It is transliterated to Wong , Vong , Bong, Ng, Wee, Oi, Oei or Ooi, Ong or Hwang due to dialect-language variations. The surname is known as Hoàng or as Huỳnh in Vietnamese , and Hwang or Whang in Korean .
Huang is the 7th most common surname in China, with a population of more than 29 million (2000 estimate); the 3rd most common surname in Taiwan, with a population of 6% Taiwanese(1.4 million, 2005 estimate). It is also the name of more than 2 million overseas Chinese, many Vietnamese (no data available), and an estimated 1 million Koreans (The 2000 census of South Korea revealed it was the surname for 644,294 South Koreans, ranked 17th).
- Huang Chao (?-AD 884), Tang dynasty. Leader of peasant rebellion army.
- Huang Chuping , also known as Wong Tai Sin, a Taoist deity
- Huang Feihong , also known as Wong Fei Hung, a Kung Fu master
- Huang Gai , General of Wu Kingdom during the Three Kingdoms Period
- Huang Gongwang (1269-1345), Yuan Dynasty. Famous painter.
- Huang Ju , politician
- Huang Jinhui (Wee Kim Wee) (b.1915). Former president of the Republic of Singapore.
- Huang Kun (1919-2005), physicist
- Huang Qiaoshan (AD 872-953), Vice-Minister of Works of Tang Dynasty .
- Huang Senping ( Ming Dynasty ), better known as Ong Sum Ping, son-in-law of Sultan Muhammad Shah, the first Muslim ruler of the Sultanate of Brunei .
- Huang Sheng Shyan , also known as Huang Hsing-hsien ( WG ) or Huáng Xìngxián ( Py ), a Kung Fu and Tai Chi master.
- Huang Shougong (AD 629-712), Founder of the famous Kaiyuan Temple in Quanzhou, China.
- Huang Tingjian (1045-1105), Famous poet and calligrapher.
- Huang Xie , Lord of Chunshen, Prime Minister of the state of Chu during the Warring States Period .
- Huang Xiang (AD 53-117), Han dynasty. A noted filial son in Chinese history.
- Huang Xing Chinese revolutionary.
- Huang Zhong , General of Shu Han Kingdom during the Three Kingdoms Period
- Huang Zongyi (1610-1695), Ming-Qing dynasties. Famous thinker.
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