16th c.
16th century · founding ancestor · 1st generation
Founding ancestor of the clan. An officer bearing the title Tả Hiệu Điểm Công Tây Hầu, he came from Gia Viễn (Ninh Bình) and settled in the hamlet of Bình Hòa, at An Ấp (Hương Sơn), around 1543–1546, or around 1530 according to another hypothesis ⚠︎ (D-H01). The HYPT explains his title by “dẹp giặc có công” (merit in suppressing unrest); part A of GP2020, by his support for the Lê against the Mạc ⚠︎ (D-H06).
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17th c.
1602–1676 · district assessor · 6th generation
He passed the regional examination at 16, in 1617, and at 19, in 1620, was admitted to the “Năng văn bộ” [?] of the prefecture. After the suppression of unrest in the South, he became assessor (huyện tá) of Đông Ngạn.
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17th c.
1637–1695 · doctor (1670), censor · 7th generation
Second son of Đinh Hữu Luân; taboo name Tung. Having passed the regional examination at 14, he had to go back to the fields from 18 to 28, then resumed his studies. First at the regional examination in 1669, he was received as doctor (đệ tam giáp đồng tiến sĩ) at the examination of the Canh Tuất year, in 1670, aged 34 (33 full years): the clan's first doctor. As censor (Thiêm đô Ngự sử), he received from the king the praise “Ngôn ngữ phong lăng”.
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17th–18th c.
1656–1711 · clan head · 8th generation, senior branch
Eldest son of Đinh Nho Công, he was received hương cống in 1673, aged 18 (≈ 17 full years), and stayed at Hương Sơn: he is the clan head of the 8th generation and the ancestor of the senior branch (A). According to the HYPT, he had a road opened along the river to spare the villagers the burden of the embassies from Laos, then withdrew to Mount Tiêu Sơn; he was called “Giả tiên nhân”, “like an immortal”.
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17th–18th c.
17th–18th century · ancestor of the junior branch · 8th generation
Eldest son of Đinh Nho Công's second wife, he stayed at Hương Sơn and became the ancestor of the junior branch (B). His dates are not known; his tomb plaque calls him “Quan viên tử” (son of a mandarin) and gives his day of commemoration, the 7th day of the 12th month. His wife was from the Bùi clan.
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18th century · district magistrate · 8th generation
Son of Đinh Nho Công, whom the HYPT names Nho Thưởng and gives as the 5th son; ĐTA 2023 makes him the 2nd son of the second wife, and Đinh Quang Tích the 4th son ⚠︎ (D-H15). A district magistrate (tri huyện), he left Hương Sơn for Can Lộc.
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17th–18th
1671–1714/1716 ⚠︎ · Hoàng giáp (1700), vice-ambassador · 8th generation
Third son of Đinh Nho Công; pen name Mặc Trai. Received Hoàng giáp (doctor of the 2nd rank) at the examination of the Canh Thìn year, in 1700, he was military governor (Đốc trấn) of Cao Bằng from 1704 or 1705 ⚠︎ (D-T11). There he had the river cleared, formalities shortened and taxes reduced; in his lifetime the Chinese merchants raised a stele in his praise, the Đức chính bi. He was then Thượng bảo Tự khanh.
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18th c.
† 1716 or 1717 ⚠︎ · “Tiết phụ” · 8th generation (by marriage)
Daughter of a registry clerk from Do Lễ (Hưng Nguyên) whose release Đinh Nho Công had obtained, she became at sixteen ⚠︎ (D-T04) the second wife of Đinh Nho Hoàn. A woman of letters, she exchanged poems with her husband, gathered in a collection now lost; there survive from her hand three of the ten farewell poems, a funeral oration and two letters.
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18th c.
18th century · military commander · 8th generation
Sixth and last son of Đinh Nho Công, half-brother of Đinh Nho Hoàn. First at the regional examination according to ĐTA 2023 (the HYPT does not say so), he was magistrate of La Sơn, then commander of troops; he bore the title of Tổng binh Đồng tri, Marquis of Hương Nghĩa (Hướng Nghĩa in the HYPT ⚠︎, D-T24). The HYPT relates that, when revising the register of the men of his canton, he had the number of conscripts reduced by more than thirty.
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18th–19th c.
1754–1809 · compiler of the Hương Yên phổ tự · 12th generation
Clan head of the 12th generation; taboo name Vượng. A Triều liệt đại phu and lecturer at the Hàn lâm academy (Hàn lâm viện thị giảng học sĩ), he compiled the Hương Yên phổ tự, the oldest surviving genealogy of the clan, whose preface is dated 1795; HYPT-Chú places the compilation at the beginning of the 19th century ⚠︎ (D-H47).
