Ngô () is a

Vietnamese surname 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). ...

, related to the

Chinese surname Chinese surnames are used by Han Chinese and Sinicized ethnic groups in China, Taiwan, Korea, Vietnam, and among overseas Chinese communities around the world such as Singapore and Malaysia. Written Chinese names begin with surnames, unlike the ...

s Ng, Ngo and Wu.

Notable people with the surname Ngô

* Ngô Văn Dụ Chairman of the Central Commission for Inspection of the Communist Party of Vietnam from 2011 to 2016 * Ngô Xuân Lịch Vietnam's Minister of National Defence and Chief of the General Department of Politics of Vietnam *

Ngô Thị Thanh Hằng Ngô Thị Thanh Hằng (born 27 April 1960 in Nam Định Province) is a Vietnamese politician. She was a member of the 12th Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam The 12th Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam was elec ...

Vietnamese politician * Ngô Thị Doãn Thanh Chairman of the Hanoi People's Council from 2006 to 2015 * Ngô Quang Trưởng, Lieutenant General

Army of the Republic of Vietnam The Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN; ; french: Armée de la république du Viêt Nam) composed the ground forces of the Republic of Vietnam Military Forces, South Vietnamese military from its inception in 1955 to the Fall of Saigon in April ...

(ARVN) * Ngô Quyền, Emperor of Vietnam in 938, noted for expelling the Chinese * Ngô Bảo Châu, mathematician;

Fields Medal The Fields Medal is a prize awarded to two, three, or four mathematicians under 40 years of age at the International Congress of the International Mathematical Union (IMU), a meeting that takes place every four years. The name of the award ho ...

winner (2010) *

Ngô Sĩ Liên Ngô Sĩ Liên (吳士連) was a Vietnamese historian of the Lê dynasty. He was 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 ...

, historian of the

Lê dynasty The Lê dynasty, also known as Later Lê dynasty ( vi, Hậu Lê triều, chữ Hán: 後黎朝 or vi, nhà Hậu Lê, link=no, chữ Nôm: 茹後黎), was the longest-ruling Vietnamese dynasty, ruling Đại Việt from 1428 to 1789. The Lê ...

Ngô Trọng Anh Ngô Trọng Anh (born 26 November 1926) was a Vietnamese civil servant. Born in Huế, he served in the Republic of Vietnam (RVN) administration as Minister of Transportation and Public Works 1965-1966 and as Secretary of State, Founder of the N ...

, Vietnamese civil servant * Ngô Thanh Vân, Vietnamese actress *

Ngô Thế Linh Ngô Thế Linh (born 6 December 1928, Hà Tĩnh Province, Vietnam, French Indochina – died 25 February 1999) was a colonel in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN), South Vietnam. He was the first Commander of Coastal Security Service (CSS ...

, Army Colonel of the Republic of Vietnam *

Ngô Tự Lập Ngô Tự Lập (born 4 June 1962 in Hanoi) is a Vietnamese writer, poet, essayist, translator and songwriter. Life and work Lap was born in Hanoi in 1962. He earned his first University Degree, in Navigation, in the ex-USSR (1986), and then serv ...

, Vietnamese writer, poet, essayist, translator and songwriter * Ngô Viết Thụ, architect * Ngô Xuân Diệu, Vietnamese poet * Ngô Văn Chiêu (religious name Ngô Minh Chiêu), first disciple of Đức Cao Đài *

Ngô Đình Diệm Ngô Đình Diệm ( or ; ; 3 January 1901 – 2 November 1963) was a South Vietnamese politician. He was the final prime minister of the State of Vietnam (1954–1955), and then served as the first president of South Vietnam (Republic of ...

family **

** Ngô Đình Nhu ** Ngô Đình Khả **

Ngô Đình Cẩn Ngô Đình Cẩn (; 1911 – 9 May 1964) was a younger brother and confidant of South Vietnam's first president, Ngô Đình Diệm, and an important member of the Diệm government. Diệm put Cẩn in charge of central Vietnam, stretching fro ...

Ngô Đình Luyện Ngô Đình Luyện (1914 – 1990) was a Vietnamese diplomat. He was one of six sons born to affluent Roman Catholic parents and also had three sisters. His father, Ngô Đình Khả, was a mandarin during the French colonial era. Luyện's ...

Pierre Martin Ngô Đình Thục Pierre is a masculine given name. It is a French form of the name Peter. Pierre originally meant "rock" or "stone" in French (derived from the Greek word πέτρος (''petros'') meaning "stone, rock", via Latin "petra"). It is a translation ...

, Roman Catholic Archbishop *

Ngô Thì Nhậm Ngô Thì Nhậm ( vi-hantu, 吳時任, 1746–1803) was an important Vietnam Vietnam or Viet Nam ( vi, Việt Nam, ), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,., group="n" is a country in Southeast Asia, at the eastern edge of mainla ...

, Vietnamese scholar and official * Ngô Ngọc Hưng, Founder and leader of C.A.C, contestant on the Korean survival program I-Land (11th place) *

Andy Ngo Andy Cuong Ngo ( ; born ) is an American conservative journalist, author, and right-wing social media influencer known for covering and video-recording demonstrators. He is the editor-at-large of '' The Post Millennial'', a Canadian conserva ...

, American conservative activist and journalist

Notable people with the surname Ngô

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