Lycée Albert Sarraut was a French

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, during the French

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period, active from 1919 to 1965. It was one of 69 high schools founded by the French in their colonies worldwide, named for

Albert Sarraut Albert-Pierre Sarraut (; 28 July 1872 – 26 November 1962) was a French Radical politician, twice Prime Minister during the Third Republic. Biography Sarraut was born on 28 July 1872 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France. On 14 March 1907 Sarraut, ...

. The school offered high standard academic programs for students between the ages of 11 and 18. It is currently the Trần Phú - Hoàn Kiếm High School.

Former students

Many Vietnamese scholars and leaders graduated from lycée Albert Sarraut. Among them were: *

Bui Tuong Phong Bui Tuong Phong (December 14, 1942 – July 1975) was a Vietnamese-born computer graphics researcher and pioneer. He invented the widely used Phong shading algorithm and Phong reflection model. Life Phong was born in Hanoi, then French Ind ...

, a pioneer computer scientist *

Hoàng Xuân Hãn Hoàng Xuân Hãn ( Đức Thọ, 1908 – Paris, 10 March 1996) was a Vietnamese professor of mathematics, linguist, historian and educationalist. He was Minister of Education in the short-lived 1945 cabinet of historian Trần Trọng Kim and d ...

* Nguyen Tien Lang * Hoàng Văn Chí *

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Phạm Văn Đồng Phạm Văn Đồng (; 1 March 1906 – 29 April 2000) was a Vietnamese politician who served as Prime Minister of North Vietnam from 1955 to 1976. He later served as Prime Minister of Vietnam following reunification of North and South Vietnam ...

Trần Lệ Xuân Trần Lệ Xuân (22 August 1924 – 24 April 2011), more popularly known in English as Madame Nhu, was the ''de facto'' First Lady of South Vietnam from 1955 to 1963. She was the wife of Ngô Đình Nhu, who was the brother and chief advisor ...

( Madame Ngô Đình Nhu) *

Nguyễn Mạnh Tường Nguyễn Mạnh Tường (1909–1997) was a Vietnamese lawyer and intellectual. He was known to be one of the active participators in the Nhân Văn affair in the mid-1950s which saw many intellectuals demanding freedom and democracy in c ...

: Lawyer, participant in the

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* Đào Sĩ Chu, artist painter * Lê Thành Khôi, Vietnamese-French scientist in education and economics, author of history and

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consultant *

Nhất Linh Nguyễn Tường Tam (chữ Hán: 阮祥三 or 阮祥叄; Cẩm Giàng District, Cẩm Giàng, Hải Dương 25 July 1906 – Saigon, 7 July 1963) better known by his pen-name Nhất Linh (一灵, "One Spirit") was a Vietnamese writer, editor and ...

(

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) - the leader of Tu Luc Van Doan, and

Khái Hưng Trần Khánh Giư, pen-name Khái Hưng (1896 in Cổ Am village, Vĩnh Bảo, Hải Phòng – 17 November 1947 in Cựa Gà, Xuân Trường) was a Vietnamese novelist, a pro-independence but non-communist intellectual. As a boy he studi ...

Tran Khanh Giu - an acclaimed Vietnamese novelist who later was killed by the

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also received their education here. *From the Vietnamese Communist Party, General

, and the former Secretary General

Truong Chinh (1909-1988)
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Laos Laos (, ''Lāo'' )), officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic ( Lao: ສາທາລະນະລັດ ປະຊາທິປະໄຕ ປະຊາຊົນລາວ, French: République démocratique populaire lao), is a socialist ...

were educated at the school, including: *Prince

Souphanouvong Prince Souphanouvong (13 July 1909 – 9 January 1995; ), nicknamed the Red Prince, was along with his half-brother Prince Souvanna Phouma and Prince Boun Oum of Champasak, one of the " Three Princes" who represented respectively the communist (p ...

. b at

Luang Prabang Luang Phabang, ( Lao: ຫລວງພະບາງ/ ຫຼວງພະບາງ) or ''Louangphabang'' (pronounced ), commonly transliterated into Western languages from the pre-1975 Lao spelling ຫຼວງພຣະບາງ (ຣ = silent r) ...

, 13 July 1909, the first president of the Lao PDR and leader of the

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movement. *Prince Kham-Phan Panya. b. at Luang Prabang, 29 March 1908 (s/o Mom Kamala), educ. Lycée Albert Sarraut, Hanoi *Prince Kham-Mao. b. at Luang Prabang, 23 September 1911 (s/o Mom Kamabuwa), educ. Lycée Albert Sarraut, Hanoi *Prince Kham-Hing. b. at Wat Nong, Luang Prabang, 15 July 1918 (s/o Mom Kamala), educ. Luang Prabang and Lycée Albert Sarraut, Hanoi (B.Phil. 1939).

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Former students

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