Ngô is a

Vietnamese surname Traditional Vietnamese personal names generally consist of three parts, used in Personal name#Eastern name order, Eastern name order. * A family name (normally patrilineal, although matrilineality is possible, in cases such as divorce, children ...

Notable people with the surname Ngô

Ngô Đình Diệm Ngô Đình Diệm ( , or ; ; 3 January 1901 – 2 November 1963) was a South Vietnamese politician who was the final prime minister of the State of Vietnam (1954–1955) and later the first president of South Vietnam ( Republic of ...

family **

, South Vietnamese politician and final prime minister of the

State of Vietnam The State of Vietnam (; chữ Hán: 國家越南; ) was a state in Southeast Asia that existed from 1949 until 1955, first as an associated state of the French Union and later as an independent state (from 20 July 1954 to 26 October 1955). The s ...

Ngô Đình Nhu James (Giacôbê) Ngô Đình Nhu (7 October 19102 November 1963) was a Vietnamese archivist and politician. He was the younger brother and State Counsellor of South Vietnam's first president, Ngô Đình Diệm. Although he held no formal exe ...

, brother of Ngô Đình Diệm and archivist and politician **

Ngô Đình Khả Ngô Đình Khả (吳廷可, 1856–1923 but some sources state 1850–1925) was a high-ranking Catholic mandarin in the Court of the Emperor Thành Thái of Nguyễn dynasty in Huế, Vietnam. He helped establishing the Quốc Học in Huế ...

, father of Ngô Đình Diệm and high-ranking Catholic mandarin in the Court of the Emperor Thành Thái of Nguyễn dynasty **

Ngô Đình Khôi Ngô Đình Khôi (, 1885–1945) was the eldest son of Ngô Đình Khả. He had eight younger siblings: five brothers, Ngô Đình Thục, Ngô Đình Diệm, Ngô Đình Nhu, Ngô Đình Cẩn, Ngô Đình Luyện; and three sisters, Giao, ...

, brother of Ngô Đình Diệm and politician **

Ngô Đình Cẩn Ngô Đình Cẩn (; 1911 – 9 May 1964) was the younger brother and confidant of South Vietnam's first president, Ngô Đình Diệm, and an important member of the Diệm government. Diệm put Cẩn in charge of central Vietnam, stretching f ...

, brother of Ngô Đình Diệm and politician ** Ngô Đình Luyện, brother of Ngô Đình Diệm and diplomat ** Pierre Martin Ngô Đình Thục, brother of Ngô Đình Diệm and Roman Catholic Archbishop

Academia

Ngô Bảo Châu Ngô Bảo Châu (, born June 28, 1972) is a Vietnamese-French mathematician at the University of Chicago, best known for proving the fundamental lemma for automorphic forms (proposed by Robert Langlands and Diana Shelstad). He is the first Vie ...

, Vietnamese mathematician;

Fields Medal The Fields Medal is a prize awarded to two, three, or four mathematicians under 40 years of age at the International Congress of Mathematicians, International Congress of the International Mathematical Union (IMU), a meeting that takes place e ...

winner (2010) *

Ngô Sĩ Liên Ngô Sĩ Liên (吳士連) was a Vietnamese historian of the Lê dynasty. Biography Ngô Sĩ Liên was the main compiler of the '' Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư'', a chronicle of the history of Vietnam and a historical record of an Annamese ...

, Vietnamese historian and expert on the

Lê dynasty The Lê dynasty, also known in historiography as the Later Lê dynasty (, chữ Hán: 朝後黎, chữ Nôm: 茹後黎), officially Đại Việt (; Chữ Hán: 大越), was the longest-ruling List of Vietnamese dynasties, Vietnamese dynasty, h ...

