Category: Name

  • Paing Brothers

    • ICS U Paing has four sons : Myo Paing, Soe Paing, Win Paing and Kyaw Paing.
    • They attended SPHS (St. Paul’s High School).
    • They are Champion Golfers.

    Dr. Myo Paing (SPHS54)

    • Medical doctor — BMRI
    • Early assignment was Malaria Campaign
    • Champion golfer.

    Saya U Soe Paing (SPHS56)

    • Stood 17th in the whole of Burma in Matriculation examination of 1956; Won Collegiate Scholarship
    • Received BSEE and MSEE from Stanford University
    • Joined the RIT EE Department as Assistant Lecturer.
    • Co-founded UCC with Dr. Chit Swe, U Myo Min and U Ko Ko Lay
    • Transferred to UCC as Systems Manager of Systems Division
    • Received M.Sc. in Computer Science from the Southampton University
    • Worked for UN projects in several countries.
    • Wrote “Computer Ah Sa UCC Ga” and his experiences as a States Scholar and UN Advisor.
    • Spent time playing golf and practicing vipassana meditation.
    • During his UCC days, he served as a Golf Correspondent.
      I helped him type about the competition at RGC and BGC and submit to the English newspapers.

    U Win Paing (SPHS64, GBNF)

    • Won several Golf Championships with his younger brother U Kyaw Paing.
    • After finishing the finals for Chemical Engineering examination in 1970, he became U Wara.
    • Served as Taik Oke for more than four decades.
    • Succeeded Sayadaw U Vinaya as the Chief Resident Monk of KabaAye Sunlun Gu Kyaung.

    U Kyaw Paing (SPHS67)

    • Represented Burma in the Putra Cup.
    • Lawyer and Entrepreneur.

    U Khin Maung Zaw (EC76) wrote:
    For number of years, I was the carrier-cum-postman to bring Saya Paing’s typed golf news to the WPD, Working Peoples’ Daily at Theingbyu Street! Just one of the chores I had in those days.
    I remember jokingly asked Sayadaw U Wara how he felt seeing the (18th??) hole over the fence from the Sunlun Kyaung’s “Thein”. The new golf course was built for VIPs inside KabaAye, and that particular hole was seen from the “Thein” less than 40-50 yards, of course over the fence.

    U Wara

    ဘဝနတ်ထံပျံလွန်တော်မူခြင်း။

    ရေနံချောင်းမြို့ ကျောက်စာရုံ ဒါယိကာ -ဦးသန့်ဇင် ဒေါ်မမကြီး နှင့် ခြောက်ထပ်ကြီးဘုရားကြီး ဒါယိကာ -ဆာ ဦးဖိုးသာ လေဒီသာ (ခ) ဒေါ်ရီတို့၏မြေး စည်သူဦးပိုင် ICS(retd) ဒေါ်ဥယျာဉ် တို့၏ တတိယသား ဒေါက်တာဦးမျိုးပိုင်-(ဒေါ်ခင်မမ )၊ဦးစိုးပိုင်-ဒေါ်စောယုတင့် တို့၏ညီ၊ဦးကျော်ပိုင်-ဒေါ်အိအိမြတ် တို့၏အကို ၊တူတူမ ၁၀ ဦးတို့၏ ဦလေးတော် ဦးရီးတော် ဖြစ်သည်-(ဦးဝင်းပိုင် BE Engg Chemical 1969) “ဆရာတော်ဦးဝရ “သက်တော် ၇၅ နှစ် ဝါတော် ၅၂ ဝါ -၇မိုင်ကမ္ဘာအေးစွန်းလွန်းဂူကျောင်းဝိပသာနာ တိုက် ကမ္မာဌာနစရိယဆရာတော်”သည် ၂၆/၀၈/၂၀၂၁ နေ့ည ၁၁ နာရီအချိန်တွင် ဘဝနတ် ထံပျံလွန်တော်မူသွားပါသည်။

