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This is a list of notable Malaysians of Chinese origin, including original immigrants who obtained Malaysian citizenship and their Malaysian descendants.Entries on this list are demonstrably notable by having a linked current article or reliable sources as footnotes against the name to verify they are notable and define themselves either full or partial Chinese, whose ethnic origin lie in China.
Traditional Chinese names are used among the Malaysian Chinese. These names are usually represented as three words, for example Foo Li Leen or Tan Ai Lin. The first is the Chinese surname, which is passed down from a father to all his children.
A 2010 study by Baiju Shah & al data-mined the Registered Persons Database of Canadian health card recipients in the province of Ontario for a particularly Chinese-Canadian name list. Ignoring potentially non-Chinese spellings such as Lee (49,898 total), [24]: Table 1 they found that the most common Chinese names in Ontario were: [24]
Chinese names: Can be listed in three ways according to the individual's preference: surname first as is customary (surname first, then Chinese given names: "WONG Kim Siong"), surname between given names (non-Chinese derived name, surname, Chinese given names: "David WONG Kim Siong"), or in the Western style of surname last (David WONG) Malay ...
Most Malaysians do not use a family last name. There is only a small number of ethnic groups which maintain family names, such as the Malaysian Chinese, Eurasian and some Malaysian Indian and East Malaysian natives.
Those with a Western first name can write their name in English in various ways – some may add the Western first name in front and the Chinese given name last (the surname is therefore in the middle), or fully Westernised with both the Western and Chinese given names before the Chinese surname. [21]
a Cantonese romanization of the Chinese surnames Zhong (t 鍾, s 钟) and Zhong ; Cantonese and Gan romanizations of the Chinese surname Zhuang (t 莊, s 庄) the McCune–Reischauer romanization of the Korean surname Jeong (정) Chong is the 19th-most-common surname among Chinese Singaporeans and Malaysian Chinese, with 23,100 bearers in the ...
Tan Sitong (譚嗣同, 1865–1898), Chinese politician; Tan Songyun (谭松韵, born 1990), Chinese actress; Tan Sui Hoon (born 1963), Malaysian badminton player; Tan Yankai (譚延闓, 1880–1930) Chinese politician and Premier of the Republic of China. Yuanyuan Tan (譚元元, born 1977), Chinese ballet dancer; Principal Dancer at the San ...