List of Famous people born in Hanoi

Đỗ Mười 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 Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) at the 7th Congress in 1991. He continued his predecessor's policy of ruling through a collective leadership and Nguyễn Văn Linh's policy of economic reform. He was elected for two terms as General Secretary, but left office in 1997 at the 3rd plenum of the 8th Central Committee during his second term.

Hồ Quý Ly was the first emperor of Hồ dynasty of Dai Viet, who rose from a post as an official of the Trần dynasty. After the Hồ dynasty was defeated in the Ming–Hồ War, he and his son were exiled to China. The Hồ dynasty was then replaced by the Fourth Chinese domination of Vietnam.