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Huang is a Chinese surname
Chinese surname

Chinese family name is one of the hundreds or thousands of family names that have been historically used by Han Chinese and Sinicization List of Chinese ethnic groups in mainland China, Taiwan, and among overseas Chinese communities....
 that means "golden yellow," or literally "yellow." While Huáng is the pinyin
Pinyin

Pinyin, more formally Hanyu pinyin, is the most commonly used Romanization system for Standard Mandarin. Hanyu is the Chinese Language, and pinyin means "phonetics", or more literally, "spelling sound" or "spelled sound"....
 romanisation of the word, it may also be romanised as Houang, Hoang, Wong
Wong

Wong may be any of the following:...
, Vong, Hung, Hong, Bong, Eng, Ng, Uy, Wee, Oi, Oei or Ooi, Ong
Ong

Ong may also refer to:...
, Hwang
Hwang

#REDIRECT Huang...
, or Ung due to pronunciations of the word in different dialects and languages. The surname is known as Hoàng or as Hu?nh in Vietnamese
Vietnamese language

Vietnamese , formerly known under French colonization as Annamese , is the national language and official language language of Vietnam. It is the mother tongue of the Vietnamese people , who constitute 86% of Demographics of Vietnam, and of about three million overseas Vietnamese, most of whom live in the United States....
, and Hwang, Whang in Korean
Korean language

Korean is the official language of North Korea and South Korea. It is also one of the two official languages in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in People's Republic of China....
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Huang is the 7th most common surname in China.






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Huang is a Chinese surname
Chinese surname

Chinese family name is one of the hundreds or thousands of family names that have been historically used by Han Chinese and Sinicization List of Chinese ethnic groups in mainland China, Taiwan, and among overseas Chinese communities....
 that means "golden yellow," or literally "yellow." While Huáng is the pinyin
Pinyin

Pinyin, more formally Hanyu pinyin, is the most commonly used Romanization system for Standard Mandarin. Hanyu is the Chinese Language, and pinyin means "phonetics", or more literally, "spelling sound" or "spelled sound"....
 romanisation of the word, it may also be romanised as Houang, Hoang, Wong
Wong

Wong may be any of the following:...
, Vong, Hung, Hong, Bong, Eng, Ng, Uy, Wee, Oi, Oei or Ooi, Ong
Ong

Ong may also refer to:...
, Hwang
Hwang

#REDIRECT Huang...
, or Ung due to pronunciations of the word in different dialects and languages. The surname is known as Hoàng or as Hu?nh in Vietnamese
Vietnamese language

Vietnamese , formerly known under French colonization as Annamese , is the national language and official language language of Vietnam. It is the mother tongue of the Vietnamese people , who constitute 86% of Demographics of Vietnam, and of about three million overseas Vietnamese, most of whom live in the United States....
, and Hwang, Whang in Korean
Korean language

Korean is the official language of North Korea and South Korea. It is also one of the two official languages in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in People's Republic of China....
.

Huang is the 7th most common surname in China. The population of Huangs in China and Taiwan was estimated at more than 29 million in 2000; it was also the surname of more than 2 million overseas Chinese, 4.3 million Vietnamese (5.1%), and an estimated 1 million Koreans (The 2000 census of South Korea revealed it was the surname for 644,294 South Koreans, ranked 17th).

See also Wong
Wong

Wong may be any of the following:...
, the common English transliteration of Cantonese on the surname Huang.

Huang(?)


