方
fāng · Fang
- Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
- No. 56
- Ancestral seat (junwang)
- 河南
- Wikidata
- Q10908506
In other languages
- German Fang
- English Fang
- Korean 팡
- Vietnamese Phương
Notable historical bearers
Deceased people recorded in Wikidata with this family name, ordered by how many Wikipedias cover them.
- Fang Lizhi1936 – 2012
Professor of astrophysics; civil rights activist and dissident (1936–2012)
- Khalil Fong1983 – 2025
Hong Kong singer (1983–2025)
- Fang Xiaoru1357 – 1402
Chinese scholar
- Mona Fong1934 – 2017
Hong Kong film and television producer (1934-2017)
- Fang Yizhi1611 – 1671
Qing dynasty person CBDB = 54996 (1611–1671)
- Fang La? – 1121
Chinese rebel leader
- Fang Zhimin1899 – 1935
Chinese communist (1899–1935)
- Empress Xiaolie1516 – 1547
Ming Dynasty empress
- Fang Ganmin1906 – 1984
Chinese painter, sculptor and educator
- Fang Guozhen1319 – 1374
Ming dynasty person CBDB = 100555
- Fang Yi1916 – 1997
Chinese politician and diplomat (1916-1997)
- Fang Bao1668 – 1749
Qing dynasty person CBDB = 34138 (1668–1749)
- Fang Zhaoling1914 – 2006
Chinese painter (1914-2006)
- Fang Weiyi1585 – 1668
Chinese poet, calligrapher, painter and literature historian (1585–1668)
- Fang Zhenwu1886 – 1941
Chinese murder victim
- Fang Jing1971 – 2015
Chinese news anchor
- Fang Zong'ao1884 – 1950
Chinese economist, jurist
- Fang Wanyi1732 – 1779
Chinese artist (1732–1779)
- Fang Yue? – 200
character from Luo Guanzhong's Romance of the Three Kingdoms
- Fang Congyi1302 – 1393
Chinese painter (1302-1393)
- Fang Fang Kullander1962 – 2010
Swedish-Chinese ichthyologist
- Fang Fa? – 1403
Ming dynasty person CBDB = 307195
- Fang Xianfu1485 – 1544
Ming dynasty person CBDB = 68286
- Wen Fong1930 – 2018
Chinese-American historian
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 方 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).