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Nguyễn Gia Trí
Nguyễn Gia Trí (1908–1993) was a Vietnamese painter widely regarded as the father of modern Vietnamese lacquer painting, which he raised from decorative craft to fine art.
Nguyễn Hải Thần
Nguyễn Hải Thần (1878–1959) was a Vietnamese anti-French revolutionary who founded and led the Việt Nam Revolutionary League, known as Việt Cách, spending most of his career in exile in China.
Nguyen Hoang
Nguyen Hoang (Nguyễn Hoàng, 1525–1613) was a Vietnamese governor who, appointed to Thuan Hoa in 1558, founded the Nguyen lordship that preceded the Nguyen dynasty.
Nguyen Hoang's move to Thuan Hoa
Nguyen Hoang's move to Thuan Hoa (Nguyễn Hoàng vào Thuận Hóa) was the 1558 appointment of Nguyen Hoang as governor of Thuan Hoa, founding the Nguyen lords' southern realm.
Nguyen Huu Canh
Nguyen Huu Canh (Nguyễn Hữu Cảnh, 1650–1700) was a general of the Nguyen lords of southern Vietnam who established Gia Dinh prefecture in 1698, the first Vietnamese administration in the Ho Chi Minh City area.
Nguyễn Hữu Cầu
Nguyễn Hữu Cầu (c. 1712 to 1751), popularly known as Quận He, was a Vietnamese peasant rebel who led a major uprising in northern Vietnam from 1741 to 1751.
Nguyễn Hữu Có
Nguyễn Hữu Có (1925–2012) was a South Vietnamese general who served as Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Defense, and Chief of the General Staff of the Republic of Vietnam.
Nguyễn Hữu Thọ
Nguyễn Hữu Thọ (1910–1996) was a Vietnamese lawyer and revolutionary politician who chaired the National Liberation Front, served as acting president, and led the National Assembly.
Nguyễn Huy Tự
Nguyễn Huy Tự (1743–1790) was a Vietnamese civil and military official and poet of the late Lê dynasty, best known as the author of the Nôm verse romance Hoa Tiên.
Nguyễn Khoa Điềm
Nguyễn Khoa Điềm, born 1943 in Thừa Thiên–Huế, is a Vietnamese poet and former Minister of Culture, known for Đất Nước from the epic Mặt đường khát vọng.
Nguyễn Khuyến
Nguyễn Khuyến, known by the title Tam Nguyên Yên Đổ, was a Vietnamese Confucian scholar and poet (1835–1909) celebrated as the last great poet of medieval Vietnamese literature.
Nguyen Kim
Nguyen Kim (Nguyễn Kim, 1468–1545) was a Vietnamese general who restored the Le dynasty after the Mac usurpation, enthroning Le Trang Tong in Laos in 1533 before his death by poisoning in 1545.
Nguyen lords
The Nguyen lords (Chúa Nguyễn) were the ruling family of southern Vietnam from 1558 to 1777, governing Dang Trong from Phu Xuan (Hue) and expanding south to the Mekong Delta.
Nguyen lords' court at Phu Xuan
The Nguyen lords' court at Phu Xuan (Triều đình chúa Nguyễn ở Phú Xuân) was the government of the Nguyen lords, who ruled southern Vietnam from 1558 to 1777.
Nguyen Lu
Nguyen Lu (Nguyễn Lữ) was a prince of the Tay Son dynasty of Vietnam, one of three brothers who led the Tay Son uprising, ruling Gia Dinh from 1786.
Nguyễn Minh Châu
Nguyễn Minh Châu (1930–1989) was a Vietnamese prose writer and former soldier whose works include Dấu chân người lính (1972), Bến quê (1985), and Chiếc thuyền ngoài xa (1985).
Nguyen Minh Khong
Nguyen Minh Khong (Nguyễn Minh Không, 1065–1141) was a Ly-dynasty Zen master and physician who cured King Ly Than Tong in 1136 and became national teacher.
Nguyễn Ngọc Loan
Nguyễn Ngọc Loan (1930–1998), South Vietnamese brigadier general and National Police chief, executed Viet Cong suspect Nguyễn Văn Lém in Saigon on February 1, 1968; Eddie Adams's Pulitzer-winning photo made the moment iconic.
Nguyễn Ngọc Tư
Nguyễn Ngọc Tư, born 1976 in Cà Mau, is a Vietnamese writer of Mekong Delta fiction whose Cánh đồng bất tận won the Vietnam Writers' Association Award.
Nguyen Nhac
Nguyen Nhac (Nguyễn Nhạc, 1743–1793), also called Nguyen Van Nhac, was the founding emperor of the Tay Son dynasty in Vietnam, reigning from 1778 as Thai Duc.
Nguyễn Phan Chánh
Nguyễn Phan Chánh (1892–1984) was a Vietnamese painter who founded the modern tradition of Vietnamese silk painting, gaining fame at the 1931 Paris Exposition Coloniale.
Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai
Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai (born 1973) is a Vietnamese poet, novelist, and translator who writes poetry in Vietnamese and fiction in English, including the novels The Mountains Sing and Dust Child.
Nguyen Phi Khanh
Nguyen Phi Khanh (Nguyễn Phi Khanh) was a Vietnamese Confucian scholar and official, father of the statesman Nguyen Trai, taken to China after the Ming conquest of 1407.
Nguyễn Phú Trọng
Nguyễn Phú Trọng was a Vietnamese politician who led the Communist Party of Vietnam as General Secretary from 2011 until his death in July 2024.
Nguyen Phuc Khoat
Nguyen Phuc Khoat (Nguyễn Phúc Khoát, 1714–1765) was the eighth Nguyen lord of Dang Trong, southern Vietnam, ruling from 1738 and taking the royal title Vo Vuong in 1744.
Nguyen Phuc Nguyen
Nguyen Phuc Nguyen (Nguyễn Phúc Nguyên; 1563–1635) was the second Nguyen lord of Dang Trong in southern Vietnam, ruling from 1613 to 1635 and repelling the first Trinh invasions.
Nguyễn Quang Bích
Nguyễn Quang Bích, also known as Ngô Quang Bích, was a Nguyễn dynasty official and poet who led the Cần Vương resistance against the French in northwestern Tonkin.
Nguyễn Quang Sáng
Nguyễn Quang Sáng, pen name Nguyễn Sáng, was a leading Vietnamese writer of the south (1932–2014), known for Chiếc lược ngà and the screenplay Cánh đồng hoang.
Nguyễn Sáng
Nguyễn Sáng (1923–1988) was a Vietnamese painter counted among the four pillars of modern Vietnamese painting, known for lacquer works such as Party Admission at Điện Biên Phủ.
Nguyen seizure of the Mekong Delta provinces
The Nguyen seizure of the Mekong Delta provinces was the gradual acquisition of Cambodian-held lands in the lower Mekong by the Nguyen lords, completed in 1757.