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Viet was born in Ban Mê Thuột, South Vietnam in 1971. [17] He was the son of Linda Thanh Nguyen and Joseph Thanh Nguyen, [18] refugees from North Vietnam who had moved south in 1954. [19] [20] Viet's mother's real name is Nguyễn Thị Bảy and she is a highly influential person in his life.
From Vietnam to America: A chronicle of the Vietnamese immigration to the United States (Routledge, 2019). . Lipman, Jana K. In Camps: Vietnamese Refugees, Asylum-Seekers, and Repatriates (University of California Press, 2020) Nguyen, Nhi T. Not an American Dream: first-generation Vietnamese females’ success in higher education. ( Thesis ...
Janet Q. Nguyen (born May 1, 1976) is an American politician serving on the Orange County Board of Supervisors, representing the First District, since December 4, 2024 and previously holding the same office from 2007 to 2014.
Born in Vĩnh Long, Nguyen is the daughter of a Vietnamese mother; her biological father, an American man, abandoned the family before Nguyen was born. [1] She was raised in the Washington, D.C. area. Nguyen earned a Bachelor of Science degree in psychology from the University of Maryland, College Park and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the New College of California in San Francisco.
[16] [17] In the June primary Nguyen came in second with 14.6% of the vote after Correa received 43.7%. [18] [19] In the November Nguyen lost to Correa after receiving just under 30% of the vote in the general election. [20] Nguyen's term as Garden Grove mayor ended in December 2016, and he was succeeded by council member/Mayor Pro Tem, Steve ...
Outside Vietnam, the surname is commonly rendered without diacritics, as Nguyen. Nguyen was the seventh most common family name in Australia in 2006 [8] (second only to Smith in Melbourne phone books [9]), and the 54th most common in France. [10] It was the 41st most common surname in Norway in 2020 [11] and tops the foreign name list in the ...
[2] [3] Her family later opened a doughnut shop in Glendale, California, where Nguyen worked everyday after school and the weekends to help her parents. [4] [5] [6] Nguyen earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in English in 1987 from Occidental College. [1] [2] [7] She then earned a Juris Doctor from UCLA School of Law in 1991. [7] [5]
State flag of California Location of California on the U.S. map This is a list of notable people from the U.S. state of California . It includes people who were born/raised in, lived in, or spent portions of their lives in California, or for whom California is a significant part of their identity.