    ဆရာတော်မနာကျန်းဖြစ်မှုအားခွဲစိတ် ကုသပေးသော ဆရာဝန်ကြီးဦးတိုးလွင် ၊ဦးကျော်မြင့် -သမားတော်ကြီးဦးရဲမြင့် ၊ဦးသူရိန်ဝင်း နှင့် Oncology ဆရာဝန်ကြီးများအပြင် ပန်းလှိုင်ဆေးရုံကြီး၊ဂရင်းဟန် သာဆေးရုံကြီး၊ပင်လုံဆေးရုံကြီးတို့မှတာဝန်ရှိဆရာဝန်၊သူနာပြုဆရာများအားငုင်း၊ကမ္ဘာအေးစွန်းလွန်းဝိပသနာကျောင်းတိုက် ဂေါပကအဖွဲ့နှင့်ယောကီများအားငုင်းကျောက်ပန်းတောင်း ၊မိုးကုတ် ၊ပြင်ဦးလွင် တိုက်ခွဲများမှ တိုက်အုပ်ဆရာတော်နှင့်ယောဂီများအားငုင်း အထူးကျေဇူးတင်ရှိပါကြောင်းလေးစားစွာအသိ ပေးအကြောင်းကြားအပ်ပါသည်။

    ကျန်ရစ်သူညီအကိုများ

  • Non-Burmese Names

    Examples

    • Ann, Anne, Annie
    • Archie
    • Art, Arthur
    • Baby
    • Bob, Bobby
    • Bruce
    • Carol, Caroline
    • Charles, Charlie
    • Cindy
    • Dave, David, Davinder
    • Dick, Dickie, Dicky
    • Don, Donald
    • Eric, Erica
    • Ernest, Ernie
    • Errol
    • Frank, Frankie, Franklin
    • Fred, Freddie, Freddy, Frederick
    • Fey
    • Gavin
    • George, Georgia, Georgie
    • Gerald, Geraldine, Gerry
    • Harold
    • Henri, Henry
    • Hugh
    • Ingrid
    • Irene, Irina
    • Iris
    • * Jack, Jackie, Jacqueline
    • * Joe, Joseph, Josephine
    • * Jon, Jonathan, John, Johnson
    • Katherine, Kathleen, Katie, Kathy
    • Ken, Kenneth, Kenny
    • Kim, Kimberly
    • Larry
    • Leonard
    • Lily
    • Marie, Mary
    • Margaret, Margie
    • Mona
    • Nelson
    • Newt, Newton
    • Noyce
    • Oliver, Olivia
    • Oprah
    • Orwell
    • Pam, Pamela
    • Percy
    • Phillip
    • Quarry
    • Quebec
    • Quincy
    • Roland
    • Rob, Robbie, Robert
    • Ron, Ronald, Ronnie
    • Sam, Samuel, Samuelson
    • Sylvester
    • Sylvia
    • Tina, Tiny
    • Thomas, Thompson, Tom, Tommy
    • Tim, Timmy, Timothy
    • Ursula
    • Uttam
    • Victor, Victoria
    • Vince, Vincent
    • Violet
    • Walter
    • Will, William, Willie, Willy
    • Winnie
    • X (as in Malcolm X, Planet X)
    • Xavier
    • Yale
    • Yolanda
    • Yusuf
    • Zuse
    • Zeppelin
    • Zorro
    Daniel Tint Lwin, Kenny Wong and fellow 69ers
  • Thet Lwin

