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Hoàng Văn Thái

1915 - 1986

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Hoàng Văn Thái (1 May 1915 – 2 July 1986), born Hoàng Văn Xiêm, was a Vietnamese Army General and a communist political figure. His hometown was Tây An, Tiền Hải District, Thái Bình Province. During the Tết Offensive, he was the highest senior North Vietnamese officer in South Vietnam. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hoàng Văn Thái has received more than 256,191 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Hoàng Văn Thái is the 11,173rd most popular politician (down from 10,606th in 2019), the 76th most popular biography from Vietnam (down from 73rd in 2019) and the 55th most popular Vietnamese Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Hoàng Văn Thái ranks 11,173 out of 19,576Before him are Audata, Abas I of Armenia, Gunter Demnig, Li Zhanshu, August Philipp, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, and Pietro Tribuno. After him are Sébastien Faure, Gaston Eyskens, Hiempsal I, Michael Kahn, Adamantios Androutsopoulos, and Borna.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1915, Hoàng Văn Thái ranks 121Before him are Maxime Rodinson, Nam Il, Sergio Bertoni, Robert Motherwell, Henry Kuttner, and David Stirling. After him are Nikos Beloyannis, Torcuato Fernández-Miranda, Eddie Bracken, Albert O. Hirschman, Vítězslava Kaprálová, and M. F. Husain. Among people deceased in 1986, Hoàng Văn Thái ranks 118Before him are Fumiko Enchi, James H. Wilkinson, Oscar Zariski, Josef Kammhuber, Anatoly Marchenko, and Helen B. Taussig. After him are Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari, David Cooper, Robert Stevenson, Géza von Radványi, Vasily Ignatenko, and Gregory Jarvis.

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In Vietnam

Among people born in Vietnam, Hoàng Văn Thái ranks 76 out of 136Before him are Kiến Phúc (1869), Lê Thánh Tông (1442), Hiệp Hòa (1847), Hồ Quý Ly (1336), Tran Anh Hung (1962), and Trần Nhân Tông (1258). After him are Hồ Xuân Hương (1772), Phan Thi Kim Phuc (1963), Jonathan Ke Quan (1971), Chantal Goya (1942), Trần Văn Trà (1919), and Võ Văn Kiệt (1922).

Among POLITICIANS In Vietnam

Among politicians born in Vietnam, Hoàng Văn Thái ranks 55Before him are Nguyễn Tấn Dũng (1949), Kiến Phúc (1869), Lê Thánh Tông (1442), Hiệp Hòa (1847), Hồ Quý Ly (1336), and Trần Nhân Tông (1258). After him are Võ Văn Kiệt (1922), Phan Văn Khải (1934), Võ Văn Thưởng (1970), Đặng Thị Ngọc Thịnh (1959), Phạm Hùng (1912), and Nguyễn Ngọc Thơ (1908).