Lâm
# 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, Polish-Vietnamese poet who writes 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
