List of Vietnamese people

Some famous or notable Vietnamese people (Người Việt or Người gốc Việt - Vietnamese or Vietnamese-descent) include:

Art and design

Fashion

• Đặng Thị Minh Hạnh, fashion designer
• Nguyễn Thùy Lâm, Vietnamese model. She competed in Miss Universe 2008 and made into the top 15.
• Trần Thị Hương Giang, Vietnamese model. She competed in Miss World 2009 and made into the top 16.
• Võ Hoàng Yến, Vietnamese 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 Vietnam at Miss Universe 2018 and placed in the top 5.^[1]
• Nguyễn Công Trí, Vietnamese fashion designer.
• Thảo Nhi Lê, Vietnamese-German model and fashion entrepreneur.
• Lê Nguyễn Bảo Ngọc, Miss Intercontinental 2022

Arts & Entertainment

Cinema

• Steve Tran, film & TV actor and singer
• Maggie Q, actress, fashion model
• Kieu Chinh, actress
• Thuy Trang, actress
• Trà Giang, actress
• Ngo Thanh Van, actress
• Dustin Nguyen, actor
• Dat Phan, comedian
• Linh Dan Pham, actress
• 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 Top Chef Season 3
• Christine Ha, winner of MasterChef 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
• Nguyễn Chí Thiện, poet
• Nguyễn Bỉnh Khiêm, poet
• Nguyễn Du, poet
• Nguyễn Ngọc Ngạn, novelist,mc,teacher,poet
• Nguyễn Trãi, poet and statesman
• Xuân Diệu, poet of love
• Tố Hữu, poet
• 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^[2]
• Bao Phi, poet and spoken word artist
• Quang X. Pham
• Andrew Lam
• Andrew X. Pham
• Aimee Phan
• Ocean Vuong

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, journalist, spy for North Vietnam during the Vietnam War
• Tran Thanh, Vietnamese comedian, actor, and a major presenter in Vietnamese television.
• Tina Yong, YouTube personality
• Stephanie Trong, Executive Editor of Nylon and Nylon Guys. Former Exec. Editor of Jane.
• Natalie Tran, video blogger, comedienne on YouTube
• Michelle Phan, YouTube make-up guru and spokesperson for Lancôme Paris
• Anh Do, comedian
• Mychonny, comedian.^[3]

Music

• AMEE, singer
• Chuckie Akenz, rapper
• Bằng Kiều, singer
• Dam Vinh Hung,singer
• Dang Thai Son, pianist
• Diễm Liên, singer

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  Don Hồ, singer
• Dương Triệu Vũ, singer
• Hanni Pham, singer, dancer
• Hanbin Ngo, singer, dancer
• Hari Won (Esther Lưu), singer, actor
• 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
• Leslie (singer), French singer

• Loan Chau, singer
• Lưu Hữu Phước, composer
• Minh Tuyet, singer
• My Linh, singer
• My Tam, composer, songwriter, singer, MYTIME perfume owner
• Niels Lan Doky, pianist
• Như Quỳnh, singer
• Ngoc Son, singer
• Nguyên Lê, musician, composer
• Nguyen Thanh Hien, singer, dancer, and model, contestant of the Hungarian Pop Idol
• Nhat Son, singer
• Nhu Loan, singer
• Phạm Duy, composer and songwriter
• Phi Nhung, vocalist, singer

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  Phuong Thanh, singer
• Quan Yeomans, vocalist and guitarist of Regurgitator
• 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
• Tyga, rapper
• Văn Cao, composer, songwriter, poet, and painter, author of Vietnam's national anthem
• Son Tung MTP, singer-songwriter, actor

Business

• Phạm Nhật Vượng, Vietnam's first billionaire.
• Nguyễn Thị Phương Thảo, Vietnam's first female billionaire, Vietjet Air.
• Ung Thi, built and operated the Rex Hotel, in Ho Chi Minh City.
• 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.

