List of Vietnamese Americans
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This is a list of notable Vietnamese American
s. To be included on this list, the person must not only be notable amongst the Vietnamese American community, but must have also garnered recognition from mainstream America. Thus, including a singer from Paris by Night is not acceptable.
Vietnamese American
A Vietnamese American is an American of Vietnamese descent. They make up about half of all overseas Vietnamese and are the fourth-largest Asian American group....
s. To be included on this list, the person must not only be notable amongst the Vietnamese American community, but must have also garnered recognition from mainstream America. Thus, including a singer from Paris by Night is not acceptable.
Arts and entertainment
- Betty NguyenBetty NguyenBetty Nguyen is an American news anchor with CBS News. Nguyen joined CBS News on March 11, 2010. She anchors the The CBS Morning News and is a correspondent for The Early Show. -Life and career:...
- CBS Early Morning News anchor, former CNN anchor. - Chloe DaoChloe DaoChloe Dao , is an American fashion designer of Vietnamese ancestry who lives and works in Houston, Texas. She was the winner of the second season of the reality show Project Runway with a collection of women's evening wear...
- Fashion Designer / Winner of television show "Project Runway" - Cuong VuCuong Vuis a jazz trumpeter and vocalist.Born in Saigon, he left Vietnam with his family at the age of five in 1975, settling in Bellevue, Washington...
- Grammy award winning jazz trumpeter and vocalist - Dat PhanDat PhanDat Phan , is a Vietnamese American stand-up comedian.-Early life:When he was a child, he, his mother, and nine of his siblings emigrated from South Vietnam to the United States. They suffered financial hardships throughout his childhood...
- Comedian, Winner of first Last Comic StandingLast Comic StandingLast Comic Standing is an American reality television talent show that has aired from 2003 through 2010.The goal of the program is to select a comedian from a group, who will receive a development contract with the NBC network, and a television special first to air on the cable-TV network Comedy... - James DuvalJames DuvalJames Edward Duval is an American actor, who is most famous for his roles in the Gregg Araki trilogy—Totally Fucked Up, The Doom Generation, and Nowhere—in addition to Frank in Donnie Darko, Blank in May, Miguel in Independence Day and Singh in Go.-Personal life:Duval was born in Detroit, Michigan...
- actor, mother is of Vietnamese-French descent - Dustin NguyenDustin NguyenDustin Nguyen is a Vietnamese-American actor, director, writer and martial artist. He is best known for his roles as Harry Truman Ioki on 21 Jump Street and as Johnny Loh on V.I.P.-Early life:...
- actor - Hung HuynhHung HuynhHung Huynh is a Vietnamese-American chef, and in 2007 was the winner of the third season of Top Chef, the reality cooking competition show on Bravo....
- chef who was Top Chef (season 3)Top Chef (season 3)Top Chef: Miami is the third season of American reality television series Top Chef and was filmed first in Miami, Florida, and concluded in Aspen, Colorado. The season premiered on Bravo on June 13, 2007 and ended on October 10, 2007. Padma Lakshmi returned with Tom Colicchio, Gail Simmons and new...
winner - Jonathan Ke Quan - former child actor in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and the Goonies
- Lance KrallLance KrallLance Krall is a Vietnamese-American comedian and actor, television writer, director, and producer. He became well known after his portrayal as "Kip" in the role in faux-reality show The Joe Schmo Show...
- actor and star of FREE RADIO on VH1 - Maggie Q.Maggie QMargaret Denise Quigley , professionally known as Maggie Q, is an American-born actress and former fashion model. She currently stars as the titular character on the action-thriller TV series Nikita.-Early life:...
- former model and actress in Mission Impossible III. - Leyna NguyenLeyna NguyenLeyna Nguyen is a Vietnamese-American television anchor and reporter from Los Angeles, California.- Biography :Leyna Nguyen was born in Dong Ha, South Vietnam. She grew up in Burnsville, Minnesota, and graduated from Apple Valley High School in Apple Valley, Minnesota in 1988...
- Emmy Award winning anchor. - Thuy TrangThuy TrangThuy Trang was a Vietnamese American actress. She was best known for her role as Trini Kwan, the original Yellow Ranger in the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers television series.-Early life:...
