List of Cambodian Americans
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This is a list of notable Cambodian American
s, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants.
To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article showing they are Cambodian American or must have references showing they are Cambodian American and are notable.
Cambodian American
A Cambodian American is an American who is born, raised, or from Cambodia usually of Khmer descent but also including Chinese Cambodians, Vietnamese Cambodians, Cham people and other ethnicities of Cambodia...
s, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants.
To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article showing they are Cambodian American or must have references showing they are Cambodian American and are notable.
List
- Bhante DharmawaraBhante DharmawaraBhante Dharmawara was a Cambodian-born Theravada monk and teacher who died at the age of 110.He was well educated and became a lawyer, judge and provincial governor before he began studying Buddhism and became a monk in his 30s...
- Buddhist monk and teacher who helped resettle millions of Cambodian refugees in the US and who founded the first Cambodian Buddhist temple in the US - Kris DimKris DimKrisna "Kris" Dim is an IFBB professional bodybuilder.His first national bodybuilding competition was the NPC USA Championships, where he took 6th. After many years of hard work, he finally got his "ProCard" after winning the overall light-heavyweight division in the NPC USA 2003...
- Pro bodybuilder - Dith PranDith PranDith Pran was a Cambodian photojournalist best known as a refugee and survivor of the Cambodian Genocide. He was the subject of the Academy Award-winning film The Killing Fields . He was portrayed in the movie by first-time actor Haing S. Ngor , who won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor...
(b. 1942) - Photojournalist for the New York Times, human rights activist - Sichan SivSichan SivSichan Siv is an American diplomat and former U.S. representative to the United Nations Economic and Social Council from 2001 to 2006, holding the rank of ambassador in serving that position....
- former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Economic and Social CouncilUnited Nations Economic and Social CouncilThe Economic and Social Council of the United Nations constitutes one of the six principal organs of the United Nations and it is responsible for the coordination of the economic, social and related work of 14 UN specialized agencies, its functional commissions and five regional commissions... - Soben HuonSoben HuonSoben R. Huon is a beauty queen from Los Angeles, California who has competed in the Miss USA pageant.Huon won the Miss Utah USA 2006 title in late 2005 in her first attempt. She represented Utah in the Miss USA 2006 pageant broadcast live from Baltimore, Maryland in April 2006. She was also the...
- Miss Utah USA 2006. Miss USA competitor. - Maddox Chivan Jolie-Pitt - Adopted son of actors Angelina JolieAngelina JolieAngelina Jolie is an American actress. She has received an Academy Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards, and was named Hollywood's highest-paid actress by Forbes in 2009 and 2011. Jolie is noted for promoting humanitarian causes as a Goodwill Ambassador for the...
and Brad PittBrad PittWilliam Bradley "Brad" Pitt is an American actor and film producer. Pitt has received two Academy Award nominations and four Golden Globe Award nominations, winning one... - Phillip LimPhillip Lim3.1 Philip Lim is Lim's fashion label. It is projected to have sales of 60 million USD in 2011.-Collections:For the line's fall 2006 collection, Lim aimed to "inject some 'street elegance'" into his designs...
- Renowned womenswear designer. - Monirith ChheaMonirith ChheaMonirith Chhea is a Cambodian-American artist from Phnom Penh. As a child of starvation, who watched overwork, torture, disease, and execution during the Khmer Rouge and learned by the age ten how to survive on his own, separated from his family in a labor camp and later in a refugee camp in...
- Artist originally from Phnom Penh - Arn Chorn-PondArn Chorn-PondArn Chorn-Pond is a human rights activist committed to preserving traditional Cambodian music.-Early life:Chorn-Pond was born in Cambodia in 1966 into a Battambang family of performers and musicians...
- Musician and human rights activist - Haing S. NgorHaing S. NgorDr. Haing Somnang Ngor was a Cambodian American physician, actor and author who is best known for winning the 1985 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his debut performance in the movie The Killing Fields, in which he portrayed Cambodian journalist and refugee Dith Pran. His mother was...
- Oscar-winning actor, author, physician - Ted NgoyTed NgoyTed Ngoy is a Cambodian American enterpreneur and former owner of a chain of doughnut shops in California. He was nicknamed the "Doughnut King." -Biography:Ted Ngoy was born in Cambodia in a village near the Thailand border...
- The "Doughnut King," entrepreneur and politician - Chanthou OeurChanthou OeurChanthou Oeuror Chakra Oeur also known as O'Bon, is a Cambodian painter and sculptor who has lived in the United States since the 1980s. -Biography:...
- Painter and sculptor - Chath PierSathChath PierSathChath Piersath, born in Chath Piersath, born in Chath Piersath, born in (Kop Nymit, Svay Sisophon District, in Battambang Province is a noted Cambodian American poet, painter and humanitarian...
- Poet, painter, and humanitarian - Sam-Ang SamSam-Ang SamSam-Ang Sam, Ph.D. is a Cambodian American ethnomusicologist and recent MacArthur Fellow. As founder of Sam-Ang Sam Ensemble, he has released several albums for sale in mainstream American markets in an attempt to revive Classical Khmer music and stimulate interest in the various Cambodian...
- Ethnomusicologist and MacArthur Fellow, noted Cambodian classical music performer - Sophiline Cheam ShapiroSophiline Cheam ShapiroSophiline Cheam Shapiro is a Cambodian dancer and choreographer.-Early life:At the age of eight she was forced to live in the countryside of Cambodia after her family was evacuated from the city by the Khmer Rouge...
- choreographer and dance teacher - Pou SohtireakPou SohtireakPou Sohtireak is the Cambodian Minister for Industry, Mines and Energy. He belongs to Funcinpec and was elected to represent Siem Reap Province in the National Assembly of Cambodia in 2003. Pou holds both Cambodian and American citizenship, which he acuried the latter during his studies in Oregon...
- Politician - Narath TanNarath TanNarath Tan is a Cambodian sculptor and artist currently working in Chicago.-Early life:His early life on the outskirts of Phnom Penh during the Khmer Rouge were plagued by tragedy and horror. His father disappeared in the early 1970s and was believed to have been killed. In starving conditions...
- Sculptor and artist - Loung UngLoung UngLoung Ung is a Cambodian American human-rights activist, an internationally-recognized lecturer, and the national spokesperson for the Campaign for a Landmine-Free World...
- Author, speaker, Khmer RougeKhmer RougeThe Khmer Rouge literally translated as Red Cambodians was the name given to the followers of the Communist Party of Kampuchea, who were the ruling party in Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, led by Pol Pot, Nuon Chea, Ieng Sary, Son Sen and Khieu Samphan...
survivor and activist against landmines - Chhun YasithChhun YasithChhun Yasith is a Cambodian American who led a failed coup d’état in Cambodia in 2000.-Biography:Yasith left Cambodia in the early 1980s, amid the disarray following the Vietnamese invasion that deposed the Khmer Rouge régime from power. He emigrated to the United States in 1982 and became a tax...
- Political activist - Sam MeasSam MeasSam Meas is a Haverhill, Massachusetts-based Republican running for a seat in Massachusetts's 5th congressional district, which includes the cities of Haverhill, MA, Lawrence and Lowell....
- Meas is the first Cambodian-American Congressional candidate in U.S. History