* Ngô Viết Thụ, Vietnamese architect * Ngô Xuân Diệu, Vietnamese poet

Media

* Ngô Bá Khá (b. 1993), Internet personality better known by his pseudonym Khá Bảnh *

Ngô Thanh Vân Ngô Thanh Vân (born 26 February 1979), also known as Veronica Ngô or by her initials NTV, is a Vietnamese actress and singer. Early life and education Ngô Thanh Vân was born on 26 February 1979 in Trà Vinh, Vietnam. She is the youngest ...

, Vietnamese actress *

Ngô Tự Lập Ngô Tự Lập (born 4 June 1962 in Hanoi) is a Vietnamese writer, poet, essayist, translator and songwriter. Life and work Lap was born in Hanoi in 1962. He earned his first University Degree, in Navigation, in the ex-USSR (1986), and then se ...

, Vietnamese writer, poet, essayist, translator and songwriter * Ngô Ngọc Hưng, Vietnamese singer based in South Korea; founder and leader of C.A.C., contestant on the Korean survival program

I-Land ''I-Land'' (; stylised in all caps) is a South Korean boy group reality competition series produced by Mnet and organized by Belift Lab, which at the time of airing was a joint venture between entertainment companies CJ ENM and HYBE. Twenty-th ...

(11th place) * Andy Ngo, American conservative activist and journalist

Politics and military

* Ngô Văn Dụ, Chairman of the Central Commission for Inspection of the Communist Party of Vietnam from 2011 to 2016 * Ngô Xuân Lịch, Vietnam's Minister of National Defence and Chief of the General Department of Politics of Vietnam * Ngô Thị Thanh Hằng, Vietnamese politician *

Ngô Thị Doãn Thanh Ngô Thị Doãn Thanh (born 28 October 1957 in Hanoi) is a Vietnamese politician. Ngô Thị Doãn Thanh was Chairman of the Hanoi People's Council from 2006 to 2015. And is member of the Central Executive of the 11th Central Committee of the Co ...

, Chairman of the Hanoi People's Council from 2006 to 2015 *

Ngô Quang Trưởng Ngô Quang Trưởng (13 December 1929 — 22 January 2007) was an officer in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN). Trưởng gained his commission in the Vietnamese National Army in 1954 and moved up the ranks over the next decade, most ...

, Lieutenant General

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 ...

(ARVN) *

Ngô Quyền Ngô Quyền ( vi-hantu, 吳權) (April 17, 898 – February 14, 944), often referred to as Tiền Ngô Vương (前吳王; "First King of Ngô"), was a warlord who later became the founding king of the Ngô dynasty of Vietnam. He reigned fro ...

, Emperor of Vietnam in 938, noted for expelling the Chinese *

Ngô Trọng Anh Ngô Trọng Anh (born 26 November 1926) was a Vietnamese civil servant. Born in Huế, he served in the Republic of Vietnam South Vietnam, officially the Republic of Vietnam (RVN; , VNCH), was a country in Southeast Asia that existed f ...

, Vietnamese civil servant *

Ngô Thế Linh Ngô Thế Linh (born 6 December 1928, Hà Tĩnh Province, Vietnam, French Indochina – died 25 February 1999) was a colonel in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN), South Vietnam. He was the first Commander of Coastal Security Service (CSS ...

, Army Colonel of the Republic of Vietnam *

Ngô Thì Nhậm Ngô Thì Nhậm or Ngô Thời Nhiệm ( vi-hantu, 吳時任, 1746–1803) was an important Vietnamese scholar and official who served several regimes during the turbulent last decades of the eighteenth century. He had served as an official for t ...

, Vietnamese scholar and official

Religion

Ngô Văn Chiêu Ngô Văn Chiêu (28 February 1878 – 18 April 1932) was the first disciple of Đức Cao Đài. His religious name is Ngô Minh Chiêu.Serguei A. Blagov Caodaism: Vietnamese Traditionalism and Its Leap Into Modernity "Ngô Văn Chiêu - Atomiz ...

(religious name Ngô Minh Chiêu), first disciple of Đức Cao Đài

Notable people with the surname Ngô

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