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Vũ
Vũ or Võ ( 武 or rarely 禹) is a common Vietnamese surname. Vũ is primarily used by Vietnamese who live in the north, while Võ mostly is used by Vietnamese who live in the south (from Quảng Bình Province to the south). The latinized vũ has a noun meaning of "feather", and as a verb refers to the act of dancing, while the latinized võ has a very different meaning, referring to military service, the art of fighting, wrestling or judo. ''Vũ'' might also be derived from 雨, meaning rain. Academia * Tuan Vo-Dinh (Võ Đình Tuấn) - Vietnamese biochemist, b. 1948 *Võ Tòng Xuân - Vietnamese former university administrator, also known as Dr. Rice, b. 1940 Arts and Entertainment *Võ Hoàng Yến – Vietnamese supermodel, b. 1988 *Tom Vu – Vietnamese-American poker player and former infomercial star, b. 1957 Military *Võ Tánh – Vietnamese 18th century military commander, d. 1801 *Võ Nguyên Giáp – Vietnamese 20th century military commander, d. 2013 Po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Vũ or Võ ( 武 or rarely 禹) is a common Vietnamese surname. Vũ is primarily used by Vietnamese who live in the north, while Võ mostly is used by Vietnamese who live in the south (from Quảng Bình Province to the south). The latinized vũ has a noun meaning of "feather", and as a verb refers to the act of dancing, while the latinized võ has a very different meaning, referring to military service, the art of fighting, wrestling or judo. ''Vũ'' might also be derived from 雨, meaning rain. Academia * Tuan Vo-Dinh (Võ Đình Tuấn) - Vietnamese biochemist, b. 1948 *Võ Tòng Xuân - Vietnamese former university administrator, also known as Dr. Rice, b. 1940 Arts and Entertainment *Võ Hoàng Yến – Vietnamese supermodel, b. 1988 *Tom Vu – Vietnamese-American poker player and former infomercial star, b. 1957 Military *Võ Tánh – Vietnamese 18th century military commander, d. 1801 *Võ Nguyên Giáp – Vietnamese 20th century military commander, d. 2013 Po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vũ Hồng Khanh
Vũ Hồng Khanh (1898 – 14 November 1993) born Vũ Văn Giảng, was a Vietnamese revolutionary of the Việt Nam Quốc Dân Đảng faction. Vũ Hồng Khanh left Vietnam for Yunnan during the French colonial crackdown of 1930 and enrolled in a Kuomintang military school in Kunming. He graduated and was granted a commission in the Nationalist Chinese Twentieth Army Corps, where he rose quickly to the rank of brigadier general. In 1941 he took on the role of head of a school training Vietnamese, Burmese and Thai recruits. He became the vice-president of the "Government of National Unity," March to October 1946. After Mao declared a communist state in Beijing in 1949 the exiled Vietnamese nationalists in China formed the Liên Minh, supporting Cường Để and opposing both the French and the communists. Following the fall of Guangzhou to the communists the headquarters of the exiles moved to Hainan island, and Vũ Hồng Khanh became the leader of the part of the organisation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vietnamese Name
Traditional Vietnamese personal names generally consist of three parts, used in Eastern name order. * A family name (normally patrilineal, The father’s family name may be combined with the mother's family name to form a compound family name). * A middle name (normally a single name but some have no middle name). * A given name (normally single name but some have multiple given names). But not every name is conformant. For example: * ''Nguyễn Trãi'' has his family name ''Nguyễn'' and his given name is ''Trãi''. He does not have any middle name. * ''Phạm Bình Minh'' has his family name ''Phạm'' and his given name is ''Bình Minh'' (). He does not have any middle name. *'' Nguyễn Văn Quyết'' has his family name ''Nguyễn'', his middle name is ''Văn'' () and his given name is ''Quyết'' (). * ''Nguyễn Ngọc Trường Sơn'' has his family name ''Nguyễn'', his middle name is ''Ngọc'' () and his given name is ''Trường Sơn'' (). * ''Hoàng Phủ Ngọc T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vũ Văn Mẫu
Vũ Văn Mẫu (25 July 1914 – 20 August 1998) was a South Vietnamese diplomat and politician, who was the last Prime Minister of South Vietnam, serving under President Dương Văn Minh's leadership. Early life and career Vũ Văn Mẫu was born in 1914 in Hanoi, Tonkin, French Indochina. He earned a doctorate in law from the University of Paris and practiced law in Hanoi. After Vietnam’s partition in 1954, he moved to Saigon with his family and joined the Faculty of Law at the University of Saigon, where he became the Dean of the Faculty. He was recognized as an expert in civil and historical law. After several years as a professor he then became a local Saigon judge, rising through the ranks to become Judge of the Saigon Superior Court. During his legal career and even during retirement and exile, he authored a number of books, including one entitled ''Vietnamese Civil Law''. Political career After carrying out the referendum of South Vietnam in 1955, deposing the Head ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Võ Văn Kiệt
Võ Văn Kiệt (; 23 November 1922 – 11 June 2008"Ex-Vietnam premier Vo Van Kiet dies at 85: government" AFP, June 11, 2008.) was a Vietnamese politician who served as the of the from 1991 to 1997. He was a well regarded ese revolutionary and political leader. He was a revolutionary veteran fighter in the long [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vietnamese-language Surnames
