Fán (樊) is a Chinese family name. It was the name of a fief, located in present-day

Jiyuan Jiyuan () is a sub-prefecture-level city in northwestern Henan province, People's Republic of China. It borders the prefecture-level cities of Jiaozuo and Luoyang to the east and southwest respectively, as well as the province of Shanxi to the n ...

in Henan province. Granted by Zhong Shanfu by Zhou Xuang Wang. It is shared by around 2 million people, or 0.150% of the population, with the province with the largest population being Henan.

Notable people

Fan Hui Fan Hui (; born 27 December 1981) is a Chinese-born French Go player. Becoming a professional Go player in 1996, Fan moved to France in 2000 and became the coach of the French national Go team in 2005. He was the winner of the European Go Champio ...

(樊麾), European Go champion *

Fan Kuai Fan Kuai (242–189 BC) was a military general of the early Western Han dynasty. He was a prominent figure of the Chu–Han Contention (206–202 BC), a power struggle for supremacy over China between the Han dynasty's founder, Liu Bang (Emper ...

(樊噲), Han dynasty military general and friend of Han dynasty founder Liu Bang (Emperor Gao) *

Fan Rui Fan Rui is a fictional character in ''Water Margin'', one of the Four Great Classical Novels in Chinese literature. Nicknamed "Demon King of Chaos", he ranks 61st among the 108 Stars of Destiny and 25th among the 72 Earthly Fiends. Background F ...

(樊瑞), historical fictional character from the ''Water Margin'' * Louis Fan (convert), Catholic convert and first Chinese witness to modern Europe *

Fan Mei-sheng Fan Mei-sheng (; born 13 September 1942) also known as Fan Mui-sang, is a prolific Hong Kong Cantonese actor. Fan Mei-sheng started acting in movies from 1964; his first movie was ''The Story of Sue San''. He made his name in Shaw Brothers Stu ...

, (樊梅生, born 1942) Hong Kong actor **

Louis Fan (actor) Louis Fan Siu-wong (born 19 June 1973) is a Hong Kong actor and martial artist. He is best known worldwide for his starring role as Ricky in '' Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky'' (1991) and as Jin Shanzhao in ''Ip Man'' (2008) and ''Ip Man 2'' (201 ...

(樊少皇), Hong Kong film actor, son of Fan Mei-sheng *

Fan Gang Fan Gang (; born in 1953) is one of China's most prominent economists and one of China's most active reform advocates. He is currently based in Beijing, serving as a professor at the Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) a ...

(樊刚), economist *

Ky Fan Ky Fan (樊𰋀, , September 19, 1914 – March 22, 2010) was a Chinese-born American mathematician. He was a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Biography Fan was born in Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejian ...

(樊𰋀,His given name is written the character Zh cj-gviw

, a variant of , composed of . It was added to the CJK Unified Ideographs Extension G in Unicode version 13, and may not display properly on all systems. 1914–2010), Chinese-born American mathematician

References

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