Business
Bill Nguyen, founder and CEO of lala.com [22]
Frank Jao - pioneer of Little Saigon in Orange County, California[23]
Danny Vu - Financial Director
Quach Nhut Danh - Pharmacist, "pioneer" of Little Saigon in Orange County, California[24]
Tran Dinh Truong - hotel owner.
Trung Dung - engineer, who sold his OnDisplay to Vignette Corporation in 2000 for $1.8 billion.


Literature and Journalism
Aimee Phan - author[25]
Andrew Lam - journalist and short story writer, editor of the Pacific News Service[26]
Andrew X. Pham - author.
Chau Nguyen - news anchor. First Vietnamese-American to be awarded a regional Emmy-award.
Diem Thuy Thi Le - poet
Doan Van Toai - author, former student leader
Huynh Sanh Thong - author.
Kien Nguyen - author.
Le Ly Hayslip - Author of When Heaven and Earth Changed Places, which was turned into a motion picture (Heaven & Earth) directed by Oliver Stone.
Lan Cao -- author of Monkey Bridge,
Lucy Noland - American Journalist; currently an anchor at KHOU (TV) in Houston
Tran bich san - Writer, philosopher, and editor of "The Little Saigon News of New Orleans (1995-present)".
Mong-Lan - writer, poet, visual artist, educator[27]
Monique Truong- author [28]
Nguyen Chi Thien - dissident poet
Nguyen Qui Duc - essayist and radio producer
Phong Bui - publisher of the Brooklyn Rail
Phung Le Ly Hayslip - memoirist and humanitarian[29]
Quang X. Pham - author.
Qui Nguyen - playwright and stage fight coach
Stephanie Trong - Jane Magazine executive editor
Ut Huynh Cong - photographer. First Vietnamese American to win the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography (1973) and the World Press Award

Military
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 recipient of the 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.
Ngo Quang Truong - Former general of ARVN and author.
Vietnamese American Armed Forces Association - Vietnamese Americans that serve in the US Armed Forces.

Politics and law
Hubert Vo - Texas state representative[30]
Janet Nguyen - Orange County Board of Supervisors.
John Quoc Duong - As President George W. Bush's appointee, he served as the Executive Director of The White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. [31]
John Tran - First Vietnamese-American Mayor in US, Mayor of Rosemead, California [32]
Joseph Cao - First Vietnamese-American Congressman representing Louisiana's 2nd congressional district
Kok Ksor - president of the Montagnard Foundation, Inc.[33]
Lan Cao - law professor, novelist.[34]
Mina Nguyen - Deputy Assistant Secretary for Business Affairs and Public Liaison at the Treasury Department[35].
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[36]
Tony Lam - the first Vietnamese-American elected official. Former Westminster, California city council.
Van Tran - California State Assemblyman[37]
Viet D. Dinh - former United States Assistant Attorney General who drafted the USA Patriot Act[38]
[edit] Science and education
Bui Tuong Phong - computer graphics pioneer.
Duy-Loan Le - prominent Texas Instruments engineer.
Eugene H. Trinh - NASA astronaut, the first Vietnamese-American to travel into outer space[39]
Hồ Thành Việt, founder of VNI Software Co., California.
Jane Luu - astronomer[40]
Nguyễn Tiến Hưng - former minister of Republic of Vietnam, author, professor of Economics at Howard University
Xuan Vinh Nguyen - professor of Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan. The first Vietnamese to receive the Dirk Brouwer award (2007)
Anh Duong Nguyet - led a team of scientists and engineers to develop the payload for the thermobaric bomb
Tran Huu Dung - professor of economics at Wright State University.
James (Jim) Spencer - Professor of Urban and Regional Planning / Political Science at University of Hawai'i at Manoa.[citation needed]
Trịnh Xuân Thuận - author, astrophysicist and professor of astronomy at the University of Virginia.
Tuan Vo-Dinh - inventor, professor and Director of the Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics of Duke University [41]
Xuong Nguyen-Huu - biology professor, University of California. Pioneer in AIDS research. Invented the X-ray Multiwire Area Detector.
Thomas Vo - prominent control system engineer (team lead of 18) Jacob Engineering.

