Wikipedia:
Ming (明) is a common personal name among Chinese people, Vietnamese people, and Korean people. In pinyin, it is written Míng, in romanized Vietnamese, it is written as Minh, and in Korean it is pronounced Myeong. Directly translated as "enlightenment", the Chinese character is a conjunction of the words sun (日) and moon (月), representing light, and therefore enlightenment. It may also mean:
People
Ming Tsai, a celebrity chefMing-Na (born 1963), an American actressYan Pei Ming (born 1960), a Chinese born painterYao Ming, professional NBA player from ChinaHo Chi Minh, Vietnamese leaderNgoc Minh, a Vietnamese poetWilliam Robert Ming, American civil rights lawyerMing, Aaron Albano an American Writer/Producer/DJ/RemixerThe Scottish name Menzies is correctly pronounced /ˈmɪŋɪs/ MING-iss, and a shortened form is "Ming" (because the letter typed 'z' is actually the letter yogh, which is still used in the 27-letter Scottish alphabet; but typewriters throughout the UK only use 26):
Robert Menzies (nicknamed "Ming"), an Australian Prime Minister (using the pronunciation "Men-zeez" for his surname)British politician Menzies Campbell (using the pronunciation "MING-iss") is often called "Ming"Luke 'Ming' Flanagan, the Irish TD, cannabis and pro-turf cutting legalisation campaigner, who takes his name from his resemblance to the fictional Ming the MercilessNorman Walsh, nickname for the Rhodesian and Zimbabwean air marshalMing the Merciless, is a fictional character who first appeared in the Flash Gordon comic strip in 1934. Chinese Emperors
Ming Dynasty, the ruling dynasty in China from 1368 to 1644Emperor Ming of Han (28-75)Emperor Ming of Wei (205-239), see Cao RuiEmperor Ming of Zhao (274 - 333), see Shi LeEmperor Ming of Jin (299 - 325)Emperor Ming of Liu Song (439 - 472)Emperor Ming of Southern Qi (452 - 498)Emperor Ming of Northern Zhou (534 - 560)
Other uses
Ming (typefaces), a common category of typefaces for printing Chinese charactersMing class submarine, a class of diesel-electric submarines built by ChinaMotorola MING, a smartphone released by MotorolaMing library, a C library with dynamic language bindings for creating Adobe Flash (.swf) filesMing-Ming Duckling, a character from Wonder PetsMing, a tiger who lived in a New York apartmentMing (clam) is an individual clam, claimed to be the oldest living animal ever discoveredto smell strongly and unpleasantly, in ScotsMinger/minging is British slang for a very unattractive person, generally female, or a distasteful situation or occurrence, deriving from the aboveImmingham, a town in North East Lincolnshire often known as "Ming" or "Ming-Ming"
