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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 ...
The Vietnamese-American population grew significantly after 1975, when a large wave of South Vietnamese refugees arrived in the U.S. following the end of the Vietnam War. [8] Today, over half of Vietnamese-Americans reside in California and Texas, particularly in metropolitan areas like Los Angeles, Houston, and San Jose. [9] [10]
Dat Nguyen – NFL football player who was a linebacker for seven seasons with the Dallas Cowboys and is the first Vietnamese-American to be drafted, play, and be recognized as an All-Pro in the NFL. In 2017, he was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame
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Nguyen was born in Saigon, Vietnam. She is of Vietnamese and Scottish American descent. Nguyen and her family left Vietnam for the United States in April 1975 during the Fall of Saigon. [11] [12] From a CNN videotape, she speaks about her father. [13] He was an American serviceman who fell in love with a Vietnamese college student.
Daniel Nguyen, Vietnamese-American tennis player (b. 1990) Dat Nguyen, American NFL linebacker (Dallas Cowboys) (b. 1975) Dat Nguyen (boxer), Vietnamese-American boxer and bare-knuckle boxer (b. 1982) Don Nguyen, American professional skateboarder (b. 1979) Lee Nguyen, American footballer (Randers FC, New England Revolution) (b. 1986)
The Vietnamese coming into Houston in the 2000s and beyond came to find education and jobs. [13] In 2005 Houston had 32,000 Vietnamese and Vietnamese Americans, making it the second largest Vietnamese American community in the United States of any city after that of San Jose, California. [14]
He did this by deposing the Lê emperor, Lê Cung Hoàng, taking the throne for himself, effectively ending the once prosperous but declining later Lê dynasty. Nguyễn Hoằng Dụ's son, Nguyễn Kim, the leader of the Nguyễn clan with his allies, the Trịnh clan remained fiercely loyal to the Lê dynasty. They attempted to restore the ...