Dương (楊, ) is a Vietnamese surname, an estimated 1% of the Vietnamese population shares the last name.
In
transcription it is a
Chinese family name
Chinese surnames are used by Han Chinese and Sinicized ethnic groups in Greater China, Korea, Vietnam and among overseas Chinese communities around the world such as Singapore and Malaysia. Written Chinese names begin with surnames, unlike the W ...
or given name of
Yang. The name is also transliterated as Yang in
Korean and Yeung or Young in
Cantonese
Cantonese is the traditional prestige variety of Yue Chinese, a Sinitic language belonging to the Sino-Tibetan language family. It originated in the city of Guangzhou (formerly known as Canton) and its surrounding Pearl River Delta. While th ...
.
It is commonly anglicized as Duong. It is not to be confused with another Vietnamese surname ''
Đường'' (唐 ), which is anglicized the same; some write Dzuong to distinguish the two.
Notable people
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Dương Đình Nghệ, administrator of Giao Chỉ in around 931 AD
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Dương Vân Nga, only empress dowager of the Đinh dynasty and afterwards empress of Lê Đại Hành, the first emperor of the Early Lê dynasty
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Dương Tam Kha
Dương Tam Kha (wikt:楊, 楊wikt:三, 三wikt:哥, 哥), formally King Bình of Dương (wikt:楊, 楊wikt:平, 平wikt:王, 王), later known as the Duke of Chương Dương (章陽公) (died 10 August 980), was king of the Ngô dynasty from 9 ...
, King of Vietnam during the short time from 944 to 950 in the Ngô Dynasty
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Dương Nhật Lễ, emperor of Đại Việt from 1369 to 1370
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Dương Văn An, minister in the cabinet of Mạc dynasty
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Dương Hiếu Nghĩa, ARVN officer
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Dương Hồng Sơn, footballer
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Dương Quỳnh Hoa, member of the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam during the Vietnam War and a member of its provisional government, serving as a cabinet member.
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Dương Thu Hương, Vietnamese author and political dissident.
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Dương Trương Thiên Lý, beauty pageant contestant
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Dương Thụ, composer
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Dương Triệu Vũ (Tuấn Linh), singer
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Dương Văn Đức, ARVN general
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Dương Văn Minh
Dương Văn Minh (; 16 February 19166 August 2001), popularly known as Big Minh, was a South Vietnamese politician and a senior general in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) and a politician during the presidency of Ngô Đình Diệm. ...
, President of South Vietnam, Army of the Republic of Vietnam general
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Dương Văn Nhựt, general in the People's Army of Vietnam, brother of Dương Văn Minh
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Dương Văn Khánh, President of the Đồng Xuân Labor Union and mob boss
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Porter Duong, American actress
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Quang Duong, American professional pickleball player
See also
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Yang (surname)
Yang (; ) is the Transcription (linguistics), transcription of a Chinese family name. It is the list of common Chinese surnames#People's Republic, sixth most common surname in Mainland China. It is the 16th surname on the ''Hundred Family Surnames ...
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Duong
Vietnamese-language surnames
vi:Dương