# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nguyen-chi-thanh
# Generated: 2026-08-14T20:29:27.248Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nguyen-chi-thanh"
name: "Nguyen Chi Thanh"
slug: "nguyen-chi-thanh"
description: "Nguyễn Chí Thanh was a General in the North Vietnamese Vietnam People's Army and former North Vietnamese politician. Nguyễn Chí Thanh was born in Thừa Thiên province in Central Vietnam to a peasant family. His original name was Nguyễn Văn Vịnh. He joined the Indochinese Communist Party in the mid-1930s and apparently spent most of the Second World War in a French prison. He worked for the Party in Central Vietnam until his rise to the Politburo in 1951. During the First Indochina War Thanh was made a general of the People's Army of Vietnam. From 1965 until his death, he served as the leading strategist and military commander of the Central Office for South Vietnam, the southern headquarters of communist military and political operations within the Republic of Vietnam. In 1967, he presented plans for what was to become the Tet Offensive to the Politburo, but died shortly after receiving permission to implement his plan."
tagline: "North Vietnamese commander (1913-1967)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/NguyenChiThanh1951.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1913-01-01"
deathDate: "1967-07-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.76
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.969853333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%98%AE%E5%BF%97%E6%B8%85"
    title: "阮志清"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%83%D9%89_%D8%AB%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%87"
    title: "نجوين كى ثانه"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguy%E1%BB%85n_Ch%C3%AD_Thanh"
    title: "Nguyễn Chí Thanh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguy%E1%BB%85n_Ch%C3%AD_Thanh"
    title: "Nguyễn Chí Thanh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguy%E1%BB%85n_Ch%C3%AD_Thanh"
    title: "Nguyễn Chí Thanh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguy%E1%BB%85n_Ch%C3%AD_Thanh"
    title: "Nguyễn Chí Thanh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguy%E1%BB%85n_Ch%C3%AD_Thanh"
    title: "Nguyễn Chí Thanh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B0%E3%82%A8%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%81%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%BF%E3%83%B3"
    title: "グエン・チー・タン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguy%E1%BB%85n_Ch%C3%AD_Thanh"
    title: "Nguyễn Chí Thanh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguy%E1%BB%85n_Ch%C3%AD_Thanh"
    title: "Nguyễn Chí Thanh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1812156"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump