List of Vietnamese Americans

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

*David Huynh – actor known for his role in '' The Sinner''
*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
* 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''
* Tiffany Pham – actress, model, author, and entrepreneur
*Jonathan Ke Quan – former child actor in '' Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'' and ''The Goonies''
*Rosie Tran – writer, actress, and comedian
*Thuy Trang – actress known for role as the Yellow Power Ranger in the series ''Power Rangers''
*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 '' To All the Boys''
*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 ''Watchmen''.
*Levy Tran – actress and model, known for her role in ''MacGyver''
*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''
*Johnny Trí Nguyễn - action choreographer, film actor, martial artist

Anchors and reporters

*Betty Nguyen – ''CBS Early Morning News'' anchor, former CNN anchor
* Mary Nguyen – Award-winning reporter; first Asian-American Miss Teenage America
*Leyna Nguyen – Emmy Award-winning anchor
*Vicky Nguyen – NBC Investigate and Consumer Correspondent
*Thuy Vu – Emmy award-winning anchor and reporter for CBS-5 Television in San Francisco

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
*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)''
* Timothy Linh Bui - filmmaker, film producer, and screenwriter
* Tony Bui - film director

Dance groups

*Jabbawockeez
** Jeff "Phi" Nguyen
*Poreotics – '' America's Best Dance Crew'' season 5 champions
** Matthew "Dumbo" Vinh Quoc Nguyen
** Charles Viet Nguyen
** Can Trong "Candy" Nguyen

Musicians

*Cuong Vu – Grammy award-winning jazz trumpeter and vocalist
*Tyga – Vietnamese and Jamaican rapper signed to Young Money and Cash Money Records
*keshi (Casey Luong) – singer, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist who gained popularity from songs "like i need u" and "2 soon"
* Nguyễn Cao Kỳ Duyên, MC, singer
*Don Hồ, singer
* Bao Vo, musician, singer-songwriter, composer

Artists and others

* Daniel K. Winn - Painter/Sculptor
* Binh Danh – photographer
* Thuc Doan Nguyen – writer
*Chloe Dao – fashion designer/winner of television show ''Project Runway''
*Dat Phan – comedian, winner of first ''Last Comic Standing''
* Jonas Bevacqua – adopted Vietnamese American fashion designer, creator of urbanwear LRG
*Michelle Phan – YouTube beauty guru
*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, current president of TVes network in Venezuela.
* Christine Ha – first blind contestant on ''MasterChef'' and the winner of its third season in 2012
*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
*Karrueche Tran – American model and actress
*Truong Tran – poet, visual artist, teacher
*Ken Hoang – ''Survivor'' contestant and professional video game player
* Tai Trang – ''Survivor'' contestant
*Ocean Vuong – Award-winning American novelist, poet, and essayist
* Tom Cross – Academy Award-winning film editor
*Bao Phi - artist, writer and community activist
* Quan Barry - poet and novelist
*Nai Bonet - belly-dancer, singer and film actress
*Nikita Dragun – YouTuber, make-up artist, and model

Business

* Johnny Dang – notable Vietnamese American jeweler
* 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
* Bill Nguyen – founder of onebox.com and lala.com, sold for $850 million and $80 million respectively
* David Tran – founder of Huy Fong Foods, maker of Sriracha Chili Sauce
* Kieu Hoang – pharmaceutical billionaire, CEO of RAAS, Inc (USA) and Vice Chairman of Shanghai RAAS Blood Products, China

Literature and journalism

* Aimee Phan – author of ''We Should Never Meet''
* 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''
* Monique Truong – author of '' The Book of Salt''
*Andrew Lam – writer and journalist Author of " Perfume Dreams: Reflections On The Vietnamese Diaspora"
* 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''
*Ocean Vuong – poet and 2016 Whiting Award Winner
* Quang X. Pham – author; 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
*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
* Kimberly Nguyễn – poet and author of ''ghosts in the stalks'' and a forthcoming collection in fall
* Soleil Ho – San Francisco Chronicle’s Restaurant Critic, writer, podcaster, and chef

