Famous People with Name Tuan

Tuan Le            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Tuan Le: known for his aggression and risk-taking.Of Vietnamese ancestry, Le was raised in Kansas City, USA, but by middle school age he was living in Los Angeles, California where he attended John Burroughs Junior High School, on McCadden and 6th Street. He later attended Cal State-Northridge as a finance major.He began playing in the $20/$40 limit hold'em games at the Hustler Casino in Los Angeles, where he currently resides.In 2004, he won his first World Poker Tour (WPT) event, earning himself over $1,500,000. In 2005, he finished first at the World Poker Tour Season 3 Championship, winning just over $2,800,000. He also won the WPT Battle of Champions III event, defeating Eli Elezra in the final heads-up confrontation. With those wins, Tuan became the all time leading money winner on the World Poker Tour,

Tuanaitau Fa'atamala Tuia            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Tuanaitau Fa'atamala Tuia: was an American Samoan politician and the longest serving member of the American Samoan territorial legislature, the Fono, in history. Tuia served a combined 49 years in the Fono, including thirty years in the American Samoa House of Representatives and s

Tuanglarp Koh-Thong            Origin/Culture/Country: Thai

Tuanglarp Koh-Thong: a professional footballer from Thailand. He currently plays for Thailand Premier League side BEC Tero Sasana.

Tuanku Jaafar Ibni Almarhum Tuanku Abdul Rahman,            Origin/Culture/Country: Malaysian

Tuanku Jaafar Ibni Almarhum Tuanku Abdul Rahman,: in Klang, Selangor was the tenth Yang di-Pertuan Agong (equivalent to King) of Malaysia from April 26, 1994 to April 25, 1999 and fourth Yang di-Pertuan Besar of modern Negeri Sembilan.Tuanku Ja’afar’s diplomatic career began in 1957. He took up a special course for diplomatic services in London for one year. His first appointment was as Charge d’ Affaires in Washington D.C., United States of America followed by First Secretary with the Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York, Consular and Deputy High Commissioner at the High Commission of Malaya in London. Tuanku Ja’afar was later appointed as the Malaysian Ambassador to Egypt and then as High Commissioner to Nigeria and Ghana.

Yi-Fu Tuan            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Yi-Fu Tuan: a Chinese-American geographer.Tuan attended University College, London, but graduated from the University of Oxford with a B.A. and M.A. in 1951 and 1955 respectively. From there he went to California to continue his geographic education. He received his Ph.D. in 1957 from the University of California, Berkeley.From New Mexico Tuan first moved to Toronto between 1966-68 teaching at University of Toronto.Then he eventually became a full professor at the University of Minnesota in 1968. There he began his focus on systematic humanistic geography. He describes the content of human geography from his wonderings about "the glories and miseries of human existence, observable on the streets as well as in colleges."

Ph?m Tuân            Origin/Culture/Country: Vietnamese

Ph?m Tuân: was the first Vietnamese cosmonaut and by extension, he was also the first Asian (excluding Russia) in space.On the night of December 27, 1972, he is claimed to have shot down a United States B-52 bomber over Hanoi while flying a MiG-21, becoming the only

Yung Kuo Tuan            Origin/Culture/Country: Chinese

Yung Kuo Tuan: was a Chinese male table tennis player. He won men's singles title at the 1959 World Table Tennis Championships in Dortmund, the first world championship winner representing People's Republic of China. During the Cultural Revolution, Yung was framed as "Spy Suspect". He committed suicide on June 20, 1968.