Hong (surname)
Hong is the
Wade-Giles
.
"Hong" is also one spelling employed for the
).The
, Wāng).It is also the romanization used for the Korean surname Hong, which uses the character 洪 in hanja, the Khmer surname ហុង (Hong), as well as the surname Hồng in Vietnam, from the Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese character 洪.
Origin
The name 洪 literally means "flood".
The legendary origin of the family links it to descendants of the
Ordos Loop above the Wei
.
After the
Yao Emperor when they opposed some of his orders. A second army brought a second defeat and the Yao Emperor banished the Gonggong to Jiangnan
.
When the Chinese ceased to have both ancestral and clan names, many Gonggongs combined the water
radical from jiang with the character gong to produce Hong.[dubious
]
Ancestral centers
Dunhuang in Gansu and Nanchang in Jiangxi.[citation needed]
List of persons with the surname
Hong
- Apple Hong (born 1978), Malaysian-born Singaporean actress
- Hong Chengchou (1593–1665), Chinese official
- Hong Liangji (1746–1809), Chinese scholar, statesman, political theorist, and philosopher
- Hong Peiyun (born 2001), Chinese singer
- Hong Rengan (1822–1864), Chinese revolutionary
- Hong Xiuquan (1814–1862), Chinese revolutionary and religious leader
- Hong Yuanshuo (1948–2015), Chinese football manager
- Jess Hong, New Zealand actress
- Jian Fang Lay (born Hóng Jiànfāng, 1973), Australian table tennis player
- Joshua Hong (born 1995), Korean-American singer
Hung
- Amy Hung (born 1980), Taiwanese golfer
- Bruce Hung ({born 1990), Taiwanese actor
- Chris Hung (born 1963), Taiwanese singer and television host
- Emily Hung (born 1987), Taiwanese actress
- Hung Cee Kay (born 1972), Hong Kong swimmer
- Hung Chi-chang (born 1951), Taiwanese politician
- Hung Chung Yam (born 1967), Hong Kong former cyclist
- Hung Hei-gun(1745–1825), Chinese martial artist
- Hung Hsiu-chu (born 1948), Taiwanese politician
- Hung Huang (born 1961), American-Chinese media figure
- Hung I-Hsiang (1925–1993), Taiwanese martial artist
- Hung Jui-chen (born 1990), Taiwanese tennis player
- Hung Meng-chi (born 1947), Taiwanese politician
- Hung Shih-han (born 1990), Taiwanese badminton player
- Hung Shing, Chinese folk religion deity
- Hung Tung (1920–1987), Taiwanese painter
- Hung Tzu-yung (born 1982), Taiwanese politician
- John Hung (born 1938), Hong Kong businessman
- Ken Hung (born 1987), Hong Kong singer
- Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung (born 1976), Chinese-American new media artist
- Kit Hung (born 1977), Hong Kong filmmaker
- Mien-Chie Hung (born 1950), American molecular biologist and cancer researcher
- Osman Hung (born 1979), Hong Kong singer-songwriter and actor
- Sammo Hung (born 1952), Chinese actor, martial artist and film director
- Shih-Ting Hung(born 1980), Taiwanese film director
- Stephen Hung (born 1959), Hong Kong businessman
- Timmy Hung (born 1974), Hong Kong actor
- Tony Hung (born 1983), Hong Kong actor and television host
- William Hung (sinologist) (1893–1980), Chinese historian and sinologist
Ang
- Ang Hin Kee (born 1965), Singaporean former politician
- Ang Kiukok (1931–2005), Filipino painter
- Ang Mong Seng (born 1949), Malaysia-born Singaporean former politician
- Ang Wei Neng (born 1967), Singaporean politician and businessman
- Belinda Ang (born 1954), Singaporean judge
- Eric Ang (born 1971), Filipino sport shooter
- Hong Ling (actress) (born 1994), Singaporean actress
- Joshua Ang (born 1989), Singaporean actor
- Sunny Ang (1939–1967), Singaporean murderer