Fan Yun

Fan Yun (; born July 9, 1968) is a Taiwanese sociologist and politician who has been a member of the Legislative Yuan since 2020.

Early life and education Fan was born in Tamsui District, Taipei County (now New Taipei City), on July 9, 1968. She has three sisters. Her father was a Kuomintang soldier who moved to Taiwan from Jiangsu in 1949 during the Great Retreat, and her mother was a Taiwanese native of Yunlin. Fan's parents were the owners of a noodle shop and general store in Tamsui.

After graduating from Taipei First Girls' High School, she attended National Taiwan University (NTU) and earned a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) and a Master of Science (M.S.), both in sociology. As a student there, she was the president of the (臺灣大學大陸問題研究社), an anti-communist student activist group, and ran to be president of the university's student union. She also participated in the Wild Lily student movement. Her doctoral dissertation, completed under political scientist Frances McCall Rosenbluth, was titled, "Activists in a changing political environment: A microfoundational study of social movements in Taiwan's democratic transition, 1980s–1990s". The thesis won Yale's 2001 Marvin B. Sussman Dissertation Prize for the most outstanding dissertation of the last two years.

Political career Fan was elected a member of the Legislative Yuan in the 2020 Taiwanese legislative election, and took office on February 1, 2020, as a member of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP).