严
yán · Yan
- Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
- No. 27
- Ancestral seat (junwang)
- 天水
- Wikidata
- Q837421
In other languages
- German Yan
- English Yan
- Spanish Um
- French Yan
- Japanese 厳
- Korean 옌
- Vietnamese Nghiêm
- Traditional Chinese 嚴
Notable historical bearers
Deceased people recorded in Wikidata with this family name, ordered by how many Wikipedias cover them.
- Yan Fu1854 – 1921
Chinese translator (1854–1921)
- Yen Chia-kan1905 – 1993
President of Taiwan (ROC) from 1975 to 1978
- Yan Song1480 – 1567
Chinese politician (1480-1567)
- Yim Wing-chun? – 1795
Chinese legendary character
- Yan Yan153 – 234
Early third century Shu Han general
- Ira Yan1869 – 1919
Russian painter, Hebrew writer (1869-1919)
- Juliana Young Koo1905 – 2017
Chinese American diplomat
- Yan Shunkai1937 – 2017
Chinese actor (1937-2017)
- Kenneth Yen1965 – 2018
Taiwanese businessman
- Yan Xiu1860 – 1929
Chinese educator
- Daisy Yen Wu1902 – 1993
Chinese biochemist
- Yan Gang? – 192
Chinese general
- Yan Jiachi1885 – 1952
Chinese politician
- Yan Jici1901 – 1996
Chinese physicist (1901-1996)
- Yan Jizhou1917 – 2018
Chinese film director (1917-2018)
- 严武 (唐朝)726 – 765
- Yan Zhenzhi1344 – 1402
Ming dynasty person CBDB = 66721
- Yan Li1954 – 2026
Chinese poet and artist (1954–2026)
- Yan Ruyi1759 – 1826
Chinese scholar
- Yan Wenjing1915 – 2005
Chinese writer
- Yan Yu1191 – 1241
Chinese poet
- Yan Yijing1933 – 2018
Chinese painter (1933-2018)
- Yan Dongsheng1918 – 2016
Chinese scientist (1918–2016)
- Yan Wei? – 780
Tang dynasty person CBDB = 92814
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 严 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).