Chinese surnames

班

bān · Ban

Order in the Hundred Family Surnames
No. 234
Ancestral seat (junwang)
扶风
Wikidata
Q249832

In other languages

  • German Ban
  • English Ban
  • Spanish Ban
  • French Ban
  • Korean 반
  • Russian Бань (фамилия)

Notable historical bearers

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

  • Ban Zhao45 – 116

    late 1st/early 2nd century Chinese historian, philosopher and scholar

  • Ban Gu32 – 92

    Chinese historian, politician and poet (AD 32–92)

  • Ban Chao32 – 102

    Chinese military general, explorer and diplomat (32–102 CE)

  • Ban Biao3 – 54

    Chinese historian (3-54)

  • Consort Ban48 BCE – 6 BCE

    Chinese scholar, poet and writer

  • Ban Yong50 – 150

    2nd-century Han dynasty official and general

  • Ban Naoyuki1567 – 1615

    samurai

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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).