- Tran Anh Hung
Trần Anh Hùng is a Vietnamese-born French film director. He was born in My Tho, South Vietnam, and emigrated to France when he was 12 following the fall of Saigon. Tran's films include "The Scent of Green Papaya" (1993), "Cyclo" (1995) and "The Vertical Ray of the Sun" (2000) and "I Come with the Rain" (2008). His films are always complex and atmospheric. "Cyclo" could be considered a portrait of Saigon, …
- Nguyen-Thien Dao
Nguyen-Thien Dao (b. Vietnam, 1940) is a Vietnamese composer of contemporary classical music.
- Anh Duong
Ahn Duong (October 25, 1960-) is a French-born actress and model born to a Spanish mother and a Vietnamese father. She studied dance and became a top supermodel, working for "Vogue", Christian Lacroix, and John Galliano, among others. In 1988, she moved to New York and began a career as an artist. She is also an actress. Her credits include "My Best Friend's Wedding", "High Art", and "Love Me".
- France Nuyen
France Nuyen is a French actress. She was born in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France as France Nguyen Van-Nga. Her mother was French and her father was Vietnamese; French is Nuyen's first language and she speaks no Asian languages. During the Second World War, her mother and grandfather were persecuted by the Nazis for being Gypsies. She was raised in Marseille by a cousin, …
- Linh Dan Pham
Linh Dan Pham is a French actress of Vietnamese descent. She was born in Saigon, South Vietnam in 1973 but moved with her family to France a year later. She is known most for her 1992 role as a Vietnamese princess in the Oscar-winning French epic "Indochine", starring alongside Catherine Deneuve. Pham received a César (French equivalent of the Oscars) nomination for most promising actress for her role. Despite appearing in a few other productions afterwards, …
- Bao Long
Crown Prince Bảo Long of Vietnam (born January 4 1936) is the head of the Nguyễn Dynasty, the former ruling house of Vietnam.
- Nguyen van Nghi
Nguyen Van Nghi (January 11 1909 - December 17 1999) Born January 2nd, 1909 in Hanoi, Vietnam, Nguyen Van Nghi was educated in Vietnam, China and France. Completing his medical degree from the University of Marseilles, he began a combined Eastern and Western medical practice in 1940. In 1954 he devoted his practice entirely to acupuncture based on the classical texts: Huang Di Nei Jing (Suwen, Lingshu) and the Nan Jing.
- Bao Vang
Prince Bảo Vang of Vietnam (also known as Yves Claude Vinh-San) is the son of Emperor Duy Tân. He was born on Saint-Denis, Reunion Island, April 8 1934.
- Leanna Scott
Leanna Scott (stage name, real name Christina Mai, born Saigon, Vietnam) is a Vietnamese model of French and Vietnamese descent. She has done photoshoots for Budweiser, and later moved to primarily nude photography. Leanna appeared under her real name Christine early in her career in several "Hot Body" videos. At one point in her career, she starred in a few pornographic films, one (under her real name "Christine") with Valentino called "Mr.
- Nguyên Lê
Nguyên Lê is a French jazz musician and composer of Vietnamese ancestry. His main instrument is guitar, and he also plays electric bass guitar, and guitar synthesizer. He has released numerous albums, both as a leader and as a sideman. His 1996 album "Tales from Viêt-Nam" blends jazz and traditional Vietnamese music. Nguyên Lê has performed with a.o. Randy Brecker, Vince Mendozas, Eric Vloeimans, Carla Bley and Michel Portal.
- Charles Sobhraj
Charles Sobhraj (born April 6, 1944 in Saigon, Vietnam) is a serial killer of Indian and Vietnamese origin, who preyed on Western tourists throughout Southeast Asia during the 1970s. Nicknamed "the Serpent" and "the Bikini killer" for his skills at deception and evasion, he allegedly committed at least 12 murders and was jailed in India from 1976 to 1997, but managed to live a life of leisure in prison.
- Bảo Thắng
"His Imperial Highness" Prince Bảo Thắng of Vietnam is the youngest son of Emperor Bảo Đại and Empress Nam Phương and the brother of Bảo Long, the current head of the House of Nguyễn.