History and politics (non-exhaustive)

Non-exhaustive list of Vietnamese leaders:

Emperors

• Hùng Vương
• Đinh Tiên Hoàng, first Emperor
• Ngô Quyền
• Quang Trung
• Gia Long
• Minh Mạng
• Dục Đức
• Hiệp Hòa
• Kiến Phúc
• Hàm Nghi
• Duy Tân
• Khải Định
• Lê Lợi

Presidents

• Ho Chi Minh
• Nguyễn Hữu Thọ
• Nguyễn Minh Triết
• Trần Đức Lương
• Trường Chinh
• Võ Chí Công
• Lê Đức Anh
• Trương Tấn Sang
• Nguyễn Xuân Phúc
• Võ Văn Thưởng

Former Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam)

• Dương Văn Minh, last President
• Ngô Đình Diệm, first President
• Nguyễn Khánh, (Chairman of the Revolutionary Military Council, 1964)
• Nguyễn Văn Thiệu
• Phan Khắc Sửu
• Trần Văn Hương
• Hoàng Gia Hợp, Deputy Minister of Health

Secretary-General of Communist Party of Vietnam

• Đỗ Mười
• Lê Duẩn
• Lê Khả Phiêu
• Nguyễn Văn Linh
• Nông Đức Mạnh
• Trường Chinh
• Nông Đức Mạnh
• Nguyễn Phú Trọng

Prime ministers

• 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
• Lê Lợi
• Cao Văn Viên, 4-star general of the Republic of Vietnam
• Lê Minh Đảo
• Lê Nguyên Vỹ, Republic of Vietnam brigadier general. He defeated Viet Cong forces in the Battle of An Lộc.
• Ngô Quang Trưởng, Republic of Vietnam lieutenant general. He recaptured Huế from Northern communist forces in 1968 Tet Offensive.
• Nguyễn Ngọc Loan, Republic of Vietnam general. He defended Saigon against Viet Cong forces in the Tet Offensive.
• Nguyễn Thị Định
• Nguyễn Văn Hiếu
• Phạm Văn Đồng (ARVN general)
• Trần Văn Hai
• Trần Văn Trà
• Trình Minh Thế
• Văn Tiến Dũng
• Võ Nguyên Giáp, general. He defeated France in the Battle of Dien Bien Phu.

Revolutionaries, politicians, and statesmen (not mentioned above)

• Trưng Sisters
• Phan Bội Châu
• Joseph Cao (Cao Quang Ánh), former Louisiana representative in the United States House of Representatives
• Charles Tran Van Lam
• Đinh Xuân Lưu, 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, Nobel Peace Prize (declined), 1973^[4]
• Hieu Van Le, Lieutenant Governor of New South Wales
• Lý Long Tường
• Kaysone Phomvihane, past Laotian Prime Minister (born Nguyen Cai Song)
• Philipp Rösler, German vice-chancellor in Angela Merkel's administration
• Trần Trọng Kim
• 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 besides Vietnamese folk religion have been Mahayana Buddhism (East Asian Buddhism) and Roman Catholicism.^[5] Confucianism and Taoism 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^[6]
• Thích Nhật Từ
• Thích Quảng Độ
• Thích Quảng Đức, Buddhist who self-immolated.

Christianity (Roman Catholicism)

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

Sciences

Natural sciences and technology

• André Truong Trong Thi, engineer
• Tuan Vo-Dinh, Prof., Director of the Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics of Duke University
• 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, first Vietnamese mathematician to win the Fields Medal
• 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.)

Space travel

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

Social sciences

• Lê Quý Đôn, historian, encyclopedist, and philosopher
• Luong Kim Dinh, catholic priest, scholar and philosopher
• 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, professional poker
• Cung Le, MMA/kickboxing champion and coach^[7]
• Dang Van Lam, professional soccer player.
• Danny Graves, MLB baseball player^[8]
• Dat Nguyen, NFL football player,^[9] Dallas Cowboys assistant linebackers and defensive quality control coach
• David Pham, professional poker player^[10]
• François Trinh-Duc, French professional rugby player^[11]
• Hoang Xuan Vinh, Vietnam's first Olympic Gold Medalist.^[12]
• Howard Bach, badminton player, former world champion (2005)
• Jaylin Williams, NBA basketball player.
• Jim Parque, In 1996 was the only left-handed pitcher on the Olympic baseball team that won a bronze medal in Atlanta.
• Johnny Juzang, NBA 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^[13]
• Mimi Tran, professional poker player^[14]
• 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 driver
• Scotty Nguyen, professional poker player^[15]
• Tran Hieu Ngan, taekwondo, 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 player, Vietnamese Canadian.^[16]
• ana (Anathan Phạm), Dota2 International 2-time champion and 2-time Major winner, Vietnamese Chinese Australian.^[17][18]
• Lê "SofM" Quang Duy (pronounced "zuy"), professional League of Legends 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 mod Counter-Strike in 1999, starting the Counter-Strike series.
• Dong Nguyen, Flappy Bird mobile game.

See also

• Overseas Vietnamese
• List of Vietnamese Americans
• List of people by nationality

References