Truong Huy San, better known by his pen name Huy Đức, is a Vietnamese journalist, blogger, and author. In 2005-2006 he studied at the University of Maryland under a Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship. In 2012 he received a fellowship from the Nieman Foundation for Journalism to study at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Nguyễn Thị Duệ courtesy name Ngọc Toàn (玉全), pen name Diệu Huyền (妙玄), Đào Hoa Am (桃花庵), was a Vietnamese consort and female scholar.

Hoàng Văn Chí was one of the first Vietnamese political writers, a prominent intellectual who was an opponent of colonialism and later of communism in Vietnam. He used the pen name Mạc Định. His book, From Colonialism to Communism, was translated into more than 15 languages.

Trần Khánh Giư, pen-name Khái Hưng was a Vietnamese novelist, a pro-independence but non-communist intellectual.

Andrew Lam is a Vietnamese American author and journalist who has written about the Overseas Vietnamese experience.
Lê Minh Khuê is a Vietnamese writer. Her works have been translated into English and several other languages. She was interviewed in Ken Burns's series The Vietnam War.

Nam Le is a Vietnamese-born Australian writer, who won the Dylan Thomas Prize for his book The Boat, a collection of short stories. His stories have been published in many places including Best Australian Stories 2007, Best New American Voices, Zoetrope: All-Story, A Public Space and One Story. In 2008 he was named a 5 under 35 honoree by the National Book Foundation.

Lương Văn Can was a Vietnamese mandarin, school administrator, independence activist and writer. His most noted work is Nhà nước, "The State".

Nguyễn Tuân was a renowned Vietnamese author. Current literature books for public school in Vietnam rank him as one of the nine biggest authors of contemporary Vietnamese literature. He is known for his essays on multiple subjects, with a clever and creative way in using the language. Hanoi has a street named after him, in the Thanh Xuan district.

Nguyễn An Ninh was a radical Vietnamese political journalist and publicist in French colonial Cochinchina. An independent and charismatic figure, Nguyen An Ninh was able to conciliate between different anti-colonial factions including, for a period in the 1930s, between the Communist Party of Nguyen Ai Quoc and its left, Trotskyist, opposition. Nguyen An Ninh died in the French penal colony of Pulo Condore, age 42. He is recognised by the Socialist Republic of Vietnam as a Revolutionary Martyr.

Trần Gia Thái, pen name Trần Bích San is a Vietnamese writer.

Tô Hoài was a Vietnamese writer, playwright, screenwriter, journalist and correspondent.

Trần Quang Đức is a Vietnamese calligrapher, author and translator.

Trần Văn Khê was a Vietnamese musicologist, academic, writer, teacher and performer of traditional music. He was father of the musician ethnomusicologist Trần Quang Hải. His La musique viêtnamienne traditionnelle was for many years a standard text of Vietnamese musicology.
Trinh T. Minh-ha is a Vietnamese filmmaker, writer, literary theorist, composer, and professor. She has been making films for over thirty years and is best known for her films Reassemblage, made in 1982, and Surname Viet Given Name Nam, made in 1985. She has received several awards and grants, including the American Film Institute's National Independent Filmmaker Maya Deren Award, and Fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and the California Arts Council. Her films have been the subject of twenty retrospectives.

Prince Bảo Vàng of Vietnam also known as Yves Claude Vinh-San, is the legitimate son of Emperor Duy Tân. He was born in Saint-Denis, Reunion Island.

Vũ Trọng Phụng was a popular Vietnamese author and journalist, who is considered to be one of the most influential figures of 20th century Vietnamese literature. Today, several of his works are taught in Vietnamese schools.

Vương Trung Hiếu is a Vietnamese fiction writer, journalist, translator, and interdisciplinary scholar. He is the author of more than two hundred books. Many of his works are published under the pseudonym Thoai Son.