Trương or Truong is a Vietnamese surname.
Individuals with the surname Trương make up approximately 2.2% of the population and rank eighth on the list of the most common surnames in Vietnam. They are primarily of
Kinh
The Vietnamese people (, ) or the Kinh people (), also known as the Viet people or the Viets, are a Southeast Asian ethnic group native to modern-day northern Vietnam and southern China who speak Vietnamese, the most widely spoken Austroa ...
ethnicity (Vietnamese people) but also include people from the Chinese, Cham, Tho, and San Diu ethnic groups in Vietnam.
Origin
The Vietnamese surname Trương derives from the Chinese surname Zhang, both written in the
Han script
Chinese characters are logographs used Written Chinese, to write the Chinese languages and others from regions historically influenced by Chinese culture. Of the four independently invented writing systems accepted by scholars, they represe ...
as 張. Zhang is the third most common Chinese surname in China and fourth in Taiwan.
Notable people with the surname
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André Truong Trong Thi
André Trương Trọng Thi (1936–2005) was a Vietnamese-France, French Computer engineering, computer engineer. He is considered to be the "father of the personal computer" for his 1973 creation along with French inventor François Gernelle o ...
(1936–2005), Vietnamese-French engineer, called the "father of the personal computer"
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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 Washington, D.C., with more than 1,500 members and 21 chapters across the United States and Asia. The current president is ...
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Hieu C. Truong (born 1941), Vietnamese Canadian engineer
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Monique Truong
Monique T.D. Truong (born May 13, 1968) is a Vietnamese American writer living in Brooklyn, New York. She graduated from Yale University and Columbia University School of Law. She has written multiple books, and her first novel, '' The Book of ...
(born 1968), writer
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Paul Truong (born 1965), American chess player, trainer, and organizer
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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 (bureaucrat), mandarin (scholar-official) in the Nguyễn dynasty of Vietnam under Emperor Tự Đức. He is best known for leading a gue ...
(1820–1864), Nguyễn Dynasty mandarin
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Trương Đình Dzu
Trương Đình Dzu (born Trường Đình Dũ, 10 November 1917 – ) was a South Vietnamese lawyer and politician who unsuccessfully ran as a candidate for the presidency in the 1967 elections against Nguyễn Văn Thiệu and his running ma ...
, lawyer and politician
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Trương Hòa Bình
Trương Hòa Bình (; born 13 April 1955) is a Vietnamese politician and the former First Deputy Prime Minister of The Socialist Republic of Vietnam. He was previously considered to be one of the more promising members of the Vietnamese Govern ...
First Deputy Prime Minister of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam
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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 ...
, businessman
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Trương Tấn Sang
Trương Tấn Sang (; born 21 January 1949) is a Vietnamese politician, who served as the eighth President of Vietnam from 2011 to 2016. He was one of Vietnam's top leaders, alongside prime minister Nguyễn Tấn Dũng and Party general secr ...
, former State President of Vietnam
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Trương Mỹ Hoa
Trương Mỹ Hoa (; born 8 May 1945) is a Vietnamese politician from Tiền Giang Province and a member of Communist Party of Vietnam since 1963. She was vice president from 2002 to 2007 after holding various party and government positions in Ha ...
, 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 South Vietnamese lawyer and politician. He was active in many anti-South Vietnam organizations before joining the newly created Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republi ...
, lawyer and politician
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Trương Tấn Bửu
Trương Tấn Bửu (wikt:張, 張wikt:進, 進wikt:寶, 寶, 1752–1827), also called Trương Tấn Long (wikt:張, 張wikt:進, 進wikt:隆, 隆), was a general and official of the Nguyễn dynasty of Vietnam.
He was born in 1752 in Thạch P ...
, 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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Vietnamese-language surnames