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.

Arts and entertainment[]

Actors and actresses[]

Lana Condor
Maggie Q
  • James Duval – actor, mother is of Vietnamese-French descent
  • Eileen Fogarty – actor, writer, and producer
  • 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]
  • Olivia Munn – former model, Daily Show correspondent and actress of X-Men: Apocalypse and Mortdecai fame
  • 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]
  • 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
  • Xanthe Huynh – anime English voice actress
  • Ali Wong – actress, comedian, and writer, known for Always Be My Maybe
  • Lana Condor – actress, known Lara Jean in
  • La Thoại Tân – actor
  • Kelly Marie Tran – actress, known for Rose Tico in Star Wars: The Last Jedi and Raya in Raya and the Last Dragon
  • Hong Chau – actress, known for roles in Downsizing and .
  • Levy Tran – actress and model, known for her role in MacGyver (2016 TV series)
  • Loan Chabanol – actress
  • Tram-Anh Tran – actress, known for her role in Ghostwriter
  • Patti Harrison – actress, writer and comedian, known for her role in Shrill and Together Together

Anchors and reporters[]

Directors[]

  • Tim Dang – theatre director and actor. Former artistic director at the Asian American theatre company, East West Players.
  • 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[9]
  • Michael Dougherty – director/writer of Trick 'r Treat
  • Ham Tran – director of Journey from the Fall
  • Derek Nguyen – writer/director of The Housemaid (2016 film)

Dance groups[]

Musicians[]

  • Chau-Giang Thi Nguyen – concert pianist and artist[10][11][12][13]
  • Cuong Vu – Grammy award-winning jazz trumpeter and vocalist[14]
  • Dat Nguyen – classical guitarist[15]
  • Tyga – Vietnamese and Jamaican rapper signed to Young Money and Cash Money Records
  • Ziya – Toronto based R&B artist
  • Sierra Deaton – singer-songwriter and co-winner of Season 3 of The X Factor US
  • keshi (Casey Luong) – singer, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist who gained popularity from songs "like i need u" and "2 soon"
  • Dolly Ave (Dolly Nguyen) - singer-songwriter and award-winning photographer.

Artists and others[]

  • Binh Danh – photographer
  • Thuc Doan Nguyen – writer
  • Chloe Dao – fashion designer/winner of television show Project Runway[16]
  • Dat Phan – comedian, winner of first Last Comic Standing[17]
  • Jonas Bevacqua – adopted Vietnamese American fashion designer, creator of urbanwear LRG
  • Michelle Phan – YouTube beauty guru
  • Van Darkholme – gay porn actor, dungeon master, performance artist and film director
  • Linda Le – cosplayer and model
  • Hung Huynh – chef, Top Chef season 3 winner
  • Tom Vu – infomercial icon, professional poker player and real estate investor
  • Tila Tequila – popular woman on MySpace; starred on her own MTV show; appeared in FHM magazine
  • Christine Ha – first blind contestant on 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; co-founder, editor-in-chief, and publisher of The Brooklyn Rail, a monthly arts, culture, and politics journal in New York[18]
  • Karrueche Tran – American model and actress
  • Truong Tran – poet, visual artist, teacher
  • Plastique Tiara – American-Vietnamese drag queen
  • Ken HoangSurvivor contestant and professional video game player
  • Tai TrangSurvivor contestant
  • Ocean Vuong – Award winning American novelist, poet, and essayist

Business[]

  • Johnny Dang – notable Vietnamese American jeweler[19]
  • Trung Dung – founder of OnDisplay, sold to Vignette Corporation in 2000 for $1.8 billion
  • Frank Jao – pioneer behind Little Saigon, Westminster, California, and the Asian Garden Mall
  • Eric Ly – co-founder of LinkedIn, a social networking service [20]
  • Bill Nguyen – founder of onebox.com and lala.com, sold for $850 million and $80 million respectively[21]
  • David Tran – founder of Huy Fong Foods, maker of Sriracha Chili Sauce
  • Thuan Pham – CTO of Uber[22]
  • Kieu Hoang – pharmaceutical billionaire, CEO of RAAS, Inc (USA) and Vice Chairman of Shanghai RAAS Blood Products, China[23]

