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Famous or notable Vietnamese people include:

Arts and entertainment

Architecture

  • Ngô Viết Thụ, architect and urbanist
  • Quasar Khanh a designer and inventor of the inflatable chair; married to fashion house designer Emmanuelle Khanh[1]

Cinema

Leyna Nguyen
Maggie Q

Culinary

Dance

  • Poreotics Matthew "Dumbo" Vinh Quoc Nguyen, Can "Candy" Trong Nguyen, & Charles Viet Nguyen

Design

Fashion

Chloe Dao

Fine art

Literature

Nam Le

Media

Tila Tequila

Music

Nguyễn Cao Kỳ Duyên
Tâm Đoan

Business

Pham Duc Trung Kien

History and politics

Kings and Queens

Emperors

Hàm Nghi

Presidents

Ho Chi Minh

Former Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam)

Nguyễn Tấn Dũng
Võ Nguyên Giáp

Secretary-General of Communist Party of Vietnam

Prime ministers

Nguyễn Tấn Dũng

Democratic Republic of Vietnam, now Socialist Republic of Vietnam

Former Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam)

Generals

Revolutionaries, politicians, and statesmen (not mentioned above)

Lê Đức Thọ

Lawyers

Religion

Sciences

Natural sciences and technology

Tan Le
Ngô Bảo Châu

Space travel

Social sciences

Sports

Danny Graves

See also

References

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  10. ^ [3] "Growing up as a skinny Vietnamese refuge, Cung Le was an easy target for bullies..."
  11. ^ [4] "Dung, Vietnamese tennis champion 2006 and the first Vietnamese to start a real professional tennis career, working her way from Vietnam and Asian country to USA."
  12. ^ [5] "Graves, the only Vietnamese-born player in the major leagues, left Saigon when he was only 14 months old."
  13. ^ [6] "Nguyen and 10 other Vietnamese boys were segregated to one team..."
  14. ^ [7] "Like other Vietnamese players..."
  15. ^ "Trinh-Duc the face of French new wave". Brisbanetimes.com.au. June 23, 2009. Retrieved August 3, 2012.
  16. ^ [8] "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."
  17. ^ [9] "Such is already the case with Mimi Tran, a Vietnamese émigré..."
  18. ^ Yang, Jeff (October 27, 2005). "Asian Pop All In". The San Francisco Chronicle. Archived from the original on July 21, 2009. Retrieved December 12, 2012. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)