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==Anti-communist forces==

=== South Vietnam ===

====Political====
*[[Ngô Đình Diệm]] was the [[President of South Vietnam]] from 1955 until his [[Arrest and assassination of Ngô Đình Diệm|assassination]] in 1963.
*[[Dương Văn Minh]] led the [[Army of the Republic of Vietnam]] (ARVN) under President Diệm and was briefly leader of South Vietnam in 1963 and 1975. He was the last president of South Vietnam.
*[[Nguyễn Khánh]] was an ARVN general who was in power from early 1964 to 1965.
*[[Nguyễn Văn Thiệu]] was an ARVN general who became the President of South Vietnam from 1967 to 1975.
*[[Nguyễn Cao Kỳ]] was air vice-marshal and commander of the [[Republic of Vietnam Air Force]] (RVNAF) until 1967 who became the Prime Minister of South Vietnam from 1965 to 1967 and the Vice President from 1967 to 1971.
*[[Trần Văn Hương]] was the second to last President of South Vietnam before its surrender in 1975.

====Military====
*[[Cao Văn Viên]] was an ARVN general who served as chairman of the [[Joint General Staff]] from October 1965 to April 1975.
*[[Hoàng Xuân Lãm]] was an ARVN general, commander of [[I Corps (South Vietnam)|I Corps]] (1967–1972).
*[[Ngô Quang Trưởng]] was an ARVN general and commander of I Corps (1972–1975).
*[[Trần Văn Minh (aviator)|Trần Văn Minh]] was an RVNAF general and RNVAF commander from November 1967 to April 1975.
*[[Trần Văn Chơn]] was a [[Republic of Vietnam Navy]] rear admiral and navy commander from 1966 to 1974.
*[[Lê Nguyên Khang]] was the commander of the [[Republic of Vietnam Marine Corps]].
*[[Nguyễn Ngọc Loan]] was commander of the [[Republic of Vietnam National Police]] from April 1966 to May 1968.

=== United States ===

====Political====
*[[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] was  the 34th President of the United States from 1953 to 1961.
*[[John F. Kennedy]] was the 35th President of the United States from 1961 until his assassination in 1963.
*[[Lyndon B. Johnson]] was the 36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969.
*[[Richard Nixon]] was the 37th President of the United States from 1969 until he resigned in 1974
*[[Gerald Ford]] was the 38th President of the United States from 1974 to 1977.
*[[Robert McNamara]] was the 8th Secretary of Defense, serving under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson from 1961 to 1968.
*[[Clark Clifford]] was the 9th Secretary of Defense, serving under President Lyndon B. Johnson from 1968 to 1969.
*[[Melvin R. Laird]] was the 10th Secretary of Defense, serving under President Richard Nixon from 1969 to 1973.
*[[James R. Schlesinger]] was the 12th  Secretary of Defense, serving under President Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford from 1973 to 1975.
*[[Henry Kissinger]] was the 8th National Security Advisor and the 56th Secretary of State, serving under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford from 1969 to 1977

====Military====
*[[Earle Wheeler]] was a United States Army General who served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1964 to 1970.
*[[Thomas Hinman Moorer]] was a United States Navy admiral who served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1970 to 1974.
*[[William Westmoreland]] was a U.S. Army General who commanded American military operations in the Vietnam War from 1964 to 1968.
*[[Creighton Abrams]] was an U.S. Army General who commanded American military operations in the Vietnam War from 1968 to 1972.
*[[Frederick C. Weyand]] was a U.S. Army General who was the last commander of American military operations in the Vietnam War from 1972 to 1973.
*[[Elmo Zumwalt]] was a U.S. admiral and commander of American naval forces in Vietnam.
*[[William W. Momyer]] was commander of the U.S. Air Force Tactical Air Command and the commander of the [[7th Air Force]].
*[[John S. McCain, Jr.]] was a U.S. admiral and Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific Command.
*[[George Stephen Morrison]] was a U.S. Admiral in command during the [[Gulf of Tonkin incident]], which escalated the U.S. involvement in Vietnam.

=== Republic of Korea ===
*[[Park Chung Hee]] was the [[President of South Korea]] from 1963 until his assassination in 1979.
*[[Chae Myung-shin]] was the Commander of the [[Republic of Korea Armed Forces]] in South Vietnam from 1965 to 1969.

=== Australia ===
*Sir [[Robert Menzies]] was the Prime Minister of Australia from 1949 to 1966.
*[[Harold Holt]] was the Prime Minister of Australia from 1966 to 1967.
*[[John Gorton]] was the Prime Minister of Australia from 1968 to 1971.
*[[William McMahon]] was the Prime Minister of Australia from 1971 to 1972.
*[[Gough Whitlam]] was the Prime Minister of Australia from 1972 to 1975.
*Air Chief Marshal [[Frederick Scherger|Sir Frederick Scherger]] was [[Chief of the Defence Force (Australia)|Chairman, Chiefs of Staff Committee]] from 1961 to 1966.
*Lieutenant General [[Reg Pollard (general)|Sir Reginald Pollard]] was Chief of Army from 1960 to 1963.
*[[Ted Serong]] was a senior officer of the Australian Army and commander of the [[Australian Army Training Team Vietnam]] from 1962 to 1965.
*[[Donald Dunstan (governor)|Donald Dunstan]] was an Australian Army officer, who was commander of [[Military history of Australia during the Vietnam War|Australian Forces in Vietnam]] in 1971 and 1972.

=== New Zealand ===
*Sir [[Keith Holyoake]] was the Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1960 to 1972.
*Sir [[Jack Marshall]] was the Prime Minister of New Zealand in 1972.
*[[Norman Kirk]] was the Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1972 to 1974.

