Hoang Vu
Chinese Surname
Huang (simplified Chinese: 黄; traditional Chinese: 黃) is a Chinese surname that means "golden yellow," or literally "yellow." While Huáng is the pinyin romanisation of the word, it may also be romanised as Houang, Hoang, Wong, Vong, Hung, Hong, Bong, Eng, Ng, Uy, Wee, Oi, Oei or Ooi, Ong, Hwang, or Ung due to pronunciations 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 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)
Famous Hoang's
Hoang Anh Gia Lai (Vietnamese: Câu lạc bộ bóng đá Hoàng Anh Gia Lai) is a Vietnamese soccer club based in Pleiku. They play in the top division in Vietnamese soccer. Their home stadium is Pleiku Stadium.
Recently, the team signed an agreement with Arsenal F.C. to open a youth academy in Pleiku. HAGL will also be the main distributor of Arsenal merchandise in Southeast Asian area.
Hoàng Văn Chí (1 October 1913, Thanh Hóa, central Vietnam - 6 July 1988, Bowie, Maryland, USA) was one of the first Vietnamese political writers, a prominent intellectual who was an opponent of colonialism and later of communism in Vietnam. He used the penname Mạc Định. His book, From Colonialism to Communism, was translated into more than 15 languages.
Hoang Anh Tuan
Hoang Anh Tuan (Hoàng Anh Tuấn, born 12 February 1985 in the Bac Ninh province) is a Vietnamese weightlifter.
At the 2005 Junior World Championships he won the silver medal in the men's -56 kg class, with a total of 276 kg. He participated in the men's -56 kg class at the 2005 World Weightlifting Championships and won the bronze medal, with a total of 279 kg.
Tuan participated in the men's -56 kg class at the 2006 World Weightlifting Championships and won the bronze medal, finishing behind Li Zheng and Sergio Alvarez Boulet. He snatched 124 kg and jerked an additional 152 kg for a total of 276 kg, 4 kg behind winner Li.
He also won a silver medal at the 2006 Asian Games, at 56 kg, lifting 128 kg in the snatch and 157 kg in the clean and jerk, for a total of 285 kg.
At the 2008 Asian Weightlifting Championships, he won the gold medal in the men's -56 kg class, with a total of 279 kg.
He won a silver medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics after lifting a total of 290kg.
In some weightlifting statistics he appears misspelled as "Anh Taun Hoang".
Hoang Anh Tuan was named 2008 Vietnam Sportsman of the Year.