- Actress best known for her role as The Yellow Power Ranger in the series Power Rangers - Rosie TranRosie TranRosie Tran is an American stand-up comedienne, actress, and writer.-Biography:Rosie Tran was born and raised in Algiers, New Orleans to Vietnamese immigrants. Her father is a retired biomedical engineer and famous Vietnamese author, Tran Bich San. Her mother is the former Miss Saigon and owned a...
- Writer, actress, and comedian. - Thuy VuThuy VuThuy Vu is an Emmy award-winning anchor and reporter for CBS-5 "Eyewitness News" in San Francisco. She currently cohosts "Eye on the Bay". Thuy was born in Vietnam and fled Vietnam by boat with her family as Saigon fell to the Communists at the end of the Vietnam War. She holds a Bachelor's...
- Emmy award-winning anchor and reporter for CBS-5 Television in San Francisco - Tom VuTom VuTuan "Tommy" Vu is a Vietnamese-American poker player, real estate investor and speaker best remembered as an infomercial personality in the late 1980s and early 1990s.-Infomercial career:...
- info-mercial icon, professional poker player and real estate investor. - Michelle PhanMichelle PhanMichelle Phan is a Vietnamese-American make-up artist who posts make-up and beauty tutorials on YouTube, sometimes under the online alias ricebunny. Phan attended Ringling College of Art and Design and Massachusetts College of Art and Design, but did not graduate.-Early life:Michelle Ann Phan was...
- The #1 most subscribed female on YouTube and Lancome spokesmodel - Tila Tequila - Was the most popular female on MySpace. Had her own MTV show. Appeared in FHM Magazine
Dance group
- PoreoticsPoreoticsPoreotics, also known as Poreotix, is an American all-male dance crew from Westminster, California. The crew was formed in 2007 by "Dumbo" Nguyen and specializes in popping, choreography and robotics, hence the name Po-reo-tics...
ABDC season 5 Champions- Matthew "Dumbo" Vinh Quoc Nguyen
- Charles Viet Nguyen
- Can Trong Nguyen
Business
- Bill NguyenBill NguyenBill Nguyen is a technology entrepreneur who founded Lala.com, Color, and Onebox.-Life:He grew up in Houston, the son of Vietnamese immigrants whom he says he consistently disappointed. They wanted him to score A's. Instead, he scored an unpredictable mix of A's and F's, and earned a 1.4 grade...
, founder of onebox.com and lala.com, sold for 850 million and 80 million respectively - Trung DungTrung DungTrung Dung is a Vietnamese-American businessman. His life story has been profiled in many leading publications including Forbes, Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal and San Francisco Chronicle, as well as in Dan Rather's book The American Dream.-Early life:Dung was born in South Vietnam...
- engineer, who sold his OnDisplay to Vignette Corporation in 2000 for $1.8 billion. - David Tran - founder of Huy Fong Foods, maker of the popular Sriracha Chili Sauce.
- Frank JaoFrank JaoFrank Jao is a prominent Asian American businessman in Southern California. He was born in Haiphong, Vietnam, to a Vietnamese father and ethnic Chinese mother...
- Pioneer behind Little Saigon, Westminster, CA and the Asian Garden Mall.
Literature and Journalism
- Aimee PhanAimee PhanAimee Phan is an Vietnamese-American author. She was born and raised in Orange County, California. She received her MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she won a Maytag Fellowship. Her first novel, We Should Never Meet, was named a Notable Book by the Kiriyama Prize in fiction and a finalist...
- author of We Should Never Meet - Andrew X. PhamAndrew X. Phamtrained and graduated from UCLA as an aerospace engineer. He worked at United Airlines as an aircraft engineer before switching career to become a writer while pursuing dual graduate degrees, M.B.A and M.S. in Aerospace Engineering, specializing in orbital debris...
- author of Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam (1999) - Chau NguyenChau NguyenChau Nguyen is a former Vietnamese-American news anchor most recently seen with KHOU-TV, before stepping down in December of 2007. Chau's family fled after the fall of Saigon, South Vietnam when she was 2 years old and her family settled in Houston, Texas. She is the first Vietnamese-American to...
- news anchor. First Vietnamese-American to be awarded a regional Emmy-award. - Doan Van ToaiDoan Van ToaiDoan Van Toai is author of The Vietnamese Gulag. It was published in 1986 by Simon and Schuster Publishing Group, New York , 351 pp....
