Famous People with Name Ngo

Ngo Dinh Diem            Origin/Culture/Country: Vietnamese

Ngo Dinh Diem: was the first President of South Vietnam (1955–1963).Diem came from the village of Phu Cam in central Vietnam. Portuguese missionaries had converted his family to Catholicism in the 17th century. Diem would often claim that he had descended from a blue-blooded family of mandarins who were so revered that people believed that it was a great honour and good luck to be buried alongside his ancestors. Most historians dismiss this as false and believe that his family were of low rank until his father passed the imperial examinations. His father Ngô Ðình Kh? scrapped plans to become a Catholic priest and became a mandarin and counselor to Emperor Thành Thái during the French colonisation. He rose to become the minister of the rites and chamberlain, and keeper of the eunuchs. Kh? had six sons and three daughters by his second wife, whom he married after his first died childless. Devoutly Catholic, Kh? took his entire family to mass every morning. The third of six sons, Diem was christened Jean-Baptiste in the cathedral in Hu?