Lâm
title: "Lâm" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["vietnamese-language-surnames"] topic_path: "general/vietnamese-language-surnames" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lâm" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
Lâm is a Vietnamese surname. The name is transliterated as Lin in Mandarin and Im in Korean.
Lam is the anglicized variation of the surname Lâm.
Lam is also a commonly held surname of Cantonese speakers of Chinese descent. Large populations in southern China and Hong Kong hold the surname.
Notable people with the surname Lâm
- Lam Phương, 20th century Vietnamese songwriter, real name Lâm Đình Phùng
- Lam Nguon Tanh (Lâm Ngươn Tánh), Chief of Naval Operations of the Republic of Vietnam Navy during the Vietnam War
- Thích Quảng Đức (born Lâm Văn Tức), Mahayana Buddhist monk who burned himself to death at a busy Saigon road intersection on 11 June 1963
- Lam Nhat Tien, Vietnamese American singer
- Lam Quang Thi, senior military officer in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam during the Vietnam War
- Lam Quang My, late Polish-Vietnamese poet who wrote in Polish and Vietnamese
- Lam Van Phat, an officer in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam
- Lâm Quang Ky, a vice-general of Nguyen Trung Truc
- Lâm Thị Mỹ Dạ, poet
- Katarina Lam, United States data scientist
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