风
Wikidata
Q985855

In other languages

  • German Wan
  • English Wan
  • Spanish Wan
  • French Wan
  • Japanese 萬
  • Korean 완
  • Russian Вань
  • Vietnamese Vạn
  • Traditional Chinese 萬

Notable historical bearers

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

  • Cao Yu1910 – 1996

    Chinese writer (1910-1996)

  • Wan Li1916 – 2015

    former Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (1916-2015)

  • Consort Wan1428 – 1487

    Chinese imperial consort

  • Wan Shaofen1930 – 2026

    Chinese politician (1930–2026)

  • Wan Fulin1880 – 1951

    Army General (1880–1951)

  • Wan Quan1495 – 1585

    Ming Dynasty pediatrician

  • Wan Laiming1900 – 1997

    Chinese animator

  • Wan Yu? – 273

    Chinese Eastern Wu state official (died 272)

  • Wan Sida1633 – 1683

    Qing dynasty person CBDB = 34175

  • Wan Xiu50 BCE – 26

    Eastern Han dynasty general

  • Wan Guchan1900 – 1995

    Chinese animator (1900–1995)

  • Wan Haifeng1920 – 2023

    Chinese military officer

  • Wan Laisheng1903 – 1992

    Chinese martial artist

  • Wan Sitong1638 – 1702

    Qing dynasty person CBDB = 34178

  • Wan Runnan1946 – 2025

    Chinese businessman and activist

  • Consort Wan (Yingzong)1432 – 1468

    consort Chen

  • Wan Weixing1958 – 2020

    Chinese space physicist (1958–2020)

  • Wan Da1918 – 2002

    Chinese politician

  • Wan Shide1547 – 1602

    Ming dynasty person CBDB = 205935

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).