16th c.
Founding ancestor
A mandarin under the Lê, a supporter of the anti-Mạc cause. Taking refuge in Hương Sơn, he founded the lineage there and received the title of Marquis Tây hầu. Died at the age of 93.
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Doctor (1670), censor
Awarded the doctorate at the Canh Tuất session, a censor renowned for his integrity. Posthumously honoured as « Anh Nghị Đại Vương ». Father of Đinh Nho Hoàn and Đinh Nho Côn.
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“Già Tiên Nhân”, clan head (8th gen.)
Eldest son of Doctor Đinh Nho Công, he passed the hương cống (bachelor) examination at 18. Remaining in Hương Sơn as head of the clan's 8th generation, he founded the elder branch.
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Hoàng giáp (1700), ambassador
Vice-Minister of Rites, governor of Cao Bằng, sent as ambassador to China where he died in Vũ Hán. A poet under the name Mặc Trai; deified as « Đắc Đạt Đại Vương ».
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18th c.
Faithful wife & woman of letters
Second wife of Đinh Nho Hoàn. On learning of his death, she took her own life to follow him. Honoured « Tiết phụ » by the court; author of remarkable funeral orations and farewell poems.
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18th c.
Military mandarin
Brother of Đinh Nho Hoàn, accomplished in both letters and arms. Marquis Hương Nghĩa, commander in Nghệ An, he supported the uprising of Lê Duy Mật and was deified at Gôi Mỹ.
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Root of the elder branch's scholars
Also recorded as Hy Tăng in the genealogy. Fifth son of clan head Đinh Thái Lãng, he is the root of the illustrious line that produced governor Đinh Nho Quang and Doctor Đinh Nho Điển.
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19th c.
Poet, doctor (1838)
Great-grandson of Đinh Nho Côn, friend of Cao Bá Quát. Author of « Thu dạ lữ hoài ngâm », held to be one of the four great laments of Vietnamese poetry.
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Cử nhân, provincial governor (Tuần phủ)
A scholar of the elder branch and provincial governor. He rewrote the Hương Yên phổ tự genealogy (1898); his grandson Đinh Nho Dật completed its quốc ngữ version. Root of the Đinh Nho line of Sơn Quang.
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19th c.
Doctor (tiến sĩ), Cần Vương martyr
A doctor of the extended Đinh house, he joined King Hàm Nghi's Cần Vương resistance. Captured by the French, sentenced to death and to the extermination of three lineages, he was beheaded on 28 November 1887. His brother Đinh Văn Uyển was the teacher of Phan Bội Châu.
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Doctor (1875), censor
Awarded the doctorate at the Ất Hợi session (1875), a censor at Huế under Tự Đức. An uncompromising patriot, he starved himself to death after the cession of Thừa Thiên to France in 1884.
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Foremother of the Đặng maternal line
A female figure of the 14th generation: through her descendants in the Đặng family, her line leads to the scholar Đặng Thai Mai and to General Võ Nguyên Giáp.
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Hoàng giáp laureate (1913)
Youngest son of the martyr Đinh Văn Chất, he escaped the massacre as a child and went into exile in China (Fujian). Back in 1898, he earned the second-rank doctorate (Hoàng giáp) in 1913 — the branch's fourth generation of laureates. Father of the Venerable Thích Minh Châu.
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Patriot of the Đông Du movement
Born Đinh Nho Thục, of the cadet branch. He joined the Đông Du movement to Japan, then Siam, and died at 26 on an expedition toward the Nghệ-Tĩnh border. His biographical notice was written by Phan Bội Châu.
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20th c.
Poet & revolutionary
Under the pen name Quỳnh Dao, a pre-war poet of lyrical and patriotic tones. A revolutionary militant in the anti-colonial resistance, a singer of the Vietnamese soul.
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20th c.
Great monk, translator of the Pali Canon
Lay name Đinh Văn Nam, son of the Hoàng giáp Đinh Văn Chấp. Founder of Vạn Hạnh University (Saigon, 1965), he translated the Pali Tripitaka into Vietnamese — a work unique in the world.
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20th c.
Diplomat
Born in 1924 in Hương Sơn. Ambassador to Egypt, Laos and the USSR (concurrently to Finland), he became First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Vietnam. Member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party during the 5th and 6th terms.
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20th c.
Historian, People's Teacher
Born in Sơn Tân, Hương Sơn, one of the « Four Pillars » of Vietnamese historiography. Author of more than 570 works and mentor to thousands of historians at the University of Hanoi.
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20th c.
Mathematician · University of Hanoi
Born in 1934 (17th generation, senior branch — the family that preserved the Hương Yên phổ tự register). Doctor of mathematics, associate professor and Meritorious Teacher, former head of the Mathematics department of the University of Hanoi; Anti-American Resistance Medal (2nd class) and Medal for the Cause of Education.
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20th c.
Clan head, editor of the Gia Phả 2000
Head of the clan's 18th generation, he directed the compilation of the great genealogical register of the year 2000 (Canh Thìn) — the documentary foundation of the clan's genealogy today.
