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(''Người Việt'' or ''Người gốc Việt -'' Vietnamese or Vietnamese-descent). This list is incomplete.

Art and design

Fashion

* Đặng Thị Minh Hạnh, fashion designer * Nguyễn Thùy Lâm, model. She competed in Miss Universe 2008 and made into the top 15. * Trần Thị Hương Giang, model. She competed in

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and made into the top 16. *

Võ Hoàng Yến Võ Hoàng Yến (born October 29, 1988) is a Vietnamese actress, public speaker, model and beauty pageant titleholder. She won the Vietnam Supermodel 2008 contest and is the 1st runner-up of Miss Universe Vietnam 2008. She represented Vietnam ...

, model. She competed in Miss Universe 2009 but was unplaced. * Thuy Diep, fashion designer. * Thien LE, Vietnamese-Canadian fashion designer and founder of the Thien Le label. * Chloe Dao, fashion designer, winner of Project Runway Season 2 * Chau Bui, influential media figure in Vietnam and the region. * H'Hen Niê, represented

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at Miss Universe 2018 and placed in the top 5. * Nguyễn Công Trí, Vietnamese fashion designer. * Thảo Nhi Lê, Vietnamese-German model and fashion entrepreneur.

Arts & Entertainment

Cinema

* Steve Tran, actor and singer * Maggie Q, actress, fashion model * Kieu Chinh, actress * Thuy Trang, actress * Trà Giang, actress * Trần Anh Hùng, director * Ngo Thanh Van, actress * Dustin Nguyen, actor * Dat Phan, comedian * Linh Dan Pham, actress * Stéphane Ly-Cuong, director, screenwriter, actor * Kim Nguyen, Vietnamese-Canadian filmmaker, director * Ringo Le, producer, director, screenwriter * Ham Tran, producer, director, screenwriter * Steve Nguyen, producer, director, screenwriter * Doan Hoang, producer, director, screenwriter * Anh Duong, actress, model,socialite * France Nuyen, actress * Ke Huy Quan, actor * Hong Chau, actress * Chí Tài, Vietnamese comedian and actor * Hoài Linh, Vietnamese comedian and actor

Culinary

* Hung Huynh, chef, winner of

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Season 3 * Christine Ha, winner of

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Season 3 * Luke Nguyen, Vietnamese Australian chef

Dance

* Poreotics **Matthew Vinh Quoc Nguyen, Can Trong Nguyen, Charles Viet Nguyen, Tim Kieu * Jabbawockeez **Tony Tran, Jeff Nguyen * Kinjaz ** Charles Nguyen, Vinh Nguyen, Tony Tran, Kevin Nguyen

Literature

* Bao Ninh, novelist and short-story writer * Dương Thu Hương, novelist, short-story writer and dissident * Han Mac Tu, poet * Hồ Xuân Hương, poet, dubbed as "The Queen of Nôm poetry". * Nguyễn Chí Thiện, poet * Nguyễn Bỉnh Khiêm, poet *

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, poet * Nguyễn Ngọc Ngạn, novelist, MC, teacher, poet. * Nguyễn Trãi, poet and statesman. * Xuân Diệu, poet, journalist, short-story writer, and

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, best known as one of the prominent figures of the twentieth-century

Thơ mới New Poetry Movement ( Vietnamese : ''Phong-trào Thơ-mới'') was a literary movement in 1930s colonial Vietnam, abandoning the stylized forms of Chinese-influenced poetry in Hán-Nôm for free verse in Latin-alphabet Quốc ngữ. __TOC__ His ...

(New Poetry) Movement. *

Tố Hữu Tố Hữu (4 October 1920 – 9 December 2002) was a Vietnam, Vietnamese revolutionary poet and politician. Tố Hữu is considered one of the most important Vietnamese poets of the 20th century. His poems are known for their lyrical beauty, ...

