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Ng (name)
Ng (pronounced ; English approximation often or or ) is both a Cantonese transliteration of the Chinese surnames 吳/吴 ( Mandarin ''Wú'') and 伍 (Mandarin ''Wǔ'') and also a common Hokkien transcription of the surname 黃/ 黄 (, Mandarin Huáng). The surname is sometimes romanized as '' Ang'', '' Eng'', ''Ing'' and '' Ong'' in the United States and '' Ung'' in Australia. The Mandarin version of Ng is sometimes romanized as '' Woo'' or '' Wu''. In Vietnam, the corresponding surname is Ngô. In Cambodia, the corresponding surname is Oeng. A variant pronunciation for 黃/黄 in the Zhangzhou dialect of Hokkien is () and has various transliterations, such as Oei, Oey, Uy, and Wee. Notable people with the surname Ng (character unknown) * Clive Ng (born 1962), media sector financier and executive * Evelyn Ng (born 1975), Canadian professional poker player * Fae Myenne Ng (born 1956), American novelist * Geeling Ng, New Zealand model, actress and restaurateur * Heok Hee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cantonese
Cantonese is the traditional prestige variety of Yue Chinese, a Sinitic language belonging to the Sino-Tibetan language family. It originated in the city of Guangzhou (formerly known as Canton) and its surrounding Pearl River Delta. While the term ''Cantonese'' specifically refers to the prestige variety, in linguistics it has often been used to refer to the entire Yue subgroup of Chinese, including related but partially mutually intelligible varieties like Taishanese. Cantonese is viewed as a vital and inseparable part of the cultural identity for its native speakers across large swaths of southeastern China, Hong Kong and Macau, as well as in overseas communities. In mainland China, it is the ''lingua franca'' of the province of Guangdong (being the majority language of the Pearl River Delta) and neighbouring areas such as Guangxi. It is also the dominant and co-official language of Hong Kong and Macau. Furthermore, Cantonese is widely spoken among overseas Chinese in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evelyn Ng
Evelyn Ng (born September 14, 1975 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian professional poker player. She lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Early life Ng began her gaming career playing pool for money at age 14. By age 17, she had expanded into dealing blackjack and poker games in her hometown of Toronto. Around that time, she dated fellow Canadian poker player Daniel Negreanu. He helped her develop a style of play designed to combat aggressive players. Poker career Ng achieved fame on the World Poker Tour (WPT) circuit in 2003 after placing second to Clonie Gowen in the ''Ladies' Night I'' tournament, finishing ahead of established professionals including Annie Duke, Kathy Liebert and Jennifer Harman. Ng was included as one of the characters in the video game '' Stacked with Daniel Negreanu''. Formerly a representative of the online poker room PokerStars, she is now part of Team Bodog. Ng was a participant in the ''King of Vegas'' television series on SpikeTV, and featured in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ng Mui
Ng Mui ( Chinese: t , p ''Wú Méi''; Cantonese: ''Ng5 Mui4'') is said to have been one of the legendary Five Elders—survivors of the destruction of the Shaolin Temple by the Qing Dynasty. According to legend she is said to have been a master of various martial arts including the Shaolin martial arts, the Wudang martial arts, Ng Ying Kung Fu () and Yuejiaquan, and the family style of Yue Fei. She is also credited as the founder of the martial arts Wǔ Méi Pài (Ng Mui style), Wing Chun, Dragon style, and Five-Pattern Hung Kuen. She has been associated with various locations, including the Shaolin Temple in either Henan or Fujian, the Wudang Mountains in Hubei, Mount Emei in Sichuan, a supposed White Crane Temple, the Daliang Mountains on the border between Sichuan and Yunnan, and additional locations in Guangxi and Guangdong. According to one folk story, she was the daughter of a Ming general. Wing Chun The subject of Wing Chun's origins h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Win Ng