Sports
Amy Tran - hockey player.
Catherine Mai Lan Fox - Olympic swimmer with two gold medals.
Cung Le - san shou champion and coach[42]
Danny Graves - MLB baseball player[43]
Dat Nguyen - NFL football player[44], Dallas Cowboys assistant linebackers and defensive quality control coach
David Pham - professional poker player[45]
Howard Bach - badminton player - former world champion (2005)
J.C. Tran - professional poker player[46]
John Phan - professional poker player
Jim Parque - In 1996, he was the only left-handed pitcher on the Olympics baseball team that won a bronze medal in Atlanta.
Lee Nguyen - professional soccer player
Men Nguyen - professional poker player[47]
Mimi Tran - professional poker player[48]
Nam Phan-MMA fighter/Caged fullcontact fighter [49]
Paul Truong - chess coach
Scotty Nguyen - professional poker player[50]


There is more here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Vietnamese_Americans

Just wondering if anybody has seen Paris By Night Toi La Nguoi Vietnam? I thought it was pretty good. Kudos to them for featuring the successful Vietnamese Americans on there.

Feel free to add more successful Vietnamese American people.

Wow thats a lot. Thanks.

np.

Excuse me please, I have some questions

Is Jao a Vietnamese name? Frank Jao - pioneer of Little Saigon in Orange County, California[23]

This is the guy who shot the other guy, but ran to America when the other guy's friends turned up, that's not very brave Nguyễn Ngọc Loan - Brigadier General, ARVN

If this guys become "successful", Vietnam will split up Kok Ksor - president of the Montagnard Foundation, Inc.[33]

This guy lives in a fantasy, he thinks he still King of Vietnam Phuc Buu Chanh Nguyen - president of the Vietnamese Constitutional Monarchist League, member of Vietnam's Nguyễn Dynasty[36] (If I fantasized about being Bill Clinton's only gay lover, will you call me "successful"?)

SoCal.

Each of us can contribute a little either by donation or fund raising etc, it would help the disadvanged/poor tremendously. .

Why do you think highly of me?

Poker should not be included under sport. Poker players ain't athletes to me.

I agree.



Who cares? geeze!

I care. Poker is not sport, it's morally wrong to say so. If you're still insisting then would more like trying to convince people that the world is flat.

Do you believe that the world is flat?

hmm I think I read somewhere in Lao's chat that children in Laos thought the world was flat. Is that true?!?

I think it does not list all of successful Vietnamese Americans
Vietnamese Doctors are too many ^^

Yesh, some children, but as the get older they view point changed, but you're not children anymore though.

You should not believe that poker is sport and the world is flat.

Grow up would you?

Too many mean 1%, 2% of the total population?

I'm pretty sure it's more than Lao in both proportion to pecentage ratio and actual numbers


Remember, Vietnamese population is decades above Lao.

There were only a total of about 6 million Laotians including Khmu and Hmong altogether during the French occupation of Laos. Vietnam and Thailand had around 60+

millions dude.

i just wanted to see some source, how hard is that to find one when there are so many out there.

wow, that's alot. this is the true immigrant spirit!

I would show you mine if you show me yours.

definition of sport: an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature, as racing, baseball, tennis, golf, bowling, wrestling, boxing, hunting, fishing, etc.


requiring skill? a definite yes
physical prowess? a tournament often last hours and may lasts even days, so a test of endurance is a yes
competitive? you bet

if you go for an argument on physical strength, then consider this chess is a sport.

So now the only option left for you unfortunately is if you can convince me that it takes more physical strength for a chess player to move a chess piece than it does for a poker player to move his pile of chips, then you may have a case, otherwise, you have better luck in trying to convince people that the world is flat.

Let's think of ways to help Vietnamese people so our names can be on that list for eternity.

Dude, how could you leave out the most important person???


Linda Trang Dai!!!

Where's Dien?

There are many Vietnamese doctors. Just pick up a bao Thanh Mo~ or Trieu Thanh and see all their advertisements.