, poet * Thuận, novelist * Trần Bích San, writer * Vương Trung Hiếu, writer * Doan Van Toai, author, former student leader * Pham Thi Hoai * Lan Cao, author of "Monkey Bridge" * Monique Truong, novelist * Nam Le author of "The Boat", editor of the ''Harvard Review'' * Bao Phi, Vietnamese-American

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artist, writer and activist. * Quang X. Pham,

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businessman, veteran, author, and community leader. Notable as the first Vietnamese American to earn naval aviator's wings in the U.S. Marine Corps. * Andrew Lam,

author and journalist. * Andrew X. Pham, a Vietnamese-born American author , founder of Spoonwiz, and recipient of a Guggenheim Fellow, a Whiting Award, and the Kiriyama Prize. * Aimee Phan, American novelist and educator of Vietnamese descent. * Ocean Vuong, Vietnamesee-American poet, essayist, and novelist. Recipient of the 2014 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, 2016 Whiting Award, and the 2017 T. S. Eliot Prize. Known for his debut novel, '' On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous'' published in 2019.

,Media

* Nguyễn Ngọc Ngạn, Vietnamese-Canadian television personality and fellow MC of ''Paris by Night''. * Nguyễn Cao Kỳ Duyên, Vietnamese-American fellow MC for Paris by Night, singer, spokesperson for "Sua Ong Chua" * Phạm Xuân Ẩn, notable Vietnamese spy, journalist, and correspondent for ''

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'',

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and the ''

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'', stationed in

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during the

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. * Tran Thanh, Vietnamese comedian, actor, and a major

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in Vietnamese television. *Tina Yong, Vietnamese-Australian beauty and lifestyle YouTuber and influencer based in Australia. * Stephanie Trong, Executive Editor of ''

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'' and '' Nylon Guys''. Former Exec. Editor of Jane. * Natalie Tran, video blogger and comedian on

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* Michelle Phan, YouTube make-up guru and spokesperson for Lancôme Paris. *

Anh Do Anh Do (born 2 June 1977) is a Vietnamese Australian, Vietnamese-born Australian author, actor, comedian, and painter. He has appeared on Australian TV shows such as ''Thank God You're Here'' and ''Good News Week'', and was runner-up on ''Danci ...

, Vietnamese-born Australian author, actor, comedian, and painter. Has appeared on Australian TV shows such as '' Thank God You're Here'' and '' Good News Week'', and was runner-up on ''

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'' in 2007. * Mychonny, Melbourne-based Vietnamese-Chinese Australian YouTuber. * The Anh Phan, Vietnamese travel blogger, scholar, author, and lecturer whose work primarily focuses on

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, cause-related marketing, and

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Music

* AMEE, singer best known for being the first solo female artist from St.319 Entertainment. She is the youngest Vietnamese artist to have won at the

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for "Best New Asian Artist in Vietnam". * Chuckie Akenz, Canadian

rapper Rapping (also rhyming, flowing, spitting, emceeing, or MCing) is an artistic form of vocal delivery and emotive expression that incorporates "rhyme, rhythmic speech, and ommonlystreet vernacular". It is usually performed over a backing ...

of Vietnamese descent. Raise to popularity with the filming of an amateur rap video called "You Got Beef?" * Bằng Kiều, singer and former member of bands including Golden Keys, Frangipani, and Watermelon. * Dam Vinh Hung, singer * Dang Thai Son, Vietnamese and Canadian classical pianist and in 1980 won the X International Chopin Piano Competition in

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, becoming the first pianist from Asia to win. * Diễm Liên, singer and actress. * Don Hồ, Vietnamese American singer known for his appearance in '' Paris by Night''. * Dương Triệu Vũ, singer * Hanni (singer), (born Phạm Ngọc Hân, 2004), singer and member of girl group

