Huang
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Huang (Chinese: 黃) is a Chinese surname. While Huang is the pinyin romanisation of the word, it may also be romanised as Wong, Vong, Bong, Ng, Wee, Oi, Oei or Ooi, Ong, or Hwang due to pronounciations of the word in different dialects and languages. The surname is known as Hoàng or as Huỳnh in Vietnamese, and Hwang, Whang in Korean.
Huang is the 7th most common surname in China. The population of Huangs in China (including Taiwan) was estimated at more than 29 million in 2000; it was also the surname of more than 2 million overseas Chinese, many Vietnamese (no data available), and an estimated 1 million Koreans (The 2000 census of South Korea revealed it was the surname for 644,294 South Koreans, ranked 17th)[1].
See also Wong, the common English transliteration of the southern Chinese dialect of Cantonese on the surname Huang.
[edit] Prominent people with family name 黃
- Huang Chao (?-AD 884), Tang dynasty. Leader of peasant rebellion army
- Huang, Chungliang Al American teacher of Taoism and Tai Chi
- Huang Chuping, also known as Wong Tai Sin, a Taoist deity
- Wong Fei Hung (Huang Feihong in Mandarin). a kung fu master
- Huang Gai, General of Wu Kingdom during the Three Kingdoms Period
- Huang Gongwang (1269-1345), Yuan Dynasty. Famous painter
- Huang Huahua 黃華華, (born 1946) is the current Governor of Guangdong, a southern province of China
- Huang Ju, politician
- Huang Jianxiang, football commentator
- Huang Jinhui (Wee Kim Wee) (b.1915). Former president of the Republic of Singapore.
- Huang Kun (1919-2005), physicist
- Huang Qiaoshan (AD 871-953), Vice-Minister of Works of Tang dynasty.
- Huang Senping (Ming Dynasty), better known as Ong Sum Ping, son-in-law of Sultan Muhammad Shah, the first Muslim ruler of the Sultanate of Brunei.
- Huang Sheng Shyan, also known as Huang Hsing-hsien (WG) or Huáng Xìngxián (py), a kung fu and tai chi master.
- Huang Shougong (AD 629-712), Founder of the famous Kaiyuan Temple in Quanzhou, China.
- Huang Tingjian (1045-1105), Famous poet and calligrapher
- Huang Xie, Lord of Chunshen, Prime Minister of the state of Chu during the Warring States Period
- Huang Xiang (AD 53-117), Han dynasty. A noted filial son in Chinese history.
- Huang Xiaojing, Governor of Fujian, a southern province of China
- Huang Xing, Chinese revolutionary
- Huang Zhong, General of Shu Han Kingdom during the Three Kingdoms Period
- Huang Zongyi (1610-1695), Philosopher during Ming-Qing dynasties
- Huang Yueying, invented the juggernaut and wooden ox during the Three Kingdoms Period, also the wife of Zhuge Liang
[edit] Notes
- ^ http://www.geocities.com/bx_huang/Huang_origin.html Retrieved 2005-12-15
[edit] External links
- Huang Genealogy
- Origin and Development of the Huang Surname Clan
- Huang Surname Research(in Chinese)
- A personal site on the family name Wong (in English)
- Huang Family of Zhongshan (in Chinese)
- Huang Forum (in Chinese)
- Yin Yu Tang: A Chinese Home provides a detailed look at a Huang family residence built during the late Qing dynasty and occupied for over 200 years.
