Fan Ye 范曄

Fan Ye 范曄 (398–445), style name Weizong 蔚宗, was a scholar and historian of the Liu-Song Dynasty 劉宋 (420–479) during the Southern and Northern Dynasties period (420-589). He was a son of the Eastern Jin general Fan Tai 范泰 and the compiler of the History of the Later Han (Hòu Hàn shū 後漢書) which became the official Dynastic History (zhengshi 正史) of the Later Han Dynasty.