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* Hanbin, Vietnamese singer based in South Korea and member of boy group Tempest. He is the first Vietnamese male to become a K-pop idol. * Hari Won (Esther Lưu), South Korean-born Vietnamese singer, actress and MC in Vietnam. * Hồ Bích Ngọc, singer and song writer * Hồ Lệ Thu, singer * Hong Nhung, singer * Huong Thuy, singer * Jack, singer * keshi, singer * Khánh Ly, singer * Kristine Sa, songwriter and singer * Lam Nhat Tien, singer * Lam Phương, composer * Le Tuan Hung, composer, performer, and musicologist *

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, French singer * Loan Chau, singer * Lưu Hữu Phước, composer * Minh Tuyet, singer * My Linh, singer * My Tam, composer, songwriter, singer, MYTIME perfume owner *

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, pianist * Như Quỳnh, singer * Ngoc Son, singer *

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, musician, composer * Nguyen Thanh Hien, singer, dancer, and model, contestant of the Hungarian Pop Idol * Nhat Son, singer * Nhu Loan, singer *

Phạm Duy Phạm Duy (5 October 1921 – 27 January 2013) was one of Vietnam's most prolific songwriters with a musical career that spanned more than seven decades through some of the most turbulent periods of Vietnamese history and with more than one ...

, composer and songwriter * Phi Nhung, vocalist, singer * Phuong Thanh, singer * Quan Yeomans, vocalist and guitarist of

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* Quang Lê, singer * Roni Tran Binh Trong, singer, ''Finnish Idol'' finalist * Steve Tran, singer, film & TV actor * Stevie Hoang, singer * Tâm Đoan, singer * Thanh Lam, singer * Thanh Bui, singer, ''Australian Idol'' finalist * Tran Thu Ha, singer * Trinh Cong Son, composer and songwriter, painter, and essayist * Trish Thuy Trang, singer * Truc Ho, composer, musician turned producer *

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, rapper * Văn Cao, composer, songwriter, poet, and painter, author of Vietnam's

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* Son Tung MTP, singer-songwriter, actor

Painting

* Bùi Xuân Phái * Dinh Q. Lê * Dương Bích Liên * Lê Hiền Minh * Lê Phổ * Lê Văn Đệ * Nguyễn Gia Trí * Nguyễn Khang * Nguyễn Sáng * Nguyễn Tư Nghiêm *

Tô Ngọc Vân Tô Ngọc Vân (蘇玉雲, 15 December 1906 or 1908 – 17 June 1954), also known as Tô Tử, was a Vietnamese painter. Several of his paintings are being displayed at the Vietnam National Museum of Fine Arts. He taught a resistance art cla ...

* Trần Đông Lương * Trần Trọng Vũ * Trần Văn Cẩn

Business

* Phạm Nhật Vượng, Vietnam's first billionaire. * Nguyễn Thị Phương Thảo, Vietnam's first female billionaire,

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. *Ung Thi, built and operated the Rex Hotel, in

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. * Trung Dung, Vietnamese American businessman and programmer. * Pham Duc Trung Kien, Vietnamese-American businessman. * Bill Nguyen, Vietnamese-American technology entrepreneur. * Hoang Kieu, Vietnamese-born American businessman. * Thuan Pham, engineer, former CTO of

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and Coupang

History and politics (non-exhaustive)

Non-exhaustive list of Vietnamese leaders:

Emperors

* Hùng Vương * Đinh Tiên Hoàng, first Emperor *

Ngô Quyền Ngô Quyền ( vi-hantu, 吳權) (April 17, 898 – February 14, 944), often referred to as Tiền Ngô Vương (前吳王; "First King of Ngô"), was a warlord who later became the founding king of the Ngô dynasty of Vietnam. He reigned fro ...

Quang Trung Emperor Quang Trung (; vi-hantu, 光中, 1753 – 16 September 1792) or Nguyễn Huệ ( vi-hantu, 阮惠), also known as Nguyễn Quang Bình ( vi-hantu, 阮光平), or Hồ Thơm (chữ Hán: 胡𦹳) was the second emperor of the Tây Sơn dy ...

