Ngô

Ngô is a Vietnamese surname.

Notable people with the surname Ngô

• Ngô Đình Diệm family
  • Ngô Đình Diệm, South Vietnamese politician and final prime minister of the State of Vietnam
  • Ngô Đình Nhu, brother of Ngô Đình Diệm and archivist and politician
  • Ngô Đình Khả, father of Ngô Đình Diệm and high-ranking Catholic mandarin in the Court of the Emperor Thành Thái of Nguyễn dynasty
  • Ngô Đình Khôi, brother of Ngô Đình Diệm and politician
  • Ngô Đình Cẩn, brother of Ngô Đình Diệm and politician
  • Ngô Đình Luyện, brother of Ngô Đình Diệm and diplomat
  • Pierre Martin Ngô Đình Thục, brother of Ngô Đình Diệm and Roman Catholic Archbishop

Academia

• Ngô Bảo Châu, Vietnamese mathematician; Fields Medal winner (2010)
• Ngô Sĩ Liên, Vietnamese historian and expert on the Lê dynasty
• Ngô Viết Thụ, Vietnamese architect
• Ngô Xuân Diệu, Vietnamese poet

Media

• Ngô Bá Khá (b. 1993), Internet personality better known by his pseudonym Khá Bảnh
• Ngô Thanh Vân, Vietnamese actress
• Ngô Tự Lập, Vietnamese writer, poet, essayist, translator and songwriter
• Ngô Ngọc Hưng, Vietnamese singer based in South Korea; founder and leader of C.A.C., contestant on the Korean survival program I-Land (11th place)
• Andy Ngo, American conservative activist and journalist

Politics and military

• Ngô Văn Dụ, Chairman of the Central Commission for Inspection of the Communist Party of Vietnam from 2011 to 2016
• Ngô Xuân Lịch, Vietnam's Minister of National Defence and Chief of the General Department of Politics of Vietnam
• Ngô Thị Thanh Hằng, Vietnamese politician
• Ngô Thị Doãn Thanh, Chairman of the Hanoi People's Council from 2006 to 2015
• 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 Trọng Anh, Vietnamese civil servant
• Ngô Thế Linh, Army Colonel of the Republic of Vietnam
• Ngô Thì Nhậm, Vietnamese scholar and official

Religion

• Ngô Văn Chiêu (religious name Ngô Minh Chiêu), first disciple of Đức Cao Đài

See also

• Ngô dynasty
• Wu (surname), the Mandarin Chinese transliteration of the surname