Deng (surname)

Deng or ??ng is an East Asian surname. It is a transcription of or . It is transliterated as ''Dèng'' in pinyin and Teng in Wade-Giles. In , it is ''Dahng'' in and ''Dang6'' in Jyutping. In Minnan or , it is ''Tēng'' in Pe?h-ōe-jī. The surname originating from the same Chinese character in is ''??ng'' and it is one of the top ten surnames in Vietnam. The name is transliterated as ''Deung'' in but is very rare in Korea. Deng is one of the surnames in ''Nanyang Tang'' .

In addition to spelling "Deng" used in mainland China, other common Chinese spelling variations include:
* Tang - Romanization based on spelling common in Hong Kong
* Teng - Romanization based on Wade-Giles transliteration of common spelling in Taiwan

This surname should not be confused with the surname Teng .

Notable persons with the surname Deng or its variants

*Deng Xiaoping, former Communist Party of China leader
**Deng Pufang, son of Deng Xiaoping
**Deng Nan, daughter of Deng Xiaoping
*??ng H?u Phúc, Vietnamese pianist and film score composer
*??ng Thái S?n, Vietnamese pianist
*??ng Thùy Tr?m, Vietnamese doctor famous for her wartime diaries
*Deng Ai, Wei general during the Three Kingdoms period
*Kent Deng, economic historian and writer
*Deng Ming-Dao, Taoist author
*Deng Shichang, Qing Dynasty admiral
*Deng Shiru , calligrapher and seal carver
*Deng Yingchao, wife of Zhou Enlai
*Deng Yaping, table tennis player
*Alan Kwong-wing Tang , actor and movie producer
*Tang Wing Cheung , birth name of Cantonese opera and film actor Sun Ma Sze Tsang
*H. T. Teng, Taiwanese ichthyologist
*Teresa Teng, Taiwanese singer
*Si-an Deng, a Chinese-Canadian badminton player
*Wendi Deng, Chinese-American businesswoman and current wife of billionaire Rupert Murdoch