Nguyễn Cao Kỳ
Kỳ Duyên was born on 30 June 1965 in Saigon, South Vietnam as the only daughter to Nguyễn Cao Kỳ, a former South Vietnamese Prime Minister, Vice President, and Air-Force General. Her mother is Đặng Tuyết Mai who was from Bắc Ninh and spent most of her childhood in Hanoi. In 1953, she and her family moved to Da Lat, South Vienam, where Đặng Tuyết Mai studied at Yersin High School, acquiring fluency in English and French. Before getting married, she was one of four air hostesses for Air Vietnam. Đặng Tuyết Mai met Nguyễn Cao Kỳ on a trip from Manila to Vietnam. At around the age of ten during the Fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975, Nguyễn Cao Kỳ Duyên moved to the United States.