Hồ Chí Minh was a Vietnamese revolutionary and statesman, who later became Prime Minister (1946–1955) and President (1946–1969) of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Ho is most famous for leading the Viet Minh independence movement from 1941 onward, establishing the communist-governed Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1945 and defeating the French Union in 1954 at Dien Bien Phu. Ho was fluent in Vietnamese, several dialects of Chinese, English and French.

The Trung Sisters, known in Vietnamese as Hai Bà Trưng ("the two Trưng ladies"'), and individually as Trưng Trắc (Traditional Chinese: 徵側; pinyin: Zhēng Cè) and Trưng Nhị (Traditional Chinese: 徵貳; pinyin: Zhēng Èr), were two 1st century women leaders who successfully repelled Chinese invasions for three years, and are regarded as national heroines of Vietnam.

Nhat Hanh (Vietnamese: "Nhất Hạnh"; IPA: is an expatriate Vietnamese Zen Buddhist monk. A teacher, author, and peace activist, Nhat Hanh was born in central Vietnam on October 11, 1926. He joined a Zen monastery at the age of 16, studied Buddhism as a novice, and was fully ordained as a monk in 1949. Commonly referred to as Thich Nhat Hanh, the title "Thích" is used by all Vietnamese monks and nuns, …

Hùng Vương was the first emperor of Văn Lang or Lạc Việt (as Vietnam was known at the time). Legend tells of the dragon lord, Lạc Long Quân and the mountain fairy, (sometimes a Chinese immortal) Âu Cơ who had 100 children, of whom Hùng Vương was the eldest. The parents belonged to different environments, so they had to split up and take half of the sons to each homeland. Hùng Vương went to live by the coast near the sea, the domain of dragons.

Margaret Denise Quigley (Vietnamese: Lý Mỹ Kỳ, born May 22, 1979), better known as Maggie Q, is an American actress and former fashion model. She initially gained fame in Hong Kong.

Zhao Tuo, was a Han Chinese commanding general of the Qin Dynasty who later founded the kingdom of Nanyue. The period of rule under Zhao Tuo is also known to the Vietnamese as the Triệu Dynasty.

Phương Thanh, is a Vietnamese contemporary singer. She is one of the most renowned singers from Vietnam. Phuong Thanh is known for her very diverse styles, especially while performing on stage. She also possesses a unique, unusual singing voice, gaining her recognition throughout the Vietnamese community as well as the music business. Phuong Thanh's native language, and 'lingua carta' is exclusively Vietnamese; she does not sing in English.

Dat Nguyen (Vietnamese: "Nguyễn Tấn Đạt", born on September 25, 1975 in Fort Chaffee, Arkansas) is the first Vietnamese American to play in the National Football League. He played for the Dallas Cowboys and is currently their assistant linebackers and defensive quality control coach.

Petrus Ky, born Dec 6, 1837, Vinh Long province, Vietnam, died Sept 1, 1898 ,also called Truong Vinh Ky, or Jean-baptiste Pétrus, is a Vietnamese scholar whose literary works served as a bridge between his civilization and that of the West. He helped popularize the romanized script of the Vietnamese language, Quoc-ngu.

Jin Yong, born February 6, 1924, pen name of Louis Cha, OBE, is one of the most influential modern Chinese-language novelists. Co-founder of the Hong Kong daily "Ming Pao", he was its first editor-in-chief and held this position until 1993. Cha's fiction has a widespread following in Chinese-speaking areas, including Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia.

Paul Doumer was the President of France from June 13, 1931 until his assassination. Born in Aurillac, in the Cantal "département", in France. He was Governor-General of French Indochina from 1897 to 1902. After returning from French Indochina, Doumer served as President of the Chamber of Deputies (a post equivalent to the speaker of parliament) from 1902 to 1905. He was elected President of the French Republic on May 13, 1931, …

Wang Li, or Wang Liaoyi was a Chinese linguist. Born into a poor but educated family in Bobai (博白), Guangxi, he was largely self-taught before entering the Tsinghua University in 1927. There he was taught by Yuen Ren Chao and Liang Qichao, among others. Encouraged by Chao, he went to Paris to study linguistics in 1927. There he devoted himself to the study of phonology, and attended the class of Theoretical linguistics by Joseph Vendryes.

Barry Greenstein (born December 30, 1954 in Chicago, Illinois) is a professional poker player. He was exposed to poker at a young age by his father, Jack, who had played poker in the Army. After graduating from Bogan High School, he earned a bachelor degree in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He also studied for a PhD in mathematics, but left before completing his dissertation.