  • Huang Chao
    Huang Chao

    Huang Chao was the leader of infamous Huang Chao Rebellion in China that seriously weakened the once mighty Tang Dynasty of China. The dynasty, which was one of the strongest in the world at the time, was dissolved into the several decades of political upheaval called Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period....
     (? – AD 884), Tang dynasty. Leader of peasant rebellion army
  • Huang Chunping, chief commander of rocket system of China's Manned Space Program
    Chinese space program

    The space program of the People's Republic of China was initiated soon after the founding of the People's Republic of China. Eventually, this space program would cover Anti-ballistic missile, anti-satellite weaponries, reconnaissance and intelligence satellites, manned spacecrafts, space laboratories, space stations and spaceplanes, culminat...
    , deputy chief commander of the Jiuquan Space Launch Center
    Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center

    Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center is a People's Republic of China space vehicle launch facility in the Gobi desert, Ejina Banner , Alashan League , Inner Mongolia, located about 1,600 km from Beijing....
    , member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
  • Huang Chuping, also known as Wong Tai Sin, a Taoist deity
  • Huang Di
  • Huang Feihong (Wong Fei Hung
    Wong Fei Hung

    Wong Fei Hung was a martial artist, a practitioner of traditional Chinese medicine, and revolutionary who became a Han Chinese folk hero and the subject of numerous television series and films....
    ) a prominent kung fu master
  • Frank Huang
    Frank Huang

    Frank Xin Huang is a China-born United States violinist. He has won several international music competitions, most notably the 2003 Walter W. Naumburg Foundation....
     (b. 1978?), American violinist born in China
  • Huang Gai
    Huang Gai

    Huang Gai was a military general for the Eastern Wu during the Three Kingdoms era of China. He was renowned as a hardened combat veteran who loyally served three Sun Family lords throughout his lifetime: Sun Jian, his eldest son Sun Ce, and his second son Sun Quan....
    , General of Wu Kingdom during the Three Kingdoms Period
  • Huang Gongwang
    Huang Gongwang

    Hu?ng Gongw?ng was a painter from Jiangsu. He is the oldest of the "four great masters of the Yuan Dynasty." After serving as an official he acted as a Taoist priest....
     (1269 – 1345), Yuan Dynasty. Famous painter
  • Huang He
    Yellow River

    The Yellow River or Huang He / Hwang Ho is the second-longest river in China and the List of rivers by length in the world at 4,845 kilometers ....
    , Chinese name for the Yellow River.
  • Huang Huahua
    Huang Huahua

    Huang Huahua is currently the Governor of Guangdong, a southern province of China.Huang was born in Xingning, Guangdong in October 1946 and graduate of mathematics at Sun Yat-sen University....
     ???, (born 1946) is the current Governor of Guangdong
    Governor of Guangdong

    The Politics of Guangdong follows a dual party-government system like the rest of China's provinces. Guangdong is known for a surge of legislative activism in recent years, often called the Guangdong Phenomenon ....
    , a southern province of China
    China

    China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....
  • Jen-Hsun Huang
    Jen-Hsun Huang

    Jen-Hsun "Jensen" Huang is a Taiwanese-American entrepreneur and businessman. A native of Taiwan, he grew up in Oregon, graduating from Oregon State University before moving to California where he graduated from Stanford University....
     ???, co-founder of Nvidia Corporation
  • Huang Jiading (Ong Ka Ting
    Ong Ka Ting

    Malay titles Ong Ka Ting is a Malaysian politician and a former Minister of Housing and Local Government in the Cabinet of Malaysia. He is also the former President of the Malaysian Chinese Association and is the Member of Parliament for Kulai....
    ) ???, President of Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA), Minister of Housing and Local Government & Acting Minister of Health of Malaysia.
  • Wong Jim
    Wong Jim

    James Wong Jim was a renowned Cantopop lyricist and writer based primarily in Hong Kong. He was also a well known in Asia as a columnist, actor, film director, scriptwriter and talk show hosts....
     (1940 – 2004), lyricist and writer
  • Huang Jianxiang
    Huang Jianxiang

    Huang Jianxiang , is one of the best-known sports commentators in China, formerly of the state-run network China Central Television . He was fairly well received in his commentating of football, particularly at the FIFA World Cup and the German Fu?ball-Bundesliga, although he also commentated during various multi-sport events such as the Olym...
    , football commentator
  • Huang Jinhui (Wee Kim Wee) (1915 – 2005). Former president of the Republic of Singapore.
  • Huang Ju
    Huang Ju

