Lâm is a Vietnamese surname. The name is transliterated as
Lin in
Mandarin and
Im in
Korean
Korean may refer to:
People and culture
* Koreans, people from the Korean peninsula or of Korean descent
* Korean culture
* Korean language
**Korean alphabet, known as Hangul or Korean
**Korean dialects
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Lam is the anglicized variation of the surname Lâm.
Lam is also a commonly held surname of Cantonese speakers of Chinese descent. Large populations in southern China and Hong Kong hold the surname.
Notable people with the surname Lâm
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Lam Phương, 20th century Vietnamese songwriter, real name Lâm Đình Phùng
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Lam Nguon Tanh (Lâm Ngươn Tánh), Chief of Naval Operations of the Republic of Vietnam Navy during the Vietnam War
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Thích Quảng Đức
Thích Quảng Đức ( vi-hantu, , ; born Lâm Văn Túc; – 11 June 1963) was a Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk who died by self-immolation at a busy Saigon road intersection on 11 June 1963. Quảng Đức was protesting the persecut ...
(born Lâm Văn Tức), Mahayana Buddhist monk who burned himself to death at a busy Saigon road intersection on 11 June 1963
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Lam Nhat Tien, Vietnamese American singer
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Lam Quang Thi, senior military officer in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam during the Vietnam War
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Lam Quang My, late Polish-Vietnamese poet who wrote in Polish and Vietnamese
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Lam Van Phat, an officer in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam
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Lâm Quang Ky, a vice-general of
Nguyen Trung Truc
Nguyễn (阮) (sometimes abbreviated as Ng̃) is the most common surname of the Vietnamese people.
Outside of Vietnam, the surname is commonly rendered without diacritics as ''Nguyen''.
By some estimates 30 to 39 percent of Vietnamese peopl ...
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Lâm Thị Mỹ Dạ, poet
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Katarina Lam, United States data scientist
Vietnamese-language surnames
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