Tung may refer to:
People
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Madison Tung
Madison "Maddy" Goli-Tung (née Tung) is a United States Air Force Officer, wrestler, and Rhodes Scholar who was the first woman to wrestle for the U.S. Air Force Academy men's team.
Early life and wrestling
Tung is originally from Santa Monica ...
, a U.S. Air Force Officer, wrestler, and Rhodes Scholar
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Ho-Pin Tung
Ho-Pin Tung (; born December 4, 1982) is a Chinese-Dutch racing driver who races with a Chinese license.
Career
Born in Velp, Gelderland, Netherlands, Tung started kart racing in the Netherlands in 1997 before graduating to single-seaters. I ...
, a dutch race car driver of Chinese descent.
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Lola Tung, an actress known for her acting debut on drama series
The Summer I Turned Pretty
''The Summer I Turned Pretty'' is a trilogy of young adult romance novels written by American author Jenny Han, and published by Simon & Schuster. The series includes ''The Summer I Turned Pretty'' (2009), ''It's Not Summer Without You'' (2010 ...
Places
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Tung Fort
Tung Fort ( mr, तुंग किल्ला/कठिणगड ) (or Kathingad; ''difficult fort'' in Marathi) is a hill fort in Pune District, India.
Location
It is about 12 km from Malavli railway station and can also be approache ...
, a hill fort in Maharashtra, India
* Tung, a village in
Bar Kham
Bar Kham ( km, បរខាំ) is a commune in Ou Ya Dav District in northeast Cambodia. It contains six villages and has a population of 1,392. In the 2007 commune council elections, three of the commune's five seats went to the Cambodian Peopl ...
, Cambodia
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Tung (Mawal)
Tung is a village and gram panchayat in Mawal taluka of Pune district in the state of Maharashtra, India. It encompasses an area of .
Administration
The village is administrated by a sarpanch, an elected representative who leads a gram panchay ...
, a village in Maharashtra, India
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Tung, Sikkim
Tung is a village in the Chungthang subdivision of North Sikkim district in the north Indian state of Sikkim. The Ministry of Home Affairs
An interior ministry (sometimes called a ministry of internal affairs or ministry of home affairs) is a ...
, a village in India
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Tung, West Bengal, India, on the
Darjeeling Himalayan Railway
The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, also known as the DHR or the Toy Train, is a narrow-gauge, gauge railway that runs between New Jalpaiguri and Darjeeling in the Indian state of West Bengal. Built between 1879 and 1881, it is about long. It c ...
Other uses
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Vernicia fordii
''Vernicia fordii'', usually known as the tung tree (, ''tóng'') is a species of flowering plant in the spurge family native to southern China, Myanmar, and northern Vietnam. It is a small to medium-sized deciduous tree growing to 20 m tall, wit ...
'' or Tung tree, a deciduous tree native to China
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Tung oil
Tung oil or China wood oil is a drying oil obtained by pressing the seed from the nut of the tung tree (''Vernicia fordii''). The oil and its use are believed to have originated in ancient China and appear in the writings of Confucius from ab ...
, a furniture finish made from the seeds of the tung tree
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Tung (surname)
Tung may refer to:
People
* Madison Tung, a U.S. Air Force Officer, wrestler, and Rhodes Scholar
* Ho-Pin Tung, a dutch race car driver of Chinese descent.
* Lola Tung, an actress known for her acting debut on drama series The Summer I Turned Pr ...
, a Cantonese Romanization of Chinese family names 董, commonly used in Hong Kong
* Tung, the original Webster spelling of
tongue
The tongue is a muscular organ (anatomy), organ in the mouth of a typical tetrapod. It manipulates food for mastication and swallowing as part of the digestive system, digestive process, and is the primary organ of taste. The tongue's upper surfa ...
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Tunng
Tunng are an English folk music band. They are often associated with the folktronica genre, due to the electronic influences evident in some of their work. Tunng are often noted for their use of unconventional instruments, including seashells a ...
, an experimental folk band from the United Kingdom
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Lê Quang Tung
Colonel Lê Quang Tung (13 June 1919 – 1 November 1963) was the commander of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam Special Forces under the command of Ngô Đình Nhu. Nhu was the brother of South Vietnam's president, Ngô Đình Diệm. A fo ...
(1923–1963), Vietnamese military leader under Ngô Đình Diệm
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