    U Thet Lwin

    He matriculated from St. Paul’s High School in 1957. His Burmese teacher was Saya U Sein.
    After graduation, he joined the Burmese Department at the Institute of Economics. During the Golden Jubilee Celebration of the University of Rangoon in 1970, he served as Secretary of the subcommittee chaired by Saya Dr. Aung Gyi, then Professor of Civil Engineering at RIT.
    One day, he was informed of a vacancy for Registrar at RIT where Sayagyi Dr. Aung Gyi was Rector (having succeeded Sayagyi U Yone Moe). The two sayas were reunited as co-workers at RIT.
    His pen name is Ngwe Hlinne. He is an accomplished pianist and composer. He received several “Dat Pyas” from BBS (Burma Broadcasting Service) for his songs including “Mya Kyun Nyo Nyo Tekkatho”. He treated his Ah Nu Pyinnya Shins with the remuneration (he received for his songs, typically K100 per song).
    He is the maternal uncle of U Sein Tin (EC74).

    U Thet Lwin (EC78)

    He worked for UCC (Universities’ Computer Center) and PTC(Post and Telecommunications Corporation) before going to Singapore and Thailand.
    He is now back in Myanmar.

    U Thet Lwin (Stats)

    Dr. Thet Lwin taught Statistics at the Institute of Economics.

  • Wunna

    Wunna

    It is a Pali word meaning means “good looking” (handsome, pretty, …).
    It is one of the good karmic results along with Aryu (Longevity), Sukha (Happiness, pleasure, joy, bliss) and Bala (Strength) for doing meritorious deeds.

    Sao Wunna

    He was a Kayah Sawbwa.
    He was a Minister in an AFPFL Government.

    Sree Wunna Mangrai

    She is a member of the Keng Tung Sawbwa family.
    She is a niece of Saya Sao Kan Gyi (RIT English, GBNF), Sao Biddy (spouse of Sao Hso Holm), Sao Yan Naing and Sao Yan Paing.
    She studied M.Sc. (Computer Science) at UCC.
    She worked in Singapore.

    U Wunna Sithu (SPHS65, EC71)

    He rowed for Ye Kyaung Lu Nge during his high school days.
    He rowed for RIT and RUBC during his RIT days.
    He also swam and played water polo for RIT.
    He worked for DCA before moving to Thailand and USA.
    He attended the first East Coast Reunion.

    U Wunna Ko Ko (EC96)

    He is the son of Daw Khin Mar Mar (Physics, UCC) and the grand son of Saya U Net, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Mandalay.
    He did further studies in Japan and the USA.
    He created and maintained the second RIT web site.

    Wunna

    He is the son of U Nyein Min (C79), who named his company as “Wunna Construction”.

  • Than (Names)

    Than (Names)

