Fán (surname)

Fán (樊) is a Chinese family name. It was the name of a fief, located in present-day Jiyuan in Henan province. Granted by Zhong Shanfu by Zhou Xuang Wang.[1] It is shared by around 2 million people, or 0.150% of the population, with the province with the largest population being Henan.[2]

Not to be confused with Fàn 范 (surname).

Notable people
  • Fan Hui (樊麾), European Go champion
  • Fan Kuai (樊噲), Han dynasty military general and friend of Han dynasty founder Liu Bang (Emperor Gao)
  • Fan Rui (樊瑞), historical fictional character from the Water Margin
  • Louis Fan (convert), Catholic convert and first Chinese witness to modern Europe
  • Fan Mei-sheng, (樊梅生, born 1942) Hong Kong actor
  • Fan Gang (樊刚), economist
  • Ky Fan (樊𰋀,[3] 1914–2010), Chinese-born American mathematician

References
  1. The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  2. 中国四百大姓 Front Cover, 袁义达, 邱家儒, Beijing Book Co. Inc., 1 January 2013
  3. His given name is written the character , a variant of 㙨, composed of ⿰土畿. It was added to the CJK Unified Ideographs Extension G in Unicode version 13, and may not display properly on all systems.
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