Gia Long Gia Long (Chữ Hán, Chữ hán: 嘉隆) ( (''Hanoi, North''), (''Ho Chi Minh City, South''); 8 February 1762 – 3 February 1820), born Nguyễn Phúc Ánh (阮福暎) or Nguyễn Ánh (阮暎), was the founding emperor of the Nguyễn dynas ...

Minh Mạng Minh Mạng (), also known as Minh Mệnh (, vi-hantu, 明命, lit. "the bright favour of Heaven"; 25 May 1791 – 20 January 1841; born Nguyễn Phúc Đảm, also known as Nguyễn Phúc Kiểu), was the second emperor of the Nguyễ ...

* Dục Đức * Hiệp Hòa * Kiến Phúc * Hàm Nghi * Duy Tân * Khải Định *

Lê Lợi Lê Lợi (, chữ Hán: 黎利; 10 September 1385 – 5 October 1433), also known by his temple name as Lê Thái Tổ (黎太祖) and by his pre-imperial title Bình Định vương (平定王; "Prince of Pacification"), was a Vietnamese peopl ...

Presidents

* Hồ Chí Minh *

Tôn Đức Thắng Tôn Đức Thắng (; 20 August 1888 – 30 March 1980) was the second President of Vietnam under the leadership of General Secretary Lê Duẩn. The position of president is ceremonial and Tôn was never a major policymaker or even a member of ...

* Nguyễn Hữu Thọ * Nguyễn Minh Triết * Trần Đức Lương *

Trường Chinh Trường Chinh (, meaning "Long March"), born Đặng Xuân Khu (9 February 1907 – 30 September 1988) was a Vietnamese communism, communist political leader, revolutionary and theoretician. He was one of the key figures of Vietnamese politics f ...

* Võ Chí Công *

Lê Đức Anh Lê Đức Anh (; 1 December 1920 – 22 April 2019) was a Vietnamese politician and general who served as the fifth President of Vietnam from 1992 to 1997. He previously led the Vietnamese forces in Cambodia throughout the 1980s. He was regar ...

* Trương Tấn Sang * Nguyễn Xuân Phúc * Võ Văn Thưởng *

Tô Lâm Tô Lâm (; born 10 July 1957) is a Vietnamese politician and former police officer who has served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) since August 2024 and the 13th p ...

Former Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam)

Dương Văn Minh Dương Văn Minh (; 16 February 19166 August 2001), popularly known as Big Minh, was a South Vietnamese politician and a senior general in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) and a politician during the presidency of Ngô Đình Diệm. ...

, last President *

Ngô Đình Diệm Ngô Đình Diệm ( , or ; ; 3 January 1901 – 2 November 1963) was a South Vietnamese politician who was the final prime minister of the State of Vietnam (1954–1955) and later the first president of South Vietnam ( Republic of ...

, first President * Nguyễn Khánh, (Chairman of the Revolutionary Military Council, 1964) *

Nguyễn Văn Thiệu Nguyễn Văn Thiệu (; 5 April 1923 – 29 September 2001) was a South Vietnam, South Vietnamese military officer and politician who was the Leaders of South Vietnam, president of South Vietnam from 1967 to 1975. He was a general in the Repub ...

* Phan Khắc Sửu * Trần Văn Hương * Hoàng Gia Hợp, Deputy Minister of Health

Secretary-General of Communist Party of Vietnam

Đỗ Mười Đỗ Mười (; 2 February 1917 – 1 October 2018) was a Vietnamese communist politician. He rose in the party hierarchy in the late 1940s, became Chairman of the Council of Ministers in 1988 and was elected General Secretary of the Central ...

Lê Duẩn Lê Duẩn (; 7 April 1907 – 10 July 1986) was a Vietnamese communist politician. He rose in the party hierarchy in the late 1950s and became General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam (VCP) at the 3rd Natio ...

