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Not to be confused with Ngô Ðìn

Ngô[pronunciation?] is a Vietnamese surname.

The surname is known as Wu in Chinese (吳 or 吴),[citation needed] Oh in Korean,[citation needed] and Ngov in Khmer.[citation needed]

Notable people with the surname Ngô[edit]

  • Ngô Quang Trưởng, Lieutenant General Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN)
  • Ngô Quyền, Emperor of Vietnam in 938, noted for expelling the Chinese
  • Ngô Bảo Châu, mathematician; Fields Medal winner (2010)
  • Ngô Sĩ Liên, historian of the Lê Dynasty
  • Ngô Trọng Anh, Vietnamese civil servant
  • Ngô Thế Linh, Army Colonel of the Republic of Vietnam
  • Ngô Tự Lập, Vietnamese writer, poet, essayist, translator and song writer
  • Ngô Viết Thụ, architect
  • Ngô Xuân Diệu, prominent Vietnamese poet
  • Ngô Văn Chiêu (religious name Ngô Minh Chiêu), first disciple of Đức Cao Đài
  • Tommy Ngô, (real name Ngô Quang Tùng), singer for Paris by Night