    Huang Ju was the Executive Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China. He joined the Communist Party of China in March 1966. He was Political position ranking of the People's Republic of China, and was one of the least popular and most partisan members of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China of the Communist...
    , politician
  • Huang Kun
    Huang Kun

    Huang Kun , born in Beijing, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, was a well-known physicist in the People's Republic of China. He was awarded the State Preeminent Science and Technology Award by the President of the People's Republic of China Jiang Zemin in 2001....
     (1919 – 2005), physicist
  • Huang Qiaoshan (AD 871 – 953), Vice-Minister of Works of Tang dynasty
    Tang Dynasty

    The Tang Dynasty was an Dynasties in Chinese history preceded by the Sui Dynasty and followed by the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period. It was founded by the Li family, who seized power during the decline and collapse of the Sui Empire....
    .
  • Huang Senping
    Huang Senping

    Huang Senping , better known as Ong Sum Ping, , who married Princess Ratna Dewi , daughter of Muhammad Shah of Brunei of Brunei, and was granted the nobility title of Pengiran Maharaja Lela and elected Chief of Kinabatangan ...
     (Ming Dynasty
    Ming Dynasty

    The Ming Dynasty , or Empire of the Great Ming , was the ruling Dynasties in Chinese history of China from 1368 to 1644, following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty....
    ), better known as Ong Sum Ping, son-in-law of Sultan Muhammad Shah, the first Muslim ruler of the Sultanate of Brunei
    Brunei

    Brunei Darussalam, officially the State of Brunei, Abode of Peace , is a country located on the north coast of the island of Borneo, in Southeast Asia....
    .
  • Huang Sheng Shyan
    Huang Sheng Shyan

    Huang Sheng-Shyan, ???, Huang Hsing-hsien or Hu?ng X?ngxi?n was born in 1910 in Minhou County of the Fujian province in Mainland China....
    , also known as Huang Hsing-hsien (WG
    Wade-Giles

    Wade-Giles , sometimes abbreviated Wade, is a Romanization system for the Mandarin Chinese language used in Beijing. It developed from a system produced by Thomas Francis Wade in the mid-19th century, and reached settled form with Herbert Giles' Chinese language-English language dictionary of 1892....
    ) or Huáng X́ngxián (py
    Pinyin

    Pinyin, more formally Hanyu pinyin, is the most commonly used Romanization system for Standard Mandarin. Hanyu is the Chinese Language, and pinyin means "phonetics", or more literally, "spelling sound" or "spelled sound"....
    ), a kung fu and tai chi
    Tai Chi

    The term Tai Chi can refer to:* T'ai-chi or Taiji , a concept in Chinese philosophy* Tai chi chuan, a Chinese martial art often shortened to "Tai Chi" or "Taiji" in everyday use...
     master.
  • Huang Shengyi
    Huang Shengyi

    Eva Huang Sheng Yi is a Chinese actress, born and raised in Shanghai, China on February 11 1983. Her father lived and studied in the USA in the early 1990s and her mother works for a well known and famous newspaper office as an editor in Shanghai....
    , a Chinese actress.
  • Huang Shougong (AD 629 – 712), Founder of the famous Kaiyuan Temple in Quanzhou, China.
  • Huang Tingjian
    Huang Tingjian

    Huang Tingjian , is predominantly known as a calligrapher but was also admired for his painting and poetry. He was one of the Four masters of the Song Dynasty....
     (1045 – 1105), Famous poet and calligrapher
  • Huang Xie, Lord of Chunshen, Prime Minister of the state of Chu
    Chu (state)

    Chu was a monarchy in what is now central and southern China during the Spring and Autumn period and Warring States Period . Its ruling house had the Chinese surname mi , and clan name xiong , and originally was of the noble rank of Chinese nobility#Princehood and Peerage, roughly comparable to a viscount....
     during the Warring States Period
    Warring States Period