Lê Khả Phiêu Lê Khả Phiêu (; 27 December 1932 – 7 August 2020) was a Vietnamese politician who served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam from December 1997 to April 2001.Gainsborough 2010, p. 143 Lê Khả Phiêu served in the Viet ...

* Nguyễn Văn Linh * Nông Đức Mạnh *

* Nguyễn Phú Trọng

Prime ministers

Phạm Văn Đồng Phạm Văn Đồng (; 1 March 1906 – 29 April 2000) was a Vietnamese politician who served as Prime Minister of North Vietnam from 1955 to 1976. He later served as Prime Minister of Vietnam, following reunification of North and South Viet ...

* Phạm Hùng *

Võ Văn Kiệt Võ Văn Kiệt (; 23 November 1922 – 11 June 2008"E ...

* Phan Văn Khải * Nguyễn Tấn Dũng * Nguyễn Xuân Phúc * Phạm Minh Chính

Democratic Republic of Vietnam, now Socialist Republic of Vietnam

Former Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam)

* Nguyễn Cao Kỳ * Tran Thien Khiem * Tran Van Huong * Nguyen Xuan Oanh

Generals

* Trần Hưng Đạo *

Phạm Ngũ Lão Phạm Ngũ Lão (范五老, 1255–1320) was a general of the Trần dynasty during the reigns of three successive emperors Trần Nhân Tông, Nhân Tông, Trần Anh Tông, Anh Tông, and Trần Minh Tông, Minh Tông. His talent was noticed ...

* Cao Văn Viên, 4-star general of the

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* Lê Minh Đảo * Lê Nguyên Vỹ, Republic of Vietnam brigadier general. He defeated Viet Cong forces in the

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. * Ngo Lý Tin, Vietnamese general and scholar *

Ngô Quang Trưởng Ngô Quang Trưởng (13 December 1929 — 22 January 2007) was an officer in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN). Trưởng gained his commission in the Vietnamese National Army in 1954 and moved up the ranks over the next decade, most ...

, Republic of Vietnam lieutenant general. He recaptured

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from Northern communist forces in 1968

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. * Nguyễn Ngọc Loan, Republic of Vietnam general. He defended

against Viet Cong forces in the Tet Offensive. * Nguyễn Thị Định *

Nguyễn Văn Hiếu Major General Nguyễn Văn Hiếu (23 June 1929, Tianjin, China – 8 April 1975, Biên Hòa, Vietnam) was a general in the South Vietnamese Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN). As a child he lived in Shanghai. He later emigrated with h ...

Phạm Văn Đồng (ARVN general) Phạm Văn Đồng (; 1 March 1906 – 29 April 2000) was a Vietnamese politician who served as Prime Minister of North Vietnam from 1955 to 1976. He later served as Prime Minister of Vietnam, following Fall of Saigon, reunification of North ...

* Trần Văn Hai *

Trần Văn Trà Nguyễn Chấn, known as Trần Văn Trà (15 September 1919 – 20 April 1996) was a colonel-general in the People's Army of Vietnam. He was Commander of B2 Front during 1963 – 1967, Deputy Commander of Liberation Army of South Vietnam dur ...

* Trình Minh Thế * Văn Tiến Dũng *

Võ Nguyên Giáp Võ Nguyên Giáp ( vi-hantu, , ; 25 August 1911 – 4 October 2013) was a Vietnamese general, communist revolutionary and politician. Highly regarded as a military strategist, Giáp led Vietnamese communist forces to victories in wars agains ...

, general. He defeated France in the Battle of Dien Bien Phu.

Revolutionaries, politicians, and statesmen (not mentioned above)

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Phan Bội Châu Phan Bội Châu (; 26 December 1867 – 29 October 1940), born Phan Văn San, courtesy name Hải Thụ (later changed to Sào Nam), was a pioneer of 20th century Vietnamese nationalism. In 1904, he formed a revolutionary organization called ...