- author of The Vietnamese Gulag - Huynh Sanh ThongHuynh Sanh ThongHuỳnh Sanh Thông was a Vietnamese American scholar and translator.-Life:He was born to a rice-miller mother and a Francophile primary schoolteacher father in Hóc Môn, close to Sài Gòn...
- author known for the An Anthology of Vietnamese Poems: From the Eleventh through the Twentieth Centuries - Kien NguyenKien NguyenKien Nguyen , born in Nha Trang, South Vietnam, 1967, is an author. Kien was born to a Vietnamese mother from a once wealthy family and an American civil engineer. His mother's family, who had lost their wealth when the French left Vietnam, lived among neighbors who treated them as pariahs because...
- author of The Unwanted, a Memoir of Childhood. - Le Ly Hayslip - Author of When Heaven and Earth Changed PlacesWhen Heaven and Earth Changed PlacesWhen Heaven and Earth Changed Places is a 1989 memoir by Le Ly Hayslip about her childhood during the Vietnam War, her escape to the United States, and her return to visit Vietnam 16 years later. The Oliver Stone film Heaven & Earth was based on the memoir...
, which was turned into a motion picture (Heaven & Earth) directed by Oliver StoneOliver StoneWilliam Oliver Stone is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. Stone became well known in the late 1980s and the early 1990s for directing a series of films about the Vietnam War, for which he had previously participated as an infantry soldier. His work frequently focuses on...
. - Lan CaoLan CaoLan Cao is the author of the 1997 novel Monkey Bridge and is a professor of law at the College of William and Mary.Cao was born in Vietnam and experienced the Vietnam War as a civilian. She moved to the United States when she was 13. Cao received her B.A. in political science from Mount Holyoke...
-- former attorney and current law professor, author of Monkey Bridge - Mong-LanMong-LanMong Lan is a Vietnamese-born American poet, writer, painter, photographer and Argentine tango dancer and educator.-Life:Born in Saigon, South Vietnam, Mong-Lan left her native Vietnam on the last day of evacuation of Saigon.-Career:...
- college professor and author of Song of the Cicadas - Monique TruongMonique TruongMonique T.D. Truong is a Vietnamese American writer living in Brooklyn, New York. Truong left Vietnam for the United States in 1975 and graduated from high school in Houston, Texas...
- author of the Book of Salt - Nguyen Chi ThienNguyen Chi ThienNguyễn Chí Thiện, born in 1939 in Hanoi, Vietnam, is a dissident poet who spent a total of twenty-seven years in prison.- Biography :Thien was educated in private academies and was a supporter of Viet Minh revolutionaries in his early life...
- poet and winner of international poetry award in 1985 - Nguyen Qui DucNguyen Qui DucNguyen Qui Duc is a Vietnamese American radio broadcaster, writer, editor and translator.Born in Da Lat, Vietnam, he came to the United States in 1975, returning in the fall of 2006 to live in Hanoi, Vietnam...
- essayist and radio producer and author of Where the Ashes Are: The Odyssey of a Vietnamese Family - Phung Le Ly HayslipPhung Le Ly HayslipLe Ly Hayslip is a Vietnamese-American memoirist and humanitarian.-Personal life and family:Hayslip was born in Ky La, now Xa Hao Qui, a small town in central Vietnam just south of Da Nang. She was the seventh and youngest child born to farmers. American helicopters landed in her village when she...
- author whose life was portrayed in the film The 1993 film Heaven & Earth, directed by Oliver Stone - Quang X. PhamQuang X. PhamQuang Pham, a Vietnamese American, was born in 1964, in Saigon, South Vietnam. He is a business owner, Marine Corps veteran, author and community leader who has lived in Orange County, California since 1990...
- author and founder of Lathian Systems, a pharmaceutical promotions company. - Stephanie TrongStephanie TrongStephanie Trong was the executive editor of the magazine Jane, which had a circulation approaching one million until it shut down in July 2007....
- Jane Magazine executive editor - Ut Huynh CongHuynh Cong UtHuỳnh Công Út, known professionally as Nick Ut, is a photographer for the Associated Press who works out of Los Angeles...
- photographer. First Vietnamese American to win the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News PhotographyPulitzer Prize for Spot News PhotographyThe Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography was awarded from 1968 – 1999, thereafter being renamed as the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography.-List of winners:...