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18th–19th century · Thái bộc Tự khanh · 13th generation
Fifth son of Đinh Thái Lãng, called Hy Tăng in the HYPT and “Đinh Hy Tăng (hay Tĩnh)” in GP2020; his taboo name is Tỉnh. Thái bộc Tự khanh (tòng tam phẩm), he married a woman of the Đặng clan. He is the father of the governor Đinh Nho Quang, of the doctor Đinh Nho Điển and of Đinh Thị Hoan.
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19th c.
1815–1866 ⚠︎ · doctor (1838), poet · 11th generation
Great-grandson of Đinh Nho Côn, born at Thanh Liêu (Thanh Chương, Nghệ An). Courtesy name Tử Úy, or Tử Quý according to an article reproduced by ĐTA 2023 ⚠︎ (D-T26); literary name Bạch Mao Am. Received as doctor at the examination of the Mậu Tuất year (1838), he was appointed prefect, then dismissed; he later declined reinstatement ⚠︎ (D-H20). A friend of Cao Bá Quát, he was arrested after the revolt of 1854 and taken to Huế; there he wrote the Thu dạ lữ hoài ngâm. The accounts of his release diverge ⚠︎ (D-H21).
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1831–1907 · licentiate, governor · 14th generation, senior branch
Son of Đinh Nho Tĩnh; literary name Bảo Hiên. A licentiate, he was governor (Tuần phủ) of Phú Yên and of Hà Tĩnh. His title is Trung phụng đại phu according to the HYPT, Phùng Nghị Đại phu according to GP2020 ⚠︎ (D-H26).
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1846 or 1848 ⚠︎ – 1884 · doctor (1875) · 14th generation, senior branch
Son of Đinh Nho Tĩnh. Received as doctor at the examination of the Ất Hợi year (1875), he was district magistrate (tri huyện) of Nghĩa Hưng, then Trung thuận Đại phu, Hồng Lô Tự khanh and Biện lý sự vụ at the Ministry of Justice, before being transferred as Biên tu to the National Institute of History (Quốc sử quán).
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19th century · 14th generation
Daughter of Đinh Nho Tĩnh, sister of Đinh Nho Quang and Đinh Nho Điển; her rank among the sisters is disputed ⚠︎ (D-H27). She married the licentiate Đặng Thai Giai, of Thanh Chương. According to the Memoirs of Đặng Thai Mai, she helped Phan Bội Châu's movement.
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19th–20th century · schoolmaster · 14th generation, junior branch
Son of Đinh Viết Tân, bachelor (13B17). He did not serve as a mandarin and opened a school. His pupils gave him two gold-lacquered panels, “Tam Lạc Dã” (the three joys) and “Sư Như Huynh” (the master as an elder brother). His worship house, at Đông Mỹ, bears couplets composed in 2018 by his grandson Đinh Nho Thanh.
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1863–1935 · scholar-physician · 15th generation, senior branch
A bachelor (tú tài) known as “cụ Hàn Cống”, from the village of Mỹ Hòa (today the commune of Sơn Tiến, Hương Sơn), son of Đinh Nho Thiếp. Selected by examination under the reign of Duy Tân, he was charged by the Huế court with compiling, within five to six months, a comparative pharmacopoeia of the remedies of China and Vietnam, with the help of a former court physician, the licentiate Phan Văn Mễ.
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1885–1910 · Đông Du activist · 15th generation, junior branch
Born Đinh Nho Thục, of the line of Đinh Nho Thành (junior branch). In 1908 he entered the Đồng Văn institute in Japan, then settled in Bangkok. He died in 1910 at Phù Xa, on the way to the Nghệ-Tĩnh border, aged 26 (≈ 25 full years); elsewhere, ĐTA 2023 swaps his place of death with his brother's ⚠︎ (D-H29).
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20th c.
1918–1947 · poet, resistance fighter · 17th generation, junior branch
Born in January 1918 at Gôi Mỹ, eldest son of the scholar Đinh Nho Huề. Under the pen name Quỳnh Dao, he published in 1936 or 1937 ⚠︎ (D-H31), with Liêu Kỳ Lộc, the collection Tiếng chuông chiều, within the New Poetry movement.
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20th century · activist · 15th generation, junior branch
From the village of Gôi Mỹ, brother of Đinh Doãn Tế. An activist alongside Ngô Quảng, he was arrested in Vinh on the night of 31 August, in 1921 or in 1924 depending on the source ⚠︎ (D-H30), and deported to the Côn Đảo penal colony, where he composed a long poem addressed to his family.
