Nguyễn Dynasty | Nguyen Tan Dung | Nguyen Khanh | Nam Định Province | Nguyễn Văn Tố | Scotty Nguyen | Nguyen Thien Nhan | Nguyễn Hữu Đang | Nguyen Cao Ky | Tôn Thất Đính | Nguyễn Văn Trỗi | Nguyễn Văn Thiệu | Nguyễn Thế Anh | Nguyễn Phúc Chu | Nguyễn Ngọc Loan | Nguyen Minh Triet | Nguyễn Mạnh Tường | Nguyễn Bặc | Yên Định, Bắc Giang | Viet Nguyen | Van Tuong Nguyen | Phan Đình Phùng | Nguyễn Văn Tỵ | Nguyễn Văn Tý | Nguyễn Văn Tường | Nguyen Van Thieu | Nguyễn Văn Nhung | Nguyen Van Kiet | Nguyễn Văn Chính | Nguyễn Trọng Xuyên |
The district was the homeland of Nguyễn Tri Phương, the general who commanded the Nguyễn Dynasty's army in the 1850s and 1860s when the French began their colonisation of Indochina, and Nguyễn Đình Chiểu, the anti-colonial poet.