# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nguyen-chi-thien
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:03:15.738Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nguyen-chi-thien"
name: "Nguyen Chi Thien"
slug: "nguyen-chi-thien"
description: "Nguyễn Chí Thiện was a North Vietnamese dissident, activist and poet who spent a total of twenty-seven years as a political prisoner of the communist governments of both North Vietnam and of post-1975 Vietnam, before being released and allowed to join the large Overseas Vietnamese community in the United States."
tagline: "Vietnamese-American dissident, activist and poet"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1939-02-27"
deathDate: "2012-10-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.8
  momentum:             3.364485981308412
  historical:           5.686358666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguy%E1%BB%85n_Ch%C3%AD_Thi%E1%BB%87n"
    title: "Nguyễn Chí Thiện"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%AA%D8%B4%D9%89_%D8%AB%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "نجوين تشى ثين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguy%E1%BB%85n_Ch%C3%AD_Thi%E1%BB%87n"
    title: "Nguyễn Chí Thiện"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%98%AE%E5%BF%97%E5%A4%A9"
    title: "阮志天"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguy%E1%BB%85n_Ch%C3%AD_Thi%E1%BB%87n"
    title: "Nguyễn Chí Thiện"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguy%E1%BB%85n_Ch%C3%AD_Thi%E1%BB%87n"
    title: "Nguyễn Chí Thiện"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q81289"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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