Military

* Viet Xuan Luong – Major General, US Army Japan
* Lapthe Flora – Major General, Combined Joint Task Force – Horn of Africa
* William H. Seely III – Major General, US Marine Corps; Director of Marine Corps Intelligence; American father/Vietnamese mother.
* Quang X. Pham – first Vietnamese American to earn naval aviator's wings in the US Marine Corps; author and politician

Politics and law

* Bee Nguyen – Georgia state representative (Democratic)
*Hubert Vo – Texas state representative (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 (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)
*Kok Ksor – president of the Montagnard Foundation, Inc.
*Lan Cao – law professor, novelist
*Jacqueline Nguyen – U.S. circuit judge; first Vietnamese-American federal judge; first Asian-American woman to sit on the federal appellate court
*Joe Nguyen – Washington State Senate (Democratic)
*Kathy Tran – Virginia State Delegate
* 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
*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 (Democratic)
*Tony Lam – first Vietnamese-American elected official; former Westminster, California city council
*Tram Nguyen – Massachusetts State Representative (Democratic)
* Van Tran – former California State Assembly man
* Viet D. Dinh – former United States Assistant Attorney General; drafted the USA Patriot Act
*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.
* Dat Tran — Acting United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs

Science and education

* Kathy Pham – computer scientist and product leader; founding product and engineering member at the United States Digital Service at the White House, Nguoi Viet 40 under 40.
* Han T. Dinh – Director of Vehicle Engineering, United States Postal Service; winner of 2006 White House "Closing of Circle Award"
*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
* Eugene H. Trinh – NASA astronaut, first Vietnamese-American to travel into outer space
* Hồ Thành Việt – founder of VNI Software Co., California
*Jane Luu – astronomer, co-discoverer of Kuiper Belt and many asteroids
* Nguyễn Xuân Vinh – professor of aerospace engineering, University of Michigan; first Vietnamese to receive the Anh_Duong_Nguyet_–_responsible_for_the_creation_of_the_thermobaric_weapon
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* 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
* 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
* Thuc-Quyen Nguyen – Professor of Chemistry at University of California, Santa Barbara; Highly Cited Researcher
*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.

Sports and games

Baseball

*Danny Graves – MLB baseball player
*Jim Parque – only left-handed pitcher on the Olympics baseball team that won a bronze medal in Atlanta in 1996
*Tommy Pham – MLB baseball player

Fighting sports

*Cung Le – kickboxer and MMA fighter; undefeated San Shou champion; former Strikeforce champion, actor and coach
*Thanh Le - former ONE Featherweight World Champion
*Dat Nguyen – World Ranked Professional boxer
*Nam Phan – MMA fighter in the UFC
*Ben Nguyen – MMA fighter, fighting also in the UFC
* Bi Nguyen – ''Survivor'' contestant and MMA fighter, formerly fought in ONE Championship

Poker

*Men Nguyen – professional poker player; as of 2010, his total live tournament winnings exceeded $9,700,000
*Qui Nguyen (poker player) – 2016 World Series of Poker Main Event Champion
*Scotty Nguyen – professional poker player
*David Pham – professional poker, won two World Series of Poker bracelets and has made seven final tables at the World Poker Tour
* 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

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
*Brandon Nakashima – ATP Tour tennis player of Japanese and Vietnamese descent
* Lee Nguyen – Major League Soccer soccer player, currently plays for the New England Revolution
*Dat Nguyen – NFL football player, 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
*Joe Walters – professional lacrosse player

Religion

* Thích Thiên-Ân – Buddhist monk, meditation teacher and founder of International Buddhist Meditation Center in the Koreatown section of Los Angeles
* Luong Kim Dinh – Catholic priest, scholar and philosopher
* Dominic Mai Thanh Lương – auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange
* Thomas Nguyễn Thái Thành – auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange

References

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