Hồ Chí Minh[a][b] (born Nguyễn Sinh Cung; [c][d][e][4][5] 19 May 1890 – 2 September 1969), [f] colloquially known as Uncle Ho (Bác Hồ) [g][8] and by other aliases [h] and sobriquets, [i] was a Vietnamese revolutionary and politician who served as the founder and first president of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam from 1945 until his death in 1...

Mar 17, 2025 · Ho Chi Minh (born May 19, 1890, Hoang Tru, Vietnam, French Indochina—died September 2, 1969, Hanoi, North Vietnam) was the founder of the Indochina Communist Party (1930) and its successor, the Viet-Minh (1941), and president from 1945 to 1969 of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam).

Apr 2, 2014 · Ho Chi-Minh was the founder and first leader of Vietnam’s nationalist movement. Starting at an early age at the dawn of the 20th century, Ho became a strident voice for an...

Jul 6, 2010 · Ho Chi Minh (1890-1969) was a Vietnamese Communist revolutionary leader who was Chairman and First Secretary of the Workers' Party of Vietnam, and later became Prime Minister and President of...

Ho Chi Minh was the founder and first leader of the Vietnamese Communist Party. He led the movement for Vietnamese independence and unity through struggles with France and the United States. He also served as president of the Democratic Republic of …

Nov 5, 2019 · The country was Vietnam, and the man was Ho Chi Minh, who led communist-controlled North Vietnam and wanted to take over South Vietnam to create an independent, unified communist country. Although Ho’s name was largely unknown to Americans, he had been arguing for—and then fighting for—independence since the end of World War I.

Hồ Chí Minh, born Nguyễn Sinh Cung, (19 May 1890 – 2 September 1969) was the leader of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. 'Hồ Chí Minh', meaning 'Hồ with the will of light', was not his real name. He took that name around the time of the August Revolution in 1945.

Ho Chi Minh, orig. Nguyen Sinh Cung, (born May 19, 1890, Hoang Tru, Viet.—died Sept. 2, 1969, Hanoi), President (1945–69) of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam). Son of a poor scholar, he was brought up in a rural village.

Ho Chi Minh was not only the founder of Vietnamese communism, he was the very soul of the revolution and of Vietnam's struggle for independence. His personal qualities of simplicity, integrity, and determination were widely admired, not only within Vietnam but elsewhere as well.

President Ho Chi Minh was the great master of the Vietnamese revolution, the beloved leader of the Vietnamese working class and the entire nation, an eminent soldier, a brilliant activist of the international communist and national liberation movements.