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MILITARY PERSONNEL

Nguyễn Ngọc Loan

1930 - 1998

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Major General Nguyễn Ngọc Loan (Vietnamese: [ŋʷǐənˀ ŋâwkp lʷāːn]; 11 December 1930 – 14 July 1998) was a South Vietnamese general and chief of the South Vietnamese National Police. Loan gained international attention when he summarily executed a handcuffed prisoner of war named Nguyễn Văn Lém on February 1, 1968, in Saigon, Vietnam during the Tet Offensive. Nguyễn Văn Lém was a Viet Cong (VC) member. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nguyễn Ngọc Loan has received more than 1,337,986 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Nguyễn Ngọc Loan is the 593rd most popular military personnel (down from 503rd in 2019), the 25th most popular biography from Vietnam (down from 18th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Vietnamese Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Nguyễn Ngọc Loan ranks 593 out of 1,468Before him are Fritz Bayerlein, Ikrima ibn Abi Jahl, Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt, Archduke Joseph Karl of Austria, and Thersites. After him are Mikhail Alekseyev, Jean-Mathieu-Philibert Sérurier, Hans Speidel, Sergey Akhromeyev, Barthélemy Catherine Joubert, and Otto von Kotzebue.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Nguyễn Ngọc Loan ranks 106Before him are Sławomir Mrożek, Hilderaldo Bellini, Robert Loggia, Son Sen, José Sarney, and Colin Dexter. After him are Stephen Sondheim, Tom Wolfe, J. G. Ballard, Vilma Espín, Mauro Ramos, and Marion Zimmer Bradley. Among people deceased in 1998, Nguyễn Ngọc Loan ranks 56Before him are Verner Panton, Wolf Vostell, Sonny Bono, Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche, Benjamin Spock, and Kurt Franz. After him are Martin Rodbell, Roddy McDowall, Kenichi Fukui, Marie-Louise von Franz, Anne Desclos, and Remo Giazotto.

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In Vietnam

Among people born in Vietnam, Nguyễn Ngọc Loan ranks 25 out of 124Before him are Gia Long (1762), Charles Sobhraj (1944), Lê Lợi (1384), Lady Triệu (225), Minh Mạng (1791), and Son Sen (1930). After him are Nguyễn Huệ (1752), Tôn Đức Thắng (1888), Trường Chinh (1907), Tsui Hark (1950), Khải Định (1885), and Phạm Văn Đồng (1906).

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Vietnam

Among military personnels born in Vietnam, Nguyễn Ngọc Loan ranks 3Before him are Võ Nguyên Giáp (1911) and Lady Triệu (225).