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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 ...
Dustin Nguyen (born Nguyễn Xuân Trí) is a Vietnamese–American actor and martial artist. He is best known for his roles as Harry Truman Ioki on 21 Jump Street and as Johnny Loh on V.I.P. [ 2 ] Recently, he starred as Zing in the Cinemax / Max martial arts crime drama series Warrior .
Nguyen has a brother named Nhat Nguyen who is an international badminton player who competed at the Summer Olympics representing Ireland. [17] Nguyen is married to Mark Gough, a business owner, with whom she has two children named Lilly and Marc. After her marriage, she adopted the name Tham Nguyen Gough, being nicknamed Thammy. [17]
Viet Thanh Nguyen (Vietnamese: Nguyễn Thanh Việt; born March 13, 1971 [a]) is a South Vietnamese-born American professor and novelist.He is the Aerol Arnold Chair of English and Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California.
France Nuyen (born France Nguyễn Vân Nga on 31 July 1939) is a French-American actress, model, and psychological counselor. She is known to film audiences for playing romantic leads in South Pacific (1958), Satan Never Sleeps (1962), and A Girl Named Tamiko (also 1962), and for playing Ying-Ying St. Clair in The Joy Luck Club (1993).
His next series, the 10-episode Luke Nguyen's United Kingdom, first aired on 14 May 2015 with the London episode in which he toured the city's food markets with his brother, Lewis. [8] His next series, the 8-episode Luke Nguyen's Street Food Asia , in which he explores street food in Ho Chi Minh City , Bangkok , Kuala Lumpur and Jakarta , first ...
His mother gave birth to him at 15 and he never knew his father. When giving him a last name his mother misspelled the Vietnamese last name Nguyen as Nygren. Nygren is Táchiiʼnii (Red Running into Water clan). As his father is not Navajo, he has no paternal clan and is therefore said to be born for Vietnamese when his clans are named. [2]
Joseph-Thanh Nguyen (born September 27, 1983) is an American politician who is a former member of the Washington State Senate from the 34th district. Nguyen, a second-generation Vietnamese American , was raised with his three siblings in White Center, Washington , by his mother.