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