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Fan cafe
A fan cafe (팬카페) is an official online fan community hosted on Daum, free to join but gated by level-up requirements, central to K-pop fandom in the 2000s and 2010s.
Fan Chengda
Fan Chengda (范成大, 1126–1193) was a Song dynasty statesman, diplomat, and poet who served as envoy to Jin, Military Commissioner of Sichuan, and briefly a top minister.
Fan Chou
Fan Chou (樊稠) was a late Eastern Han military officer who helped Li Jue and Guo Si seize Chang'an and was later killed on Li Jue's orders.
Fan Chung
Fan Chung, also known as Fan Chung Graham, is a Taiwanese-born American mathematician, born in 1949, known for spectral graph theory, quasirandom graphs, and random graph models of networks.
Fan Chunren
Fan Chunren (范纯仁, 1027–1101), courtesy name Yaofu, was a Song dynasty statesman and son of the reformer Fan Zhongyan who twice served as Right Chancellor and resisted Wang Anshi's New Policies.
Fan clan of Jin
The Fan clan of Jin (范氏) was a hereditary ministerial lineage of the Spring and Autumn period state of Jin, destroyed by rival houses in 490 BC.
Fan coil unit
A fan coil unit (FCU), or blower coil, is a factory-made HVAC assembly of a fan and a heating or cooling coil that conditions air for a room or zone.
Fan Controlled Football
Fan Controlled Football (FCF) was a 7-on-7 indoor football league, streamed on Twitch, where fans called plays and drafted players; it played seasons in 2021 and 2022 before going defunct.
Fan death
Fan death (선풍기 사망설) is a South Korean urban legend that sleeping in a closed room with an electric fan running causes death. Rejected by medicine and a 2010 Supreme Court ruling, it shaped Korean fan timers and decades of newspaper death reports.
Fan fiction
Fan fiction (fanfic) is unlicensed amateur writing reusing characters and settings from existing media, from 1930s sci-fi fanzines and Star Trek zines to AO3, Wattpad, and FanFiction.net; legally it rests on the fair use defense, and works like The Love Hypothesis began as fanfic.
Fan Ho
Fan Ho (何藩, 1931–2016) was a Chinese photographer and film director known for his black-and-white street photographs of Hong Kong in the 1950s and 1960s.
Fan Ju
Fan Ju (范雎) was a Warring States statesman who fled his native Wei for Qin, where his "distant friends, nearby attacks" strategy guided its conquests.
Fan Ju displaces the Four Nobles; end of Ranghou's power
Fan Ju displaces the Four Nobles (逐四贵) was a 266 BC purge at the Qin court in which King Zhaoxiang dismissed four powerful kinsmen on Fan Ju's advice.
Fan Ju's 'Ally with Distant States, Attack Nearby States' Policy
Fan Ju's 'Ally with Distant States, Attack Nearby States' policy (远交近攻, yuanjiao jingong) was the strategy he proposed to King Zhaoxiang of Qin, guiding Qin's conquest of Han, Zhao, and Wei.
Fan Kexin
Fan Kexin (范可新, born 1993) is a Chinese short track speed skater who won gold in the mixed team relay at the 2022 Beijing Olympics and five 500 m world titles.
Fan Kuai
Fan Kuai (樊哙) was a Han dynasty general and statesman from Pei who began as a dog butcher and saved Liu Bang's life at the banquet at Hongmen.
Fan Kuan
Fan Kuan (范宽, ca. 950–after 1032) was a Chinese landscape painter of the early Northern Song dynasty, active in Shaanxi, best known for the monumental hanging scroll Travelers Among Mountains and Streams.
Fan Li
Fan Li (范蠡), courtesy name Shaobo, was a Spring and Autumn period adviser who served King Goujian of Yue, preserved Yue from extinction, and later became a famed merchant.
Fan magazine
A fan magazine is a film- and entertainment-related periodical aimed at the moviegoing public, born in the United States in 1911 and soon spread worldwide alongside the Hollywood star system.
Fan Ning
Fan Ning (范宁), courtesy name Wuzi, was an Eastern Jin scholar-official and classicist who founded schools at his own expense and wrote a collected commentary on the Guliang zhuan.
Fan Noli
Fan Noli, born Theofan Stylian Noli (1882 to 1965), was an Albanian Orthodox bishop, statesman, and translator who founded the Albanian Orthodox Church in America and briefly served as Albania's prime minister in 1924.
Fan of a Fan: The Album
Fan of a Fan: The Album (2015) is the collaborative studio album by Chris Brown and Tyga on RCA, sequel to their 2010 mixtape; lead single "Ayo"; guests include 50 Cent, Pusha T, and ScHoolboy Q.
Fan painting
Fan painting (扇面画) is the Chinese art of painting or writing on fans, practiced by literati painters as a distinct format alongside scrolls and album leaves.
Fan service (ファンサービス)
Fan service (ファンサービス, fan sābisu) is a Japanese wasei-eigo term for content added to please fans; in anime it usually means gratuitous sexualized imagery, first recorded in a 1978 baseball article, distinct from its broader Japanese sense of any fan-pleasing act.
Fan Shengzhi shu
Fan Shengzhi shu (泛胜之书) is a Western Han agricultural treatise by the agronomist Fan Shengzhi, China's oldest surviving agricultural treatise, known today only from a reconstructed text of about 3,500 characters.
Fan Shiman
Fan Shiman (ផាន់ស៊ីម៉ាន) was a king of Funan in the Mekong region who reigned around 205 to 225 and took the title great king of Funan.
Fan tan
Fan tan, also called Sevens, Parliament, or Card Dominoes, is a shedding card game where players build suit rows out from the 7s; distinct from the Chinese bead-counting gambling game of the same name.
Fan Ting
Fan Ting (樊廷) was a Qing dynasty military commander from Shaanxi who rose from common soldier to provincial commander, winning imperial commendation for a seven-day defense against Dzungar raiders.
Fan Wang (neuroscientist)
Fan Wang is a neuroscientist, MIT professor, and McGovern Institute investigator who studies brain circuits of touch, pain, and anesthesia, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2026.
Fan Xiaoshuang (范小双)
Fan Xiaoshuang (范小双, Snow Fan, born 1995) is a Chinese actress and stunt performer from Handan, Hebei, a tenth-generation Jackie Chan Stunt Team member who plays Hand leader Snow in Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026) and doubled Kamala Khan in The Marvels.