Nguyễn Xuân Vinh (January 1, 1930 – July 23, 2022) was a Vietnamese-American aerospace scientist and educator.

Vinh was Professor Emeritus of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Michigan, where he taught for nearly thirty years.

[4][5][6][7] Xuân Vinh attended the French Air Force Academy at Salon de Provence where he specialized in Aeronautical Engineering.

In 1965, Vinh was the recipient of the first PhD in Aerospace Engineering conferred by the University of Colorado at Boulder supervised by Adolf Busemann.

[citation needed] As a scientist and educator, he has published three books[8] and more than 100 papers in mathematics, astrodynamics and trajectory optimization.