Nguyễn Văn Nghị was a Vietnamese-French physician who was prominent among those credited with bringing Chinese medicine to the West
Nguyễn Thiên Đạo was a Vietnamese-French composer who worked in contemporary classical music. He was born in Hanoi, French Indochina, and came to France in 1953, where he studied composition with Olivier Messiaen. He lived in Paris, France. In 1974 he received the Prix Olivier Messiaen for composition awarded by the Fondation Erasmus in the Netherlands and the Prix André Caplet in 1984. He died in Paris on 20 November 2015 at the age of 75.
Karl Werner was an Austrian theologian.
Rolf Alfred Stein was a German-born French Sinologist and Tibetologist. He contributed in particular to the study of the Epic of King Gesar, on which he wrote two books, and the use of Chinese sources in Tibetan history. He was the first scholar to correctly identify the Minyag of Tibetan sources with the Xixia of Chinese sources.
Pierre Joseph Georges Pigneau, commonly known as Pigneau de Béhaine, also Pierre Pigneaux, Bá Đa Lộc, Bách Đa Lộc (伯多祿) and Bi Nhu, was a French Catholic priest best known for his role in assisting Nguyễn Ánh to establish the Nguyễn dynasty in Vietnam after the Tây Sơn rebellion.
Jacques-Charles de Brisacier was a French orator and ecclesiastical writer.
Charles Le Gobien was a French Jesuit writer, founder of the Lettres édifiantes et curieuses a collection of reports from Jesuit missionaries in China. It is a major source of information for the history of Catholic missions and life in China in those times.
Theodor, Count von Scherer-Boccard was a Swiss journalist and politician.
Johann Martin Augustin Scholz was a German Roman Catholic orientalist, biblical scholar and academic theologian. He was a professor at the University of Bonn and travelled extensively throughout Europe and the Near East in order to locate manuscripts of the New Testament.
Marianne Bastid-Bruguière is a French sinologist.
Lucie Rault is an eminent ethnomusicologist residing in Paris. She is master of conference in the Museum of Natural History, and was chief of the department of ethnomusicology of the Musée de l'Homme.
Bruckner's Psalm 112, WAB 35, is a psalm setting for eight-part double mixed choir and full orchestra. It is a setting of a German version of Psalm 113, which is Psalm 112 in the Vulgata.
Auguste Desgodins was a French missionary who attempted to enter into Tibet in the early 1860s. While both Desgodins and his colleague, the Vicar Apostolic Thomine-Desmazures were granted passports to enter Lhasa, Tibet in 1861 and 1862, they were repelled from the border on multiple occasions. He lived sometime in Darjeeling.
The modern Vietnamese alphabet chữ Quốc ngữ was created by Portuguese and Italian Jesuit missionaries and institutionalized by Alexandre de Rhodes with the first printing of Catholic texts in Vietnamese in 1651, but not the Bible. Some New Testament extracts were translated and printed in catechisms in Thailand in 1872.
Gérard Gagnon, Vietnamese name Nhân, is a Canadian Redemptorist priest formerly based in Da Lat, Vietnam. He worked on new Bible translations into Vietnamese, the Tâm Ngọc, following the work of the Alsatian priest Albert Schlicklin.
Đặng Trần Côn was the author of the Chinh phụ ngâm a masterpiece of chữ Hán literature of Vietnam.
Tây Vu Vương, or "king of Tây Vu", is the title attributed by some Vietnamese historians to the leader of a popular revolt of the people of Giao Chỉ and Cửu Chân commanderies against the First Chinese domination from Western Han.
Bà Lụa Islands is an archipelago located in the Gulf of Thailand. It constitutes Sơn Hải Commune of Kiên Lương District, Kiên Giang Province, Vietnam. The archipelago is known as "(Small) Ha Long of the South".
Gérard Moussay (16 August 1932, Brecé was a French Catholic missionary. He was also a specialist on Cam and Minangkabau languages.
Pierre Huard was a French physician, historian of medicine and anthropologist, long in post in Indochina, dean of several faculties of medicine, rector of the Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny, a pioneer in the history of medicine.
