List of Famous people named Nguyen

Nguyễn Huỳnh Kim Duyên is a Vietnamese model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Universe Vietnam 2021 on November 20, 2021. She represented Vietnam at the Miss Universe 2021 pageant in Eilat, Israel, where she finished at the top 16.

Nguyễn Tấn Dũng is a Vietnamese politician who served as the Prime Minister of Vietnam from 2006 to 2016. He was confirmed by the National Assembly on 27 June 2006, having been nominated by his predecessor, Phan Văn Khải, who retired from office. At a party congress held in January 2011, Nguyễn Tấn Dũng was ranked 3rd in the hierarchy of the Communist Party of Vietnam, after State President Trương Tấn Sang. Following the 12th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam, Nguyễn Tấn Dũng wasn't able to maintain his post in the party and stepped down from his position as Prime Minister on 7 April 2016.

Major Nguyễn Văn Nhung was an officer in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN). After joining the French Army in 1944 during the colonial era of Vietnam, he soon met and became the aide-de-camp and bodyguard of Dương Văn Minh, and spent the rest of his career in this role as Minh rose up the ranks to become a general. Nhung and Minh later transferred to the French-backed Vietnamese National Army (VNA) during the First Indochina War and he became an officer; the VNA then became the ARVN after the creation of the Republic of Vietnam. A soft-spoken man, Nhung was a professional military hitman who was reputed to have etched a line on his revolver for each of his killings, and ended the lives of 50 people during his career.

Nguyễn Thị Kim Ngân is a Vietnamese politician who is presently Chairwoman of the National Assembly of Vietnam. She is a member of the 12th Politburo of the Communist Party of Vietnam, in which she is ranked second, after General Secretary of the Communist Party Nguyễn Phú Trọng. She previously served as Deputy Chairwoman of the National Assembly of Vietnam. She became the Chairwoman of the National Assembly of Vietnam on 31 March 2016, replacing Nguyen Sinh Hung.