To (surname)
To, Tô, and Tō are a group of surnames of east-Asian origin, for each of which "To" (without any diacritical mark) is at least an occasional variant.
Tô is a Vietnamese surname (Chữ Nôm: 蘇) derived from the Chinese surname Su.
From Chinese 陶 (Tao):
- Tô, the Minnan romanization of the name
- To, the Cantonese romanization for the name
- Tō, the romanization of the Japanese surname 陶, which is derived from the (same Chinese) name
Individuals named To
- Johnnie To (杜), a Hong Kong film director and producer
- Marcus To, a Canadian comics artist
- Tô Hiến Thành, a famous governmental officer in the past of Vietnam
- Tô Đông Pha, a notable Chinese writer, poet, painter, calligrapher, pharmacologist, gastronome, and a statesman of the Song dynasty
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