Trịnh

Trịnh is a Vietnamese family name. It exists in equivalent forms in other languages of the Sinosphere such as (鄭, Zheng, Cheng) in Chinese and Korean (Jeong, Chung).^[1]

Families that bear the surname Trịnh are exclusively Vietnamese.^{[citation needed]} The surname further proliferated following the reign of the Trịnh lords in Tonkin.^{[citation needed]}

Notable people

• Trịnh lords, A noble feudal clan that wielded de facto power in Northern Vietnam between the 16th-18th centuries. Opposed the Nguyễn lords of Southern Vietnam through a series of civil wars.
• Trịnh Công Sơn, Vietnamese musician
• Eugene Huu Chau Trinh, the first Vietnamese-American astronaut
• Trịnh Như Khuê, First Cardinal of the Catholic Church of Vietnam, Archbishop of Archdiocese of Hanoi
• Trịnh Văn Căn, Second Cardinal of Catholic Church of Vietnam, Archbishop of Archdiocese of Hanoi
• Trinh Xuan Thuan, Big Bang theorist/scientist
• Trinh T. Minh-ha, Filmmaker
• François Trinh-Duc, French rugby union player of Vietnamese descent
• Trang Trịnh, Vietnamese pianist

See also

• Jeong (surname)
• Zheng (surname)
• Nguyen (surname)