List of Famous people born in Vietnam

Lê Công Vinh is a retired Vietnamese footballer. He was a part of the Vietnamese national team from 2004 to 2016 as an attacker. He received three Golden Ball Awards. Le is considered as one of the greatest football players in Vietnam football's history, achieving the highest scores of all time in the Vietnam National Football Team. On December 8, 2016, after losing to Indonesia at the AFF Cup 2016, he officially retired after an 18-year career. He is Vietnamese legend football player and the most famous in southeast Asia.

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.

Phạm Tuân is a retired Vietnam Air Force aviator and space traveler. He became the first Vietnamese citizen and the first non-Soviet Asian in space when he flew aboard the Soyuz 37 mission as an Interkosmos Research Cosmonaut. He was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union.

Marion Sarraut was a French film and theatre director.

Trần Thị Thủy Tiên, professionally known as Thủy Tiên, is a Vietnamese singer-songwriter, model, actress and philanthropist. She is married to retired Vietnamese footballer Lê Công Vinh.

Pierre Nguyễn Văn Nhơn is a Vietnamese prelate of the Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Hanoi from May 2010 to November 2018. A cardinal since February 2015, he was Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Đà Lạt from 1994 to 2010, and the President of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Vietnam from 2007 to 2013.

Nguyễn Tiến Minh is a badminton player from Vietnam. His best achievement to date is a bronze medal at the World Championship in 2013.