Fāng Gān 方干 (zì Xióngfēi 雄飛, 809–888?), of Xīndìng 新定 (modern Jiàndé 建德 in Zhèjiāng). Late-Táng recluse-poet of Huìjī; one of the principal southern lyric voices of the Xiántōng / Qiánníng generation. Maternal grandson of the Dàlì shí cáizǐ 大歷十才子 poet Zhāng Bāyuán 章八元. Friend and student of Yáo Hé 姚合, then prefect of Hángzhōu. Failed the metropolitan examinations once in Xiántōng (860–873) and never tried again, withdrawing permanently to Huìjī to teach poetry — his pupils included Sūn Hé 孫郃 (his biographer) and the monk-poet Jūyuǎn 居遠. Was reportedly disfigured by a cleft lip, which reinforced his standing as a poet who could only succeed through craft.
Posthumously awarded the jìnshì (along with fourteen other distinguished but officeless men of letters) on the memorial of the late-Táng zǎixiàng Zhāng Wénwèi 張文蔚. His pupils gave him the sīshì (private posthumous title) Xuányīng xiānshēng 玄英先生, from which his collection KR4c0104 Xuányīng jí takes its name. The original Sòng-period collection in 10 juǎn (370+ poems, prefaced by the Hànlín drafter Wáng Zàn 王贊 in Qiánníng bǐngchén = 896) survives in three layered recensions: the WYG eight-juǎn form (307 poems, Jiājìng dīngyǒu 1537 cutting by descendant Fāng Tíngxǐ 方廷璽), the Xíshì Bǎijiā Tángshī ten-juǎn (316 poems), and the Quán Tángshī expansion (347 poems).
CBDB id 17029 confirms 809–888? (per Rénmíng dà cídiǎn and the Tángrénwù zhī-shi bēisù). The WúYuè Fāng lineage of Tāizhōu (Línhǎi xiàn) descends from him.