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Metallurgist & poet · People's Teacher
Professor, Doctor of Science and People's Teacher, formerly of the Hanoi University of Science and Technology and Vietnam's leading scientist in non-ferrous metallurgy: a tin-refining patent born of fieldwork at the Tĩnh Túc mine (Cao Bằng) in the late 1960s, then — in retirement, while rinsing lab glassware with an aluminium spoon — a new bismuth-refining method, patented in 2019. A poet, he was admitted to the Vietnam Writers' Association at 69 — at the Văn Miếu itself, where the doctoral stelae bear the names of his ancestors Đinh Nho Công and Đinh Nho Hoàn.
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Founding teacher of the elite maths–physics streams
Born by the Ngàn Phố river in Sơn Hòa (Hương Sơn), he graduated in physics from the Vinh Teachers' College (1972), where he was kept on to teach, until an obscure local report cancelled his doctoral studies in Germany in 1980. Back home teaching at the Lê Hữu Trác high school, he joined the Hà Tĩnh school for gifted students in October 1991 — past fifty, arriving through the floods — and founded its streams of excellence in mathematics and physics (now Trường THPT Chuyên Hà Tĩnh). Taken by cancer on 13 June 2004, he still kept in his pocket the list of his eight national-prize students; the school's annals honour him under the title “Teacher Đinh Nho Kiểu — he who remains in our memories”.
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Scholar, historical geographer
A clerk-interpreter in Vinh, he devoted himself to historical research and the gathering of sources. Author of « Sổ tay Địa chí Việt Nam », recognised as a specialist in folk heritage by the Ministry of Culture.
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First doctor of chemistry in Indochina
Grandson of Doctor Đinh Nho Điển. The first doctor of chemistry in all of Indochina, with a thesis defended in France. He died young.
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Continuator of the genealogy
Grandson of Đinh Nho Quang. In the early 20th century he produced the quốc ngữ version of the family genealogy (Hương Yên phổ tự), securing its modern transmission.
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Revolutionary
From the village of Gôi Mỹ, junior branch. Arrested in Vinh in 1924, deported and executed in the Côn Đảo penal colony; author of a long poem addressed to his family.
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Mathematician · Tạ Quang Bửu Prize (2015)
Eldest son of the diplomat Đinh Nho Liêm (17th generation), born in 1951 in Thanh Hóa. Doctorate (1979) then Doctor of Science (1985) from Moscow's Lomonosov University, principal researcher at the Information Technology Institute of Vietnam National University, Hanoi, with more than 80 papers. Tạ Quang Bửu Prize 2015 for his work on hyperbolic-cross approximation, defeating the “curse of dimensionality”.
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Mathematician · University professor
Professor and Doctor of Science at the VAST Institute of Mathematics, Chair of the Scientific Council. PhD (Berlin), Habilitation (Siegen), Humboldt Foundation. Editor-in-chief of Acta Mathematica Vietnamica. PDEs, inverse problems, optimal control.
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Author & keeper of the memory
Born in 1969 (17th generation, branch B), a senior manager of the Quảng Ninh coal-processing company (TKV group) and a self-taught polyglot. Author of “History of the Đinh Nho Lineage of Hương Sơn” (NXB Phụ Nữ Việt Nam, 2023), keeper of the lineage's memory — and a poet. His poetry collection is published on this site.
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Journalist · Vice-president of the Vietnam Blind Association
Younger sister of Đinh Tú Anh (17th generation, branch B), born in 1978. Holder of a master's degree, a journalist, vice-president of the Vietnam Blind Association and editor-in-chief of Đời Mới magazine: from the braille bulletins of the war years to today's print, braille, audio and digital editions, she carries the voice of more than 72,000 members.
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International Master of chess (FIDE)
Born in 2010 (18th generation), U12 world youth champion at Batumi (2022), six gold medals at the 2023 Southeast Asian youth championships, then Vietnam's first rapid-chess gold at the 2024 Asian youth championship (Almaty). Nicknamed the “prodigy” of Vietnamese chess, he completed his third norm at the 2025 Hanoi Grandmaster Tournament and was awarded the International Master (FIDE) title in January 2026, aged 16 — following in Lê Quang Liêm's footsteps.
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Diplomat · Ambassador
Ambassador of Vietnam to Norway (since 2023), former Deputy Head of Mission to the UN (2017–2020) during the Security Council term. Trained in France, he speaks English and French.
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Entrepreneur · Pioneer of private cinema
The first Vietnamese to earn a Harvard MBA, she founded the Thiên Ngân — Galaxy group and opened the way for private cinema in Vietnam: chairwoman of Galaxy Studio (production and theatres), producer of major popular hits (“Đất rừng Phương Nam”…), a reference shareholder of the Thiên Việt securities house. The business press calls her “the queen of private cinema”. A contemporary member of the lineage (precise genealogical connection still to be documented).
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