Independence patriot · China theater · Order of Merit for National Foundation, Patriotic Medal (Aegukjang, 2001)
| Life | 1901 ~ 1930 |
| Era | 근현대 |
| Clan | 순흥 안씨 |
An Chang-nam worked as a pilot before fleeing to China, where he joined the Korean Independence Corps and continued the independence movement through aviation until his death in a training accident.
Born in 1901, he entered the Oguri Flight School in 1920 and became a licensed pilot; in a 1922 long-distance mail relay flight competition he pushed through severe weather to finish in seven hours and forty-six minutes, setting the first record of a successful long-distance flight by a Korean pilot. After witnessing the massacre of Koreans during the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, he fled to China in 1924, and in 1926, on the recommendation of Yeo Un-hyeong, he became head of the Shanxi aviation school, where he recruited pilots for the independence movement. In 1928 he organized the Korean Independence Corps together with Sin Deok-yeong, Choe Yang-ok, and Kim Jeong-ryeon, raising funds and planning a military academy and an operation to penetrate Japanese-occupied Korea. In April 1930, while training some sixty Chinese cadets, he died when his aircraft malfunctioned and crashed.