- Anh Dao Traxel
Anh Dao Traxel " (c. 1958) in South Vietnam is the foster daughter of former French President Jacques Chirac. She was a boat people refugee, and met Jacques Chirac at Roissy Airport in 1979. He told her "Don’t cry, my dear. You are coming home with us" and took her home. She was then 21 and her adoptive father was 47. She spent two years in the home of the Chiracs. Mrs Traxel was married twice. Her second husband, Marc Traxel, is a police lieutenant.
- Katsumi
Katsumi (born April 9, 1979 in Paris, France) is a porn star of French/Vietnamese heritage who's known for her anal sex scenes and renowned for her ability to deepthroat as well as manage large penises. Her father is Vietnamese and her mother is French. According to Katsumi's diary at MySpace, she has won 27 awards in both Europe and the U.S. The names of the awards Katsumi won illustrate her great versatility and talent as a porn actress.
- Tran van Don
Tran Van Don was a general in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam, and one of the principal figures in the coup which deposed Ngo Dinh Diem from the presidency of South Vietnam. Don's father was the son of a wealthy Mekong Delta land owner, which allowed him to travel to France to study medicine. It was during this period that Don was born. Don later returned to France as an adult for his university study. He became a French Army officer when World War II began.
- Henri Huet
Henri Huet (April 4, 1927 - 10 February, 1971) was a war photographer, noted for his work covering the Vietnam War for Associated Press (AP).
- Leslie
Leslie (born Leslie Bourgouin) is a French R&B singer of Vietnamese and Polynesian decent, born on February 4 1985 in Le Mans, France.
- Ngo Dinh Le Thuy
Ngo Dinh Le Thuy was the daughter of South Vietnam's First lady Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu and Ngo Dinh Nhu, the National Secret Police Chief.
- Yvon Petra
Yvon Petra (March 8, 1916 - September 12, 1984) was a French male tennis player. He was born in Cholon, South Vietnam. He is best remembered as the last Frenchman to win the Wimbledon championships men's singles title in 1946. He also won two French titles during World War II.
- Ho Chi Minh
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.
- Elula Perrin
Elula Perrin was a French-Vietnamese writer (1929 — 2004). In 1969, she and Aimée Mori founded the Katmandou, the first nightclub for women in Paris. It was closed in 1989
- Eugene H. Trinh
Eugene Huu-Chau "Gene" Trinh (born on September 14, 1950, in Saigon, South Vietnam) is the first Vietnamese-American to travel into outer space.
- Flavio Badoglio 3rd Duke of Addis Abeba
"The Noble Signor Don" Flavio Badoglio, 3rd Duke of Addis Abeba, Marquess of Sabotino was born in Paris, France on March 20, 1973. He is the son of Pietro Badoglio, 2nd Duke of Addis Abeba and Princess Phương Mai of Vietnam.
- Truong Chinh
Trường Chinh (1907 - 1988) was a Vietnamese communist political leader and theoritician. Dang Xuan Khu joined the Vietnamese Communist Party which was led by Ho Chi Minh sometime during the 1930s, soon after it was created. He became an admirer of the Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong and adopted the pseudonym Truong Chinh, which was the Vietnamese name for the Long March which Mao undertook in China. In 1941, Truong became the first secretary of the communist party, …
- Tuan Le
Tuan Le (born February 15, 1978 in Paris, France) is a professional poker player, known for his aggression and risk-taking. As a child, Le was raised in Kansas City, but by middle school age he was living in Los Angeles, California where he attended John Burroughs Junior High School, on McCadden and 6th Street. He later attended Cal State-Northridge as a finance major. He began playing in the $20/$40 limit hold'em games at the Hustler Casino in Los Angeles, California, …
- Phan Dinh Phung
Phan Đình Phùng was a Vietnamese revolutionary who led rebel armies against the French colonial forces in Vietnam (then known as Tonkin, Annam and Cochinchina, which formed parts of French Indochina). He was the most prominent of the Confucian court scholars who were involved in anti-French campaigns in the 19th century.
- Phan Boi Chau
Phan Bội Châu was a pioneer of Vietnamese twentieth century nationalism. In 1903 he formed a revolutionary organization called the "Reformation Society" (Duy Tân Hội). From 1905 to 1908 he lived in Japan where he wrote political tracts calling for the liberation of Vietnam from the French colonial regime. After being forced to leave Japan, he moved to China where he was influenced by Sun Yat-Sen.
