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Lâm


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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