(1973) and the World Press Award
Military
- Viet Xuan Luong - First Vietnamese American to command a Brigade in the U.S. Army. http://www.armytimes.com/news/2009/07/ap_vietnamese_american_commander_072309/ http://fortcampbellcourier.com/news/article_d351729f-b7bf-54c6-9e7d-b4942a8ccd3b.html http://www.c-spanarchives.org/program/MilitaryOperationsinAfgha&showFullAbstract=1 http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/afghanistan/2010-12-29-dronestrikes29_ST_N.htm
- Nguyễn Ngọc LoanNguyen Ngoc LoanGeneral Nguyễn Ngọc Loan was the Republic of Vietnam's Chief of National Police. Nguyễn gained international attention when he executed handcuffed prisoner Nguyễn Văn Lém, a Viet Cong soldier, on February 1, 1968 in front of Vo Suu, an NBC cameraman, and Eddie Adams, an Associated Press photographer...
- Brigadier General, ARVN; subject of Eddie Adam's photograph - Nguyen Van KietNguyen Van KietNguyen Van Kiet was a Petty Officer Third Class in the Republic of Vietnam Navy and is one of only two South Vietnamese, and the only South Vietnamese Navy member, to receive the Navy Cross for actions during the Vietnam War. The other recipient was ARVN PFC Tran Van Bay).In April 1972, United...
- Petty Officer Third Class in the Republic of Vietnam Navy and a recipient of the United States Navy CrossNavy CrossThe Navy Cross is the highest decoration that may be bestowed by the Department of the Navy and the second highest decoration given for valor. It is normally only awarded to members of the United States Navy, United States Marine Corps and United States Coast Guard, but can be awarded to all...
. - Nguyen Quy AnNguyen Quy AnNguyễn Qúy An is a former Major in the Republic of Vietnam Air Force who risked his life to rescue four Americans in a downed chopper while he was on a different mission. For his actions he was awarded the United States Distinguished Flying Cross and Silver Star...
- Major in the Republic of Vietnam Air Force and a recipient of the United States Distinguished Flying CrossDistinguished Flying Cross (United States)The Distinguished Flying Cross is a medal awarded to any officer or enlisted member of the United States armed forces who distinguishes himself or herself in support of operations by "heroism or extraordinary achievement while participating in an aerial flight, subsequent to November 11, 1918." The...
. - Quang X. PhamQuang X. PhamQuang Pham, a Vietnamese American, was born in 1964, in Saigon, South Vietnam. He is a business owner, Marine Corps veteran, author and community leader who has lived in Orange County, California since 1990...
- First Vietnamese American to earn naval aviator's wings in the U.S. Marine Corps, author and politician. - Elizabeth Pham - First Vietnamese American to become a Fixed Wing Naval Aviator in the U.S. Marine Corps and was later deployed to Iraq, becoming part of the first all-female F/A-18 aircrew and flying over 130 combat missions.http://content.yudu.com/Library/A18cuc/NewrozAsianLegends/resources/10.htm
- James Văn Thạch - The only Vietnamese American to coordinate and complete a United States military base named Combat Outpost ShockerCombat Outpost ShockerCOP Shocker is a U.S. Coalition base located in Zurbatiyah, Iraq. The base located parallel to Iraqi 3rd Region BDE Department of Border Enforcement . Assigned to the base is a contingent of US Border Military transition team, United States Border Patrol and US Canine unit. The base planning and...
in Iraq.http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/05/prweb3923274.htm - Ngo Quang TruongNgo Quang TruongLieutenant General Ngô Quang Trưởng was an officer in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam . He was widely regarded as South Vietnam’s best officer and well-known for his uncompromising integrity and incorruptibility...
- Former general of ARVN and author.
Politics and law
- Hubert VoHubert VoHubert Vo is a member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 149. He is the first and only Vietnamese American to be elected to the Texas legislature.-Personal life:...
- Texas state representative - Janet NguyenJanet NguyenJanet Q. Nguyen is the County Supervisor from the First District of Orange County, California. She won her seat following a historic special election where two Vietnamese-American candidates received half of the total votes cast in a field of 10, separated from each other by only 7 votes. She...
- Orange County Board of Supervisors. - John Quoc DuongJohn Quoc DuongJohn Quoc Duong was born in 1973, in Saigon, South Vietnam. He immigrated to the United States in 1982. Appointed by President George W. Bush, Duong served from 2001 to 2003 as the Director of the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and concurrently as Executive...
