Gan (surname)

Gan
Language(s)	Chinese (Mandarin, Hokkien), Korean, Old Irish
Other names
Variant form(s)	Chinese: Gam, Gum, Kam, Kan (甘); Yan, Ngan (顏); ; Korean: Kan; Irish: McGann; Ashkenazi: Gang;
Derivative(s)	Ashkenazi: Ganer, Ganel, Ganet;

Gan is a surname. It may be a Latin-alphabet spelling of four different Chinese surnames (Chinese: 甘, 干, 顏, 簡; respectively pronounced in Mandarin as Gān, Gān, Yán, Jiǎn), a Korean surname (Korean: 간; Hanja: 簡; written using the same character as the Chinese surname Jiǎn), and a surname in other cultures.