Dương

Dương (楊, IPA: [zɨəŋ˧˧]) is a Vietnamese surname,  an estimated 1% of the Vietnamese population shares the last name.

In transcription it is a Chinese family name or given name of Yang. The name is also transliterated as Yang in Korean and Yeung or Young in Cantonese.^[1] It is commonly anglicized as Duong. It is not to be confused with another Vietnamese surname Đường (唐 ), which is anglicized the same; some write Dzuong to distinguish the two.

• Dương Đình Nghệ, administrator of Giao Chỉ in around 931 AD
• Dương Vân Nga, only empress dowager of the Đinh dynasty and afterwards empress of Lê Đại Hành, the first emperor of the Early Lê dynasty
• Dương Tam Kha, King of Vietnam during the short time from 944 to 950 in the Ngô Dynasty
• Dương Nhật Lễ, emperor of Đại Việt from 1369 to 1370
• Dương Văn An, minister in the cabinet of Mạc dynasty
• Dương Hiếu Nghĩa, ARVN officer
• Dương Hồng Sơn, footballer
• Dương Quỳnh Hoa, member of the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam during the Vietnam War and a member of its provisional government, serving as a cabinet member.
• Dương Thu Hương, Vietnamese author and political dissident.
• Dương Trương Thiên Lý, beauty pageant contestant
• Dương Thụ, composer
• Dương Triệu Vũ (Tuấn Linh), singer
• Dương Văn Đức, ARVN general
• Dương Văn Minh, President of South Vietnam, Army of the Republic of Vietnam general
• Dương Văn Nhựt, general in the People's Army of Vietnam, brother of Dương Văn Minh
• Dương Văn Khánh, President of the Đồng Xuân Labor Union and mob boss
• Porter Duong, American actress

• Yang (surname)

Surname list

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