Chen Yan or Yan Chen may refer to the following people surnamed Chen:
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Chen Yan (governor)
Chen Yan (. 891) was a Chinese warlord in Fujian during the late Tang. He served as governor (观察使 ''guāncháshǐ'') of the Fujian Circuit, headquartered in what is now Fuzhou.
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(died 891), governor of Fujian during the Tang dynasty
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Chen Yan (born 1963)
Chen Yan (; born August 1963) is a former Chinese politician who spent his entire career in southwest China's Guizhou province. As of March 2024 he was under investigation by China's top anti-graft watchdog. Previously he served as vice chairm ...
, Chinese politician, mayor of Tongren, mayor of Guiyang, vice chairman of the Guizhou Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
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Chen Yan (writer)
Chen Yan (; born 1963) is a Chinese dramatist and novelist best known for his novel ''The Protagonist'' which won the 10th Mao Dun Literature Prize in 2019, one of the most prestigious literature prizes in China. He was a delegate to the 17th an ...
(born 1963), Chinese dramatist and novelist
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Yan Chen (economist)
Yan Chen (born July 11, 1966) is a Chinese American behavioral and experimental economist. She is Daniel Kahneman Collegiate Professor of Information at the University of Michigan School of Information, research professor in the Research Center ...
(born 1966), Chinese American behavioral and experimental economist
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Yan Chen (mechanical engineer)
Yan Chen ( zh, 陈焱) is a Chinese mechanical engineer specializing in reconfigurable mechanisms including rigid origami, metamaterials, and deployable structures. She is a professor of mechanical engineering at Tianjin University, where she h ...
, Chinese professor of mechanical engineering
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Chen Yan (swimmer, born 1979)
Chen Yan (; born May 2, 1979, in Nanjing, Jiangsu) is a former China, Chinese swimmer. She won the bronze medal in the Swimming at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Women's 4 × 100 metre medley relay, 4×100 m medley relay at the 1996 Summer Ol ...
, female Chinese backstroke swimmer
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Chen Yan (swimmer, born 1981)
Chen Yan (; born March 27, 1981 in Dalian, Liaoning) is a retired China, Chinese swimmer. She won Gold medal at 1997 FINA Short Course World Championships - Women's 4x200m Freestyle Relay, 4×200m freestyle at 1997 FINA Short Course World Champi ...
, female Chinese individual medley and freestyle swimmer
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