Joseph Cao Ánh Quang "Joseph" Cao ( ; ; born March 13, 1967) is a Vietnamese Americans, Vietnamese-American politician who was the United States House of Representatives, U.S. representative for from 2009 to 2011. A member of the Republican Party (United ...

(Cao Quang Ánh), former Louisiana representative in the

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* Charles Tran Van Lam *

Đinh Xuân Lưu Dinh Xuan Luu is a Vietnamese ambassador who served as the country's ambassador to Poland in the early 2000s. From 2009 he has been Vietnam's ambassador to Israel. He is married to Truong Phuong Hong. Ambassador to Israel Luu served as the Amba ...

, Vietnamese Ambassador to Poland and Israel * Hoang Van Chi, South Vietnamese politician who publicized the Nhân Văn–Giai Phẩm affair in the North under Ho Chi Minh * Lê Đức Thọ,

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(declined), 1973 * Hieu Van Le, Lieutenant Governor of

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Lý Long Tường Lý Long Tường (1174 – ?) was a Vietnamese prince of the Lý dynasty of Đại Việt (in modern-day Vietnam) who went to Korea and became a general. In Korea he went by the name Yi Yong-sang (). He is the progenitor of a still-extant Korean ...

Kaysone Phomvihane Kaysone Phomvihane (''Kraisorn Brahmavihara;'' , ; 13 December 1920 – 21 November 1992) was the first General Secretary of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party, leader of the Communist Lao People's Revolutionary Party from 1955 until his de ...

, past Laotian Prime Minister (born Nguyen Cai Song) * Philipp Rösler, German vice-chancellor in

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's administration *

Trần Trọng Kim Trần Trọng Kim (; chữ Hán: 陳仲金, Kanji pronunciation: ''Chin Jūkin''; ; 1883 – December 2, 1953; courtesy name Lệ Thần (, chữ Hán: 隸臣) was a Vietnamese scholar and politician who served as the Prime Minister of the sho ...

* Wayne Cao, Alberta provincial deputy speaker and MLA of the Alberta Legislative Assembly

Lawyers

* Jacques Vergès, lawyer who represented well-known war criminals

Religion

Vietnam's major

religions Religion is a range of social- cultural systems, including designated behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that generally relate humanity to supernatural, t ...

besides

Vietnamese folk religion Vietnamese folk religion () or Đạo Lương (道良) is a group of spiritual beliefs and practices adhered to by the Vietnamese people. About 86% of the population in Vietnam are reported irreligion, irreligious, but are associated with this t ...

have been

Mahayana Buddhism Mahāyāna ( ; , , ; ) is a term for a broad group of Buddhist traditions, texts, philosophies, and practices developed in ancient India ( onwards). It is considered one of the three main existing branches of Buddhism, the others being Thera ...

(

East Asian Buddhism East Asian Buddhism or East Asian Mahayana is a collective term for the schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism which developed across East Asia and which rely on the Chinese Buddhist canon. These include the various forms of Chinese, Japanese, Kore ...

) and

Roman Catholicism The Catholic Church (), also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the List of Christian denominations by number of members, largest Christian church, with 1.27 to 1.41 billion baptized Catholics Catholic Church by country, worldwid ...

Confucianism Confucianism, also known as Ruism or Ru classicism, is a system of thought and behavior originating in ancient China, and is variously described as a tradition, philosophy, Religious Confucianism, religion, theory of government, or way of li ...

and

Taoism Taoism or Daoism (, ) is a diverse philosophical and religious tradition indigenous to China, emphasizing harmony with the Tao ( zh, p=dào, w=tao4). With a range of meaning in Chinese philosophy, translations of Tao include 'way', 'road', ' ...

were also legacies inherited from ancient China, but may be regarded as philosophical rather than strictly religious.

