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14 famous people named Fen found on Wikipedia.
Used in: Chinese, Frisian
Fen may be either a Chinese female given name or family name. As a given name, it is represented in simplified Chinese as 芬 (pinyin: Fēn).
Fen may also be a surname in countries other than China, such as Uzbekistan where it is represented in Cyrilic as Фен.
Fen or Fenna is also an unrelated Frisian name.
"low land covered wholly or partly by water," Old English fenn "mud, mire, dirt; fen, marsh, moor," from Proto-Germanic *fanjam- "swamp, marsh" (source also of Old Saxon feni, Old Frisian fenne, Middle Dutch venne, Dutch veen, Old High German fenna, German Fenn "marsh," Old Norse fen, Gothic fani "mud"), from PIE *pen- "swamp" (source also of Gaulish anam "water," Sanskrit pankah "bog, marsh, mud," Old Prussian pannean "swampland"). Italian and Spanish fango, Old French fanc, French fange "mud" are loan-words from Germanic. The native Latin word was limus or lutum.
Fragrant, perfume or strive, exert in Chinese. Means: peace in German.
| Popularity | Name | Birth Year | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gervase Fen | ||
| 2 | Li Fen | 1976 | Swedish table tennis player |
| 3 | Yao Fen | 1967 | Badminton player |
| 4 | Zuo Fen | 0255 | Chinese poet |
| 5 | Fen Cresswell | 1915 | Cricketer |
| 6 | Fen Osler Hampson | 1953 | Canadian political scientist |
| 7 | Fen McDonald | 1891 | Australian rules footballer |
| 8 | Vitaly Fen | Uzbekistani diplomat | |
| 9 | Yang Fen | 1982 | Congolese table tennis player |
| 10 | Hu Fen | ||
| 11 | Xing Fen | 1973 | |
| 12 | Ng Mee Fen | 1982 | Badminton player |
| 13 | Ma Fen | Painter | |
| 14 | Åke Fen | 1917 | Norwegian journalist and translator |