Dang (surname)
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.
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.
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
Notable people with the surname Đăng
- Dang Van Quang (Đăng Văn Quang), officer of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam
China
Dang in Cantonese (Dang6 in Jyutping) is transliterated as Dèng (Deng) in pinyin and Đặng in Vietnamese.
Korea
Dang in Korean is transliterated as Táng in pinyin and Đường in Vietnamese.
Notable people with the surname Dang
See also