List of Vietnamese Americans
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This is a list of notable Vietnamese Americans.
To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article showing they are Vietnamese American, or must have independent reliable source references showing they are Vietnamese American and are notable.
Contents
Arts and entertainment
Actors/Actresses
- James Duval – actor, mother is of Vietnamese-French descent
- Lance Krall – actor and star of FREE RADIO on VH1
- Hiep Thi Le – actress known for role in Heaven & Earth, third film in director Oliver Stone's Vietnam trilogy.
- Jeannie Mai – makeup artist, fashion expert, actress, TV personality and model
- Dustin Nguyen – actor[1]
- Maggie Q. – former model and actress in Mission Impossible III.[2]
- Jonathan Ke Quan – former child actor in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and The Goonies[3]
- Nguyen Stanton - actress, model known for role in Zero Charisma.
- Rosie Tran – writer, actress, and comedian.
- Thuy Trang – actress known for role as The Yellow Power Ranger in the series Power Rangers[4]
- Kathy Uyen – actress, producer, and writer.
- Kieu Chinh - actress, producer, and writer.
Anchors and reporters
- Betty Nguyen – CBS Early Morning News anchor, former CNN anchor.[5]
- Mary Nguyen- Award Winning reporter, First Asian-American, Miss Teenage America.[6]
- Leyna Nguyen- Emmy Award winning anchor.[7]
- Thuy Vu – Emmy award-winning anchor and reporter for CBS-5 Television in San Francisco
Directors
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Linh Nga
- Doan Hoang – director and producer of the PBS documentary film about a family in the Vietnam War, Oh, Saigon.
- Steve Nguyen – director and film producer
- Linh Nga – director and film producer[8]
Dance group
- Jabbawockeez
- Jeff "Phi" Nguyen
- Poreotics ABDC season 5 Champions
- Matthew "Dumbo" Vinh Quoc Nguyen
- Charles Viet Nguyen
- Can Trong "Candy" Nguyen
Musicians
- Chau-Giang Thi Nguyen – concert pianist and artist[9][10][11][12]
- Cuong Vu – Grammy award winning jazz trumpeter and vocalist[13]
- Tyga – Vietnamese and Jamaican rapper signed to Young Money and Cash Money Records
Artists and others
- Chloe Dao – fashion designer/winner of television show "Project Runway"[14]
- Dat Phan – comedian, winner of first Last Comic Standing[15]
- Jonas Bevacqua – adopted Vietnamese American fashion designer, creator of urbanwear LRG
- Michelle Phan – YouTube beauty guru
- Hung Huynh – chef, Top Chef (season 3) winner
- Tom Vu – info-mercial icon, professional poker player and real estate investor.
- Tila Tequila – Was most popular female on MySpace. Had her own MTV show. Appeared in FHM Magazine
- Christine Ha – the first blind contestant of MasterChef and the winner of its third season in 2012.
- John Eklund – time-lapse photographer known for the video Purely Pacific Northwest
- Phong Bui - Artist, writer, independent curator, and Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, and Publisher of The Brooklyn Rail, a monthly arts, culture, and politics journal in New York (at www.brooklynrail.org)
Business
- Trung Dung – engineer, who sold his OnDisplay to Vignette Corporation in 2000 for $1.8 billion
- Frank Jao – pioneer behind Little Saigon, Westminster, California, and the Asian Garden Mall
- Bill Nguyen – founder of onebox.com and lala.com, sold for $850 million and $80 million respectively[16]
- David Tran – founder of Huy Fong Foods, maker of Sriracha Chili Sauce
- Diep Vuong – president and co-founder of Pacific Links Foundation, a non-profit aimed at fighting human trafficking in Vietnam
Literature and journalism
- Aimee Phan – author of We Should Never Meet[17]
- Andrew X. Pham – author of Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam (1999)
- Chau Nguyen – news anchor. First Vietnamese-American to be awarded a regional Emmy-award.
- Đoàn Văn Toại – author of The Vietnamese Gulag
- Huỳnh Sanh Thông – author known for An Anthology of Vietnamese Poems: From the Eleventh through the Twentieth Centuries
- Kien Nguyen – author of The Unwanted, a Memoir of Childhood.
- Lan Cao – former attorney and current law professor, author of Monkey Bridge
- Le Ly Hayslip – Author of When Heaven and Earth Changed Places, which was turned into a motion picture (Heaven & Earth) directed by Oliver Stone.
- Le Thi Diem Thuy – Award winning author of the novel The Gangster We Are All Looking For
- Mong-Lan – college professor and author of Song of the Cicadas[18]
- Monique Truong- author of the Book of Salt[19]
- Nguyễn Chí Thiện – poet and winner of international poetry award in 1985
- Nguyen Do – poet, editor and translator. Co-author of Black Dog, Black Night Contemporary Vietnamese Poetry (Milkweed, 2008) and Beyond the Court Gate: Selected Poems of Nguyen Trai (Counterpath Press, 2010)
- Nguyen Qui Duc – essayist and radio producer and author of Where the Ashes Are: The Odyssey of a Vietnamese Family
- Lê Xuân Nhuận – author of numerous Vietnamese poems & human rights activist; author of Poems by Selected Vietnamese.[20]
- Quang X. Pham – author and founder of Lathian Systems, a pharmaceutical promotions company.
- Stephanie Trong – Jane executive editor
- Trinh T. Minh-ha – author, post-colonial scholar, and filmmaker
- Ut Huynh Cong – photographer. First Vietnamese American to win the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography (1973) and the World Press Award
Military
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Captain James Văn Thạch and General Viet X. Luong
- Viet Xuan Luong – Brigadier General, first Vietnamese American to command a Brigade in the U.S. Army.[21][22][23][24]
- Lapthe Flora - first Vietnamese American to be promoted to Brigadier General in the Virginia National Guard[25]
- Lê Bá Hùng - First Vietnamese-American Navy captain. Commands USS LASSEN (DDG 82) missile guided destroyer.[26]
- Nguyễn Ngọc Loan – Brigadier General, ARVN; subject of Eddie Adam's photograph
- Nguyễn Văn Kiệt – Petty Officer Third Class in the Republic of Vietnam Navy and recipient of the US Navy Cross.