    by Hla Min

    Updated : May 2025

    • Than
    • Than Aung, H.E. — Paulian; Saya; Minister for Education in AFPFL government; Sons : U Dwe, U Aung (Alphonso), U Cho (Charlie)
    • Than Aung, Dr. (Ophthalmologist)
    • Than Aung (PBRS)
    • Than Aye
    • Than Daing — Early devotee of Sayadaw U Vimala (Mogok Sayadaw); He and U Sway Tin (son-in-law) wrote or translated dhamma books for the Mogok Vipassana Ah Thinn
    • Than Htay (SPHS63, RIT)
    • Than Htay — BARB; MARB. Veda, GBNF
    • Than Htay — Dhamma friend, who used be assistant of Saya U Aye Cho in Japan)
    • Than Htut (M67) — RUBC Gold
    Than Htut
    • Than Htut — Wa Wa Win Shwe
    • Than Khin
    • Than Khine
    • Than Kyaw
    • Than Kywe
    • Than Lwin (Eric, GBNF) — Taught Economics at BIT as a Visiting Lecturer. He served as Librarian at the Faculty of Social Science.
    • Than Lwin — Succeeded Saya Joe Ba Maung (RIT English) as National Tennis Champion for Singles. They were Doubles Champion.
    • Than Lwin — Youngest son of Myoma Sayagyi U Ba Lwin, worked for the States Department. His spouse worked for VOA.
    • Than Lwin (Henry, EC69) — EE Department
    • Than Lwin (UCC,CSO) — Masters in Mathematics and Computer Science; Moved to Singapore.
    • Than Maung, Hinthada — Children: Swe Swe Than, Cho Than Maung, Wai Wai Than
    • Than Maung, Myitzuthaka — Children: Khin Than Nwe, Tin Mg Mg Than, Khin Mg Mg Than
    • Than Myaing (M69) — Member, RIT Ah Nu Pyinnya Ah Thinn
    • Than Myint (BBS)
    • Than Myint
    • Than Naing, Dr. (Bonny Kywe, SPHS, Geology) — Paulian Reunion in Sydney
    • U Than Naing (Herman Ba Hphyu) — Drummer & vocalist; Brother : U Sein Lwin (Raymond, GBNF)
    • Dr Than Naung
    • Dr Than Nyun (George)
    • U Than Nyunt
    • U Than Ohn
    • U Than Oo
    • Commodore Than Pe — Revolunary Council; Minister of Health and Education, President of RUBC
    • U Than Pe — Accountant); Brothers : Dr. Nyi Nyi, U Kun Pe
    • U Than Pe Lay — Vocalist, Actor
    • Dr Than Saung
    • U Than Saw — Chief Editor of WPD (Working People’s Daily); Predecessor : U Khin Maung Latt
    • U Than Sein (PBRS)
    • Colonel Than Sein — Member of Revolutionary Council
    • Rakkhine Than Sein — Purged in the BSPP control struggle)
    • U Than Shwe
    • U Than Soe
    • U Than Swe
    • Daw Than Than — Asian Champion Sprinter
    • Daw Than Than (Chemistry) — U Khin Maung Myint
    • Daw Than Than (Chemistry) — U Kyaw Tun
    • Daw Than Than Aye
    • Daw Than Than Htay
    • Daw Than Than Htwe
    • Daw Than Than Myint
    • Daw Than Than Sein
    • Daw Than Than Sint
    • Daw Than Than Swe
    • Daw Than Than Tin
    • Daw Than Than Tint
    • Saya U Than Tin (Met, USA)
    • U Than Tin (RUBC Gold, GBNF)
    • Saya U Than Tin (Thahee, Physics)
    • Dr Than Toe
    • U Than Tun — Father of Errol /Bobby (Myo Tun, A69), Harold and Archie / Aye Tun
    • U Than Tun (UCC)
    • U Than Tun — Father of Khin Swe Oo
    • U Than Tun Aung
    • U Than Tun Aung Hlaing
    • U Than Tun Aye
    • U Than Win (SPED) — Captain of the Rangoon University Football Even; Studied Physical Education in the USA. Joined the Department of Sports and Physical Education.
    • U Than Win (Alan Khoo, SPHS, GBNF) — Eldest child of C C Khoo; Brothers : U Kyi Win (Eddie, GBNF), U Aung Win (Owen, M71) and Beepo (GBNF)
    • U Than Win (PBRS, T70)– Script writer for the “Thamangyar” movie.; Spouse : Zelma Yu
    • U Than Win (Henry Wong, SPHS)
    • U Than Win (T70, PBRS) — Script writer for Thamankyar
    • U Than Win (SPHS63, M69) — Regular attendee at 69er Gatherings; Photo taken at Birthday Soon Kyway by Kyaw Win (SPHS63) to U Ukkamsa (Aung Chaw, Victor, SPHS63, C69)
    Than Win (M69)

    U Than Win Aung

  • Win Aung

    • Dr. Win Aung (M62) — NSF (National Science Foundation); Secretary General, iNEER; Attended SPZP-2000; Wrote about his father Saya C Ping Lee (EE) for RIT Alumni Newsletter; Attended First East Coast Reunion; Gave us dinner
    East Coast Reunion
    Dinner hosted by Dr. Win Aung
    Dr. Win Aung
    • U Win Aung (TTC, M70) — High School Luyechun for Ngapali Camp in the Summer of 1964; Represented RIT in Swimming and Water Polo; Secretary, RIT Swimming Association; Volunteer, Combined 1st BE Intake of 64 and 65
    M70
    U Tha Htay, U Win Hyat, U Win Aung, U Soe Aung

    U Win Aung (M69) — Moved to East Coast, USA; He would phone his former classes very late at night.

