Yeongyang Cheon clan

The Yeongyang Cheon clan (Korean: 영양 천씨; Hanja: 潁陽 千氏) is one of the Korean clans.

Their Bon-gwan is in Ningyang County, Tai'an, Shandong, China, known as Yeongyang (Korean: 영양) in Korean.

According to the research held in 2015, the number of Yeongyang Cheon clan's member was 100014.

Cheon Am [ja]’s 9 th descendant dispatched Cheon Man-ri [ko], a general in Ming dynasty, to Joseon to fight in Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–98).

Cheon Man ri [ko] stayed in Joseon and was naturalized there without returning to his country after the war.