Trương, or Truong without
diacritics
A diacritic (also diacritical mark, diacritical point, diacritical sign, or accent) is a glyph added to a letter or to a basic glyph. The term derives from the Ancient Greek (, "distinguishing"), from (, "to distinguish"). The word ''diacriti ...
, is a
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). ...
formerly written as in the
Han script. It is derived from the
Chinese surname Zhang Zhang may refer to:
Chinese culture, etc.
* Zhang (surname) (張/张), common Chinese surname
** Zhang (surname 章), a rarer Chinese surname
* Zhang County (漳县), of Dingxi, Gansu
* Zhang River (漳河), a river flowing mainly in Henan
* ''Zha ...
(), one of the
most common surnames in
China and
Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...
. According to the 2010 United States Census, ''Trương'' is the 903rd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 38267 individuals. ''Trương'' is most common among Asian/Pacific Islander (96.87%) individuals.
Origin and history
The Vietnamese surname Trương derives from the Chinese surname Zhang, both written in the
Han script as 張. Zhang is the third most common Chinese surname in China and fourth in Taiwan.
List of people with the given name and surname
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Paul Truong (born 1965), American chess player, trainer, and organizer
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Peter Truong, convicted child sexual abuser
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Trương Bửu Diệp (1897–1946), Vietnamese Catholic priest
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Trương Định
Trương Định (1820 – August 19, 1864), sometimes known as Trương Công Định, was a mandarin (scholar-official) in the Nguyễn dynasty of Vietnam under Emperor Tự Đức. He is best known for leading a guerrilla army in south ...
(1820–64), Nguyễn Dynasty mandarin
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Trương Đình Dzu, lawyer and politician
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Trương Hòa Bình First Deputy Prime Minister of the
Socialist Republic of Vietnam
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.
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Truong Dinh Tuyen, Minister of Trade of Vietnam
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Trương Gia Bình
Trương Gia Bình (born 1956 in Nghệ An Province) is a Vietnamese businessman. He is best known as the co-founder, chairman and CEO of the Vietnamese technology company FPT Corporation. Bình is also the vice president of The Asian-Oceanian C ...
, businessman
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Trương Tấn Sang
Trương Tấn Sang (born 21 January 1949) is a Vietnamese politician, who served as the seventh President of Vietnam from 2011 to 2016. He was one of Vietnam's top leaders, alongside prime minister Nguyễn Tấn Dũng and Party general secret ...
, former State President of Vietnam
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Trương Mỹ Hoa, former Vice State President of Vietnam
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Truong Ngoc Anh, Vietnamese model and actress
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Trương Như Tảng
Trương Như Tảng (14 November 1923 – 8 November 2005) was a Vietnamese lawyer and politician. He was active in many anti-South Vietnam organizations before joining the newly created North Vietnam-aligned Provisional Revolutionary Governmen ...
, lawyer and politician
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Trương Tấn Bửu, general and official of the Nguyễn Dynasty
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Trương Văn Cam or Năm Cam, Vietnamese gangster
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Trương Vĩnh Ký (1837–1898), 19th century Vietnamese Catholic who served the French colonial regime
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Truong Vinh Trong, Deputy Prime Minister of Vietnam
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André Truong Trong Thi
André Trương Trọng Thi (1936–2005) was a Vietnamese-French engineer. He is considered to be the "father of the personal computer" for his 1973 creation along with French inventor François Gernelle of the Micral N microcomputer based on ...
(1936–2005), Vietnamese-French engineer, called the "father of the personal computer"
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Andy Truong (born 1996), Australian fashion designer
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Doris Truong, president of the
Asian American Journalists Association
The Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit educational and professional organization based in San Francisco, California with more than 1,500 members and 21 chapters across the United States and Asia. The current presi ...
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Monique Truong, Writer
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Vietnamese-language surnames