The Hồ Chí Minh Prize () is an honorary award given by the government of Vietnam in recognition of cultural and/or scientific achievement. The prize was established by decree in 1981, and has been awarded in 1996, 2000, 2005 and 2012, often posthumously. The prize is named for

Ho Chi Minh (born ; 19 May 1890 – 2 September 1969), colloquially known as Uncle Ho () among other aliases and sobriquets, was a Vietnamese revolutionary and politician who served as the founder and first President of Vietnam, president of the ...

, who was chairman and founder of the

Workers' Party of Vietnam This article describes the history of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) (from 1930 to 1945, the Indochinese Communist Party) from its origins in the 1920s through to the consolidation of its position as the ruling party of a united Socialis ...

, that is considered one of the highest honors bestowed by Vietnam.

Recipients

1996

Social sciences * Nguyễn Khánh Toàn ( vi) * Trần Huy Liệu ( vi) * Đặng Thai Mai ( vi) * Trần Văn Giàu ( vi) * Vũ Khiêu ( vi) * Cao Xuân Huy ( vi) * Hồ Tôn Trinh ( vi) * Đinh Gia Khánh ( vi) Medicine * Hồ Đắc Di ( vi) * Nguyễn Văn Hưởng ( vi) * Đặng Vũ Hỷ ( vi) *

Phạm Ngọc Thạch Phạm (范) is the fourth most common Vietnamese family name. It may be rendered as '' Fàn'' in Chinese or ''Beom/Pom/Pem'' (범) in Korean. It is not to be confused with Phan (潘), another Vietnamese surname. Origin Phạm is the Sino-V ...

( vi) * Tôn Thất Tùng ( vi) * Đỗ Xuân Hợp ( vi) * Đặng Văn Ngữ * Đặng Văn Chung * Trần Hữu Tước ( vi) * Nguyễn Xuân Nguyên ( vi) * Trương Công Quyền ( vi) * Đỗ Tất Lợi ( vi) * Hoàng Tích Mịnh Natural sciences and engineering * Military Institute of Engineering * Trần Đại Nghĩa ( vi) *

Tạ Quang Bửu Tạ Quang Bửu (1910–1986) was a Vietnamese scientist and politician. He was the fourth Minister of Defence (Vietnam), Minister of Defence of Vietnam (August 1947 to August 1948) and held the position of Deputy Minister of Ministry of Defenc ...

( vi) * Nguyễn Xiển ( vi) * Lê Văn Thiêm, math * Hoàng Tuỵ, math * Đào Văn Tiến ( vi) * Nguyễn Văn Hiệu ( vi) Agriculture * Lương Định Của ( vi) * Bùi Huy Đáp ( vi) Literature * Nam Cao * Huy Cận * Xuân Diệu *

Tố Hữu Tố Hữu (4 October 1920 – 9 December 2002) was a Vietnam, Vietnamese revolutionary poet and politician. Tố Hữu is considered one of the most important Vietnamese poets of the 20th century. His poems are known for their lyrical beauty, ...

* Nguyên Hồng ( vi) * Nguyễn Công Hoan ( vi) *

Nguyễn Tuân Nguyễn Tuân (July 10, 1910 – July 28, 1987) was a renowned Vietnamese author. Books about public schools in Vietnam rank him as one of the nine most famous authors of contemporary Vietnamese literature. He wrote essays on multiple subject ...

* Nguyễn Đình Thi * Ngô Tất Tố ( vi) * Chế Lan Viên *

Hải Triều Hai Trieu (October 1, 1908 - August 6, 1954), real name Nguyen Khoa Van, was a Vietnamese journalist, Marxist theorist, literary critic. He was a pioneering theorist in Vietnam's revolutionary journalism, especially through two debates that resonat ...

* Nguyễn Huy Tưởng * Tế Hanh ( vi) * Tô Hoài Fine arts *

Tô Ngọc Vân Tô Ngọc Vân (蘇玉雲, 15 December 1906 or 1908 – 17 June 1954), also known as Tô Tử, was a Vietnamese painter. Several of his paintings are being displayed at the Vietnam National Museum of Fine Arts. He taught a resistance art cla ...

Nguyễn Sáng Nguyễn Sáng (1923, in Tien Giang Province – 1988, in Ho Chi Minh City) was a Vietnamese painter. He was a graduate of the 1940–1945 class of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de l'Indochine. His favorite medias were pumice Pumice (), called pu ...

Nguyễn Tư Nghiêm Nguyễn Tư Nghiêm (1919 – 15 June 2016) was a Vietnamese lacquer painter. He was awarded the Ho Chi Minh Prize for fine art in 1996. References 1919 births 2016 deaths People from Nghệ An province 20th-century Vietnamese painter ...

( vi) * Trần Văn Cẩn ( vi) *

Bùi Xuân Phái Bùi Xuân Phái (September 1, 1920 – June 24, 1988) was a Vietnamese people, Vietnamese Painting, painter. He is famous for the painting of Hanoi Old Quarters. He also painted the actors and musicians of Hát tuồng, Vietnamese opera. Biogra ...