Christy Chung (鍾麗緹 "Jūng Laitài" Pinyin: "Zhōng Lìtí" Vietnamese: "Chung Lệ Đề", born September 19 1970) born in Montreal to a Chinese father and a Vietnamese mother. She grew up in Brossard, Quebec, a suburb of Montreal, with French and Vietnamese as mother-tongues. She later learned English, Mandarin and Cantonese. While studying for a career in the tourism industry at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), …

Nguyễn Thuyên or Hàn Thuyên (韓詮) (dates of birth and death unknown) was a 13th-century Vietnamese official and writer. According to "Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư", in 1282, he composed a piece of writing, throwing it into the Red River to chase away a crocodile, similar to what the Tang Dynasty official and writer Han Yu once did. As a result, Emperor Trần Nhân Tông gave him the surname Hàn.

Thithi (Mimi) Tran (born July 5, 1960 in Nha Trang, Vietnam) is a Vietnamese-American professional poker player. Tran, who began playing poker in 1989, has finished in the money in multiple World Series of Poker (WSOP) tournaments, including two second-place finishes, a third-place finish and a fourth-place finish. Tran is known for her success in high-stakes cash games. She is also known as the former girlfriend of Barry Greenstein, …

Le Quang Vinh (d. July 13, 1956), popularly known as Ba Cut (Short Third in Vietnamese, referring to a shortened third finger), was a military commander of the Hoa Hao religious sect in the Mekong Delta. The sect fought the Vietnamese National Army, the Vietminh, and the French colonial forces in Vietnam in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

Wayne Cao is an Albertan politician representing the electoral division of Calgary Fort in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, Canada since 1997. Cao is a member of the Progressive Conservative party. Born in South Vietnam, Cao came to California as refugee after the Vietnam War, and later moved to Canada, worked for and took early retirement from Shell Petroleum. Cao has lived in Calgary since 1976.

Fan Chuo (Traditional Chinese: 樊綽; Simplified Chinese: 樊绰; pinyin: fán chuò) (??? - late 9th century) was a secretary working under the Jie-du (Traditional Chinese: 節度; Simplified Chinese: 节度; pinyin: jié dù) (similar to the Byzantine thema) with headquarters located at Hanoi. Since the thema was a front of the Tang Dynasty against Nanzhao, he was able to get his hands on the updated diplomatic and military documents of the two countries.

William Groom Leftwich, Jr. was an officer of the United States Marine Corps who served during the Vietnam War. William Leftwich was born on 28 April 1931 in Memphis, Tennessee, and graduated from Central High School in that city. He was commissioned a Marine second lieutenant on 5 June 1953 upon graduation from the United States Naval Academy. As brigade captain in his senior year at the Naval Academy, …

Michael Fried was a soldier in the U.S. Army. Fried was born in Germany in 1934 and migrated to the United States in 1947. In 1955, he enlisted in the Army. Fried studied Vietnamese in the army. He has served as an interrogator in Vietnam and in Germany. Fried retired as a Chief Warrant Officer (CW-5) from the army in 1996 after 41 years of service. Fried is a member of the Military Intelligence Hall of Fame.

Thuy Thu Le (born 23 August 1973) is a retired American actress of Vietnamese heritage. Thuy Thu Le was born in Saigon, South Vietnam. She was raised and educated in the United States, after her parents left Saigon during the Vietnam War. Thuy was only an infant at the time. She is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, and is bilingual. She speaks fluent Vietnamese and English.

Shirahama Kenki (白浜剣鬼, Viet: Bạch Tần Hiển Quý) was a Japanese pirate of the late 16th-early 17th centuries, the first Japanese with whom the southern Vietnamese kingdom of the Nguyen lords made contact. He first arrived on the Vietnamese coast in 1585, with five ships, and began to engage in pirate raids and coastal assaults.

Benita Ha is a Chinese-Canadian actress. She is best known in Canada for her appearance in the television show "Street Cents". Her most recent appearance is in the American film "X-Men: The Last Stand". She also appeared in Paycheck, Catwoman, and Flight 93. Her surname, Ha, means 'summer' in the Vietnamese and Chinese languages.

Thongloun Sisoulith (born November 10, 1945 in Houaphan province, Laos) is foreign minister and a deputy prime minister of Laos. He was appointed foreign minister on June 8, 2006, replacing Somsavat Lengsavad. He has been a deputy prime minister since 2001. He is a politburo member of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party, ranking eighth. Sisoulith studied at Pedagogical College of Neo Lao Hak Sat in Houaphan from 1962 to 1969. He was further educated in the Soviet Union.

Ngô Xuân Diệu more commonly known by the pen name Xuân Diệu, was a prominent Vietnamese poet. A colossal figure in modern Vietnamese literature, he wrote about 450 poems (largely in posthumous manuscripts), several short stories, and many notes, essays, and literary criticisms.

Jesús Moncada i Estruga (Mequinensa (Aragón, Spain), 1941 - Barcelona (Spain), June 13, 2005) was an Aragonese writer in Catalan. Considered one of the most important Catalan authors of his time, he received various prizes for his work, among them the Premio Ciutat de Barcelona and the Premio Nacional de la Crítica in 1989 for "Camí de sirga" ("The Towpath") and the Creu de Sant Jordi, awarded by the Generalitat de Catalunya in 2001.