  • Ye

    • Ye Aung — Actor
    • Ye Chit Pe (MEHS64, M 70) — Retired BG
    • Ye Gaung (EE80) — May Recording Studio
    • Ye Gaung — Minister
    • Ye Khaung — Student Political Party
    • Ye Htut
    • Ye Htut Aung — ICST
    • Ye Lwin (AGTI, RIT) — Bass Guitarist; Leader of E-Machine & Myizzima Hlaing
    • Ye Min
    • Ye Munn
    • Ye Myat (Ye Myint Thein) — Father : Myint Thein
    • Ye Myint, Dr. — Burma’s second cardiac surgeon; first was the late Dr. Khin Maung Thaw
    • Ye Myint, Dr. — Professor, Renowned laparoscopic surgeon
    • Ye Myint, Dr. — UK; Parents : Tin U and Dr. Khin Kyi Nyunt
    • Ye Myint (ChE70) — Saya; Moved to Singapore, Donated to RIT and ChE
    • Ye Myint (C70) — Saya
    • Ye Myint (EE72) — Father: U Ba Toke
    • Ye Myint — B.Com; Son: Zayanda
    Dr. Ye Myint (UK)
    • Ye Myint Kyaw, Dr. — Prof, Pen name : Linga Ye Kyaw: Paediatrician, author of over 20 books, script write for the three books made into movies, Regular contributor of medical and non medical topics
    • Ye Nyunt
    • Ye Sein — Teacher, Mintha; Father: Kenneth Sein
    • Ye Sint (Physics) — Saya; Past VP of TBSA; Editor, Dhammananda Newsletter and the Memorial Book for U Silananda; Pen name: Ogga
    • Ye Swe — Boxing
    • Ye Tint — Boxing
    • Ye Win (EP67, GBNF)
    • Mehm Ye Win (EC69 — PTC
    • Ye Wint — Father: Zaw Myint
    • Ye Yint — Cinema
  • San Lin

    Dr. San Lin in Southern California

    Dr. San Lin (C62)

    • Taught part-time at Civil Engineering Department
    • Worked for EPC before moving overseas
    • Worked for UN in Thailand and New York
    • After retirement, moved to California
    • Spouse : Dr. Daw Thynn Thynn, Founder of STW-2 Dhamma Center
    Obituary for U San Lin (C69)

    U San Lin (C69, GBNF)

    • Taught at Pyay, Yenangyaung and Tanyin GTI
    • Served as Principal
    • Retired Assistant Director of Set-Saik-Thet
    San Lin (Robert) and Marina
    U Boon Pin

    U San Lin (Robert, EC73)

    • Received Masters in Computer Science from UCC
    • Worked for Texas Instruments in Singapore before transferring to USA.
    • His division was bought by another company (twice), but he was retained by those companies
    • After retirement, he moved from SugarLand to Dallas to be close to his son Vincent (medical doctor)
    • Spouse : Daw Hla Myint (Marina, EC73)
    • Father: U Boon Bin (Railways), Class of 48 and 49
    Maung Lu Pay with Saya U Tin Mg Oo and Daw Thida Swe
    NorCal RITAA

    U San Lin (M87)

    • Maung Lu Pay — named similar to Maung Lu Aye (Theikpan Maung Wa’s character)
    • Sponsor, SF Bay Area Literary Talks
    • Founding member of NorCal RITAA
    • Member, BADA
  • Soe Thein

