Vương or Vuong (

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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). ...

, 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.

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Notable people

Vương Văn Đông Lieutenant Colonel Vương Văn Đông (March 5, 1930 – April 21, 2018) was an officer of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam who led the failed coup attempt of 1960 against President Ngô Đình Diệm. After the failed coup, he fled to Camb ...

, Army of the Republic of Vietnam colonel, staged the 1960 South Vietnamese coup attempt *

Vương Hữu Nhơn 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. Pub ...

(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) *

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 turned ...

(born 1949), Vietnamese football coach *

Vương Đình Huệ Vương Đình Huệ (born 15 March 1957) is a Vietnamese politician and Professor in Economics. He is currently the Chairman of the National Assembly of Vietnam, and Secretary of the Hanoi Party Committee. He was previously Minister of Finance a ...

(born 1957), Vietnamese politician, Minister of Finance (2011 - 2013), Deputy Prime Minister (from 2016) *

Vương Trung Hiếu Vương Trung Hiếu (born 1959) is a Vietnamese fiction writer, journalist, translator, and interdisciplinary scholar. He is the author of more than two hundred books (including genre writing; novels; anthologies and translations). Many of his wo ...

(born 1959), Vietnamese writer *

Vương Anh Tuấn 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. Pub ...

(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) *

Vương Thị Huyền Vương Thị Huyền (born 22 June 1992) is a Vietnamese weightlifter. In 2016, she represented Vietnam at the 2016 Summer Olympics held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in the women's 48kg event. She did not finish as she failed to register a succes ...

(born 1992), Vietnamese Olympic weightlifter *

Ocean Vuong Ocean Vuong (born , ; October 14, 1988) is a Vietnamese American poet, essayist, and novelist. Vuong is a recipient of the 2014 Ruth Lilly/Sargent Rosenberg fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, a 2016 Whiting Award, and the 2017 T.S. Eliot P ...

(born 1988), American poet * 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 ...

* Chelsea Vuong, American beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Golden Gate 2018 * Lily Vuong, Canadian religious researcher, author of ''Gender and Purity in the Protevangelium of James'' *

Vương Hồng Sển 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. Pub ...

, Vietnamese sociologist *

Vương Kiều Ân 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. Pub ...

, Vietnamese poet *

Vương Quốc Mỹ 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. Pub ...

, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Construction * Vương Trí Nhàn, novelist

References

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