Chinese surnames

干

gàn · Gan

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
No. 173
Ancestral seat (junwang)
颍川
Wikidata
Q11060574

In other languages

  • English Gan
  • Vietnamese Càn

Notable historical bearers

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

  • Gan Ji101 – 200

    Chinese Taoist priest (died 200)

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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).