* Nguyễn Đỗ Cung ( vi) * Nguyễn Phan Chánh ( vi) * Diệp Minh Châu ( vi) Photography * Lâm Hồng Long ( vi) * Vũ Năng An ( vi) * Võ An Ninh ( vi) * Nguyễn Bá Khoản ( vi) Theatre * Học Phi (Chu Văn Tập) ( vi) * Trần Hữu Trang ( vi) * Tống Phước Phổ ( vi) * Đào Hồng Cẩm (Cao Mạnh Tùng) ( vi) * Tào Mạt (Nguyễn Duy Thục) ( vi) Folk Arts * Vũ Ngọc Phan ( vi) * Nguyễn Đổng Chi ( vi) * Cao Huy Đỉnh ( vi) Music *

Đỗ Nhuận Đỗ Nhuận (December 10, 1922 in Hải Dương – May 18, 1991 in Hà Nội) was a Vietnamese classical composer. He is known for the first homegrown Vietnamese opera - ''Cô Sao'' "Miss Sao." This and other more-or-less revolutionary the ...

Lưu Hữu Phước Lưu Hữu Phước (12 September 1921 – 8 June 1989) was a Vietnamese composer, a member of the National Assembly, and Chairman of the Committee of Culture and Education of the National Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Lưu Hữu ...

* Văn Cao * Hoàng Việt * Nguyễn Xuân Khoát Dance * Nguyễn Đình Thái Ly ( vi) Film * Nguyễn Hồng Sến ( vi) Architecture * Nguyễn Cao Luyện ( vi) * Hoàng Như Tiếp *

Huỳnh Tấn Phát Huỳnh Tấn Phát (; 15 February 1913 – 30 September 1989) was a Vietnamese architect, politician and revolutionary. He was the Prime Minister and '' de facto'' leader of the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam during the ...

2000

Sciences * Various awards Literature * Bùi Đức Ái (Anh Đức) ( vi) * Nguyễn Minh Châu ( vi) * Nguyễn Khải ( vi) * Nguyễn Bính ( vi) * Nguyễn Văn Bổng ( vi) * Lưu Trọng Lư * Nguyễn Quang Sáng (Nguyễn Sáng) ( vi) * Hoài Thanh ( vi) * Nguyễn Thi (Nguyễn Ngọc Tấn) ( vi) * Lê Khâm ( Phan Tứ) ( vi) * Nông Quốc Chấn ( vi) * Trần Đình Đắc ( Chính Hữu) ( vi) * Hồ Trọng Hiếu ( Tú Mỡ) ( vi) * Hà Nghệ ( Hà Xuân Trường) ( vi) * Nguyễn Đức Từ Chi ( vi) Fine Arts * Nguyễn Tiến Chung * Huỳnh Văn Gấm * Dương Bích Liên ( vi) * Hoàng Tích Chù ( vi) * Nguyễn Văn Tỵ ( vi) * Nguyễn Hải * Nguyễn Khang ( vi) * Nguyễn Sỹ Ngọc * Nguyễn Thị Kim ( vi) * Lê Quốc Lộc Photography * Đinh Đăng Định ( vi) Theatre * Thế Lữ ( vi) * Lộng Chương ( vi) * Lưu Quang Vũ ( vi) Music * Huy Du * Xuân Hồng * Phan Huỳnh Điểu * Nguyễn Văn Tý * Nguyễn Đức Toàn * Hoàng Vân *

Nguyễn Văn Thương Nguyễn Văn Thương (Huế 1919-2002) was a Vietnamese composer. He was a recipient of the Hồ Chí Minh Prize in 2000. Works Songs * Bài ca trên núi * Bình Trị Thiên khói lửa * Bướm hoa * Đêm đông * Người đẹp vườn ...

* Hoàng Hiệp * Trần Hoàn

2005

Sciences * Khoa học xã hội (2 giải) ửaLiterature * Anh Thơ (writer) ( vi) Theatre * Nguyễn Đình Quang ( vi) Film *

Đặng Nhật Minh Đặng Nhật Minh (鄧日明, b. Huế, Vietnam, 1938) is one of Vietnam's foremost film directors. He began making documentary films around 1965 and is the first Vietnamese person to be awarded the Nikkei Asia Prize for Culture, in 1999. Hi ...

quangngai.gov.vn "Don’t Burn" film wins six Golden Kite Awards
(18 March 2010) "This is the first time Dang Nhat Minh, who received the Hồ Chí Minh Prize on Cinema in 2007, has won a Golden Kite for best director." * Nguyễn Hải Ninh * Bùi Đình Hạc ( vi)

2012

Social sciences * Trần Quốc Vượng ( vi) * Hà Minh Đức ( vi) * Lê Trí Viễn ( vi) * Bùi Văn Ba Natural Sciences * 49 prizes shared * Lê Bá Thảo * Nguyễn Tăng Cường ( vi) * Trần Quang Ngọc Medicine * 8 prizes shared Music * Văn Chung * Phạm Tuyên Theatre * Nguyễn Đình Nghi ( vi) * Dương Ngọc Đức * Sỹ Tiến Literature * Phạm Tiến Duật ( vi) *

Hoàng Tích Chỉ Huang (; zh, t=黃, s= 黄, c=, p=, first=t) is a Chinese surname. While ''Huáng'' is the pinyin romanization of the word, it may also be romanized as Hwang, Wong, Waan, Wan, Waon, Hwong, Vong, Hung, Hong, Bong, Eng, Ng, Uy, Wee, Oi, Oei, O ...

( vi) * Ma Văn Kháng ( vi) * Hữu Thỉnh ( vi) * Hồ Phương ( vi) * Đỗ Chu ( vi) * Lê Văn Thảo ( vi)

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