- As President George W. BushGeorge W. BushGeorge Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000....
's appointee, he served as the Executive Director of The White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. - John TranJohn TranJohn Tran is an American politician who served on the Rosemead, California city council as that city's first Asian-American mayor...
- First Vietnamese-American Mayor in US, Mayor of Rosemead, California - Joseph CaoJoseph CaoAnh "Joseph" Quang Cao is the former U.S. Representative for , serving from 2009 until 2011. He is a member of the Republican Party. In April 2011, he announced he will be a candidate for Attorney General of Louisiana in 2011, however in September 2011 he pulled out of the race.He was the first...
- First Vietnamese-American Congressman representing Louisiana's 2nd congressional districtLouisiana's 2nd congressional districtLouisiana's 2nd congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Louisiana. The district contains nearly all of the city of New Orleans , and some of its suburbs, including the West Bank portion of Jefferson Parish and South South Kenner.The district is currently represented... - Kok KsorKok KsorMontagnard Foundation, Inc. is an anti-communist organization that is protecting the rights of the Montagnard people. It is a non-profit organization, founded in 1990 and based in South Carolina , that has spoken out against the communist government of Vietnam's polices that affect the Montagnard...
- president of the Montagnard Foundation, Inc. - Lan CaoLan CaoLan Cao is the author of the 1997 novel Monkey Bridge and is a professor of law at the College of William and Mary.Cao was born in Vietnam and experienced the Vietnam War as a civilian. She moved to the United States when she was 13. Cao received her B.A. in political science from Mount Holyoke...
- law professor, novelist. - Mina NguyenMina NguyenMina Nguyen, born is the former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Business affairs, appointed by U.S. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson. in February 2007.-Career:...
- Deputy Assistant Secretary for Business Affairs and Public Liaison at the US Treasury Department. - Huu Chanh NguyenNguyen Huu ChanhNguyễn Hữu Chánh a Vietnamese-American, born in 1952, in Vietnam. He is the founder and former Prime Minister of the an anti-communist organization known as The Government of Free Vietnam...
- founder and former Prime Minister of the Government of Free VietnamGovernment of Free VietnamProvisional Government of Free Vietnam is a paramilitary political organization headquartered in Garden Grove, California and Missouri City, Texas... - Phuc Buu Chanh NguyenNguyen Phuc Buu ChanhNguyễn Bửu Chánh , a self-styled member of Vietnam's Nguyễn Dynasty, was born in Huế, Vietnam. He is heavily influenced by Mohandas Gandhi's philosophy of nonviolence.-Education:...
- president of the Vietnamese Constitutional Monarchist LeagueVietnamese Constitutional Monarchist LeagueVietnamese Constitutional Monarchist League , .-History:The Vietnamese Constitutional Monarchist League is an anti-communist organization that was established in 1993 by its first President Nguyễn Phúc Bửu Chánh, a self-claimed member of the Vietnamese royal family who fled from Vietnam for...
, member of Vietnam's Nguyễn Dynasty - Tony LamTony LamTony Lâm is a politician from California. In 1992, he won a seat on the Westminster City Council, becoming the first Vietnamese-born person to be elected into a political office in the United States....
- the first Vietnamese-American elected official. Former Westminster, California city council. - Van TranVan TranVan Thai Tran , born October 19, 1964) is an attorney and politician in California, formerly serving as a Republican member of the California State Assembly, representing portions of Orange County. Tran and Texas State Representative Hubert Vo were the highest-ranking Vietnamese American elected...
- California State AssemblyCalifornia State AssemblyThe California State Assembly is the lower house of the California State Legislature. There are 80 members in the Assembly, representing an approximately equal number of constituents, with each district having a population of at least 420,000...
man - Viet D. DinhViet D. DinhViet D. Dinh is a lawyer and a conservative legal scholar who served as an Assistant Attorney General of the United States from 2001 to 2003, under the presidency of George W. Bush. Born in Saigon, in the former South Vietnam, he was the chief architect of the USA PATRIOT Act.-Early life:Dinh was...
