Ngô Đình Nhu
Personalism was the foundation of the Can Lao Party. Ngô Đình Nhu was the founder of Personalism in South Vietnam and Ngô Đình Diệm applied this doctrine as the national ideology - the backbone of the regime. It was also called "Oriental Personalism" (Vietnamese: "Chủ nghĩa nhân vị phương Đông") by researchers of the Republic of Vietnam and "Spiritual Personalism" (Vietnamese: "Chủ nghĩa Duy linh nhân vị") by communist researchers.