POLITICIAN

Lê Duẩn

1907 - 1986

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Lê Duẩn (Vietnamese: [lē zʷə̂n]; 7 April 1907 – 10 July 1986) was a Vietnamese communist politician. He rose in the party hierarchy in the late 1950s and became General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam (VCP) at the 3rd National Congress in 1960. When Ho Chi Minh died in 1969, he consolidated power to become the undisputed leader of North Vietnam. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lê Duẩn has received more than 989,739 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Lê Duẩn is the 2,869th most popular politician (up from 3,392nd in 2019), the 14th most popular biography from Vietnam (up from 16th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Vietnamese Politician.

Lê Duẩn is most famous for being the leader of the North Vietnamese military during the Vietnam War.

Memorability Metrics

  • 990k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 63.31

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.92

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.22

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Lê Duẩn ranks 2,869 out of 19,576. Before him are Odaenathus, Lewis Strauss, Tokugawa Hidetada, Andrzej Duda, Robert II of Scotland, and Constantin Fehrenbach. After him are Francisco I. Madero, Vytautas Landsbergis, Juana Bormann, Ptolemy Philadelphus, Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut, and Donald III of Scotland.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Lê Duẩn ranks 45. Before him are Roman Shukhevych, Dora Maar, Konstantinos Karamanlis, Lucien Laurent, Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia, and Compay Segundo. After him are Varlam Shalamov, W. H. Auden, Solomon Asch, Pujie, Henri-Georges Clouzot, and Barbara Stanwyck. Among people deceased in 1986, Lê Duẩn ranks 34. Before him are Dmitry Kabalevsky, Stanley Rous, Leonid Kantorovich, Georges Dumézil, Chiune Sugihara, and Benny Goodman. After him are L. Ron Hubbard, Otto Preminger, Minoru Yamasaki, Dean Reed, Coluche, and James Cagney.

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In Vietnam

Among people born in Vietnam, Lê Duẩn ranks 14 out of 136. Before him are Thích Quảng Đức (1897), Nguyễn Phú Trọng (1944), Bảo Đại (1913), Ieng Sary (1925), Lady Sun (192), and Dương Văn Minh (1916). After him are Kaysone Phomvihane (1920), Nguyễn Văn Thiệu (1923), Gia Long (1762), Madame Nhu (1924), Charles Sobhraj (1944), and Minh Mạng (1791).

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Among POLITICIANS In Vietnam

Among politicians born in Vietnam, Lê Duẩn ranks 8. Before him are Ngo Dinh Diem (1901), Nguyễn Phú Trọng (1944), Bảo Đại (1913), Ieng Sary (1925), Lady Sun (192), and Dương Văn Minh (1916). After him are Kaysone Phomvihane (1920), Nguyễn Văn Thiệu (1923), Gia Long (1762), Madame Nhu (1924), Minh Mạng (1791), and Son Sen (1930).

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