Đỗ (
Chữ Hán
( , ) are the Chinese characters that were used to write Literary Chinese in Vietnam, Literary Chinese (; ) and Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary in Vietnamese language, Vietnamese. They were officially used in Vietnam after the Red River Delta region ...
: 杜) is a
Vietnamese family name. According to Lê Trung Hoa, a Vietnamese scholar, approximately 1.4 percent of Vietnamese people have this surname (2005).
[Lê Trung Hoa (2005). Họ và tên người Việt Nam, (Hà Nội), Việt Nam: NXB Khoa học Xã hội]
Origin
Story tells that , grandson of Thần Nông (
Shennong
Shennong ( zh, c=神農, p=Shénnóng), variously translated as "Divine Farmer" or "Divine Husbandman", born , was a mythological Chinese ruler known as the first Yan Emperor who has become a deity in Chinese and Vietnamese folk religion. H ...
) when passing by
Nanling, he met and married a fairy named Đỗ Quý (also known as Princess Đoan Trang, she was often referred as Do Quý Thị (Lady Quý of House of Đỗ). She then gave birth to
Tuc Lo, later became
Kinh Dương Vương
Kinh Dương Vương (chữ Hán: 涇陽王; "King of Kinh Dương") is a legendary ancient Vietnamese figure, mentioned in the 15th-century work ''Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư'' by having unified all the tribes within his territory into on ...
, father of
Lạc Long Quân.
Another person that many Vietnamese with this surname claim to be descended from is
Đỗ Cảnh Thạc
Đỗ Cảnh Thạc ( vi-hantu, 杜景碩, 912–967), formally Duke Cảnh (景公), was a warlord of Vietnam during the Period of the 12 Warlords.
Đỗ Cảnh Thạc was a Chinese from Guangling (in modern Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province). I ...
, a warlord during the
12 Lords Rebellion.
Notable Đỗ
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Anh Do
Anh Do (born 2 June 1977) is a Vietnamese Australian, Vietnamese-born Australian author, actor, comedian, and painter.
He has appeared on Australian TV shows such as ''Thank God You're Here'' and ''Good News Week'', and was runner-up on ''Danci ...
- Vietnamese Australian comedian/actor
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Đỗ Anh Vũ
Đỗ Anh Vũ (chữ Hán: wikt:杜, 杜wikt:英, 英wikt:武, 武) (1113–1158) was an official in the royal court of Lý Anh Tông, the List of emperors of the Lý dynasty, sixth emperor of the Lý dynasty. Considered the most prominent figure ...
(1113–1158), official in the royal court of Lý Anh Tông, the sixth emperor of the Lý Dynasty
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Đỗ Cao Trí
Lieutenant General Đỗ Cao Trí (20 November 1929 – 23 February 1971) was a general in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) known for his fighting prowess and flamboyant style. Trí started out in the French Army before transferrin ...
(1929–1971), general in the
Army of the Republic of Vietnam
The Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN; ; ) composed the ground forces of the Republic of Vietnam Military Forces, South Vietnamese military from its inception in 1955 to the Fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. Its predecessor was the ground forc ...
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Đỗ Hoàng Điềm (born 1963), Vietnamese democracy advocate
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Khoa Do, Vietnamese Australian actor/director, younger brother of Anh Do
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Đỗ Mậu
Đỗ Mậu (; 1 July 1917 – 11 April 2002) was a Major general in the South Vietnamese Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN), best known for his roles as a recruiting strategist in both the 1963 South Vietnamese coup, 1963 coup that top ...
(1917–2002), general in the
Army of the Republic of Vietnam
The Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN; ; ) composed the ground forces of the Republic of Vietnam Military Forces, South Vietnamese military from its inception in 1955 to the Fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. Its predecessor was the ground forc ...
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Đỗ Minh Quân (born 1984), Vietnamese tennis player
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Đỗ Mười
Đỗ Mười (; 2 February 1917 – 1 October 2018) was a Vietnamese communist politician. He rose in the party hierarchy in the late 1940s, became Chairman of the Council of Ministers in 1988 and was elected General Secretary of the Central ...
, 20th century politician
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Đỗ Nhuận
Đỗ Nhuận (December 10, 1922 in Hải Dương – May 18, 1991 in Hà Nội) was a Vietnamese classical composer. He is known for the first homegrown Vietnamese opera - ''Cô Sao'' "Miss Sao." This and other more-or-less revolutionary the ...
(1922–1991), Vietnamese classical composer
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Đỗ Thanh Nhơn
Đỗ Thanh Nhơn (died 1781) was an 18th-century Vietnamese military commander.
Early life
Details of Nhơn's early life are unknown except that he was a low-ranking naval officer of lord Nguyễn Phúc Thuần.
The Dong Son army
In the early ...
, 18th century military commander
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Đỗ Thị Hải Yến
Do Thi Hai Yen (born 1 October 1982) is a Vietnamese actress. She rose to international fame for her role in Academy Award-nominated film '' The Quiet American'' (2002) by Phillip Noyce, which made her the first Asian actress to be nominated f ...
(born 1982), Vietnamese actress
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Đỗ Thị Minh
Đỗ Thị Minh (born August 3, 1988) is a retired Vietnam
Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV), is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about and a population of over 100&nb ...
(born 1988), Vietnamese volleyball player
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Đỗ Thị Hà
Đỗ Thị Hà (born July 20, 2001) is a Vietnamese model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Vietnam 2020. She was selected to represent Vietnam at the Miss World 2022 pageant.
Early life and education
Đỗ Thị Hà was bo ...
(born 2001), Miss Vietnam 2020
See also
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Do (surname) Do is a surname of multiple origins.
Derivations
* Do or Doh (), the romanization of the Korean surname
** According to the 2000 South Korean census, there were 54,779 people in 16,952 households with the surname spelled Do in Revised Romanization ...
References
NHỮNG NGƯỜI HỌ ĐỖ 5000 NĂM TRƯỚC (People with surname Đỗ 5000 years ago)
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Vietnamese-language surnames
gan:杜姓
ru:Ду (фамилия)
vi:Đỗ
zh:杜姓