List of Famous people born in Ninh Bình, Vietnam

Trần Đại Quang was a Vietnamese politician who was the eighth President of Vietnam, in office from 2 April 2016 until his death in 2018. Trần Đại Quang was elected to the post by the National Assembly of Vietnam, and nominated by his predecessor Trương Tấn Sang who retired from office. Trần Đại Quang was one of the country's top leaders, along with the Communist Party General Secretary Nguyễn Phú Trọng.

Đinh Bộ Lĩnh (924–979), originally named Đinh Hoàn (丁桓), was the first Vietnamese emperor following the liberation of the country from the rule of the Chinese Southern Han Dynasty, as well as the founder of the short-lived Đinh Dynasty and a significant figure in the establishment of Vietnamese independence and political unity in the 10th century. He unified Vietnam by defeating twelve rebellious warlords and became the first emperor of Vietnam. Upon his ascension, he renamed the country Đại Cồ Việt. Đinh Bộ Lĩnh is also known as Đinh Tiên Hoàng.

Đinh Phế Đế was the second and also the last emperor of the Đinh dynasty. His birth name was Đinh Toàn (丁璿) or Đinh Tuệ (丁穗). He was the son of Đinh Tiên Hoàng and his famous empress Dương Vân Nga. In 980, the Regent Lê Hoàn succeeded the throne with support from Đinh Phế Đế's mother "Empress Dương Vân Nga" to lead the country against the Song dynasty invasion. Đinh Phế Đế received the title Duke of Vệ at age 20 and died in battle at the age 27.

Lê Long Đĩnh, courtesy name Khai Minh (開明). As known as Lê Ngọa Triều (黎臥朝) was the last emperor of the Early Lê family of the kingdom of Đại Cồ Việt, ruled from 1005 to 1009. After killing his predecessor and brother Lê Long Việt, he took the throne and named his era Cảnh Thụy. His mysterious death at aged 24 led to the fall of Anterior Lê Dynasty, then all of power was seized by House of Lý. In some history book, he was portraited as the debauched, cruel emperor. However, there were still a lot of temples created that people still worship him until now and recently, some historians proved that some rumours about his ruling style was aggrandise, even seen as fabrication.

Joseph Nguyễn Năng is a Vietnamese prelate of the Catholic Church who has been a bishop since 2009 and the Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Ho Chi Minh City since October 2019.

Lê Trung Tông (983–1005) was the second emperor under the Early Lê Dynasty. He held the throne for only three days in 1005. His reign was considered one of two shortest reigns in Vietnam's history, along with the reign of Dục Đức under the Nguyễn Dynasty.