- Nguyễn Qúy An – Major in the Republic of Vietnam Air Force and a recipient of the United States Distinguished Flying Cross.
- Quang X. Pham – first Vietnamese American to earn naval aviator's wings in the U.S. Marine Corps, author and politician.
- James Văn Thạch – only Vietnamese American to coordinate and complete a US military base named Combat Outpost Shocker in Iraq.[27][28]
- Ngô Quang Trưởng – former Lieutenant General of ARVN and author.
- Lê Minh Đảo - former Major General of ARVN
- Trần Quang Khôi - former Brigadier General of ARVN
Politics and law
- Chris Phan - Councilman of Garden Grove, CA
- Hubert Vo – Texas state representative[29]
- Janet Nguyen – Orange County Board of Supervisors, California State Senator.
- John Quoc Duong – President George W. Bush's appointee as Executive Director of The White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.[30]
- John Tran – First Vietnamese-American Mayor in US, Mayor of Rosemead, California[31]
- Joseph Cao – First Vietnamese-American Congressman representing Louisiana's 2nd congressional district
- Kok Ksor – president of the Montagnard Foundation, Inc.[32]
- Lan Cao – law professor, novelist.[33]
- Jacqueline H. Nguyen – US Circuit Judge. First Vietnamese-American federal judge.[34] First Asian-American woman to sit on the federal appellate court.[35]
- Madison Nguyen – San Jose City Council member and Vice Mayor of City of San Jose, California.
- Mina Nguyen – Deputy Assistant Secretary for Business Affairs and Public Liaison at the US Treasury Department.[36]
- Huu Chanh Nguyen – founder and former Prime Minister of the Government of Free Vietnam
- Phuc Buu Chanh Nguyen – president of the Vietnamese Constitutional Monarchist League, member of Vietnam's Nguyễn Dynasty[37]
- Tony Lam – first Vietnamese-American elected official. Former Westminster, California city council.
- Van Tran – California State Assemblyman[38]
- Viet D. Dinh – former United States Assistant Attorney General who drafted the USA Patriot Act[39]
Science and education
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Han Dinh
- Han T. Dinh – Director of Vehicle Engineering – United States Postal Service. Washington DC. Winner of 2006 White House "Closing Of Circle Award" .[40][41][42]
- Bui Tuong Phong – computer graphics pioneer. Inventor of Phong reflection model and Phong shading interpolation method
- Duy-Loan Le – prominent Texas Instruments engineer.
- Eugene H. Trinh – NASA astronaut, the first Vietnamese-American to travel into outer space[43]
- Hồ Thành Việt, founder of VNI Software Co., California.
- Tue Nguyen - a scholar who earned 7 degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[44][45]
- Jane Luu – astronomer, co-discoverer of Kuiper Belt and many asteroids.[46]
- Xuan Vinh Nguyen – professor of Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan. The first Vietnamese to receive the Dirk Brouwer award (2007). Author of Pilot's Life
- Anh Duong Nguyet – responsible for the creation of the Thermobaric weapon.
- Trịnh Xuân Thuận – author of The Birth of the Universe, astrophysicist and professor of astronomy at the University of Virginia.
- Tuan Vo-Dinh – inventor, professor and Director of the Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics of Duke University. Ranked No. 43 on a list of the world's top 100 living geniuses[47]
- Xuong Nguyen-Huu – Biology professor, University of California. Pioneer in AIDS research; invented the X-ray Multiwire Area Detector.
- Christine Ikeda - Engineering professor in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, University of New Orleans.
Sports
Baseball
- Danny Graves – MLB baseball player[48]
- Jim Parque – In 1996, he was the only left-handed pitcher on the Olympics baseball team that won a bronze medal in Atlanta.
- Tommy Pham - MLB baseball player
Fighting sports
- Cung Le – Kickboxer/MMA fighter, undefeated San Shou champion, and former Strikeforce champion and coach[49]
- Dat Nguyen – Pro boxing Professional boxer[50]
- Nam Phan- MMA fighter in the UFC[51]
- Ben Nguyen-MMA fighter, currently fighting in the UFC
Poker
- Men Nguyen – professional poker player. As of 2010, his total live tournament winnings exceed $9,700,000[52]
- Scotty Nguyen – professional poker player[53]
- David Pham – professional poker, won two World Series of Poker bracelets and has made seven final tables at the World Poker Tour[54]
- J.C. Tran – professional poker player. As of 2010, his total live tournament winnings amount to $7,996,635[55]
- Mimi Tran – professional poker player. As of 2008, her total live tournament winnings exceed $1,400,000[56]
Other sports
- Howard Bach – badminton player – former world champion (2005)
- Catherine Mai Lan Fox – Olympic swimmer with two gold medals.
- Leta Lindley- LPGA Tour golfer
- Lee Nguyen – Major League Soccer soccer player, currently plays for the New England Revolution.
- Dat Nguyen – NFL football player,[57] Dallas Cowboys assistant linebackers and defensive quality control coach
- Don Nguyen- Pro skateboarder
- Minh Thai - First world Rubik's Cube champion (1982) at 22.95 seconds. Author of the book, "The Winning Solution".
- Amy Tran – Field hockey player.
Religion
- Luong Kim Dinh, catholic priest, scholar and philosopher.
- Dominic Mai Thanh Lương, auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange
References
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