    • Soe Thein — Ta Ka Tha leader; Registrar at RIT; Transferred to DHE as Director
    • Soe Thein (EE60) — Attended SPZP-2000 with his brothers Saya Dr. Aung Soe (C) and Saya Dr. K Chiu (Tin Aung, ChE)
    EE60
    SPZP-2000
    • Soe Thein (EP69er) — Peter Myint Mg at MEHS; Daughter drives him to 69er events
    EE69er Gathering

    Soe Thein, Dr. (C75) — RIT saya; Masters from AIT; Doctorate from NUS; Organizer & Webmaster, SPZP-2007; Organizer & Webmaster, Singapore Civil Engineering Alumni

    Dr. Soe Thein

    Notes

    • Several student leaders became administrators in the Revolutionary Council government and BSPP.
    • The three brothers are also known as K K Chiu, K J Chiu and K C Chiu.
    • Peter had an operation. He no longer drives.
    • Dr. Soe Thein’s mentors include Dr. Aung Soe and Dr. Win Thein. Both sayas share a part of his name.
  • Kyaw Myint (Names)

    by Hla Min

    Updated : May 2025

    • Kyaw Myint (T) — Attended Yankin College in 1957; Studied Textile Engineeringin Japan; Taught at RIT; Moved Singapore and Canada; Spouse: Shirley Khun Kyi
    Saya U Kyaw Myint (T)
    • Kyaw Myint (M/Auto64) — Saya; RIT; Worked for UN projects in Beijing; Moved to Northern California; Patron of TDS; Spouse: Dr. Daw Kyin Yee
    Saya U Kyaw Myint (M/Auto64)
    • Kyaw Myint (T72) — High school Luyechun from Mandalay; Youngest member of the class of 72; Expert in indigenous medicine and Veda; Succeeded U Khin Aung Bo as President of MARB; Spouse:
      Sandi Hlaing.

    Aung Myaing wrote :
    Kyaw Myint (Tx72) is a friend with a wonderful brain that can effectively store data of different nature: Engineering, အဘိဓမ်မာ, Veda, indigenous medicines, etc.,

    U Kyaw Myint (Veda)
    U Kyaw Myint (Veda)
    • Kyaw Myint (EP72) — )Owns Good Morning Bakery and more; Food Donor to several RIT Gatherings (including SPZP).

    Aung Myaing wrote :
    Kyaw Myint (EE) is another close and sociable friend who has been supporting RIT72-sponsored functions led by Mg Mar Ga morally and materially.

    Mg Mar Ga wrote :
    အုပ်စုထဲမှာကျော်မြင့်၂ယောက်ရှိတယ်တယောက်ကဆေးဆရာဗေဒင်ဆရာတယောက်ကGood Morningပေါင်မုန်သူဌေးလူခွဲလို့ရ ​ေအာင်ဗေဒင်ကိုနပ် ပေါင်မုန့်ကို half baked ပေါင်မု့န်လို့စပြီးhalfလို့နာမည်ပေးတယ် ဒါ half ဟတ် တကယ်တော့major သာကွဲတာသူကcentralထဲကငယ်သူငယ်ချင်း

    U Kyaw Myint (Good Morning)
    U Kyaw Myint (Good Morning)
    • Kyaw Myint (M83)– Runs a Flower Shop with his spouse (Millie) in Pleasanton, California; Founding member and past EC of Norcal RITAA; Sponsored financial aid for eligible YTU students; Past Gawpaka of Mettananda Vihara.
    • Kyaw Myint — First in Burma in Matriculation; Barrister; Dean of Law, RU; Supreme Court Justice; Head of Tribunal for trying Galon U Saw
    Barrister U Kyaw Myint
    • Kyaw Myint, Dr. — Peterite; Professor; Retired Minister of Health
    • Kyaw Myint (Physics) — DG, DHE; Met as Guest Speakers at Ngapali Luyechun Camp
    • Kyaw Myint, Dr. — Matriculated in 1963; Moved to Sydney