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 surnames
Ng,
Ngo
A non-governmental organization (NGO) or non-governmental organisation (see spelling differences) is an organization that generally is formed independent from government. They are typically nonprofit entities, and many of them are active in h ...
and
Wu.
Notable people with the surname Ngô
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Ngô Văn Dụ Chairman of the Central Commission for Inspection of the Communist Party of Vietnam from 2011 to 2016
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Ngô Xuân Lịch
Ngô Xuân Lịch (born 20 April 1954 in Hà Nam) is a Vietnamese politician and Vietnam's Minister of National Defence and Chief of the General Department of Politics of Vietnam. Vietnam's Minister of National Defence and Chief of the General Department of Politics of Vietnam
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Ngô Thị Thanh Hằng Vietnamese politician
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Ngô Thị Doãn Thanh Chairman of the Hanoi People's Council from 2006 to 2015
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Ngô Quang Trưởng
Ngô Quang Trưởng (13 December 1929 — 22 January 2007) was an officer in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN). Trưởng gained his commission in the Vietnamese National Army in 1954 and moved up the ranks over the next decade, most ...
, Lieutenant General
Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN)
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Ngô Quyền
Ngô Quyền ( vi-hantu, 吳權) (April 17, 898 – February 14, 944), often referred to as Tiền Ngô Vương (前吳王; "First King of Ngô"), was a warlord who later became the founding king of the Ngô dynasty of Vietnam. He reigned from ...
, Emperor of Vietnam in 938, noted for expelling the Chinese
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Ngô Bảo Châu
Ngô Bảo Châu (, born June 28, 1972) is a Vietnamese-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 ...
, mathematician;
Fields Medal winner (2010)
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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
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Ngô Trọng Anh, Vietnamese civil servant
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Ngô Thanh Vân
Ngô Thanh Vân (born 26 February 1979) is a Vietnamese actress, singer and model. She is also known as Veronica Ngô or her initials NTV.
Early life and education
Ngô Thanh Vân was born on February 26, 1979, in Trà Vinh, Vietnam. She is ...
, Vietnamese actress
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Ngô Thế Linh, Army Colonel of the Republic of Vietnam
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Ngô Tự Lập, Vietnamese writer, poet, essayist, translator and songwriter
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Ngô Viết Thụ
Ngô Viết Thụ (17 September 1927 – 3 September 2000) was a Vietnamese architect.
Ngô Viết Thụ was born on 17 September 1927 in Thừa Thiên, French Indochina. He married Võ Thị Cơ and had eight children, one of whom, Dr. Ngô Vi ...
, architect
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Ngô Xuân Diệu Ngô () is a Vietnamese surname, related to the Chinese surnames 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 ...
, Vietnamese poet
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Ngô Văn Chiêu
Ngô Văn Chiêu (28 February 1878 – 1932) was the first disciple of Đức Cao Đài. His religious name is Ngô Minh Chiêu.Serguei A. Blagov Caodaism: Vietnamese Traditionalism and Its Leap Into Modernity "Ngô Văn Chiêu - Atomization of C ...
(religious name Ngô Minh Chiêu), first disciple of Đức Cao Đài
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Ngô Đình Diệm family
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Ngô Đình Diệm
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Ngô Đình Nhu
Ngô Đình Nhu (; 7 October 19102 November 1963; baptismal name Jacob) was a Vietnamese archivist and politician. He was the younger brother and chief political advisor of South Vietnam's first president, Ngô Đình Diệm. Although he held n ...
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Ngô Đình Khả
Ngô Đình Khả (吳廷可, 1856–1923 but some sources state 1850–1925) was a high-ranking Catholic mandarin in the Court of the Emperor Thành Thái in Huế, Vietnam. He helped established the Quoc Hoc in Hue and was also a confidant ...
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Ngô Đình Cẩn
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Ngô Đình Luyện
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Pierre Martin Ngô Đình Thục, Roman Catholic Archbishop
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Ngô Thì Nhậm, Vietnamese scholar and official
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Ngô Ngọc Hưng, Founder and leader of C.A.C, contestant on the Korean survival program
I-Land
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Tw ...
(11th place)
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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
See also
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Ngô dynasty
The Ngô dynasty (; Chữ Nôm: 茹吳) was a dynasty that ruled Tĩnh Hải quân (Jinghai) in northern Vietnam from 939 to 968. The dynasty was founded by Ngô Quyền, who led Vietnamese forces in the Battle of Bạch Đằng River against t ...
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Vietnamese-language surnames
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