Teng (surname)
Teng is a Chinese surname derived from State of Teng in the Western Zhou Dynasty. It is the 73rd name on the Hundred Family Surnames poem. It is T'eng in Wade–Giles, Tàhng in Cantonese and is usually Romanized as "Tang" in Hong Kong. It is Têng in Hokkien and Teochew.It is "ddàng"in Wenzhou.
"Teng" can also be used as an alternate spelling of the Chinese surname Deng used especially in Taiwan based on the Wade-Giles transliteration of Mandarin Chinese. This spelling is used in many English language sources on China written before the widespread adoption of the pinyin transliteration system in the 1980s. For example, Deng Xiaoping was written "Teng Hsiao-p'ing."Notable persons with the surname Teng
Persons surnamed Teng include:
- Teng Biao, formerly Beijing-based human rights lawyer now in exile
- :zh:滕近輝|Dr. Rev. Philip Jinhui Teng, Christian theologian and author
- Teng Haibin, gymnast from Beijing, China
- Joyce Tang, Hong Kong celebrity
- Lee C. Teng, Chinese-American Accelerator Physicist
- Teng Xiu, Wu minister during the Three Kingdoms period
- Teng Yin, Wu minister during the Three Kingdoms period
- Empress Teng, empress of Eastern Wu during the Three Kingdoms period of China
- Shanghua Teng Chinese-American computer scientist
- Teng Zhiqiang, a Chinese male slalom canoeist
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- Tara Teng, Canadian abolitionist
- Vienna Teng, born Cynthia Yih Shih, American singer-songwriter and pianist
