Ngô (surname)
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Ngô is a Vietnamese surname. The surname is known as Wu
in Chinese
( or ), and Oh in Korean
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Wu (surname)
Wu is the Pinyin transliteration of the Chinese surname 吳 , 吴 , which is the tenth most common surname in Mainland China. Several other, less common Chinese surnames with different pronunciations are also transliterated into English as "Wu": 武, 伍, 仵, 烏, 鄔 and 巫...
in Chinese
Chinese language
The Chinese language is a language or language family consisting of varieties which are mutually intelligible to varying degrees. Originally the indigenous languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China, it forms one of the branches of Sino-Tibetan family of languages...
( or ), and Oh in Korean
Korean language
Korean is the official language of the country Korea, in both South and North. It is also one of the two official languages in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in People's Republic of China. There are about 78 million Korean speakers worldwide. In the 15th century, a national writing...
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Notable people with the surname Ngô
- Phuong NgoPhuong NgoPhuong Canh Ngo was convicted of ordering the killing of Australian MP John Newman on 5 September 1994, a crime which has been described as Australia's first political assassination....
, Businessman, politician - Ngo Dinh DiemNgo Dinh DiemNgô Đình Diệm was the first president of South Vietnam . In the wake of the French withdrawal from Indochina as a result of the 1954 Geneva Accords, Diệm led the effort to create the Republic of Vietnam. Accruing considerable U.S. support due to his staunch anti-Communism, he achieved victory in a...
, President of South Vietnam (1955–1963) and his ruling family. Diem was the third of six brothers.- Ngo Dinh Kha, his father
- Ngo Dinh KhoiNgo Dinh KhoiNgô Ðình Khôi was a brother of South Vietnam’s first President, Ngô Đình Diệm, and of Archbishop Ngô Đình Thục. He served as a governor in the French administration of Việtnam during the French Indochina years. He was buried alive by the Communists for refusal to join the Việt Minh as a minister in...
, eldest brother, provincial governor - Ngo Dinh Thuc, second brother, archbishop
- Ngo Dinh NhuNgo Dinh NhuNgô Ðình Nhu was the younger brother and chief political advisor of South Vietnam's first president, Ngô Ðình Diệm. Nhu was widely regarded as the architect of the Ngô family's nepotistic and autocratic rule over South Vietnam from 1955 to 1963...
, fourth brother, adviser - Ngo Dinh CanNgo Dinh CanNgô Đình Cẩn was a younger brother and confidant of South Vietnam’s first president, Ngo Dinh Diem, and an important member of the Diem government. Diem put Cẩn in charge of central Vietnam, stretching from Phan Thiết in the south to the border at the 17th parallel, with Cẩn ruling the region as...
, fifth brother, unofficial ruler of central Vietnam on Diem's behalf - Ngo Dinh LuyenNgo Dinh LuyenNgô Đình Luyện was a brother of South Vietnam’s first President, Ngô Đình Diệm, Provincial Governor Ngô Ðình Khôi, and of Archbishop Ngô Đình Thục. Ngô Đình Diệm appointed him as ambassador to the United Kingdom...
, sixth brother, ambassador to the United Kingdom - Ngo The LinhNgo The LinhNgô Thế Linh was born on December 6, 1928, Ha Tinh Province, Vietnam. He was a Colonel in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam , South Vietnam. He was the first Commander of Coastal Security Service...
, his cousin, army officer - Ngo Dinh Le Thuy, the daughter of Ngo Dinh Nhu
- Ngo Quang TruongNgo Quang TruongLieutenant General Ngô Quang Trưởng was an officer in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam . He was widely regarded as South Vietnam’s best officer and well-known for his uncompromising integrity and incorruptibility...
, Army of the Republic of VietnamArmy of the Republic of VietnamThe Army of the Republic of Viet Nam , sometimes parsimoniously referred to as the South Vietnamese Army , was the land-based military forces of the Republic of Vietnam , which existed from October 26, 1955 until the fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975...
general - Ngo QuyenNgo QuyenNgô Quyền was a Vietnamese prefect and general during the Southern Han Dynasty occupation of Giao Châu in the Red River Valley in what is now northern Vietnam...
, emperor of Vietnam in 938, expelled Chinese - Ngo Bao ChauNgo Bao ChauNgô Bảo Châu is a Vietnamese and French mathematician at the University of Chicago, best known for proving the fundamental lemma for automorphic forms proposed by Robert Langlands and Diana Shelstad. He is the first Vietnamese to receive the Fields Medal.- Biography :Chau was born in 1972, the...
, mathematician, 2010 Fields medallist - Ngô Sĩ LiênNgô Sĩ LiênNgô Sĩ Liên was an historian of the Lê Dynasty. He is best known for being the principal compiler of the Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư, a comprehensive chronicle of the history of Vietnam and the oldest official historical record of a Vietnamese dynasty that remains today...
, historian of the Lê DynastyLê DynastyThe Later Lê Dynasty , sometimes referred to as the Lê Dynasty was the longest-ruling dynasty of Vietnam, ruling the country from 1428 to 1788, with a brief interruption.... - Ngo Si Quy, martial arts expert
- Ngo Thanh VanNgo Thanh VanVeronica Ngô Thanh Vân is a Vietnamese dancer, singer, actress, and model. She is also known as Veronica Ngo or her initials NTV.-Biography:She was born on 26 February 1979 in Tra Vinh, Vietnam...
, dancer, singer, actress, and model - Ngo Trong AnhNgo Trong AnhNgo Trong Anh was born in Vietnam.-Biography:He was born on 26 November 1926, Huế, Vietnam.He served in the Republic of Vietnam administration as Minister of Transportation and Public Works 1965-1966 and as Secretary of State, Founder of the National Supervisory Institute in 1966.He was...
, - Ngo The LinhNgo The LinhNgô Thế Linh was born on December 6, 1928, Ha Tinh Province, Vietnam. He was a Colonel in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam , South Vietnam. He was the first Commander of Coastal Security Service...
, Colonel in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam - Ngo Tu LapNgo Tu Lap- life and work :Lap was born in Hanoi in 1962. He earned his first University Degree, in Navigation, in the ex-USSR , and then served in Vietnam Navy as captain of a landing ship. In 1990, he entered the Hanoi Law College, from which he graduated in 1993...
, writer, poet, essayist, translator and song writer. - Ngo Viet ThuNgo Viet ThuNgô Viết Thụ was a Vietnamese architect; he designed the Independence Palace in Ho Chi Minh City....
, architect - Ngo VanNgo VanNgô Văn Xuyết alias Ngo Van was a Vietnamese Trotskyist leader. Born in Vietnam, he joined the Trotskyist movement as a young man...
, Vietnamese Trotskyist and communist writer. - Ngô Xuân Diệu, prominent Vietnamese poet
- Ngô Văn ChiêuNgô Van ChiêuNgô Văn Chiêu was the first disciple of Đức Cao Đài. His religious name is Ngô Minh Chiêu. He was born in 1878 and raised by his aunt. He developed an interest in Chinese folk religion during this period. Later he served in the colonial bureaucracy and developed a fascination with spiritism...
, first disciple of Đức Cao Đài