Yan as First Name

Yan Shigu            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese
Yan Shigu: was a famous Chinese author and linguist of the Tang Dynasty.

Yan Song            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese
Yan Song: is a Chinese football player who currently plays for Zhejiang Lücheng. He is well-known in China for his good ball control and dribbling, especially as a winger. During the ACL 2006 when Dalian played a home match against J-League champions Gamba Osaka, Yan Song dribbled through the entire Gamba defense and almost scored with a curled lob.

Yan Wei            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese
Yan Wei: is a retired Chinese middle distance runner who specialized in the 1500 metres.

Yan Zhenqing            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese
Yan Zhenqing: was a leading Chinese calligrapher and a loyal governor of the Tang Dynasty. His artistic accomplishment in Chinese calligraphy parallels the greatest master calligraphers throughout the history, and his calligraphy style, Yan, is the textbook-style that every calligraphy lover has to imitate today.

Yan Zhitui            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese
Yan Zhitui: was a Chinese scholar, calligrapher, painter, musician, and government official who served four different Chinese states during the late Southern and Northern Dynasties: the Liang Dynasty in southern China, the Northern Qi and Northern Zhou Dynasties of northern China, and their successor state that reunified China, the Sui Dynasty. Yan Zhitui was a supporter of Buddhism in China despite criticism by many of his Confucian-taught peers. Yan was also the first person in history to mention the use of toilet paper.[1]

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Yan as Last Name

Li Yan            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese
Li Yan: is a Chinese football player who currently plays for Shaanxi Baorong.

Liang Yan (            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese
Liang Yan (: is a Chinese volleyball player who competed in the 1984 Summer Olympics.

Liu Yan            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese
Liu Yan: is a figure skater from China. She was born on August 30, 1984 and currently resides in Qiqihar. Liu placed eleventh at her first trip to the Olympics in Torino 2006, skating a short program to Valley of the Red River and a free skate to My Parents/Long Way Home

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.