Vietnamese ( vi, tiếng Việt, links=no) is an Austroasiatic language originating from Vietnam where it is the national and official language. Vietnamese is spoken natively by over 70 million people, several times as many as the rest of the Austroasiatic family combined. It is the native language of the Vietnamese (Kinh) people, as well as a second language or first language for other ethnic groups in Vietnam. As a result of emigration, Vietnamese speakers are also found in other parts of Southeast Asia, East Asia, North America, Europe, and Australia. Vietnamese has also been officially recognized as a minority language in the Czech Republic. Like many other languages in Southeast Asia and East Asia, Vietnamese is an analytic language with phonemic tone. It has head-initial directionality, with subject–verb–object order and modifiers following the words they modify. It also uses noun classifiers. Its vocabulary has had significant influence from Chinese and French. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Võ Hoàng Yến
Võ Hoàng Yến (born October 29, 1988) is a Vietnamese beauty pageant contestant, model and occasional actress. She won the Vietnam Supermodel 2008 contest and is the 1st runner-up of Miss Universe Vietnam 2008. She represented Vietnam in the Miss Universe 2009 pageant in the Bahamas. Biography At the starting point of career, she competed Miss Vietnam Photogenic 2006 and finished in the Top 10. Afterward, she entered entertainment as a model. She was rated to be one of the top potential contestant of Vietnam Supermodel 2008 as she later won the gold medal. She also received the award for the highest vote from the audience. She was a runner up of Miss Universe Vietnam 2008. She represented Vietnam for Miss Universe 2009 at Bahamas but unplaced. Miss Universe Vietnam 2008 The winner: Nguyễn Thùy Lâm (Thái Bình), competed in Miss Universe 2008 and was one of the 15 semi-finalists. * 1st runner-up: Võ Hoàng Yến (Saigon), participated in Miss Universe 2009. * 2nd ru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Vu
Tuan Anh Vu (; born December 5, 1957), better known as Tommy or Tom Vu, is a Vietnamese American poker player, real estate investor and speaker best remembered as an infomercial personality in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Infomercial career His late-night infomercial featured Vu surrounded by luxury items: mansions, yachts, and expensive cars. He was often shown accompanied by groups of young bikini-clad women. He promoted his free 90-minute seminar to learn the same secrets he used to make millions. As a Vietnamese immigrant, he presented himself as the classic "rags to riches" story. His infomercials promoted free seminars that served as advertisements for paid seminars, the most expensive of which was a week-long seminar held only in Orlando, Florida that cost as much as $16,000. Vu's investment theory involved finding what he characterized as "distressed" properties, such as homes mired in foreclosures, bankruptcies, divorces or tax liens, and selling them at a profit. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Võ Nguyên Giáp
Võ Nguyên Giáp (; 25 August 1911 – 4 October 2013) was a Vietnamese general and communist politician who is regarded as having been one of the greatest military strategists of the 20th century. He served as interior minister in President Hồ Chí Minh's Việt Minh government, the military commander of the Việt Minh, the commander of the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN), minister of defence, and deputy prime minister. He also served as a member of the Politburo of the Vietnam Workers' Party, which in 1976 became the Communist Party of Vietnam. Giáp first rose to prominence during World War II, when he served as the military leader of the Viet Minh resistance against the Japanese occupation of Vietnam. He had no direct military training and was a history teacher at a French-speaking academy, influenced by historical military leaders and personally citing T. E. Lawrence and Napoleon as his two greatest influences. He later earned the moniker "Red Napoleon" from some Wester ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Võ Tánh
Võ Tánh (wikt:武, 武 wikt:性, 性, ?—1801) was an 18th-century Vietnamese military commander, best known for his role as a general of Nguyễn Ánh, who unified modern-day Vietnam and ruled as Emperor Gia Long. Early life Võ Tánh was born in Phước Tinh Village, in what was then Bà Rịa (present day Biên Hòa and Đồng Nai Province, Đồng Nai). Tanh's elder brother, Võ Nhàn, was a follower and a general of Đỗ Thanh Nhơn, an officer in the Nguyễn army.Huynh Minh, p. 111. Kiến Hòa army In 1781, when Đỗ Thanh Nhơn was assassinated by his own leader, Nguyễn Ánh, Võ Tánh and his brother, Võ Nhàn, revolted and occupied Hóc Môn, a village on the northern outskirts of Saigon. Afterwards, the rebels moved to Gò Công and built their base there. At that time, Võ Tánh's army, called the Kiến Hòa army, grew to a force of 10,000 men. Meanwhile, Nguyễn Ánh was badly defeated at the Battle of Rạch Gầm-Xoài Mút and fled to Siam which made ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Võ Chí Công
Võ Chí Công (born Võ Toàn; 7 August 1912 – 8 September 2011) was a Vietnamese Communist politician, and the Chairman of the Council of State of Vietnam (Alternatively: President of Vietnam) between 1987 and 1992. He was the Standing Deputy Chairman of the National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam from 1962 to 1976. Early life and political activities Võ Chí Công was born Võ Toàn in Quảng Nam, French Indochina, in 1912. Võ Chí Công’s father was Võ Nghiệm a patriot who later became a communist party member and a secretary, who was condemned as a martyr by the Vietnamese government. His mother Nguyễn Thị Thân was later conferred the Vietnamese title as Vietnamese heroic mother. Công was educated in patriotic spirit and influenced by many land magnates such as Hoàng Diệu, Trần Quý Cáp, Phan Châu Trinh, and Huỳnh Thúc Kháng. He first became politically active in 1930, when he joined with Phan Bội Châu and Phan Chu Trinh, two early ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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