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Thích Trí Quang (chữ Hán: 釋智光) (21 December 1923 – 8 November 2019) was a Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk best known for his role in leading South Vietnam's Buddhist population during the Buddhist crisis in 1963, and in later Buddhist protests against subsequent South Vietnamese military regimes until the Buddhist Uprising of 1966 was crushed.
Nguyễn Cao Kỳ (Vietnamese pronunciation: [ŋwiən˦ˀ˥ kaːw˧˧ ki˨˩] ⓘ; 8 September 1930 – 23 July 2011) [1] [2] was a South Vietnamese military officer and politician who served as the chief of the Republic of Vietnam Air Force in the 1960s, before leading the nation as the prime minister of South Vietnam in a military junta from 1965 to 1967.
In 1963, after the military overthrow of the minority Catholic regime of President Ngo Dinh Diem, Nhất Hạnh returned to South Vietnam on 16 December 1963, at the request of Thich Tri Quang, the monk most prominent in protesting the religious discrimination of Diem, to help restructure the administration of Vietnamese Buddhism. [13]
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 ...
Don Nguyen, American professional skateboarder (b. 1979) Lee Nguyen, American footballer (Randers FC, New England Revolution) (b. 1986) Marcel Nguyen, German gymnast (b. 1987) Martin Nguyen, Vietnamese-Australian mixed martial artist (b. 1989) Nam Nguyen, Canadian figure skater (b. 1998) Nguyễn Lộc, martial artist (1912–1960)
Nguyen was born in Vietnam. [1] She is an entrepreneur. [2] In June 2024, Nguyen defeated Jeff Howell in the Democratic primary election for the 23rd district of the Utah House of Representatives. [3] In November 2024, she defeated Scott Romney and Cabot Nelson in the general election, winning 71 percent of the votes. [4] She succeeded Brian ...
Nguyễn Thái Ðông (aka Marc-Antoine Nguyen), born in 1963 in Paris (France), translator (Saigon Eco and FAFILM), and xiangqi expert [7] (author of « Xiangqi : L'univers des échecs chinois » [8]). Nguyễn Thái San, movie actor, MBA in Tourism. Nguyễn Kiều Lan, born in 1966 in Antony (France), physician.
Nguyễn Sinh Sắc (chữ Hán: 阮生色 [1],1862–1929) was the father of Ho Chi Minh. [2] Hoàng Thị Loan was his wife, the daughter of his adoptive father and teacher. He passed the Confucian cử nhân examination in 1894 and in 1901 gained a second-rank (pho bang) position. [3]