Pun (surname)
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Pun is a surname. It may be:
- A surname of the Magar people in Nepal (पुन)[1]
- An English surname of unexplained origin[2]
- A Cantonese spelling of the Chinese surname transcribed as Pān in Hanyu Pinyin (潘)[2]
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According to statistics cited by Patrick Hanks, there were 783 people with this surname on the island of Great Britain and six on the island of Ireland as of 2011.[2] The 2010 United States Census found 1,197 people with the surname Pun, making it the 21,736th-most-common name in the country. This represented an increase from 861 people (26,614th-most-common) in the 2000 Census. In both censuses, more than four-fifths of the bearers of the surname identified as Asian.[3]
Notable people with this surname include:
- Tul Bahadur Pun (1923–2011), Nepali rifleman of the Royal Gurkha Rifles and Honorary Lieutenant-recipient of the Victoria Cross
- Om Prasad Pun (born 1942), Nepali boxer
- Narayan Singh Pun (c. 1949–2008), Nepali politician, member of the House of Representatives, pilot and lieutenant colonel in the Royal Nepal Army, founding president of Nepal Samata Party
- Serge Pun (潘繼澤; born 1953), Burmese businessman of Chinese descent
- Mahabir Pun (born 1955), Nepali teacher and social entrepreneur, Magsaysay Award winner for extending wireless technologies in rural parts of Nepal.
- Pun Kwok-shan (潘國山; born 1961), Hong Kong politician
- Nanda Kishor Pun (born 1966), Nepali politician, second Vice-President of Nepal, former chief commander of the People's Liberation Army
- Barsaman Pun (born 1971), Nepali politician, former Minister of Finance
- Dipprasad Pun (born c. 1980), Nepali sergeant of the Royal Gurkha Rifles (British Army), recipient of the Conspicuous Gallantry Cross
- Sagar Pun (born 1993), Nepali cricketer
- Pun Wai-yan (潘慧欣; born 1995), Hong Kong rugby union player
- Raymond Pun (潘宏), American research librarian
- Pun Sing-lui (潘星磊), Hong Kong performance artist