Vương or Vuong (
Chữ Nôm: ) is a
Vietnamese surname, meaning King.
In the United States, Vuong was the 7,635th most common surname during the
1990 census and the 4,556th most common during the year
2000 census.
[ US Census Bureau. Op. cit. ]Public Broadcasting Service
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Notable people
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Vương Văn Đông, Army of the Republic of Vietnam colonel, staged the 1960 South Vietnamese coup attempt
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Vương Hữu Nhơn (born 1932), Vietnamese economist, The First General of State Audit of Vietnam (1994-2000), deputy director of Ministry of Finance (1979-1986), Vice President of Vietnamese People's Committee (1991-1996)
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Vương Tiến Dũng
Vương Tiến Dũng (born 1949 in Bắc Giang, Vietnam) is a Vietnamese football coach. After retiring from his playing career, during which he played for Thể Công (also known as the Army club) and the Vietnamese national side, Vương tur ...
(born 1949), Vietnamese football coach
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Vương Đình Huệ (born 1957), Vietnamese politician, Minister of Finance (2011 - 2013), Deputy Prime Minister (from 2016)
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Vương Trung Hiếu (born 1959), Vietnamese writer
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Vương Anh Tuấn (born 1959), Vietnamese economist, General Director of
Hotel Continental, Ho Chi Minh City
The Hôtel Continental is a hotel in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. It was named after the Hôtel Continental in Paris, and is located in District 1, the central business district of the city. The hotel is situated on Đồng Khởi Street by the ...
, deputy director of Saigontourist (
Tổng công ty Du lịch Sài Gòn)
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Vương Thị Huyền (born 1992), Vietnamese Olympic weightlifter
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Ocean Vuong (born 1988), American poet
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Quang Vuong, American economist, creator of
Vuong's closeness test In statistics, the Vuong closeness test is a likelihood-ratio-based test for model selection using the Kullback–Leibler information criterion. This statistic makes probabilistic statements about two models. They can be nested, strictly non-nest ...
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Chelsea Vuong
Chelsea or Chelsey may refer to:
Places Australia
* Chelsea, Victoria
Canada
* Chelsea, Nova Scotia
* Chelsea, Quebec
United Kingdom
* Chelsea, London, an area of London, bounded to the south by the River Thames
** Chelsea (UK Parliament consti ...
, American beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Golden Gate 2018
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Lily Vuong
''Lilium'' () is a genus of herbaceous flowering plants growing from bulbs, all with large prominent flowers. They are the true lilies. Lilies are a group of flowering plants which are important in culture and literature in much of the world. M ...
, Canadian religious researcher, author of ''Gender and Purity in the Protevangelium of James''
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Vương Hồng Sển, Vietnamese sociologist
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Vương Kiều Ân, Vietnamese poet
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Vương Quốc Mỹ, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Construction
* Vương Trí Nhàn, novelist
References
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Vietnamese-language surnames