Buddhism (Mahayana)

* Thích Thanh Từ * Thich Nhat Hanh * Thích Nhật Từ * Thích Quảng Độ * Thích Quảng Đức, Buddhist who self-immolated. * Thích Minh Tuệ

Christianity

Roman Catholicism

* Nguyễn Văn Thuận, Cardinal * Philippe Trần Văn Hoài, Monsignor

Protestantism

* Nguyễn Thị Thuấn, Christian missionary and Women's General Commissioner of the Protestant Church of Vietnam * Nguyễn Văn Đài, human rights lawyer, democracy activist, and member of the Evangelical Church of Vietnam (North)

Sciences

Natural sciences and technology

* André Truong Trong Thi, engineer *

Tuan Vo-Dinh Tuan Vo-Dinh (Vietnamese: Võ Đình Tuấn) (Nha Trang, 11 April 1948) is R. Eugene and Susie E. Goodson Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the Duke University Pratt School of Engineering and professor of Chemistry and director of the Fitz ...

, Prof., Director of the Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics of

Duke University Duke University is a Private university, private research university in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity, North Carolina, Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1 ...

* Nguyen Xuan Vinh, scientist and educator * Duy-Loan Le * Tan Le telecommunications entrepreneur, co-founder of Emotiv, Young Australian of the Year 1998 * Hoàng Tụy, mathematician *

Ngô Bảo Châu Ngô Bảo Châu (, born June 28, 1972) is a Vietnamese-French mathematician at the University of Chicago, best known for proving the fundamental lemma for automorphic forms (proposed by Robert Langlands and Diana Shelstad). He is the first Vie ...

, first Vietnamese mathematician to win the

Fields Medal The Fields Medal is a prize awarded to two, three, or four mathematicians under 40 years of age at the International Congress of Mathematicians, International Congress of the International Mathematical Union (IMU), a meeting that takes place e ...

* Trinh Xuan Thuan, astrophysicist * Van H. Vu, mathematician * Lê Văn Thiêm, mathematician * Bui Tuong Phong, computer scientist * Minh Quang Tran, physicist * Jane Luu, astrophysicist * Xuong Nguyen-Huu, biochemist * Minh Le, computer game developer * Jordan Nguyen, inventor (mind-controlled wheelchair, etc.) * Sir Jonathan Van-Tam, former Deputy Chief Medical Officer for England

Space travel

* Eugene H. Trinh, astronaut * Pham Tuân, cosmonaut

Social sciences

* Lê Quý Đôn, historian, encyclopedist, and philosopher *

Luong Kim Dinh Liang () is an East Asian surname of Chinese origin. The surname is often transliterated as Leung (in Hong Kong) or Leong (in Macau, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, and the Philippines) according to its Cantonese and Hakka pronunciation, Neo / ...

, Catholic priest, scholar and philosopher * Ngô Văn Doanh, archaeologist, social scientist and cultural researcher * Nguyễn Hồng Giáp, economist

Sports

* Amy Tran, retired hockey player * Brandon Nakashima, professional tennis player. * Carol Huynh, Olympic wrestler. * Catherine Mai Lan Fox, Olympic swimmer with two gold medals *

Chau Giang Chau Tu Giang (born July 2, 1955) is an American professional poker player who is a three-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner and a three-time final tablist of the World Poker Tour with over $3 million in live tournament winnings alone. ...

, professional poker * Cung Le,

MMA Mixed martial arts (MMA) is a full-contact fighting sport based on striking and grappling; incorporating techniques from various combat sports from around the world. In the early 20th century, various inter-stylistic contests took place t ...

