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Nguyễn Thái Học

Nguyễn Thái Học (1902-1930) was a Vietnamese revolutionary who founded the Việt Nam Quốc dân Đảng and led the 1930 Yên Bái uprising against French rule.

Nguyen Thi Anh

Nguyen Thi Anh (Nguyễn Thị Anh, 1422–1459) was a Vietnamese empress dowager who ruled as regent for her son Le Nhan Tong until killed in a 1459 coup.

Nguyen Thi Anh Vien

Nguyen Thi Anh Vien (Nguyễn Thị Ánh Viên), Vietnamese swimmer born 1996 in Cần Thơ; three-time Olympian, 2014 Youth Olympic gold medalist, and Vietnam's most decorated SEA Games swimmer with 25 golds.

Nguyen Thi Lo

Nguyen Thi Lo (Nguyễn Thị Lộ) was a female official of Vietnam's early Le dynasty, linked to King Le Thai Tong's 1442 death and the Le Chi Vien case.

Nguyen Thi Phuong Thao

Nguyen Thi Phuong Thao (Nguyễn Thị Phương Thảo), born 1970 in Hanoi, is a Vietnamese businesswoman who chairs VietJet Air and leads Sovico Group, and is Vietnam's first self-made woman billionaire.

Nguyễn Thiện Thuật

Nguyễn Thiện Thuật (1844–1926, courtesy name Mạnh Hiếu) was a Vietnamese mandarin and insurgent leader who headed the Bãi Sậy uprising against French colonization from 1883 to 1892.

Nguyen Thiep

Nguyen Thiep (Nguyễn Thiếp, 1723–1804) was a Vietnamese Confucian scholar and hermit who advised King Quang Trung and directed the Tay Son educational institute Sung Chinh vien.

Nguyên tiêu

Nguyên tiêu, or Tết Nguyên Tiêu, is the Vietnamese festival of the first full moon of the lunar new year, held on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

Nguyen Trai

Nguyen Trai (Nguyễn Trãi, pen name Uc Trai, 1380–1442) was a Vietnamese strategist and statesman who served Le Loi during the Lam Son uprising against Ming occupation and wrote the Binh Ngo dai cao of 1428.

Nguyen Trung Ngan

Nguyen Trung Ngan (Nguyễn Trung Ngạn, 1289–1370) was a Vietnamese scholar-official who served the Trần dynasty for over six decades and left a surviving poetry collection.

Nguyễn Trung Trực

Nguyễn Trung Trực, born Nguyễn Văn Lịch (阮忠直), was a Vietnamese insurgent leader who fought the French conquest of Cochinchina from 1861 to his execution in 1868.

Nguyễn Tư Nghiêm

Nguyễn Tư Nghiêm (1922–2016) was a Vietnamese painter, one of the four masters of modern Vietnamese painting, best known for lacquer paintings of the Saint Gióng legend and zodiac animals.

Nguyễn Tuân

Nguyễn Tuân (1910–1987) was a Vietnamese writer and essayist, celebrated as the master of the tùy bút and honored with the Ho Chi Minh Prize in 1996.

Nguyễn Văn Lộc

Nguyễn Văn Lộc, born 1922, is a South Vietnamese lawyer and academic who served as Prime Minister of South Vietnam from 1967 to 1968, and later resettled in the United States.

Nguyễn Văn Thiệu

Nguyen Van Thieu (Nguyễn Văn Thiệu), 1923–2001, South Vietnamese general and president of the Republic of Vietnam 1967–1975; led the Second Republic, signed the 1973 Paris agreement under pressure, resigned and fled days before the fall of Saigon, and died in Foxborough, Massachusetts.

Nguyễn Văn Tố

Nguyễn Văn Tố, pen name Ứng Hòe, was a Vietnamese scholar and statesman who led the literacy movement and served as the first National Assembly Standing Committee head in 1945.

Nguyễn Văn Vĩnh

Nguyễn Văn Vĩnh (1882–1936) was a Vietnamese journalist, translator, and publisher who pioneered quốc ngữ journalism in northern Vietnam, founding Trung Bắc tân văn, the first Vietnamese daily.

Nguyễn Xuân Ôn

Nguyễn Xuân Ôn, courtesy name Ngọc Đường, was a Vietnamese Confucian scholar and mandarin who led a major Cần Vương uprising against French colonial rule in Nghệ An.

Nguyễn Xuân Phúc

Nguyen Xuan Phuc (Nguyễn Xuân Phúc), born 1954 in Quang Nam, Vietnamese politician: prime minister 2016-2021, president from April 2021, resigned January 2023 over subordinates' corruption, first sitting president to resign.

Nguyễn–Tây Sơn War

The Nguyễn–Tây Sơn War (1778–1802) was fought between the Tây Sơn movement and Nguyễn Phúc Ánh, who won and founded the Nguyễn dynasty as Emperor Gia Long.

Ngyandu Vallis

Ngyandu Vallis, a 500-km vallis (channel) feature on Venus at 62S, 12E, IAU-approved 1997, named with the Swahili word for Venus; not identifiable in Magellan radar imagery.

NH Investment & Securities

NH Investment & Securities (NH투자증권) is a South Korean brokerage and investment bank in Seoul, majority owned by NongHyup Financial Group, founded in 1969 as Han-Bo Securities and renamed in 2014.

NH Media

NH Media (NH미디어), later renamed NH EMG and now Global H Media, is a South Korean entertainment agency best known for the groups U-KISS and LABOUM.

Nh. Dini

Nh. Dini, pen name of Nurhayati Sri Hardini Siti Nukatin (1936–2018), was an Indonesian novelist, poet, and playwright known for feminist themes and novels like Pada Sebuah Kapal.

NH10 (film)

NH10 is a 2015 Hindi thriller directed by Navdeep Singh, starring Anushka Sharma and Neil Bhoopalam, about a couple's road trip on National Highway 10 that turns deadly after an honor killing; it was Sharma's debut production.

Nha ba ngoại tit

Nha ba ngoại tit is a casino listed in mapping and travel directories near the sports stadium Nhà thi đấu TDTT Hà Giang in Ha Giang, northern Vietnam.

Nha Trang

Nha Trang (Thành phố Nha Trang) is the coastal capital of Khanh Hoa province, south-central Vietnam, a beach resort city of about 417,000 people (2016) on Nha Trang Bay, historically the Champa center Kauthara with the Po Nagar temples, now facing severe coral reef decline.

Nhac vang (Vietnamese golden music)

Nhac vang (nhạc vàng), or "yellow music," is the romantic popular music of pre-1975 South Vietnam, banned by the socialist government after 1975, preserved overseas, and since returned to Vietnam.

Nhật ký trong tù

Nhật ký trong tù (Prison Diary) is a collection of 133 poems written in Chinese by Hồ Chí Minh while imprisoned in Guangxi, China, in 1942–1943.

Nhất Linh

Nhất Linh was the pen name of Nguyễn Tường Tam (1906–1963), a Vietnamese writer, journalist, and politician who led the influential Tự Lực Văn Đoàn group.