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20th century · continuator of the genealogy · 16th generation, senior branch
Son of Đinh Nho Kiên and grandson of the governor Đinh Nho Quang. He revised the quốc ngữ translation of the Hương Yên phổ tự, made around 1926–1927 by Đinh Nho Tuyên, then restored the register after the Land Reform. The 1987 witness of the HYPT is his copy.
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1904 – c. 1934 · doctor of chemistry · 16th generation, senior branch
Grandson of the doctor Đinh Nho Điển, son of Đinh Nho Nhượng. A doctor of chemistry, with his thesis defended in France; a family account reported by ĐTA 2023 calls him “the first doctor of chemistry in all of Indochina”, a comparison that no other source consulted bears out. He died young.
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20th c.
1924–2008 · diplomat · 16th generation, junior branch
Born in Hương Sơn in 1924. Consul general in India, then in Egypt, ambassador to Laos and to the USSR (together with Finland), he was first deputy minister of Foreign Affairs and a member of the Party Central Committee during the 5th and 6th terms. He prepared the translation of the poetry collection of Đinh Nho Hoàn.
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20th c.
1925–2017 · historian, People's Teacher
Born at Sơn Tân (Hương Sơn), a descendant of the Đinh Nho who left An Ấp for Xa Lang; his generation is not known. A professor of history at the University of Hanoi and People's Teacher, he is counted, with Phan Huy Lê, Hà Văn Tấn and Trần Quốc Vượng, among the “four pillars” of Vietnamese historiography. The press credits him with more than 570 works.
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1911–2015 ⚠︎ · scholar · 16th generation
Brother of Đinh Xuân Bính, son of Đinh Xuân Bạt. A graduate of the higher primary course under the French administration, he was a clerk-interpreter (thông phán) at the Residence of Vinh, and devoted himself to research and to the collection of sources. For more than half a century, he wrote by hand an encyclopaedia of Vietnam (40 notebooks, about 40,000 entries), which received an award from the Vietnam Folk Arts Association in 1994 and was put forward for the Hồ Chí Minh Prize. From it he drew the Sổ tay địa danh Việt Nam (NXB Lao động, 1996; 754 pages according to ĐTA 2023).
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20th c.
Born in 1934 · mathematician · 17th generation, senior branch
Son of Đinh Nho Dật. A doctor of mathematics, associate professor and Meritorious Teacher, he headed the mathematics department of the Hanoi National University of Education. He received the Resistance Medal against the Americans (2nd class) and the Medal for the Cause of Education.
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20th c.
1937–2022 · clan head · 18th generation, senior branch
Clan head of the 18th generation. A graduate in education and a physics teacher, nicknamed “the King of physics” according to ĐTA 2023, he received the Resistance Medal. He directed the editing of the Gia phả of the year 2000 (Canh Thìn), the basis of the clan's present genealogy, and had the tombs and temples restored. At the 2015 colloquium he also presented two papers, on Đinh Nho Hoàn and on Hoàn's wife, Lê Thị Vệ.
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1937–2023 · metallurgist and poet · 17th generation, junior branch
Son of Đinh Nho Huề, younger brother of the poet Quỳnh Dao. Professor, doctor of science and People's Teacher, he taught metallurgy at Hanoi Polytechnic University. According to an article in Quân đội nhân dân, at the end of the 1960s he filed a patent for tin refining developed at the Tĩnh Túc mine (Cao Bằng), then, in 2015, one for a bismuth-refining process. A poet, he was admitted to the Vietnam Writers' Association.
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1940–2004 · teacher · 17th generation
Born at Sơn Hòa (Hương Sơn), he graduated in physics from the Vinh University of Education (1972), where he was kept on to teach. According to the article devoted to his memory, a departure planned for 1980 to prepare a doctorate in Germany fell through following a local assessment; he then taught at the Lê Hữu Trác high school.
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Born in 1951 · mathematician · 17th generation, junior branch
Eldest son of the diplomat Đinh Nho Liêm, born in Thanh Hóa. Doctor (1979) then Doctor of Science (1985) of the Lomonosov University of Moscow, principal researcher at the Institute of Information Technology of Vietnam National University, Hanoi. He received the Tạ Quang Bửu Prize in 2015 for his work on approximation in very high dimensions (the “hyperbolic cross” method). He was vice-chair of the prize council in 2017.