/kickboxing champion and coach * Dang Van Lam, professional soccer player. * Danny Graves,

MLB Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball league composed of 30 teams, divided equally between the National League (baseball), National League (NL) and the American League (AL), with 29 in the United States and 1 in Canada. MLB i ...

baseball player * Dat Nguyen, NFL football player, Dallas Cowboys assistant linebackers and defensive quality control coach * David Pham, professional poker player * François Trinh-Duc, French professional rugby player * Hoang Xuan Vinh, Vietnam's first Olympic Gold Medalist. * Howard Bach, badminton player, former world champion (2005) * Jaylin Williams,

NBA The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a professional basketball league in North America composed of 30 teams (29 in the United States and 1 in Canada). The NBA is one of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Ca ...

basketball player. *

Jim Parque James Vo Parque ( ; born February 8, 1975) is an American former professional baseball pitcher. Parque played for the Chicago White Sox and Tampa Bay Devil Rays of Major League Baseball (MLB) from to . Career Amateur career High school Jim ...

, In 1996 was the only left-handed pitcher on the Olympic baseball team that won a bronze medal in Atlanta. * Johnny Juzang,

basketball player. * Le Quang Liem, Vietnamese chess player. * Le Van Cong, Vietnamese sports powerlifter and the first Vietnamese athlete to win a gold medal in the history of the Summer Paralympics. * Lee Nguyen, professional soccer player * Ly Hoang Nam, first Vietnamese tennis player to win a Grand Slam trophy. * Marcel Nguyen, German Vietnamese gymnast. * Men Nguyen, professional poker player * Mimi Tran, professional poker player * Nam Phan, professional MMA Fighter in the UFC * Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son, chess player * Nguyen Quang Hai, professional soccer player * Nguyen Thi Anh Vien, Vietnamese swimmer. * Nguyen Tien Minh, badminton player, World Badminton Championship bronze medalist (2013) * Paul Truong, chess coach * Rob Nguyen,

Formula 3000 Formula 3000 (F3000) was a type of open wheel, single seater formula racing, occupying the tier immediately below Formula One and above Formula Three. It was so named because the cars were powered by 3.0 L engines. Formula 3000 championship ...

driver * Scotty Nguyen, professional poker player * Tran Hieu Ngan,

taekwondo Taekwondo (; ; ) is a Korean martial art and combat sport involving primarily kicking techniques and punching. "Taekwondo" can be translated as ''tae'' ("strike with foot"), ''kwon'' ("strike with hand"), and ''do'' ("the art or way"). In ad ...

, first Vietnamese winning an Olympic medal (silver) * Yohan Cabaye, professional soccer player

Video Games and Esports

* TenZ (Tyson Văn Ngô) former CSGO player, professional

Valorant ''Valorant'' is a 2020 First-person shooter, first-person tactical shooter, tactical hero shooter video game developed and published by Riot Games. A free-to-play game, ''Valorant'' takes inspiration from the ''Counter-Strike'' series, borrow ...

player, Vietnamese Canadian. * ana (Anathan Phạm), Dota2 International 2-time champion and 2-time Major winner, Vietnamese Chinese Australian. * Lê " SofM" Quang Duy (pronounced "zuy"), professional

League of Legends ''League of Legends'' (''LoL'', commonly referred to as ''League'', is a multiplayer online battle arena video game developed and published by Riot Games. Inspired by ''Defense of the Ancients'', a Mod (video games), custom map for ''Warcraf ...

player. * Ken Hoang, Super Smash Bros. professional player, Vietnamese American * MisThy, popular YouTuber, video game streamer. * ViruSs, video game streamer, producer. * Minh Le, (Gooseman), Vietnamese Canadian video game programmer who co-created the ''

Half-Life Half-life is a mathematical and scientific description of exponential or gradual decay. Half-life, half life or halflife may also refer to: Film * Half-Life (film), ''Half-Life'' (film), a 2008 independent film by Jennifer Phang * ''Half Life: ...

'' mod ''

Counter-Strike ''Counter-Strike'' (''CS'') is a series of multiplayer tactical first-person shooter video games, in which opposing teams attempt to complete various objectives. The series began on Windows in 1999 with the release of the first game, '' Counte ...

'' in 1999, starting the ''Counter-Strike'' series. * Dong Nguyen, Flappy Bird mobile game.

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