Ho Chi Minh

Hồ Chí Minh listen  (May 19, 1890 – September 2, 1969) was a Vietnamese revolutionary and statesman, who later became Prime Minister (1946–1955) and President (1946–1969) of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

Ho is most famous for leading the Viet Minh independence movement from 1941 onward, establishing the communist-governed Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1945 and defeating the French Union in 1954 at Dien Bien Phu.

Ho was fluent in Vietnamese, several dialects of Chinese, English and French. He was also known to speak Thai, Spanish, Germancitation needed] and Russian. Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon) is named after him.