Ruan (, ) is a

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version or is transcribed Oán and Ńg in

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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 ar ...

version is romanized Jyun2 in the

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system or Yún in the

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system, or more commonly Yuen or Un (the latter is typical in

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). In Hokchew Chinese, it is Nguang. Its Vietnamese equivalent is Nguyễn (pronounced in Northern Vietnamese and in Southern Vietnamese), and is the most common Vietnamese family name.

Notable people named Ruan

* Ruan Zongze, Dr. Ruan served in the Chinese Embassy in the United States as Minister Counselor. Currently, he is Executive Vice President and a senior research fellow at CIIS. He is also editor-in-chief of the CIIS journal -China International Studies, and member of the UNDP Human Development Report Advisory Panel. * Ruan Chengfa, a Chinese politician, governor of Yun Nan and Party secretary of Wu Han. * Ruan Yu, a literature writer during Han Dynasty (Chinese: 阮瑀; ?-212) *

Ruan Xiaoxu Ruan may refer to: Buildings * Ruan Center, office building in Des Moines, Iowa * John Ruan House, historic mansion in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Places * Ruan, County Clare, Ireland * Ruan, Loiret, France * Mont Ruan, Switzerland *Ruan Major ...

, a bibliography writer during North Southern and Northern Dynasties (Chinese: 阮孝緒; 479－536) *

Ruan Ji Ruan Ji (; 210–263), courtesy name Sizong (), was a Chinese musician and poet who lived in the late Eastern Han dynasty and Three Kingdoms period of Chinese history. He was one of the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove. The guqin melody ''Jiukuan ...

, is one of the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove (Chinese: 阮籍;210-263) * Ruan Xian, a Chinese scholar who lived during the Six Dynasties period (Chinese: 阮咸;3rd century) *

Ruan Yuan Ruan Yuan (; 1764–1849), courtesy name Yuntai (云台), was a Chinese historian, politician, and writer of the Qing Dynasty who was the most prominent Chinese scholar during the first half of the 19th century. He won the ''jinshi'' degree i ...

, a scholar-official of renown in mid-Qing China prior to the Opium War (Chinese: 阮元, 1764-1849) * Ruan Lingyu, 20th-century Chinese actress (阮玲玉, 1910-1935) * Ruan Lufei, Chinese chess player (阮露斐, b. 1987) * Ruan Xiaoqi, character in the novel Water Margin (阮小七) * Ethan Juan, a Taiwanese actor * Wan Soon Bee, Singapore politician and businessman. * Kitty Yuen, Hong Kong entertainer * Louis Yuen Siu-cheung, Hong Kong actor * John Ruan, an American businessman and founder of Ruan Transportation *

Yongbin Ruan Yongbin Ruan (; born 14 February 1963) is a Chinese mathematician, specializing in algebraic geometry, differential geometry, and symplectic geometry with applications to string theory. Ruan studied from 1978 at Sichuan University with ''Benke'' ...

(born 1953), Chinese mathematician *

Xinbo Ruan Xinbo Ruan is from the Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China. He was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2016 ''for contributions to switching-mode power converter topologies a ...

, Chinese engineer

Notable people named Ruan

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