California
http://www.ethnicphysicians.org/Network/map.asp
Vietnamese Physician Association in San Diego
Vietnamese Physician Association of Northern California
Vietnamese Physician Association of Southern California

Texas
http://www.vamausa.org/
Vietnamese American Medical Association
Vietnamese Health Professionals of North Texas

Massachusetts
Vietnamese Physicians, Dentists, and Pharmacists of Masscachusetts

There is more but too lazy to list.

Please share some of Lao's physician Associations with us! I would love to see it.



Lols, she sucks at singing and dancing.
There was actually a list of performers/actors/actress/singers but I did not add it.



Who is Dien?

Appearanly this chick has a hard time reading english. According to VietnamNo1 Vietnamese Doctors are too many, and i was wondering what percent make up the whole total population. VietnamNo1 was using the term Too many, which i found to be too ambiguous.

Brown noser, I don't remember asking you any question. Let me know if i did.

we always value education/hardwork so its easier to succeed . The 2nd generation will be even better.

I doubt it. They will blend into American lazy culture. Pop, Nintendo, race cars, gangster wannabe.

Hope and reality are not the same.

well that's not bad cars,games,music

You're losing your mind to think that poker is a sport that can be associated with athletic sport like football and soccer. It's totally different species that can be associated with boarding games like monopoly, chess, checkers, Tic-tac-toe....etc. Poker is not an athletic activity and doen't requre much physically active and should not be associated with Football or Soccer.

Poker
Is it required much physical active: NO, at least is not as much as football and soccer.
requiring skill? Yes and No, mental retard can still play, doesn't mean they'll be good at it.

Son, lets forget what your sister told you, just call poker a board game and don't associate with athletic sports like football and soccer.

Are you taking about this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVWHH7Er3KE

I don't know what percentage of Vietnamese doctors there is in the U.S. I know there is quite a few. What about Lao doctors? Is there any Lao's Medical Association? What is the percentage of Laos doctors in the U.S? Please share, I would love to know!

How dare you! That's sacrilegious. She screams very well to me.

how is that hardworking and value education?

enjoying music/cars and having an education aren't mutually exclusive.

Aint the thread is about the successful Vietnamese Americans, so it's fair enough to ask about Viet doctors? If you want to know about Lao then seach on your own. Aint you smart enough? What up with women these day, full of contradiction. They want equal right, but come down actually doing the work, they want men to do it all. Take turn would you?

elaugh
Maybe after a bottle of Grey Goose her singing would be a bit more pleasant to the ears. !





I did search, and I could not find any after 5 minutes so I quit! I was wondering if you know, since Lao is your beloved country.

I have not seen you sweat yet, means you're not working hard enough.

If chess is classified as a sport why isn't poker?

Read the previous posts. chess is just a playing game like poker and monopoly. Stop associating those games with real sport like football and soccer. Don't tell people that Las Vegas is full of athletic, call them gamblers. They're different and stop mixing them up.

So I see, you're telling me that you're really bad at poker


check the International Olympic Committee, chess is a recognized sport, dumbass

LOL I remember when I was little (like 6 years old), my dad said I look like Linda (when she was young), but then I grew up and found I don't look a bit like her. When I was 13, he said I look like Loan Chau. But then he also said I look like Thanh Truc. Basically he says I look like whichever singer that he likes. In the end, I don't find myself look a bit like any of them.

Your dad has good taste ... unless you're talking about their musical abilities.

which is why my mom is pretty I'm not kidding, she was hoa khôi of trường nguyễn trãi when she was young. Too bad I look more like my dad than my mom

Don't be so harsh on yourself, you're still hoa khôi of Viet Chat

I am if Viet Chat has no girl There's still Tav6, coloco, lavi, nadaa, Tissue_Box. They all are attractive, I have to cede the crown for them

Cede the crown? You never had one in the first place.

Look who is talking here..... Don't be so mean now .....Just accept the fact that the princess won't kiss you!

^ She has to. I am the toad. You never heard of the story the princess kisses the toad.

It's the PRINCESS who gets to choose, not the toad! If you post your toadie picture up here, I could help convincing the princess to blow you one kiss on AF.

^ which version of the story did you read. ive never heard there was an AF 'vietnam' in the story.