# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nguyen-van-hieu
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:53:40.966Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nguyen-van-hieu"
name: "Nguyen Van Hieu"
slug: "nguyen-van-hieu"
description: "Major General Nguyễn Văn Hiếu was a general in the South Vietnamese Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN). As a child he lived in Shanghai. He later emigrated with his Vietnamese parents to Saigon when the Chinese Communist Party took over China in 1949. He attended Aurore University in Shanghai, China. In 1950, he attended the Vietnamese Military Academy, graduating second in his class in 1951. In 1963, he graduated from Command and General Staff College, at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas."
tagline: "South Vietnamese army general (1929-1975)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/MG_Nguyen_Van_Hieu.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1929-06-23"
deathDate: "1975-04-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.91
  momentum:             15
  historical:           5.701118666666667
  currentAttention:     1.76
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguy%E1%BB%85n_V%C4%83n_Hi%E1%BA%BFu"
    title: "Nguyễn Văn Hiếu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%88"
    title: "نجوين فان هيو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguy%E1%BB%85n_V%C4%83n_Hi%E1%BA%BFu"
    title: "Nguyễn Văn Hiếu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%98%AE%E6%96%87%E5%AD%9D_(%E4%B8%AD%E5%B0%87)"
    title: "阮文孝 (中將)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%9D%91%EC%9A%B0%EC%98%8C%EB%B0%98%ED%9E%88%EC%97%90%EC%9A%B0_(1929%EB%85%84)"
    title: "응우옌반히에우 (1929년)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguy%E1%BB%85n_V%C4%83n_Hi%E1%BA%BFu_(trung_t%C6%B0%E1%BB%9Bng)"
    title: "Nguyễn Văn Hiếu (trung tướng)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q488644"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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