Win "Winfred" Ng (April 13, 1936 – September 6, 1991) was a Chinese American artist, entrepreneur, and decorative designer. Ng was known for working as a ceramist, sculptor, metal worker, industrial designer, painter and illustrator, but best known as the co-founder of the groundbreaking San Francisco based department store Taylor & Ng and his commercial ceramics work under the same name. His artwork is in the collections of the Smithsonian, the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Victoria & Albert Museum, Museum of Contemporary Crafts, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Art and Design (MAD) and the De Young Museum. Early life Ng was born in Chinatown, San Francisco to Chinese immigrants, Fook On Ng and Kow Yuan Ng. As a teenager he worked under ceramic artist and author, Jade Snow Wong. He studied at Saint Mary's Academy, City College of San Francisco, and San Francisco State University. After serving in the United States Army he studied at the San Francisc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ren Ng
Yi-Ren Ng (born September 21, 1979) is a Malaysian American scientist who is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. He was the founder, executive chairman and CEO of Lytro, a Mountain View, California-based startup company. Lytro was developing consumer light-field cameras based on Ng's graduate research at Stanford University. Lytro ceased operations in late March 2018. Early life and education Ng was born in Malaysia, and immigrated to Australia at the age of 9. He earned a B.S. degree in mathematical and computational science in 2001, an M.S. in computer science in 2002, and a Ph.D. in computer science in 2006, all from Stanford University. His doctoral dissertation, titled ''Digital Light Field Photography'', received the 2006 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award. Business career Ng interned at Microsoft from June 2000 to September 2000 and June 2003 to September 2003 while studying at S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perry Ng
Perry Tian Hee Ng () (born 24 June 1996) is an English professional footballer who plays either as a full-back or centre-back for club Cardiff City. Ng made his professional debut for Crewe Alexandra in 2015, after a loan at Hyde United, and made 182 appearances for Crewe before joining Cardiff City in January 2021 where he won two consecutive 'Player of the season' awards, in the 2022–23 and 2023–24 campaigns. Club career Crewe Alexandra Born in Liverpool, Ng was in Crewe Alexandra's youth system for ten years before signing his first professional contract for two years on 14 May 2014. On 1 November 2014, he had his first inclusion in a matchday squad, remaining an unused substitute in a 1–1 draw at Crawley Town in League One. On 30 January 2015, Ng was loaned for a month to Hyde United of the Conference North. He made his senior debut on 7 February, playing the full 90 minutes of a 1–3 home loss to Boston United. Ng twice extended his loan for the struggling te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maya Soetoro-Ng
Maya Kasandra Soetoro-Ng (; ; born August 15, 1970) is an Indonesian-born American academic, who is a faculty specialist at the Spark M. Matsunaga Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution, based in the College of Social Sciences at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. She is also a consultant for the Obama Foundation, working to develop the Asia-Pacific Leaders Program. Formerly a high school history teacher, Soetoro-Ng is the maternal half-sister of Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States. Early life and education Soetoro-Ng was born in Saint Carolus Hospital, a Catholic hospital, in Jakarta, Indonesia, the daughter of American cultural anthropologist Ann Dunham (1942–1995), an American of Swiss, German, Irish, Scottish, Welsh and English descent and Indonesian businessman Lolo Soetoro (1935–1987). She had two half-brothers, Barack Obama (born 1961), the 44th president of the United States, and Bayu Yusuf Aji Soetoro (born 1981), and a half-sister, Raha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lenhard Ng
Lenhard Ng (born 1976) is an American mathematician, working primarily on symplectic geometry. Ng is a professor of mathematics at Duke University. Background and education Lenhard Ng is an American of Chinese descent. His father, Jack Ng, is a professor of physics at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. Lenhard earned his B.A. ''summa cum laude'' in Mathematics and Physics from Harvard University in three years and his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2001. He is married to Astrid Giugni. Child prodigy Ng was a child prodigy who was once thought to be the "smartest kid in America". At age 10, he earned a perfect score of 800 on the math portion of what is now called the SAT-I, a feat considered to be a “remarkable achievement” when a high school junior or senior did it. He was the youngest person to have achieved this feat on his first try. At the age of 11, he earned a perfect score on the College Board Test of Standard W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kelvin Ng
