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Ng (name)
Ng (pronounced ; English approximation often or ) is a Cantonese transliteration of the Chinese surnames 吳/ 吴 (Mandarin ''Wú'') and 伍 (Mandarin ''Wǔ''). Alternately, it is a common Hokkien transcription of the name 黃/ 黄 (, Mandarin Huáng). The surname is sometimes romanized as '' Ang'', ''Eng'', ''Ing'' and ''Ong'' in the United States and '' Ung'' in Australia. The Mandarin version of Ng is sometimes romanized as ''Woo'' or '' Wu'', such as John Woo. In Vietnam, the corresponding surname is Ngô. In Cambodia, the corresponding surname is Oeng. A variant pronunciation for 黃/黄 in the Zhangzhou dialect of Hokkien is () and has various transliterations, such as Oei, Oey, and Uy. Notable people with the surname Ng (character unknown) *Clive Ng (born 1962), media sector financier and executive *Elise Ng (born 1981), Hong Kong squash player *Evelyn Ng (born 1975), professional poker player from Canada *Fae Myenne Ng, writer living in New York City *Geeling Ng, N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cantonese
Cantonese ( zh, t=廣東話, s=广东话, first=t, cy=Gwóngdūng wá) is a language within the Chinese (Sinitic) branch of the Sino-Tibetan languages originating from the city of Guangzhou (historically known as Canton) and its surrounding area in Southeastern China. It is the traditional prestige variety of the Yue Chinese dialect group, which has over 80 million native speakers. While the term ''Cantonese'' specifically refers to the prestige variety, it is often used to refer to the entire Yue subgroup of Chinese, including related but largely mutually unintelligible languages and dialects such as Taishanese. Cantonese is viewed as a vital and inseparable part of the cultural identity for its native speakers across large swaths of Southeastern China, Hong Kong and Macau, as well as in overseas communities. In mainland China, it is the ''lingua franca'' of the province of Guangdong (being the majority language of the Pearl River Delta) and neighbouring areas such as Guang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Ng
Kimberly J. Ng (; born November 17, 1968) is an American executive in Major League Baseball. She is currently the general manager of the Miami Marlins and the highest-ranking female baseball executive. She is the first woman to serve as general manager of a team in the Big Four leagues in North America and the first person of East Asian descent to serve as general manager of an MLB team. A graduate of the University of Chicago, Ng played college softball. She then worked her way up in the front office of several Major League Baseball teams and became a vice president of the league. She was named the Marlins' general manager in 2020. Early life Ng was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, the first of five daughters, to Virginia (née Fong) and Jin Ng. Her father, an American of Cantonese Chinese descent, was a financial analyst, and her mother, Thailand-born of Chinese descent, was a banker. She attended elementary school in Fresh Meadows, Queens and junior high on Long Island ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Konrad Ng
The family of Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States, is a prominent American family active in law, education, activism and politics. Obama's immediate family circle was the first family of the United States from 2009 to 2017, and are the first such family of African-American descent. His immediate family includes his wife Michelle Obama and daughters Malia and Sasha Obama. Obama's wider ancestry is made up of people of Kenyan (Luo), African-American, and Old Stock American (including originally English, Scots-Irish, Welsh, German, and Swiss) ancestry. Immediate family Michelle Obama Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama (born January 17, 1964) is an American lawyer, university administrator, and writer who served as the First Lady of the United States from 2009 to 2017. She is Barack Obama's wife, and was the first African-American first lady. Raised on the South Side of Chicago, Michelle Obama is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kelvin Ng
Kelvin Ng (born November 10, 1958) is a former territorial and municipal level politician in Canada who was elected in both the Nunavut Legislature and Northwest Territories Legislature. Ng began his political career on the municipal level. He has served on municipal council and as Mayor of Cambridge Bay, Nunavut. Ng ran for a seat in the 1995 Northwest Territories general election. He defeated incumbent MLA Ernest Bernhardt to win the Kitikmeot electoral district. Ng served one term in the Northwest Territories Legislature, becoming a cabinet Minister in the government. His district was abolished in 1999 when Nunavut was created from the Northwest Territories. Ng ran for a seat to the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut in the first general election held in 1999. Ng won the Cambridge Bay Cambridge Bay (Inuinnaqtun: ''Iqaluktuuttiaq'' Inuktitut: ᐃᖃᓗᒃᑑᑦᑎᐊᖅ; 2021 population 1,760; population centre 1,403) is a hamlet located on Victoria Island in the Kit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josiah Ng
Josiah Ng Onn Lam (, born 2 February 1980) is a retired Malaysian professional track cyclist. Josiah was the first Malaysian to make it into the cycling Olympic finals becoming a three-time Olympian, representing Malaysia at Athens 2004, Beijing 2008 and London 2012. In 2004 he was awarded the Malaysian Olympian and Sportsman of the Year after being the 1st Malaysian cyclist to make a final in cycling at the 2004 Athens Olympics. In 2010 Josiah won gold at the Commonwealth Games, New Delhi in Keirin at age 30. He is known to have put Malaysia on the map as one of the best countries for developing world-class track cyclists. In 2008, he became the first non-Australian to win the 72nd Melbourne Cup on Wheels at the Melbourne Arena. Early life Josiah had loved cycling since the young age of five years old, as it represented freedom for him. At age 14, he eventually realised his dreams and bought a used racing bike for US$250. He entered his first criterium racing at age 15. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathon Ng
