Dang (surname)
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Dang is a Vietnamese, Chinese, Korean, Indian and German surname. It thus has its sources from both Asiatic languages and Indo-European languages. The two branches are thought to be unrelated.
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[edit] Vietnam
In Vietnam, the surname is spelled Đặng or Đăng but Đăng is very rare in Vietnamese. The name Đặng is transliterated as Deng in Chinese and Deung in Korean.
[edit] Notable people with the surname Đặng
- Dang Thi Minh Hanh (Minh Hạnh), Vietnamese fashion designer
- Dang Nhat Minh (Đặng Nhật Minh), Vietnamese film director
- Dang Ngoc Ngu (Đặng Ngọc Ngự), Vietnamese pilot
- Dang Van Ngu (Đặng Văn Ngữ), Vietnamese doctor and intellectual.
- Dang Phong (Đặng Phong), Vietnamese historian, specialized in Vietnam's economic history
- Dang Huu Phuc (Đặng Hữu Phúc), Vietnamese pianist and film score composer
- Dang Thai Son (Đặng Thái Sơn), Vietnamese pianist
- Dang Sy (Đặng Sỹ), officer in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam
- Dang Than (Đặng Thân), Vietnamese bilingual poet, fiction writer and essayist
- Dang Thuy Tram (Đặng Thùy Trâm), Vietnamese doctor famous for her wartime diaries
[edit] Notable people with the surname Đăng
- Dang Van Quang (Đăng Văn Quang), officer of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam
[edit] China
Dang in Cantonese (Dang6 in Jyutping) is transliterated as Dèng (Deng) in pinyin and Đặng in Vietnamese.
[edit] Korea
Dang in Korean is transliterated as Táng in pinyin and Đường in Vietnamese.
[edit] Notable people with the surname Dang
[edit] See also
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