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,[lower-alpha 1] 1914–2010), Chinese-born American mathematician

Notes
  1. The character in his given name is (⿰土畿), a variant of 㙨. It was added to the CJK Unified Ideographs Extension G in Unicode version 13, and may not display properly on all systems.

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
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