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.
Actors and 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
Maggie Q – former model and actress in Mission Impossible III
Jonathan Ke Quan – former child actor in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and The Goonies
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
Kathy Uyen – actress, producer, and writer
Kieu Chinh – actress, producer, and writer
Xanthe Huynh - anime English voice actress
Lana Condor - American actress
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
Thuy Vu – Emmy award-winning anchor and reporter for CBS-5 Television in San Francisco
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
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
Chau-Giang Thi Nguyen – concert pianist and artist
Cuong Vu – Grammy award winning jazz trumpeter and vocalist
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
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 – info-mercial icon, professional poker player and real estate investor
Tila Tequila – was the most popular woman on MySpace; had her own MTV show; appeared in FHM magazine
Christine Ha – the 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
Karrueche Tran - American model and actress
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
David Tran – founder of Huy Fong Foods, maker of Sriracha Chili Sauce
Thuan Pham – CTO of Technology startup Uber
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
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
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: A Novel
Viet Xuan Luong – Brigadier General, first Vietnamese American to command a brigade in the US Army
Lapthe Flora – first Vietnamese American to be promoted to Brigadier General in the Virginia National Guard
Lê Bá Hùng – first Vietnamese-American Navy captain; commands USS Lassen (DDG 82) missile-guided destroyer
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; recipient of the US Navy Cross
Nguyễn Qúy An – Major in the Republic of Vietnam Air Force; recipient of the United States Distinguished Flying Cross
Quang X. Pham – first Vietnamese American to earn naval aviator's wings in the US 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
Ngô Quang Trưởng – former Lieutenant General of ARVN; author
Lê Minh Đảo – former Major General of ARVN
Trần Quang Khôi – former Brigadier General of ARVN
Politics and law
Hubert Vo – Texas state representative
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
John Tran – First Vietnamese-American Mayor in US, Mayor of Rosemead, California
Joseph Cao – first Vietnamese-American Congressman representing Louisiana's 2nd congressional district
Kok Ksor – president of the Montagnard Foundation, Inc.
Lan Cao – law professor, novelist
Jacqueline H. Nguyen – US circuit judge; first Vietnamese-American federal judge; first Asian-American woman to sit on the federal appellate court
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
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
Stephanie Murphy – first Vietnamese-American Congresswoman representing Florida's 7th congressional district
Tony Lam – first Vietnamese-American elected official; former Westminster, California city council
Tri Ta - first Vietnamese-American elected Mayor, Westminster, California
Van Tran – California State Assemblyman
Viet D. Dinh – former United States Assistant Attorney General; drafted the USA Patriot Act
Science and education
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
Eugene H. Trinh – NASA astronaut, first Vietnamese-American to travel into outer space
Hồ Thành Việt, founder of VNI Software Co., California
Tue Nguyen – scholar, earned seven degrees from MIT
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 [[Dirk Brouwer Award (A
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
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
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
Nghi Q. Lam - Former Senior Scientist at Argonne National Laboratory; former editor-in-chief of Applied Physics Letters published by American Institute of Physics
Liem X. Dang - Scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; elected fellow of American Physical Society; elected fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science
Danny Graves – MLB baseball player
Jim Parque – the only left-handed pitcher on the Olympics baseball team that won a bronze medal in Atlanta in 1996
Tommy Pham – MLB baseball player
Cung Le – kickboxer and MMA fighter; undefeated San Shou champion; former Strikeforce champion and coach
Dat Nguyen – professional boxer
Nam Phan – MMA fighter in the UFC
Ben Nguyen – MMA fighter, currently fighting in the UFC
Men Nguyen – professional poker player; as of 2010, his total live tournament winnings exceeded $9,700,000
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
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, 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
Luong Kim Dinh, Catholic priest, scholar and philosopher
Dominic Mai Thanh Lương, auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange
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