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shěn · Shen
- Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
- No. 14
- Ancestral seat (junwang)
- 吴兴
- Wikidata
- Q911493
In other languages
- German Shen
- English Shen
- Spanish Shen
- French Shen
- Korean 선
- Vietnamese Thẩm
Notable historical bearers
Deceased people recorded in Wikidata with this family name, ordered by how many Wikipedias cover them.
- Shen Kuo1031 – 1095
Chinese scientist and statesman (1031-1095)
- Mao Dun1896 – 1981
Chinese writer (1896-1981)
- Shen Congwen1902 – 1988
Chinese writer (1902–1988)
- Shen Yue441 – 513
Chinese poet, statesman, and historian (441–513)
- Shen Zhou1427 – 1509
Chinese painter (1427-1509)
- Lydia Shum1945 – 2008
Hong Kong comedian and actress (1945–2008)
- Shen Fu1763 – 1810
Chinese writer (1763-1810)
- Pao-chen Shen1820 – 1879
Chinese Qing Dynasty official (1820-1879)
- Shen Quanqi656 – 714
poet
- Xia Yan1900 – 1995
Chinese playwright (1900-1995)
- Shen Yi-ming1957 – 2020
Taiwanese air force general
- Shen Jiji750 – 800
Tang dynasty writer
- Shen Junru1875 – 1963
Chinese politician
- Zhu Hong1535 – 1615
Chinese Buddhist monk
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 沈 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).