Kelvin Ng (born November 10, 1958) is a former territorial and municipal level politician in Canada who was elected in both the Nunavut Legislature and Northwest Territories Legislature. Early life Ng grew up in Vancouver and studied accounting at Vancouver City College. He moved to Cambridge Bay, Nunavut in 1978 to work for Hudson's Bay Company. Political career Ng began his political career on the municipal level. He has served on municipal council between 1979 and 1987 and as Mayor of Cambridge Bay from 1988 to 1993. Ng first ran in territorial election against Ernie Bernhardt for the Kitikmeot electoral district but was defeated by Bernhardt in the 1991 Northwest Territories general election. Ng won in the 1993 by-election to fill the vacancy for Kitikmeot after a mid-term resignation by Bernhardt. Bernhardt and Ng faced each other again in this district in the 1995 Northwest Territories general election. He defeated Bernhardt and was re-elected. Ng served one ter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eden (Irish Musician)
Jonathon Ng (born 23 December 1995), known professionally as Eden (stylised as EDEN), is an Irish musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, and occasional model. He formerly operated as The Spab Project and later The Eden Project, an alias discontinued in 2015. Ng's work as The Eden Project typically featured more conventional styles of electronic dance music, such as dubstep and drum and bass, while EDEN saw himself venturing into an indie pop style. Ng released six EPs and over 70 songs and remixes as The Eden Project. As EDEN, he launched his own record label, MCMXCV, on which his debut EP ''End Credits'' was released. His second EP, ''I Think You Think Too Much of Me'', was released in August 2016, debuting at No. 43 on the Irish Albums Chart as his first charting music. EDEN's debut studio album ''Vertigo'' was released on 19 January 2018 and was supported by a world tour. In February 2020, Ng released his sophomore studio album called ''No Future'', which was follo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ng
Wing Lok "John" Ng (born Wing-Lok Ng) is an instructor of Chinese martial arts, a master of Six Harmony ( Liu yi), Xingyiquan, Baguazhang, and Drunken Monkey kung fu. He was born in Fujian in 1950, of Hui Chinese descent. He is a Traditional Chinese medicine doctor and pharmacist specializing in herbalism. Career In 1981 he founded the Four Seasons Kung Fu & Wu Shu Academy in Richmond, Kentucky and later in Lexington, which flourished during the 1980s and early 1990s. John Ng was Executive Advisor to The International Chinese Boxing Association in 2006 and 2008. He is now semi-retired, but still teaches a small number of private students. John Ng founded the Bowling Green Martial Arts and Health Club in Bowling Green, Kentucky in 1974. In 2016, he portrayed Mr. Chin in the Canadian Television show, ''Kim's Convenience ''Kim's Convenience'' is a Television in Canada, Canadian television sitcom that aired on CBC Television from October 2016 to April 2021. It depicts the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacob Ng
Jacob Ng (born 20 November 1994) is an Australian professional boxer who has held the WBO Oriental and IBF International lightweight titles since 2019. Early years Ng was born on 20 November 1994 on the Gold Coast in Queensland. His father, Stephen, was a successful amateur boxer who also held the Queensland State middleweight title as a pro. He spent much of his childhood at his father's gym, Matrix Boxing Gym, initially taking up Brazilian jiu-jitsu at the age of ten. He competed in the sport nationally and internationally until the age of 18, becoming a blue belt with four tips. He began boxing at the age of 15 and won a state amateur title before he started getting into trouble and partying. His dad sent him to Thailand for a year to compete in Muay Thai, where he compiled a professional record of 8–0–1 (8 KO). Professional career He made his professional boxing debut on 24 June 2017, defeating Sam Williams via a fourth-round technical knockout (TKO) in Eatons Hill, Q ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
