Chinese surnames

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.

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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).