People
- Ming Tsai, a celebrity chef
- Ming-Na (born 1963), an American actress
- Yan Pei Ming (born 1960), a Chinese born painter
- Yao Ming, professional NBA player from China
- Ho Chi Minh, Vietnamese leader
- William Robert Ming, American civil rights lawyer
- The Scottish name Menzies is correctly pronounced /ˈmɪŋɪs/MING-iss, and a shortened form is "Ming" (because the letter typed 'z' is actually the letter yogh, which is still used in the 27-letter Scottish alphabet; but typewriters throughout the UK only use 26):
- Robert Menzies (nicknamed "Ming"), an Australian Prime Minister (using the pronunciation "Men-zeez" for his surname)
- Menzies Campbell (using the pronunciation "MING-iss"), a British politician often called "Ming"
- Luke 'Ming' Flanagan, the Irish TD, cannabis and pro-turf cutting legalisation campaigner, who takes his name from his resemblance to the fictional Ming the Merciless
- Norman Walsh, nickname for the Rhodesian and Zimbabwean air marshal
- Ming the Merciless, is a fictional character who first appeared in the Flash Gordon comic strip in 1934
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