Phan Thi Kim Phuc

Phan Thi Kim Phuc

Phan Thị Kim Phúc (Vietnamese pronunciation: [faːŋ tʰɪ̂ˀ kim fúk͡p̚]; born April 6, 1963), referred to informally as the girl in the picture and the napalm girl, is a South Vietnamese-born Canadian woman best known as the nine-year-old child depicted in the Pulitzer Prize–winning photograph, titled "The Terror of War", taken at Trảng Bàng during the Vietnam War on June 8, 1972. The image, taken for the Associated Press by a 21-year-old Vietnamese-American photographer named Nick Ut, shows her at nine years of age running naked on a road after being severely burned on her back by a South Vietnamese napalm attack. She later founded the Kim Foundation International to provide aid to child victims of war. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Phan Thi Kim Phuc has received more than 3,166,863 page views. Her biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Phan Thi Kim Phuc is the 2,858th most popular writer (down from 2,810th in 2019), the 68th most popular biography from Vietnam (down from 64th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Vietnamese Writer.