Hồ Thành Việt (John Hồ) (1955-07-20 in Nha Trang – 2003-08-28 in Fountain Valley, California) was founder of VNI Software Co., California, USA in 1987 and was the first to develop software that eases use of Vietnamese language on computers. Among his products were the VNI Encoding and VNI Input Method.