Wan (surname)
Wan is the Mandarin pinyin and Wade–Giles romanization of the Chinese surname written in simplified Chinese and in traditional Chinese. It is romanized as Man in Cantonese. It is listed 162nd in the Song dynasty classic text Hundred Family Surnames. As of 2008, it is the 88th most common surname in China, shared by 2.4 million people. The province with the most people having the surname is Anhui. In 2011, of the top 30 cities in China it was the only the top ten surnames of Nanchang, where it is the fourth-most common name.Notable people
- Wan Yu, Chancellor of Eastern Wu
- Consort Wan, consort of the Chenghua Emperor of the Ming dynasty
- Wan Quan, Ming dynasty paediatrician
- Wan Hu, legendary "rocket scientist"
- Wan Fulin, military governor of Heilongjiang province
- The Wan brothers, founders of the Chinese animation industry
- * Wan Laiming
- * Wan Guchan
- * Wan Chaochen
- * Wan Dihuan
- Wan Laisheng, martial artist
- Wan Yi, general and politician
- Wan Jiabao, pen name Cao Yu, influential playwright
- Wan Xiaotang, Communist Party chief of Tianjin
- Wan Li, Vice Premier, Politburo member
- Wan Haifeng, general
- Wan Shaofen, former Communist Party chief of Jiangxi province, the first female provincial party chief
- Wan Long, billionaire businessman, CEO of WH Group
- Wan Xueyuan, former Governor of Zhejiang province
- Wan Jifei, politician, a son of Wan Li
- Wan Jen, Taiwanese filmmaker
- Wan Gang, Ministry of Science and Technology of China
- Wan Exiang, Vice President of the Supreme People's Court of China
- Alex Man, Hong Kong actor
- Wan Guanghua, economist
- Wan Yanhai, AIDS activist
- Joey Meng, Hong Kong actress
- Wan Xiaoli, singer
- Wan Cheng, football player
- Wan Houliang, football player
- Wan Peng, actress