- former United States Assistant Attorney GeneralUnited States Assistant Attorney GeneralMany of the divisions and offices of the United States Department of Justice are headed by an Assistant Attorney General.The President of the United States appoints individuals to the position of Assistant Attorney General with the advice and consent of the Senate...
who drafted the USA Patriot ActUSA PATRIOT ActThe USA PATRIOT Act is an Act of the U.S. Congress that was signed into law by President George W. Bush on October 26, 2001...
Science and education
- Bui Tuong PhongBui Tuong PhongBui Tuong Phong was a Vietnamese-born computer graphics researcher and pioneer. His publications are most often referred to using his family name, Bùi, which comes before his given name by Vietnamese name convention, but his inventions are remembered under his given name Phong, since it is...
- computer graphics pioneer. Inventor of the Phong reflection model and the Phong shading interpolation method - Duy-Loan LeDuy-Loan LeDuy-Loan T. Le is an engineer and the first woman and Asian to get elected to the rank of Texas Instruments Senior Fellow.-Early life:Born in Saigon, South Vietnam, in 1962, to a Vietnamese-Muslim family , she fled to the U.S...
- prominent Texas InstrumentsTexas InstrumentsTexas Instruments Inc. , widely known as TI, is an American company based in Dallas, Texas, United States, which develops and commercializes semiconductor and computer technology...
engineer. - Eugene H. TrinhEugene H. TrinhEugene Huu-Chau "Gene" Trinh is a Vietnamese-American biochemist who flew aboard NASA Space Shuttle mission STS-50 as a Payload Specialist. He is the first Vietnamese-French-American to travel into outer space.-Biography:Born in Saigon, South Vietnam, Trinh moved with his parents to Paris,...
- NASANASAThe National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research...
astronaut, the first Vietnamese-American to travel into outer space - Hồ Thành Việt, founder of VNIVNIVNI Software Company is the Westminster, California–based, family-owned developer of various education, entertainment, office, and utility software packages.-History:...
Software Co., California. - Jane LuuJane Luu-Early life:Luu was born in 1963 in South Vietnam to a father who worked as a translator for the U.S. Army. Her father taught her French as a child, beginning her lifelong love of languages....
- astronomer, co-discoverer of Kuiper Belt and many asteroids. - Xuan Vinh NguyenNguyen Xuan VinhNguyễn Xuân Vinh is a noted Vietnamese-American aerospace scientist and educator. Vinh is Professor Emeritus of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Michigan, where he taught for nearly thirty years...
- professor of Aerospace Engineering, University of MichiganUniversity of MichiganThe University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...
. The first Vietnamese to receive the Dirk Brouwer award (2007). Author of Pilot's Life - Anh Duong NguyetNguyet Anh DuongNguyet Anh Duong is a Vietnamese American scientist responsible for the creation of the Thermobaric weapon.She is noted as the "Scientist who developed the bomb that ended the war with Afghanistan" by the Vietnamese American National Gala.-Biography:...
- responsible for the creation of the Thermobaric weapon. - Trịnh Xuân ThuậnTrinh Xuan ThuanTrịnh Xuân Thuận is a Vietnamese-American astrophysicist.Thuận was born in Hanoi, Vietnam. He completed his B.S. at the California Institute of Technology, and his Ph.D. at Princeton University. He has taught astronomy at the University of Virginia since 1976, and is a Research Associate at the...
- author of The Birth of the Universe, astrophysicist and professor of astronomy at the University of VirginiaUniversity of VirginiaThe University of Virginia is a public research university located in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, founded by Thomas Jefferson...
. - Tuan Vo-DinhTuan Vo-DinhTuan Vo-Dinh is R. Eugene and Susie E. Goodson Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Professor of Chemistry, and Director of the Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics of Duke University. Vo-Dinh has been ranked No...
- inventor, professor and Director of the Fitzpatrick Institute for PhotonicsPhotonicsThe science of photonics includes the generation, emission, transmission, modulation, signal processing, switching, amplification, detection and sensing of light. The term photonics thereby emphasizes that photons are neither particles nor waves — they are different in that they have both particle...
of Duke UniversityDuke UniversityDuke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco industrialist James B...
. Ranked No. 43 on a list of the world's top 100 living geniuses - Xuong Nguyen-HuuXuong Nguyen-HuuXuong Nguyen-Huu received his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley. His awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a NATO Senior Fellowship, and a UCSD Chancellor's Associates Award. He is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Physics and Biology at UC San Diego...