Literature and journalism[]

  • Aimee Phan – author of We Should Never Meet[24]
  • 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
  • Jenna Lê – poet and physician; author of "A History of the Cetacean-American Diaspora"
  • 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[25]
  • Monique Truong – author of The Book of Salt[26]
  • Andrew Lam – writer and journalist[27] Author of ""[28]
  • 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 (2008) and Beyond the Court Gate: Selected Poems of Nguyen Trai (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 Vietnamese poems; human rights activist; author of Poems by Selected Vietnamese[29]
  • Ocean Vuong – poet and 2016 Whiting Award Winner
  • Quang X. Pham – author; founder of Lathian Systems, a pharmaceutical promotions company
  • Stephanie TrongJane 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
  • Viet Thanh Nguyen – author of The Sympathizer, the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
  • Vu Tran – author of Dragonfish
  • Linh Dinh – poet, writer, translator, and photographer
  • Do Nguyen Mai – poet and author of Ghosts Still Walking
  • Thanh Bui – editor-in-chief, ASN magazine, founder of Shiba Rescue Society

Military[]

Viet Xuan Luong

Politics and law[]

Jacqueline Nguyen
Viet D. Dinh
  • Bee Nguyen – Georgia state representative[39] (Democratic)
  • Hubert Vo – Texas state representative[40] (Democratic)
  • Janet Nguyen – Orange County Board of Supervisors, California State Senator (Republican)
  • John Quoc Duong – President George W. Bush's appointee as Executive Director of the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders[41] (Republican)
  • John Tran – first Vietnamese-American Mayor in US, Mayor of Rosemead, California (Democratic)
  • Joseph Cao – first Vietnamese-American Congressman representing Louisiana's 2nd congressional district from 2009 until 2011 (Republican)
  • De Le – President Trump's senior policy advisor, former San Diego City Council candidate (Republican)
  • Kok Ksor – president of the Montagnard Foundation, Inc.[42]
  • Lan Cao – law professor, novelist[43]
  • Jacqueline Nguyen – U.S. circuit judge; first Vietnamese-American federal judge;[44] first Asian-American woman to sit on the federal appellate court[45]
  • Joe Nguyen – Washington State Senate (Democratic)
  • Kathy Tran – Virginia State Delegate[46]
  • Madison NguyenSan 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[47]
  • My-Linh Thai – Washington State House of Representative (Democratic)
  • Huu Chanh Nguyen – founder and former Prime Minister of the Government of Free Vietnam
  • Stephanie Murphy – Vietnamese-American Congresswoman representing Florida's 7th congressional district from 2017 until present [48]
  • Tony Lam – first Vietnamese-American elected official; former Westminster, California city council
  • Tram Nguyen – Massachusetts State Representative (Democratic)[49]
  • Van Tran[50]
  • Viet D. Dinh – former United States Assistant Attorney General; drafted the USA Patriot Act[51]
  • Amanda Nguyen – President and Founder of Rise (non-governmental organization), a non-profit that works to implement a sexual assault survivors' bill of rights.
  • Dean Tran – first Vietnamese-American elected to the Massachusetts Legislature (Republican)
  • Bùi Diễm – one of the last crucial Vietnamese ambassadors to the United States during the final phase Vietnam War.
  • Andrew Do – Orange County, CA, Board of Supervisor. Elected 2016.
  • J. Peter Pham, United States Special Envoy for the Sahel Region of Africa, first Vietnamese American with the rank of ambassador.[52]
  • Dat Tran — Acting United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs

Science and education[]