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Born in 1961 · mathematician
Professor and doctor of science at the Institute of Mathematics of the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, whose scientific council he chairs. With a doctorate from Berlin and a habilitation from Siegen, a former fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, he is editor-in-chief of Acta Mathematica Vietnamica. His work deals with partial differential equations, inverse problems and optimal control.
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Born in 1969 · author of the history of the clan · 17th generation, junior branch
Son of Đinh Nho Thanh, great-grandson of the schoolmaster Đinh Nho Lệ. A senior manager in the Quảng Ninh coal industry (TKV group), he is the author of Lịch sử dòng họ Đinh Nho ở Hương Sơn (NXB Phụ nữ Việt Nam, 2023), the main published study of the clan, and of the clan's incense-offering chant. He also publishes poetry.
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Born in 1978 · journalist · 17th generation, junior branch
Younger sister of Đinh Tú Anh. The holder of a master's degree and a journalist, she is vice-president of the Vietnam Blind Association and editor-in-chief of its magazine, Đời Mới, published in braille and in print, audio and digital editions, which is aimed at the association's more than 72,000 members.
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Born in 2010 · chess player · 18th generation
Chess player. According to the sports press, he was world youth champion (under 12) at Batumi in 2022, won six gold medals at the Southeast Asian youth championships in 2023, then a gold medal in rapid chess at the 2024 Asian youth championship (Almaty). He earned his third norm at the 2025 Hanoi grandmasters' tournament and the title of FIDE International Master in January 2026, at 15 full years of age.
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Diplomat · ambassador
Having joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1999, and trained in France, he was deputy head of Vietnam's permanent mission to the United Nations from 2017 to 2020, during Vietnam's term on the Security Council. On 1 June 2023, he presented his credentials to King Harald V and became Vietnam's ambassador to Norway. His affiliation with the clan is confirmed by the family.
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Businesswoman · 17th generation
Daughter of the diplomat Đinh Nho Liêm (affiliation confirmed by the family). A graduate of Harvard Business School with an MBA, she founded the Thiên Ngân – Galaxy group, which produces films and runs cinemas; she chairs Galaxy Studio, which notably produced Đất rừng Phương Nam, and is a shareholder in the Thiên Việt securities company. The business press nicknames her “the queen of private cinema”.
Read profile →Related clan — the Đinh Văn of Nghi Long
These figures do not belong to the Đinh Nho clan: they are of the Đinh Văn clan of Nghi Long, which, like the Đinh Nho, recognises itself as descended from the sons of the Ancestral Mother Hoàng Quý Thị. The Genealogy page (chapter VII) presents this link.
19th c.
1843–1887 · doctor, Cần Vương leader · Đinh Văn clan of Nghi Long
Born on the 10th day of the 7th lunar month of the year Quý Mão (1843) at La Giáp (Kim Khê, Nghi Lộc), grandson of the doctor Đinh Văn Phác. A doctor, he was prefect of Nghĩa Hưng (Nam Định); in 1882, Tự Đức rewarded him with a gold plaque bearing “Liêm bình cần cán”. He joined the Cần Vương of King Hàm Nghi and raised Nghệ An in revolt.
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1882–1953 · Hoàng giáp (1913) · Đinh Văn clan of Nghi Long
Son of Đinh Văn Chất: his second son according to the Wikipedia article “Đinh Văn Chấp”, the youngest according to the article “Đinh Văn Chất” ⚠︎ (D-H36). A child of four to six, depending on the sources, when his family was sentenced, he was hidden, then went into exile in Fujian. Back in 1898, he resumed his studies and was received as Hoàng giáp in 1913. According to ĐTA 2023, he was the 4th generation of laureates in his family; Wikipedia counts seven ⚠︎ (D-H35). He was the father of the monk Thích Minh Châu.
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20th c.
1918–2012 · Buddhist monk, translator · Đinh Văn clan of Nghi Long
Lay name Đinh Văn Nam, son of the Hoàng giáp Đinh Văn Chấp, the fourth of his eleven children (the 3rd son according to the Wikipedia article “Đinh Văn Chấp”). After studying in Ceylon and in India, he received a doctorate in Buddhist studies; he was the first rector of Vạn Hạnh University, in Saigon, founded in 1964 or 1965 ⚠︎ (D-H37). He made the first complete Vietnamese translation of the five Nikāyas of the Pali canon.
Read profile →🌳 View in the family treeNotices after the Gia phả họ Đinh Nho, Canh Thìn edition (2000) and Đinh Tú Anh, “Lịch sử dòng họ Đinh Nho”, NXB Phụ nữ Việt Nam (2023); each profile states its own sources.