Jian (given name)
Jian is a given name of Chinese origin. Notable people with the name include:
Real people
- Cao Jian, prince in the state of Cao Wei in the Three Kingdoms period of China
- Chen Jian (diplomat), Chinese diplomat
- Chen Jian (politician, born 1952), Chinese politician who served as vice minister of Commerce from 2008 to 2013
- Chen Jian (born 1961), Chinese politician who served as party secretary of Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture from 2017 to 2021.
- Chen Jian (academic), professor of Chinese history and international relations at Cornell University
- Xi Jian, Chinese military general of the Jin dynasty (266–420)
- Dong Jian, Chinese literary scholar
- Du'ao, king of the state of Chu during the Spring and Autumn period of ancient China
- Fan Jian (politician) was a Chinese politician of the state of Shu Han in the late Three Kingdoms period
- Fan Jian (legal scholar), Chinese legal scholar
- Fan Jian (officer), Chinese government accountant
- Gao Jian (footballer, born 1982), Chinese football player
- Guanqiu Jian, Chinese military general
- Guo Jian, Chinese Australian artist
- Han Jian (Zhou Dynasty), third head of the House of Han
- Han Jian (Weibo warlord), Tang dynasty warlord who governed Weibo Circuit
- Han Jian (Zhenguo warlord), Tang dynasty warlord who governed Zhenguo Circuit, also served Later Liang after the end of Tang
- Han Jian (badminton), Chinese badminton player
- He Jian was a Chinese Nationalist general and politician in the Republic of China.
- He Jian (born 1965), former Chinese politician
- Hun Jian, general of the Chinese Tang Dynasty of Tiele extraction
- Ji Jian, King Yih of Zhou, the seventh king of the Chinese Zhou Dynasty.
- Jian Ghomeshi, Canadian broadcaster, writer, musician, producer
- Jin Jian, Chinese bobsledder
- Li Jian (footballer, born 1977), Chinese football goalkeeper
- Li Jian (footballer, born March 1985), Chinese football defender
- Li Jian (footballer, born September 1985), Chinese football goalkeeper who represents Hong Kong internationally
- Li Jian (footballer, born 1986), Chinese football forward
- Li Jian (footballer, born 1989), Chinese football midfielder
- Li Jian (singer), Chinese singer-songwriter
- Jian Li (engineer)
- Liu Jian (diplomat), Chinese ambassador to Afghanistan, Malaysia, and Pakistan
- Liu Jian (Volkswagen), head of Shanghai Volkswagen
- Liu Jian (director), Chinese animation filmmaker
- Liu Jian (footballer), Chinese association footballer
- Liu Jian (rower), Chinese Olympic rower
- Jian Liu (academic), American pharmacologist
- Lu Jian, Chinese host and anchorman
- Lyu Jian, currently President of Nanjing University
- Muhammad Ma Jian, Chinese Confucian scholar and Islamic jurist
- Ma Jian (writer), Chinese writer
- Ma Jian (politician), former Vice Minister of State Security of China
- Ma Jian (basketball), Chinese basketball player and occasional actor
- Jian Ma (computer scientist), American computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University working on computational biology
- Shen Jian, Chinese gymnast
- Shi Jian (sailor), a Chinese sailor and yacht racer
- Shi Jian, the Mandarin name of Shih Kien
- Shi Jianqiao, the murderer of warlord Sun Chuanfang
- Song Jian, Chinese aerospace engineer, demographer, and politician
- Su Jian, official of the Chinese Tang Dynasty
- Sun Jian was a warlord in the late Han dynasty.
- Sun Jian (politician), Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China from 1975 to 1978
- Jian Sun (researcher), Chinese-born electronics researcher at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York
- Sun Jian (sport shooter), Chinese sport shooter
- Tan Jian (discus thrower), Chinese female discus thrower
- Tan Jian (diplomat), Chinese diplomat currently serving as Chinese ambassador
- Tang Jian, Chinese official who lived in the early Tang dynasty
- Jian Tang, professor of computer science at Syracuse University, IEEE fellow
- Tian Jian, last king of Qi, one of the seven major states of the Warring States period of ancient China
- Tong Jian, Chinese retired pair skater
- Wang Jian (Qin), Qin general
- Wang Jian (Southern Qi), Liu Song and Southern Qi official
- Wang Jian (poet), Tang dynasty poet
- Wang Jian (Former Shu), founding emperor of Former Shu
- Wang Jian (17th-century painter), painter during the Ming and Qing dynasties
- Wang Jian (geneticist), Chinese geneticist and biotechnology entrepreneur
- Jian Wang (contemporary painter), U.S.-based Chinese painter
- Wang Jian (businessman), co-founder of Hainan Airlines and HNA Group
- Wang Jian (computer scientist), Chinese computer scientist
- Jian Wang (cellist), U.K.-based Chinese cellist
- Wang Jian (powerlifter), Chinese powerlifter
- Wang Jian (table tennis), Chinese table tennis player
- Wang Jian (biologist), Chinese biologist
- Wei Jian, Chinese footballer
- Wu Jian, Chinese track and field athlete
- Xu Jian (Tang dynasty), Tang dynasty writer and official
- Xu Jian (diplomat), former Chinese ambassador to Poland, Romania, and Slovenia
- Xu Jian (engineer), Chinese civil engineer
- Xu Jian (softball), Chinese softball player
- Emperor Wen of Sui, personal name Yang Jian, founder and emperor of the Sui dynasty
- Yang Jian (Sui prince), Sui dynasty prince and Emperor Wen's grandson
- Yang Jian (Song dynasty), Song dynasty eunuch politician
- Yang Jian (rower), Chinese rower
- Yang Jian (footballer), Chinese footballer
- Yang Jian (diver), Chinese diver
- Erlang Shen, personal name Yang Jian, a mythological Chinese God
- Jian Yang (politician), China-born New Zealand politician
- Jian Yang (geneticist), statistical geneticist, Ruth Stephens Gani Medalist
- Yin Jian is a double Olympic medal winning Chinese sailor.
- Yin Jian (Communist leader), early member of the Chinese Communist Party and a member of the 28 Bolsheviks
- Yu Jian, Chinese poet, writer and documentary film director
- Zhan Jian, Chinese-born Singaporean table tennis player
- Zhang Jian (fencer), Chinese fencer
- Zhang Jian (football), Chinese football administrator
- Zhang Jian (businessman), courtesy name Jizhi, Chinese entrepreneur, politician and educationist
- Zhang Jian (runner), Chinese middle distance runner
- Zhang Jian (sport shooter), Chinese sport shooter
- Zhang Jian (Tang dynasty), Tang Dynasty noble
- Zhang Jian (footballer), Chinese footballer
- Zhang Jian, Chinese activist
- Jian Zhou was a Chinese virologist and cancer researcher.
- Zhou Jian (diplomat), Chinese diplomat currently serving as ambassador of China to Qatar
- Zhu Youqian, warlord
- Zhu Jian (actor), Chinese actor and model
Fictional character
- Hou Jian, fictional character in Water Margin, one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature