Names
- Yan Emperor, one of the legendary emperors of ancient China
- Yan, Marquis of Tian, 4th-century BC ruler of the state of Qi
- Yan (surname), romanization for several Chinese surnames.
- Cantonese transcription of surname Zhen (surname) (甄)
- Jacob Mikhailovich Gordin (1853–1909), writer pseudonym Yan, Ukrainian-American Yiddish-language playwright
- Martin Yan (born 1948), Chinese-Canadian/American television chef; star of Yan Can Cook, carried by PBS and Food Network
- Yan (musician), stage name of Jan Scott Wilkinson, English songwriter/lead singer of indie rock band, British Sea Power, founded in 2000
- Yan, transliteration of the name "Ян" (Ian) from the Russian language
- Yan or, more specifically, Yahn, pronunciation of variant of the given name John, especially in Dutch, Northern Germanic and Western Slavic languages (in Slovak, spelled Ján)
- Yan (Wolves Chronicles), a character in The Cuckoo Tree, by Joan Aiken
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Famous quotes containing the word names:
““Well then, it’s Granny speaking: ‘I dunnow!
Mebbe I’m wrong to take it as I do.
There ain’t no names quite like the old ones, though,
Nor never will be to my way of thinking.
One mustn’t bear too hard on the newcomers,
But there’s a dite too many of them for comfort....’””
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“Being the dependents of the general government, and looking to its treasury as the source of all their emoluments, the state officers, under whatever names they might pass and by whatever forms their duties might be prescribed, would in effect be the mere stipendiaries and instruments of the central power.”
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)
“There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!”
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830)