# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nguyen-lac-hoa
# Generated: 2026-08-15T12:02:55.754Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nguyen-lac-hoa"
name: "Nguyen Lac Hoa"
slug: "nguyen-lac-hoa"
description: "Augustinus Nguyễn Lạc Hóa was a refugee Chinese Catholic priest, who arrived in South Vietnam in 1959 and led a militia called the Sea Swallows resisting the Viet Cong in the Ca Mau Peninsula. The \"fighting priest\" and his \"village that refused to die\" attracted admiring media stories in the United States, and in 1964 he received the Ramon Magsaysay Award in the Public Service category."
tagline: "Catholic priest; Vietnamese anticommunist military leader (1908–1989)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/MACV_Team_59_Henry_Dagenais_with_Nguy%E1%BB%85n_L%E1%BA%A1c_H%C3%B3a_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Religious Figures"
  slug: "religious-figures"
profileType:
  name: "Religious Figure"
  slug: "religious-figure"
birthDate: "1908"
deathDate: "1989"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.69
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.021132
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustine_Nguyen_Hoa"
    title: "Augustine Nguyen Hoa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguy%E1%BB%85n_L%E1%BA%A1c_Ho%C3%A1"
    title: "Nguyễn Lạc Hoá"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B3%D1%83%D0%B5%D0%BD_%D0%9B%D0%B0%D0%BA_%D0%A5%D0%BE%D0%B0%2C_%D0%90%D0%B2%D0%B3%D1%83%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BD"
    title: "Нгуен Лак Хоа, Августин"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguy%E1%BB%85n_L%E1%BA%A1c_H%C3%B3a"
    title: "Nguyễn Lạc Hóa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%98%AE%E6%A8%82%E5%8C%96"
    title: "阮樂化"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q465066"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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