List of Vietnamese people

List of famous or notable Vietnamese people. 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 Miss World 2009 and made into the top 16.
Võ Hoàng Yến, 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.
, Vietnamese fashion designer.
, 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
, 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 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, dubbed as "The Queen of Nôm poetry".
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, journalist, short-story writer, and literary critic, best known as one of the prominent figures of the twentieth-century Thơ mới Movement.
Tố Hữu, 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 spoken word artist, writer and activist.
Quang X. Pham, Vietnamese American 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, Vietnamese American 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 Time, Reuters and the New York Herald Tribune, stationed in Saigon during the Vietnam War.
Tran Thanh, Vietnamese comedian, actor, and a major presenter in Vietnamese television.
Tina Yong, Vietnamese-Australian beauty and lifestyle YouTuber and influencer based in Australia.
Stephanie Trong, Executive Editor of Nylon and Nylon Guys. Former Exec. Editor of Jane.
Natalie Tran, video blogger and comedian on YouTube
Michelle Phan, YouTube make-up guru and spokesperson for Lancôme Paris.
Anh Do, 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 Dancing with the Stars in 2007.
Mychonny, Melbourne-based Vietnamese-Chinese Australian YouTuber.
The Anh Phan, Vietnamese travel blogger, scholar, author, and lecturer whose work primarily focuses on sustainable consumption, cause-related marketing, and influencer marketing.

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 MAMA Awards for "Best New Asian Artist in Vietnam".
Chuckie Akenz, Canadian rapper 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 Warsaw, 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),, singer and member of girl group NewJeans
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, 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
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
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

Painting

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.
Thuan Pham, engineer, former CTO of Uber and Coupang

History and politics (non-exhaustive)

Non-exhaustive list of Vietnamese leaders:

Emperors

Presidents

Former Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam)

Dương Văn Minh, last President
Ngô Đình Diệm, first President
Nguyễn Khánh,
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu
Phan Khắc Sửu
Trần Văn Hương
Hoàng Gia Hợp, Deputy Minister of Health

Secretary-General of Communist Party of Vietnam

Prime ministers

Former Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam)

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.
Ngo Lý Tin, Vietnamese general and scholar
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 Đổng
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.
Hoàng Văn Thái, Battle of Dien Bien Phu's Chief of the General Staff and Viet Cong's highest commander during the Vietnam War.

Revolutionaries, politicians, and statesmen (not mentioned above)

Trưng Sisters
Phan Bội Châu
Phạm Thị Hải Chuyền, Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs
Joseph Cao, 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, 1973
Hieu Van Le, Lieutenant Governor of New South Wales
Lý Long Tường
Kaysone Phomvihane, past Laotian Prime Minister
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 and Roman Catholicism. 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
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

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
Sir Jonathan Van-Tam, former Deputy Chief Medical Officer for England
Lê Khánh Đồng, medical doctor
Lam M. Nguyen, computer scientist and applied mathematician
Quoc V. Le, computer scientist and machine learning pioneer

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
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, professional poker
Cung Le, MMA/kickboxing champion and coach
Dang Van Lam, professional soccer player.
Danny Graves, MLB 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
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.
Lý Hoàng Sơn, professional basketball player
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
Paul Truong, chess coach
Rob Nguyen, Formula 3000 driver
Scotty Nguyen, professional poker player
Tran Hieu Ngan, taekwondo, first Vietnamese winning an Olympic medal
Yohan Cabaye, professional soccer player

Video Games and Esports

TenZ former CSGO player, professional Valorant player, Vietnamese Canadian.
ana, Dota2 International 2-time champion and 2-time Major winner, Vietnamese Chinese Australian.
Lê "SofM" Quang Duy, 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,, 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.