    The Warring States Period , also known as the Era of Warring States, covers the period from 476 BCE to the unification of China by the Qin Dynasty in 221 BCE....
  • Huang Xiang (AD 53 – 117), Han dynasty. A noted filial son in Chinese history.
  • Huang Xiaojing
    Huang Xiaojing

    Huang Xiaojing is a politician of the People's Republic of China and the current governor of Fujian Province.A native of Fuzhou, Fujian, Huang started working in September 1969, and joined the Communist Party of China in December 1973....
    , Governor of Fujian
    Fujian

    is one of the Province of China on the southeast coast of People's Republic of China. Fujian borders Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, and Guangdong to the south....
    , a southern province of China
    China

    China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....
  • Huang Xing
    Huang Xing

    Huang Xing or Huang Hsing , Chinese revolutionary leader, militarist and statesman, was the first army commander-in-chief of the Republic of China....
    , Chinese revolutionary
  • Huang Xun, General of Shu Kingdom during the Three Kingdoms Period
  • Huang Yueying
    Huang Yueying

    Huang Yueying is the fictional name for the wife of the Shu Han strategist Zhuge Liang, and daughter of Huang Chengyan. Her true name is unknown, as no name for Zhuge Liang's wife survives in history....
     invented the juggernaut and wooden ox during the Three Kingdoms Period, also the wife of Zhuge Liang
    Zhuge Liang

    Zhuge Liang was Chancellor of China of Shu Han during the Three Kingdoms period of China. He is often recognised as the greatest and most accomplished strategist of his era....
  • Huang Zhexian (Wong Jeh Shyan
    Wong Jeh Shyan

    Wong Jeh Shyan is the CEO of the influential CommerceNet Singapore and the co-founder and CEO of Ecommerce Gateway Pte. Ltd., an active venture investment company investing in strategic sectors, notably in Karachi and regionally....
    ), The CEO of CommerceNet Singapore
  • Huang Zhong
    Huang Zhong

    Huang Zhong was a leading military general of the Shu Han during the late Eastern Han Dynasty and Three Kingdoms era of China. He was most noted for his victory in the Battle of Mount Dingjun, in which his force routed that of Xiahou Yuan, who was slain during battle....
    , General of Shu Han
    Shu Han

    Shu Han , sometimes known as the Kingdom of Shu was one of the Three Kingdoms competing for control of China after the fall of the Han Dynasty, based on areas around Sichuan which was then known as Shu ....
     Kingdom during the Three Kingdoms Period
  • Huang Zongxi
    Huang Zongxi

    Huang Zongxi , courtesy name Taichong , was the name of a Chinese race political theorist, philosopher, and soldier during the latter part of the Ming dynasty into the early part the Qing dynasty....
     (1610 – 1695), Philosopher during Ming-Qing dynasties
  • David Henry Hwang
    David Henry Hwang

    David Henry Hwang is a contemporary United States playwright who has risen to prominence as the preeminent Asian American dramatist in the U.S....
    , Chinese-American playwright


Hwang(?)

  • Hwang (Korean name)
    Hwang (Korean name)

    Hwang, occasionally spelled Whang, and in few cases Whong is a common Korean family name. Hwang is the equivalent of the Chinese surname Huang....
    , a common Korean family name.
  • The Hwang River
    Hwang River

    The Hwang River is a tributary of the Nakdong River, flowing through Gyeongsangnam-do in southeastern South Korea. It originates in Geochang, from the union of various streams flowing from the slopes of Deogyusan, and meets the Nakdong in Hapcheon County....
  • David Henry Hwang
    David Henry Hwang

    David Henry Hwang is a contemporary United States playwright who has risen to prominence as the preeminent Asian American dramatist in the U.S....
    , US American playwright (b.1957)
  • Dennis Hwang
    Dennis Hwang

    Dennis Hwang, or Hwang Jeong-mok, is a graphic artist who designs the festive Google logo#Google holiday logos for Google on special days....
    , a Korean American graphic artist.
  • Hwang Jin-i
    Hwang Jin-i

