# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/van-tran
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:19:18.860Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/van-tran"
name: "Van Tran"
slug: "van-tran"
description: "Van Thai Tran is a Vietnamese American attorney and politician in California, formerly serving as a Republican member of the California State Assembly, representing portions of Orange County. Tran was the highest-ranking Vietnamese American elected official was the highest-ranking Vietnamese American elected official in U.S. history along with Hubert Vo until Joseph Cao was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 2008. Tran took office one month before Vo did, making him the first Vietnamese American to serve in a state legislature. He served in the Assembly as Assistant Republican Leader."
tagline: "American politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Van_Tran_cropped.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1964-10-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.27
  momentum:             0.4791666666666667
  historical:           4.618108
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A4%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "ڤان تران"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "وان تران"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Tran"
    title: "Van Tran"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tr%E1%BA%A7n_Th%C3%A1i_V%C4%83n"
    title: "Trần Thái Văn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%99%88%E6%B3%B0%E6%96%87"
    title: "陈泰文"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9365294"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump