Fan Haifu (Chinese: 范海福; pinyin: Fàn Haǐfú; 15 August 1933 – 8 July 2022)[2] was a Chinese crystallographer, physicist, and writer.

[3] Fan was born and raised in Guangzhou, Guangdong, during the Republic of China.

He secondary studied at Guangdong Experimental High School (Chinese: 广东实验中学).

[4] After graduation, he applied for an internship in the Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and became a professor at University of Science and Technology of China and Sun Yat-sen University.

[5] Fan married Li Fanghua, she was also a Chinese physicist.