Maung Gyi

{{Short description|Burmese martial artist}}

{{family name hatnote|lang=Burmese|Maung Gyi}}

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| name = Maung Gyi

| image = Master Maung Gyi.jpg

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| caption = young Maung Gyi

| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1936}}

| birth_place = Burma

| residence = Washington, D.C.

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| martial_art = Bando

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| spouse = Patricia Gyi

| children =Serena Gyi and Melinda White

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Image:Maung Gyi2.jpg

Maung Gyi ({{langx|my|မောင်ကြီး}}) is a Burmese martial artist that introduced Bando into the United States.[http://www.mewashingtondc.com/Burmese_Bando_in_America.pdf Embassy of the Union of Myanmar: Burmese Bando in America.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101026025659/http://www.mewashingtondc.com/Burmese_Bando_in_America.pdf |date=2010-10-26 }}

{{cite news |title=ကမ္ဘာကသိအောင်ချပြနိုင်ခဲ့တဲ့ မြန်မာ့သိုင်းဆရာကြီး ဒေါက်တာမောင်ကြီး (Dr. Maung Gyi, the master of Burmese martial arts who was able to show it to the world)|url=https://old.mmload.com/news/33440 |work=Myanmarload |date=September 28, 2018 |language=my}}{{cite news |title=Hartford Courant from Hartford, Connecticut on May 21, 1998 · Page 157 |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/177004998/ |work=Newspapers.com |language=en}} He is the chief instructor for the American Bando Association.{{cite book |last1=Inc |first1=Active Interest Media |title=Black Belt |date=January 1975 |publisher=Active Interest Media, Inc. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ddgDAAAAMBAJ&dq=Maung+Gyi+Bando&pg=PA12 |language=en}}{{cite news |title=The Oshkosh Northwestern from Oshkosh, Wisconsin on July 17, 1994 · Page 29 |url=http://thenorthwestern.newspapers.com/newspage/248039536/ |work=Newspapers.com |language=en}}