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Burmese name Burmese names lack the serial structure of most Western names. The Burmans have no customary matronymic or patronymic system and thus there is no surname at all. In the culture of Myanmar, people can change their name at will, often with no go ...

, used by people from

Myanmar Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John Wells explai ...

. Notable people with the name include: *

Daw Ohn Ohn ( my, အုန်း, ; 6 July 1913 – 28 November 2003), known honorifically as M.A. Daw Ohn ( my, အမ်အေ ဒေါ်အုန်း), was a 20th-century Burmese activist, scholar and professor who specialized in the Pali langu ...

(1913–2003), Burmese professor in

Pali Pali () is a Middle Indo-Aryan liturgical language native to the Indian subcontinent. It is widely studied because it is the language of the Buddhist ''Pāli Canon'' or '' Tipiṭaka'' as well as the sacred language of ''Theravāda'' Buddhi ...

Ohn Gyaw Ohn Gyaw ( my, အုန်းကျော်, ; born 3 March 1932) is a Burmese politician who served as 16th Minister of Foreign Affairs. Ohn Gyaw joined the diplomatic service in 1951, serving in Yugoslavia, Australia, and the USSR until 1985 ...

(born 1932), Burmese Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1991 to 1998 *

Ohn Kyaing Ohn Kyaing ( my, အုန်းကြိုင်, also known by his pen names Maung Chit Phwe, Aung Wint, and Aung Tint) is a Burmese politician and former political prisoner, previously served as a Pyithu Hluttaw member of parliament for Maha ...

(born 1944), Burmese politician and former political prisoner *

Ohn Kyaw Myint Captain Ohn Kyaw Myint ( my, အုန်းကျော်မြင့်; died July 27, 1977) was a Burmese army officer who was well known for his unsuccessful coup attempt against the Myanmar government led by General Ne Win. Military career ...

(born 1977), Burmese army officer *

Ohn Maung Ohn Maung ( my, အုန်းမောင် ; 2 February 1913 – 19 July 1947) was a Burmese politician who served as the Deputy Minister of Transport in Myanmar's pre-independence government. He, along with seven other cabinet mini ...

(1913–1947), Burmese Deputy Minister of Transport from 1946 to 1947 *

Ohn Myint Thakin Ohn Myint ( my, သခင် အုန်းမြင့်) was a notable Burmese journalist, best known for his political involvement in British Burma. In 1933, he joined the Dobama Asiayone, an indigenous anti-colonial organization w ...

(1918–2010), Burmese journalist *

Ohn Myint (politician) Ohn Myint ( my, အုန်းမြင့်, born ) was the Burmese Minister for Livestock, Fisheries and Rural Development from 2011 to 2016. From March 2011 to August 2012, he concurrently served as the Minister of Cooperatives, until he v ...

( 2010–2016), Burmese Minister for Livestock, Fisheries and Rural Development from 2011 to 2016 *

Ohn Pe Pakokku U Ohn Pe ( my, ပခုက္ကူ ဦးအုန်းဖေ; c. 1917 – 13 April 2008) was a Burmese businessman and writer who founded the prestigious Pakokku U Ohn Pe literary award. Early years U Ohn Pe was born around 1917 in ...

(c. 1917–2008), Burmese businessman *

Ohn Than Ohn Than ( my, အုန်းသန်း, ; commonly written U Ohn Than, following Burmese honorific conventions; born 1946) is a Burmese democracy activist who received international attention for his "stoic one-man protests". He spent the m ...

(born 1946), Burmese democracy activist * Maung Maung Ohn ( 2014–2016), Burmese Chief Minister of Rakhine State, Myanmar from 2014 to 2016 *

Shwe Ohn Shwe Ohn (1923-2010) was an ethnic Shan politician and co-founder of the Union Democratic Party, which contested the 2010 Burmese general election. He participated in the Panglong Conference and was an advocate for federalism in Burma. In his f ...

(1923–2010), Burmese politician

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