    Hwang Jin-i , also known by her gisaeng name Myeongwol , is the most legendary gisaeng of the Joseon Dynasty who lived during the reign of Jungjong of Joseon....
    , a legendary kisaeng
    Kisaeng

    Kisaeng , sometimes called ginyeo , were female Korean entertainers. Kisaeng are artists who work to entertain others, such as the Yangbans and kings....
     of the Joseon Dynasty
    Joseon Dynasty

    Joseon , was a sovereign state founded by Taejo Taejo of Joseon, and lasted for approximately five centuries. It was founded in the aftermath of the overthrow of the Goryeo Kingdom at what is today the city of Kaesong....
    .
  • Yi Hwang
    Yi Hwang

    Yi Hwang is one of the two most prominent Korean Korean Confucianism scholars of the Joseon Dynasty, the other being his younger contemporary Yi I ....
    , a prominent Korean
    Korean people

    The Korean people are an ethnic group originating in East Asia. Most Koreans speak the Korean language....
     Confucian scholar.
  • Hwang Woo-Suk
    Hwang Woo-Suk

    Hwang Woo-Suk is a South Korean researcher and confidence man. He was a professor of theriogenology and biotechnology at Seoul National University who claimed a series of breakthroughs in the field of stem cell research....
    , a discredited South Korean biomedical scientist.
  • Hwang Seong-gyeong, a fictional character in the Soul series
    Soul (series)

    Soul is a weapon-based fighting game series by Namco Bandai Games. The series revolves around a sword that, after years of bloodshed and hatred, gained a soul of its own, the Soul Edge, and the sword forged to counter it, Soul Calibur....
     of fighting games.
  • Jun Hwang
    Jun Hwang

    Jun Hwang is a pianist/clarinetist/composer who came from Seoul, South Korea.This artist is known for both the piano and clarinet, a rare occurrence, in Canada....
    , a Korean Canadian musician.


See also

  • Wang
    Wang

    Wang may refer to:Name:* Wang , one of two surnames with distinct Chinese characters.* Titles in Chinese nobility* A title in Korean nobility...


Prominent people with Vietnamese family name Huynh(?)

  • Alex Huynh
    Alex Huynh

    Alex Huynh is an American martial artist and stunt man. He was born on September 4 . He specializes in Wushu , training at the United States Wushu Academy, and lives in Richmond, Virginia, after growing up in Roanoke, Virginia and attending Northside High School ....
  • Carol Huynh
    Carol Huynh

    Carol Huynh is a Vietnamese-Canadian Freestyle wrestling wrestling. Her mother is a native of Vietnam Her father was born in China but moved to Vietnam when he was three.Born in British Columbia, her parents were boat people who settled in the town of Hazelton, British Columbia after being sponsored by the local United Church of Canada....
  • Hu?nh Công Út
  • Huynh Phu So
  • Huynh Quang Thanh
    Huynh Quang Thanh

    Hu?nh Quang Thanh is a Vietnamese football who is a Defender for B?nh Duong. He is a member of the Vietnam national football team....
  • Huynh Sanh Thong
    Huynh Sanh Thong

    Hu?nh Sanh Th?ng is a Vietnamese American scholar and translator.He is best known for his English translation of Nguyen Du's Kim V?n Ki?u, published as The Tale of Kieu , and for An Anthology of Vietnamese Poems: From the Eleventh through the Twentieth Centuries ....
  • Hu?nh T?n Phát
    Hu?nh T?n Phát

    Hu?nh T?n Ph?t was a South Vietnamese politician and revolutionary. He joined the Communist Party of Vietnam in 1945. He became chairman of the Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam on its formation in 1969....
  • Huynh Van Cao
    Huynh Van Cao

    Major General Hu?nh Van Cao was an officer in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam. He was born on September 26, 1927....


External links

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  • (in English)
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  • (in Chinese)
  • provides a detailed look at a Huang family residence built during the late Qing dynasty and occupied for over 200 years.