People

• Ming (surname) (明), a Chinese surname

• Ming (DJ), American DJ

• Ming Tsai, a celebrity chef

• Yao Ming, professional NBA player from China

• William Robert Ming, American civil rights lawyer

• Luke 'Ming' Flanagan, an Irish politician, who takes his name from his resemblance to the fictional Ming the Merciless

• Norman Walsh, nickname for the Rhodesian and Zimbabwean air marshal

Chinese Emperors

• Emperor Ming of Han (28–75)

• Emperor Ming of Wei (205–239), see Cao Rui

• Emperor Ming of Zhao (274–333), see Shi Le

• Emperor Ming of Jin (299–325)

• Emperor Ming of Liu Song (439–472)

• Emperor Ming of Southern Qi (452–498)

• Emperor Ming of Northern Zhou (534–560)

Fictional

• Ming the Merciless, a comic book character and archenemy of Flash Gordon

Other uses

• Southern Ming, a series of loyalist regimes established following the collapse of the Ming dynasty

• Ming River in Hebei, China

• Ming Prefecture (disambiguation) (Mingzhou), historical prefectures of imperial China

• Ming (typefaces), a common category of typefaces for printing Chinese characters

• Ming class submarine, a class of diesel-electric submarines built by China

• Motorola MING, a smartphone released by Motorola

• Ming library, a C library with dynamic language bindings for creating Adobe Flash (.swf) files

• Ming-Ming Duckling, a character from Wonder Pets

• Ming of Harlem, a tiger who lived in a New York apartment

• Ming (clam), an individual clam, claimed to be the oldest living animal ever discovered

• Immingham, a town in North East Lincolnshire often known as "Ming" or "Ming-Ming"

• Ming (album)

See also

• Menzies, a Scottish name often shortened to "Ming"