Chinese surnames

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guān · Guan

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
No. 392
Ancestral seat (junwang)
陇西
Wikidata
Q13380050

In other languages

  • German Guan
  • English Guan
  • Spanish Guān
  • French Guān
  • Japanese 関
  • Korean 관
  • Vietnamese Quan
  • Traditional Chinese 關

Notable historical bearers

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

  • Guan Yu160 – 220

    Chinese general serving warlord Liu Bei (160-220)

  • Guan Hanqing1210 – 1298

    Chinese playwright and poet

  • Zhi Dun314 – 366

    Chinese Buddhist monk and philosopher (314-366)

  • Guan Ping178 – 219

    Chinese general serving warlord Liu Bei (died 220)

  • Guan Xing193 – 234

    3rd century Chinese Shu Han state official

  • Kwan Tak-hing1905 – 1996

    Hong Kong actor (1905–1996)

  • Kwan Shan1933 – 2012

    Hong Kong actor

  • Guan Tianpei1781 – 1841

    Chinese admiral

  • Guan Tong850 – 960

    Song Dynasty painter

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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).