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Nguyen was born in Mỹ Tho in the southern Tiền Giang Province of Vietnam. [1] He learned to sew at the age of 9 at his parents' private sewing school. The family immigrated to the United States in 1993 when Thai was 13 where they lived in Washington State. [2] Nguyen graduated from Olympia High School in 1999.
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 ...
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.
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Nini Nguyen is an American chef. Based in New Orleans, she is known for her appearances on Top Chef: Kentucky, Top Chef: All-Stars L.A., and Last Bite Hotel. Her first book Đặc Biệt: An Extra-Special Vietnamese Cookbook was released in August 2024 under Knopf. In 2024, Nguyen won the debut season of Last Bite Hotel on Food Network. [1]
He is a playwright, TV writer and screenwriter, and also an artistic director of the Obie Award [2] and Caffe Cino Award [3] winning Vampire Cowboys Theatre Company, whose productions, penned and choreographed by Nguyen, have performed to sold-out audiences at the New York International Fringe Festival, been published nationally in Plays and Playwrights 2005, [4] enjoyed extended runs ...
[28] [29] [30] Prior to 1960, the overwhelming majority came from Europe or of European descent from Canada. Immigration from Europe as a proportion of new arrivals has declined since the mid-20th century, with 75.0% of the total foreign-born population born in Europe compared to 12.1% recorded in the 2010 census. [31]
Lee Nguyen's father, Pham Nguyen, fled to the United States a few years before the fall of Saigon, precisely in 1973, and later settled in Richardson, Texas, where Lee was born. Pham also played soccer in his youth. [43] In 2012, Nguyen was named one of The Boston Globe's 25 Most Stylish Bostonians. [44]