Famous People with Name Yan

Yan Fu            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yan Fu: was a Chinese scholar and translator, most famous for introducing Western thoughts, including Darwin's idea of "natural selection," into China during the late 19th century.

Yan Hong            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yan Hong: is a retired Chinese race walker.

Yan Huiqing            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yan Huiqing: was a Chinese writer, politician, and diplomat from Shanghai.

Yan Jiankui            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yan Jiankui: is a retired Chinese sprinter.Her personal best times were both achieved in 1998. She ran the 100 m in 11.22 seconds in Beijing and the 200 m in 22.85 seconds in Shijiazhuang.

Yan Lianke            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yan Lianke: is a Chinese writer of novels and short stories based in Beijing. His work is highly satirical, which has resulted in his most famous works being banned in the PRC. He has admitted to self-censorship while writing his stories in order to avoid censorship.He has also published more than ten volumes of short stories including the winner of the Lu Xun Literature Award in 2000, Nian Yue Ri (???). Enjoyment, which was published in 2004, received wide acclaim in China, garnering the 3rd Lao She Literature Award (?????????) in the novel category. While his works have been widely published abroad, some of his more controversial works have been banned in China.

Wang Yan            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Wang Yan: is a Chinese race walker, who won the bronze medal over 10 km at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.

Zhang Yan            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Zhang Yan: courtesy name as Bomei, sobriquet as Wuzheng Daoren, is a Chinese painter in Ming Dynasty, active in 16th and 17th centuries.

Mo Yan            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Mo Yan: Mo Yan's works are predominantly social commentary, and he is strongly influenced by the political critique of Lu Xun and the magical realism of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Using dazzling, complex, and often graphically violent images, Mo Yan draws readers into the disturbing yet beautiful, kaleidoscopic universes of his stories. Like American author Stephen King, Mo Yan sets many of his stories near his hometown: Northeast Gaomi Township in Shandong province.

Nancy Wu Ding Yan            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Nancy Wu Ding Yan: a Chinese actress contracted to TVB.

Jack Yan            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Jack Yan: is a publisher, designer and businessman,Yan founded his own company in 1987 while a teenager and grew it, initially, into the region's leading font software firm,[2] claiming to be the first New Zealander to design digital typefaces. He created over 100 typeface designs himself for the firm,[3] and inspired other local typeface designers such as Kris Sowersby to pursue careers in that industry.