Wan (surname)

Wan is the Mandarin pinyin and Wade–Giles romanization of the Chinese surname written 万 in simplified Chinese and 萬 in traditional Chinese. It is romanized as Man in Cantonese. It is listed 162nd in the Song dynasty classic text Hundred Family Surnames.^[1] As of 2008, it is the 88th most common surname in China, shared by 2.4 million people.^[2]

Notable people

• Wan Yu (died 272), Chancellor of Eastern Wu
• Consort Wan (1428–1487), consort of the Chenghua Emperor of the Ming dynasty
• Wan Quan (1495–1585), Ming dynasty paediatrician
• Wan Hu (16th century), legendary "rocket scientist"
• Wan Fulin (1880–1951), military governor of Heilongjiang province
• The Wan brothers, founders of the Chinese animation industry
  • Wan Laiming (1900–1997)
  • Wan Guchan (1900–1995)
  • Wan Chaochen (1906–1992)
  • Wan Dihuan (*1907)
• Wan Laisheng (1903–1995), martial artist
• Wan Yi (万毅; 1907–1997), general and politician
• Wan Jiabao, pen name Cao Yu (1910–1996), influential playwright
• Wan Xiaotang (1916–1966), Communist Party chief of Tianjin
• Wan Li (1916–2015), Vice Premier, Politburo member
• Wan Haifeng (万海峰; born 1920), general
• Wan Shaofen (born 1930), former Communist Party chief of Jiangxi province, the first female provincial party chief
• Wan Xueyuan (born 1941), former Governor of Zhejiang province
• Wan Jifei (born 1948), politician, a son of Wan Li
• Wan Jen (born 1950), Taiwanese filmmaker
• Wan Gang (born 1952), Ministry of Science and Technology of China
• Wan Exiang (born 1956), Vice President of the Supreme People's Court of China
• Alex Man (Wan Ziliang; born 1957), Hong Kong actor
• Wan Guanghua (born 1961), economist
• Wan Yanhai (born 1963), AIDS activist
• Joey Meng (Wan Qiwen; born 1970), Hong Kong actress
• Wan Xiaoli (born 1971), singer
• Wan Cheng (born 1985), football player
• Wan Houliang (born 1986), football player

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