Gong Xian was a Chinese painter in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, one of the Eight Masters of Nanjing and the leading painter of the Nanjing school.
He was also known as Qixian, Banqian, Banmu and Yeyi; Chaizhangren and Zhongshanyelao. He enjoyed equal popularity with the poet and calligrapher Lu Qian in the early Qing Dynasty. They were called "Two Ban of the World".