Han Dinh
  • Kathy Pham – computer scientist and product leader; founding product and engineering member at the United States Digital Service at the White House,[53][54] Nguoi Viet 40 under 40.[55]
  • Han T. Dinh – Director of Vehicle Engineering, United States Postal Service; winner of 2006 White House "Closing of Circle Award"[56][57][58]
  • Bui Tuong Phong – computer graphics pioneer; inventor of Phong reflection model and Phong shading interpolation method
  • Duy-Loan Le – prominent Texas Instruments engineer
  • Trang Thach Hickman – public health professional and J. William Fulbright Scholar[59]
  • Eugene H. TrinhNASA astronaut, first Vietnamese-American to travel into outer space[60]
  • Hồ Thành Việt – founder of VNI Software Co., California
  • Jane Luu – astronomer, co-discoverer of Kuiper Belt and many asteroids[61]
  • Nguyễn Xuân Vinh – professor of aerospace engineering, University of Michigan; first Vietnamese to receive the [[Dirk Brouwer Award (A[62]
  • Anh Duong Nguyet – responsible for the creation of the thermobaric weapon
  • Trịnh Xuân Thuận – author of The Birth of the Universe; astrophysicist; 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[63]
  • Xuong Nguyen-Huu – biology professor, University of California; pioneer in AIDS research; invented the x-ray multiwire area detector
  • Đàm Thanh Sơn – theoretical physicist, University Professor at University of Chicago, member of National Academy of Sciences
  • Van H. Vu – Professor of Mathematics at Yale University
  • Ngô Bảo Châu – Professor of Mathematics at University of Chicago; Fields Medal winner
  • Trần Duy Trác - Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Johns Hopkins University
  • SonBinh Nguyen – Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University; Highly Cited Researcher[64]
  • Thuc-Quyen Nguyen – Professor of Chemistry at University of California, Santa Barbara; Highly Cited Researcher[65]
  • Chi Van Dang – Professor; Scientific Director at Ludwig Cancer Research; Former Director of the Abramson Cancer Center at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine; member of the National Academy of Medicine (Institute of Medicine), American Academy of Arts & Sciences.[66]

Sports[]

Cung Le

Baseball[]

  • Danny GravesMLB baseball player[67]
  • Jim Parque – only left-handed pitcher on the Olympics baseball team that won a bronze medal in Atlanta in 1996
  • Tommy PhamMLB baseball player

Fighting sports[]

  • Cung Le – kickboxer and MMA fighter; undefeated San Shou champion; former Strikeforce champion, actor and coach[68]
  • Dat Nguyen – World Ranked Professional boxer[69]
  • Nam Phan – MMA fighter in the UFC[70]
  • Ben Nguyen – MMA fighter, fighting also in the UFC
  • Bi NguyenSurvivor contestant and MMA fighter, currently fighting in ONE Championship

Poker[]

  • Men Nguyen – professional poker player; as of 2010, his total live tournament winnings exceeded $9,700,000[71]
  • Qui Nguyen (poker player)2016 World Series of Poker Main Event Champion
  • Scotty Nguyen – professional poker player[72]
  • David Pham – professional poker, won two World Series of Poker bracelets and has made seven final tables at the World Poker Tour[73]
  • J.C. Tran – professional poker player; as of 2010, his total live tournament winnings amounted to $7,996,635
  • Mimi Tran – professional poker player; as of 2008, her total live tournament winnings exceeded $1,400,000[74]

Other sports[]

  • Howard Bach – badminton player, former world champion (2005)
  • Catherine Mai Lan Fox – Olympic swimmer with two gold medals
  • Leta LindleyLPGA Tour golfer
  • Brandon NakashimaATP Tour tennis player of Japanese and Vietnamese descent[75]
  • Lee NguyenMajor League Soccer soccer player, currently plays for the New England Revolution
  • Dat NguyenNFL football player,[76] 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
  • Thai-Son Kwiatkowski – men's professional tennis player[77][circular reference]
  • Joe Walters – professional lacrosse player[78]

Religion[]

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