- Thuy Trang
Thuy Trang was a Vietnamese American actress.
- Minh Mang
Minh Mạng was the second emperor of the Nguyễn Dynasty of Vietnam, reigning from 14 February, 1820 until 20 January 1841. He was a younger son of Emperor Gia Long, whose eldest son, Crown Prince Canh, had died in 1801. He was well known for his opposition to French involvement in Vietnam and his rigid Confucian orthodoxy. As Gia Long aged, he took on a more isolationist foreign policy, and as a result, chose Minh Mang especially for his outlook.
- Gia Long
Emperor Gia Long, born Nguyễn Phúc Ánh, was an emperor of Vietnam. He founded the Nguyễn Dynasty in 1802 by unifying what is now modern Vietnam, establishing the last of the Vietnamese dynasties. The nephew of the last Nguyen Lord who ruled southern Vietnam, he was forced into hiding in 1777 as a fifteen year old when his family were slain in the Tay Son revolt. After several changes of fortunes in which his loyalists regained and again lost Saigon, …
- Ngo Van
Ngô Văn Xuyết (1912-2005) alias Ngo Van was a vietnamese Trotskyist and communist writer. He left his village at the age of 14 to work in a metallurgical works in Saigon, and soon became involved in the strikes and demonstrations and strikes that erupted periodically against the French colonial power in support of freedom of assembly, of the press, of travel and of education. There was already a history peasant revolts against colonialism, …
- Duy Tan
Emperor Duy Tân (維新), born in 1899, was one of only two Nguyễn Dynasty emperors to gain widespread respect and popularity in Vietnam. His name was Prince Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh San and was son of the Thành Thái Emperor. Because of his opposition to French rule and his erratic, depraved actions (which some speculate were feigned to shield his opposition from the French) Thành Thái was declared insane and exiled to Vũng Tàu in 1907.
- Le Duc Tho
Le Duc Tho (October 14, 1911 - October 13, 1990) was a Vietnamese revolutionary, general, diplomat, and politician. Le Duc Tho was born Phan Dinh Khai (Phan Đình Khải) in the Nam Ha province of Vietnam. In 1930, Le Duc Tho helped found the Indochinese Communist Party. French colonial authorities imprisoned him from 1930 to 1936 and again from 1939 to 1944. After his release in 1945 he helped lead the Viet Minh, …
- To Huu
Tố Hữu was Vietnam's most famous and influential revolutionary poet. He published five collections of poems, the first of which was the 1946 collection entitled "Poem", which included many of his most popular and influential works that were written during the anti-French period from 1937 to 1946. Huu was born as Nguyen Kim Thanh in Phu Lai Village in central Vietnam.
- Christy Chung
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), …
- Trinh Xuan Thuan
- Vo Quy
Dr. Vo Quy (born 1929) is a Vietnamese zoologist and professor at the University of Hanoi. He specialises in studying birds and was a recipient of the 2003 Blue Planet Prize. During the war against the French, he studied in China, but in 1954 he returned to Vietnam and helped to found the University of Hanoi. He researched the effects of defoliation by the United States in the Vietnam War, and the impact of the herbicides, including Agent Orange used on the environment.
- Nguyen Thi Dinh
Nguyen Thi Dinh (1920-1992) was a female Vietnamese revolutionary. She was born from a peasant family in Ben Tre (Kien Hoa province in the Mekong Delta), fought with the Viet Minh forces against the French, was arrested and incarcerated by the French colonial authority between 1940 and 1943, and helped lead an insurrection in Ben Tre in 1945 and again in 1960 (against Ngo Dinh Diem's government). She was a founding member of the National Liberation Front (NLF), …
- Jin Yong
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.
- Cường Để
Cường Để was an early 20th century Vietnamese revolutionary who, along with Phan Boi Chau unsuccessfully tried to liberate Vietnam from French colonial occupation. He was a minor royal relative of the Nguyen Dynasty, officially an "external marquis", who used his royal lineage to gain the support of wealthy patriots, particularly in the south of Vietnam, to finance his independence movement. He was involved in the 1905 Đông Du (Go East) movement, …