List of Vietnamese Americans
This is a list of notable Vietnamese Americans. 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.
List
Arts and entertainment
Dance group
Business
- Bill Nguyen, founder of onebox.com and lala.com, sold for 850 million and 80 million respectively [10]
- Trung Dung - 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 Jao - Pioneer behind Little Saigon, Westminster, CA and the Asian Garden Mall.
Literature and Journalism
Military
- Viet Xuan Luong - First Vietnamese American to command a Brigade in the U.S. Army. [25] [26] [27] [28]
- Nguyễn Ngọc Loan - Brigadier General, ARVN; subject of Eddie Adam's photograph
- Nguyen Van Kiet - Petty Officer Third Class in the Republic of Vietnam Navy and a recipient of the United States Navy Cross.
- Nguyen Quy 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.
- 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.[29]
- James Văn Thạch - The only Vietnamese American to coordinate and complete a United States military base named Combat Outpost Shocker in Iraq.[30]
- Ngo Quang Truong - Former general of ARVN and author.
Politics and law
Science and education
Sports
- Amy Tran - hockey player.
- Catherine Mai Lan Fox - Olympic swimmer with two gold medals.
- Cung Le - Kickboxer/MMA fighter Undefeated San Shou champion and former Strikeforce Champion and coach[27]
- Danny Graves - MLB baseball player[28]
- Dat Nguyen - NFL football player,[29] Dallas Cowboys assistant linebackers and defensive quality control coach
- Dat Nguyen - Pro boxing Professional boxer[30]
- David Pham - professional poker, won two World Series of Poker bracelets and has made seven final tables at the World Poker Tour[31]
- Howard Bach - badminton player - former world champion (2005)
- Leta Lindley- LPGA Tour golfer
- J.C. Tran - professional poker player. As of 2010, his total live tournament winnings amount to $7,996,635[32]
- Jim Parque - In 1996, he was the only left-handed pitcher on the Olympics baseball team that won a bronze medal in Atlanta.
- Men Nguyen - professional poker player. As of 2010, his total live tournament winnings exceed $9,700,000[33]
- Mimi Tran - professional poker player. As of 2008, her total live tournament winnings exceed $1,400,000[34]
- Nam Phan- MMA fighter in the UFC [35]
- Scotty Nguyen - professional poker player[36]
References
- ^ [1] "Like most Vietnamese-Americans, I was going to pursue a career that’s often regarded as bringing honor to the family..."
- ^ [2] "That is, after all, how the 34-year-old Vietnamese-American refugee became a successful..."
- ^ [3] "CUONG VU is a Vietnamese born jazz trumpeter"
- ^ [4] "Dat Phan is actually my real name. It's actually derived from China, even though I'm Vietnamese"
- ^ [5] "I was only the first Vietnamese kid in the state..."
- ^ [6] "Vietnamese newcomer Ke Huy Quan makes a shrill debut..."
- ^ [7] "She’s a gorgeous, Hawaiian born, Vietnamese/American actress, a model gone action star in films in Japan and China..."
- ^ cbs2.com - CBS 2 KCAL 9 News Team
- ^ [8] "Vietnamese-American actress, and was born in Saigon, South Vietnam."
- ^ [9] "Nguyen parlayed his ascending reputation and Onebox.com's buzz into an $850 million merger with Phone.com"
- ^ [10] "Aimee Phan offers her observations as a Vietnamese American..."
- ^ UMass Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press
- ^ Monique Truong
- ^ [11] "She is Vietnamese and a survivor of the Viet Nam war."
- ^ [12] "Hubert Vo: First Vietnamese American State Legislator in Texas"
- ^ [13] "Another notable Vietnamese American dedicated to public service is John Quoc Duong, who serves under President George W. Bush, as executive director of the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders."
- ^ AsianWeek.com
- ^ [14] "...led by Jarai-American Kok Ksor..."
- ^ [15] "It is the first novel by a Vietnamese-American about the war experience and its aftermath..."
- ^ http://www.treas.gov/press/releases/hp259.htm
- ^ Biography of Prince Buu Chanh
- ^ [16] "Orange County voters made Van Tran the highest-ranking Vietnamese American public official in the country this week when they elected him to the state Assembly."
- ^ [17] "Like many Vietnamese immigrants, Dinh's emotional experience in his homeland steered him toward the Republican Party..."
- ^ Trinh -
- ^ [18] "Vietnamese-American astronomer"
- ^ Vo-Dinh has been ranked No. 43 on a list of the world's top 100 living geniuses in a survey conducted by Creators Synectics, a global consultants firm "Top 100 living geniuses". Telegraph.co.uk (London). 2007-10-31. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1567544/Top-100-living-geniuses.html. Retrieved 2008-06-19.
- ^ [19] "Growing up as a skinny Vietnamese refuge, Cung Le was an easy target for bullies..."
- ^ [20] "Graves, the only Vietnamese-born player in the major leagues, left Saigon when he was only 14 months old."
- ^ [21] "Nguyen and 10 other Vietnamese boys were segregated to one team..."
- ^ http://www.boxingscene.com/?m=show&id=22110
- ^ [22] "Like other Vietnamese players..."
- ^ J. C. Tran
- ^ [23] "Men Nguyen was born in Vietnam. At age 13 he quit school and began working as a bus driver. In 1978, when he was 24, he and other 87 Vietnamese people escaped from their native country by boat."
- ^ [24] "Such is already the case with Mimi Tran, a Vietnamese émigré..."
- ^ Fight Finder - Nam Phan's Mixed Martial Arts Statistics
- ^ Yang, Jeff (2005-10-27). "ASIAN POP All In". The San Francisco Chronicle. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2005/10/27/apop.DTL.