Jonathon Ng (born 23 December 1995), known professionally as Eden (stylised as EDEN), is an Irish musician, singer, songwriter, record producer and occasional model. He formerly operated as The Spab Project and later The Eden Project, an alias that was discontinued in 2015. Ng's work as The Eden Project typically featured more conventional styles of electronic dance music such as dubstep and drum and bass, while Eden saw him venturing into a more indie pop style. Ng released six EPs and over 70 songs and remixes as The Eden Project. As Eden, he launched his own record label, MCMXCV, on which his debut EP ''End Credits'' was released. His second EP, ''I Think You Think Too Much of Me'', was released in August 2016, debuting at No. 43 on the Irish Albums Chart as his first charting music. Eden's debut studio album ''Vertigo'' was released on 19 January 2018 and was supported by a world tour. In February 2020 Ng released his sophomore studio album called “ No Future” which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ng
Wing Lok "John" Ng (born Wing-Lok Ng) is an instructor of Chinese martial arts, a master of Six Harmony ( Liu yi), Xingyiquan, Baguazhang, and Drunken Monkey kung fu. He was born in Fujian in 1950, of Hui Chinese descent. He is a Traditional Chinese medicine doctor and pharmacist specializing in herbalism. Career In 1981 he founded the Four Seasons Kung Fu & Wu Shu Academy in Richmond, Kentucky Richmond is a home rule-class city in and the county seat of Madison County, Kentucky, United States. It is named after Richmond, Virginia, and is home to Eastern Kentucky University. In 2019, the population was 36,157. Richmond is the fourth-la ... and later in Lexington, which flourished during the 1980s and early 1990s. John Ng was Executive Advisor to The International Chinese Boxing Association in 2006 and 2008. He is now semi-retired, but still teaches a small number of private students. John Ng founded the Bowling Green Martial Arts and Health Club in Bowling Green, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jasmine Ng
Jasmine Ng Kin Kia ( zh, 黃錦佳; born 1972) is a Singaporean director known for co-directing the feature film ''Eating Air'' with Kelvin Tong, the documentary film '' Pink Paddlers'' and the short film '' Moveable Feast'', which she co-directed alongside Tong and Sandi Tan. She is also a part-time film lecturer at the National University of Singapore. Early life and education While Ng was studying at Singapore Chinese Girls' School, she filmed her own rendition of Swan Lake with the "odd-sized girls" in her class, which she titled ''Duck Pond''. She studied at Victoria Junior College. In 1991, she won a scholarship to study at New York University Tisch School of the Arts, jointly offered by the Economic Development Board and VHQ, becoming the first person to win the scholarship. In the summer of 1992, she and her friends Sandi Tan and Sophia Siddique decided to make a film. They would use their savings to make the film, and would be guided by Georges Cardona, who was their ment ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geeling Ng
Geeling Ng (currently, Geeling Ching Associated Press. 13 January 2013. Retrieved 13 January 2016.) is a New Zealand , and . She is best known as the in the English rock musician |
Fae Myenne Ng
Fae Myenne Ng (born December 2, 1956 in San Francisco) is an American novelist, and short story writer. She is a first-generation Chinese American author whose debut novel ''Bone'' told the story of three Chinese American daughters growing up in her real childhood hometown of San Francisco Chinatown. Her work has received support from the American Academy of Arts & Letters' Rome Prize, the Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Writers' Award, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Lannan Foundation, and The Radcliffe Institute. She has held residencies at Yaddo, McDowell, and the Djerassi Foundation. Life She is the daughter of seamstress and a laborer, who immigrated from Guangzhou, China. She attended the University of California, Berkeley, and received her M.F.A. at Columbia University. Ng has supported herself by working as a waitress and at other temporary jobs. She teaches UC Berkeley AAADS 20C. Her short stories have appeared in The American Voice, Calyx, ''City Lights Review'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evelyn Ng
Evelyn Ng (born September 14, 1975 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian professional poker player. She lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Early life Ng began her gaming career playing pool for money at age 14. By age 17, she had expanded into dealing blackjack and poker games in her hometown of Toronto. Around that time, she dated fellow Canadian poker player Daniel Negreanu. He helped her develop a style of play designed to combat aggressive players. Poker career Ng achieved fame on the World Poker Tour (WPT) circuit in 2003 after placing second to Clonie Gowen in the ''Ladies' Night I'' tournament, finishing ahead of established professionals including Annie Duke, Kathy Liebert and Jennifer Harman. Ng was included as one of the characters in the video game ''Stacked with Daniel Negreanu''. Formerly a representative of the online poker room PokerStars, she is now part of Team Bodog. Ng was a participant in the ''King of Vegas'' television series on SpikeTV, and featured in the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