- Biology professor, University of CaliforniaUniversity of CaliforniaThe University of California is a public university system in the U.S. state of California. Under the California Master Plan for Higher Education, the University of California is a part of the state's three-tier public higher education system, which also includes the California State University...
. Pioneer in AIDS research. Invented the X-ray Multiwire Area Detector.
Sports
- Amy TranAmy TranAmy Trần is a field hockey goalkeeper from the United States, who made her national team debut against Mexico at the Pan American Cup, where she shared the 5-0 shutout. Tran attended the University of North Carolina...
- hockey player. - Catherine Mai Lan Fox - Olympic swimmer with two gold medals.
- Cung LeCung LeCung Le is a Vietnamese-American Sanshou kickboxer, mixed martial artist, and actor from Saigon, Vietnam currently competing in the UFC. He is the former IKF Light Heavyweight San Shou World Champion and has a professional San Shou record of 16-0 before moving to mixed martial arts...
- Kickboxer/MMA fighter Undefeated San Shou champion and former StrikeforceStrikeforceStrikeforce is a U.S.-based mixed martial arts and kickboxing organization based in San Jose, California. It is headed by CEO Scott Coker and owned by Zuffa, LLC...
Champion and coach - Danny GravesDanny GravesDaniel Peter Graves is a former Major League Baseball pitcher. Born to an American serviceman father and a Vietnamese mother, he is the only Vietnam-born player in the history of the major leagues, and one of the few Vietnamese-American players...
- MLB baseball player - Dat NguyenDat NguyenDat Tan Nguyen is a former American football linebacker in the National Football League . He was the first Vietnamese American to play in the NFL. He played for the Dallas Cowboys from 1999 to 2005. He played college football at Texas A&M. He was the Cowboys' assistant linebackers coach and...
- NFL football player, Dallas Cowboys assistant linebackers and defensive quality control coach - Dat Nguyen - Pro boxing Professional boxer
- David PhamDavid PhamDavid Pham , is a Vietnamese-American professional poker player from Bell Gardens, California with two World Series of Poker bracelets and has made seven final tables at the World Poker Tour.- Early life :...
- professional poker, won two World Series of Poker bracelets and has made seven final tables at the World Poker Tour - Howard BachHoward BachHoward Bach is a Vietnamese-American male badminton player from the United States. He was the 2005 world champion in men's doubles with Tony Gunawan.-Early life:He was born in South Vietnam on 22 February 1979, Howard Bach came to the U.S...
- badminton player - former world champion (2005) - Leta LindleyLeta LindleyLeta Lindley is an American professional golfer who captured her first LPGA Tour title after 15 years on tour at the 2008 LPGA Corning Classic....
- LPGA Tour golfer - J.C. Tran - professional poker player. As of 2010, his total live tournament winnings amount to $7,996,635
- Jim ParqueJim ParqueJames Vo Parque is a former Major League Baseball pitcher for the Chicago White Sox and Tampa Bay Devil Rays from to .-High school:...
- In 1996, he was the only left-handed pitcher on the Olympics baseball team that won a bronze medal in Atlanta. - Men NguyenMen NguyenMen "The Master" Nguyễn is a Vietnamese-American professional poker player.-Early years:In 1967, he dropped out of school at age 13 and became a bus driver to help support his family. In early 1978, a staunch anti-Communist, he escaped from the Communist regime of Vietnam by boat and sailed with...
- professional poker player. As of 2010, his total live tournament winnings exceed $9,700,000 - Mimi TranMimi TranThithi "Mimi" Tran is a Vietnamese-American professional poker player.- Biography :Tran was born in Nha Trang, Vietnam. After moving to the United States in 1982, Tran found work in the electronics industry in Silicon Valley. She began playing poker in 1989, after an auto accident left her...
- professional poker player. As of 2008, her total live tournament winnings exceed $1,400,000 - Nam PhanNam PhanNam Phan is an American mixed martial artist who competes in the featherweight and lightweight divisions. He was a competitor on The Ultimate Fighter: Team GSP vs. Team Koscheck...
- MMA fighter in the UFC - Scotty NguyenScotty NguyenThuận B. "Scotty" Nguyễn is a Vietnamese American professional poker player who is a five time World Series of Poker bracelet winner, most notably as the winner of the 1998 World Series of Poker Main Event and the 2008 WSOP $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. World Championship...
- professional poker player