=== Philippines ===
*[[Diosdado Macapagal]] was the President of the Philippines from 1961 to 1965.
*[[Ferdinand Marcos]] was the President of the [[History of the Philippines (1965–86)|Philippines]] from 1965 to 1986.
*Gaudencio V. Tobias was a [[Brigadier General]] and the commander of the Philippine Civic Action Group (PHILCAG) which was deployed to South Vietnam.<ref>[https://www.jstor.org/stable/42720576 The First Year of the PHILCAG in Viet Nam]</ref>
*[[Fidel V. Ramos]] was a [[General]] and was a non-combat civil military engineer and Chief of Staff of the Philippine Civil Action Group (PHILCAG).
*[[Delfin Castro]] was a [[Major General]] and the Liaison Officer for Operations and Intelligence under [[Military Assistance Command, Vietnam|MACV]]
*[[Rafael Ileto]] was the Commanding General of the Philippine Army from 1969 to 1972

=== Thailand ===
*[[Sarit Thanarat]] Prime minister of [[Thailand]] from 1958 to 1963 against the communist [[Pathet Lao]] guerrillas in the neighboring [[Kingdom of Laos]]. During his years as prime minister Sarit was a patron of his cousin, the Lao strongman General Phoumi Nosavan, against the [[communist]] [[Pathet Lao]] guerrillas in the neighboring [[Kingdom of Laos]].
*[[Thanom Kittikachorn]] Prime minister of Thailand from 1963 to 1973 and Chief of the [[Royal Thai Armed Forces]] from 1967 to 1972.
*[[Praphas Charusathien]] Chief of the Royal Thai Army from 1964 to 1973

=== Khmer Republic ===
*[[Lon Nol]] was the [[Prime Minister of Cambodia]] from 1966 to 1967 and then again in 1969 to 1972, after which he was president until 1975.
*[[Lon Non]] was the younger brother of Lon Nol who served in various roles including as Minister of Interior from 1970 to 1973.
*Prince [[Sisowath Sirik Matak]] was deputy prime minister of Cambodia (1969–70) and then the Khmer Republic (1970-1) and then prime minister (1971-2)
*[[Long Boret]] was the last prime minister of the Khmer Republic from December 1973 to April 1975
*[[Sosthene Fernandez]] was the commander-in-chief of the [[Khmer National Armed Forces]] (FANK).
*[[Sak Sutsakhan]] was the Minister of Defence of Cambodia, a FANK general and the last head of state of the Khmer Republic.

===Kingdom of Laos===
*[[Souvanna Phouma]] was the prince of Laos and a political figure.
*[[Vang Pao]] was a major general in the Royal Lao Army and commander of the [[Hmong people|Hmong]] guerrilla forces that had a large impact on the war.

==Communist forces==

=== North Vietnam ===

====Political====
*[[Hồ Chí Minh]] was [[Prime Minister of Vietnam|prime minister]] from 1946 to 1955, [[President of Vietnam|president]] from 1945 and Chairman of the [[Communist Party of Vietnam|Workers' Party of Vietnam]] from 1951 until his death in 1969 of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam).
*[[Lê Duẩn]] was the [[General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam]], leader of North Vietnam and later the unified Vietnam from 1969 until his death in 1986.
*[[Tôn Đức Thắng]] was the second and final President of North Vietnam and the first President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
*[[Phạm Văn Đồng]] was the Prime Minister of North Vietnam from 1955 to 1976.
*[[Lê Đức Thọ]] was a Vietnamese politician who, as North Vietnam's representative, negotiated the [[Paris Peace Accords]].
*[[Trường Chinh]] was ranked in the top 3 of the Vietnamese Politburo from 1941 to 1986 and both preceded and succeeded Lê Duẩn as General Secretary.

====Military====
*[[Võ Nguyên Giáp]] was a General in the [[People's Army of Vietnam]] (PAVN), [[Secretary of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of Vietnam|Secretary of the Central Military Commission]], Commander-in-Chief of PAVN and was one of the most prominent military leaders during the war.
*[[Văn Tiến Dũng]] was a PAVN general, PAVN chief of staff (1954–1974) and PAVN commander in chief (1974–1980)
*[[Hoàng Văn Thái]] was a member of the PAVN General Staff, after holding being first Chief of General Staff of the PAVN. From 1967 to 1973, he was the commander of Viet Cong.
*[[Nguyễn Hữu An]] was a PAVN general, commander of the 2nd Army Corps.
*[[Lê Trọng Tấn]] was a PAVN general and deputy commander of the Viet Cong and held senior commands in the [[Easter Offensive]] and the [[Ho Chi Minh campaign]].
*[[Hoàng Minh Thảo]] was a PAVN general and military theorist and a commander of the Viet Cong.

=== Viet Cong (National Liberation Front) ===
*[[Nguyễn Hữu Thọ]] was the chairman of the Viet Cong
*[[Nguyễn Chí Thanh]] was a PAVN general and served as commander of the [[Central Office for South Vietnam]] from 1965 until his death in July 1967. 
*[[Trần Văn Trà]] was one of the leading commanders of the Viet Cong and a member of the Central Committee of the Lao Dong Party.
*[[Tran Do]] was the deputy commander of the Viet Cong.
*[[Nguyễn Văn Linh]] was a political leader of the Viet Cong during the Vietnam War who served as party secretary of South Vietnam for Communist Party of Vietnam.
*[[Võ Chí Công]] was a Vietnamese Communist political figure who was one of the founding members of the Viet Cong.
*[[Huỳnh Tấn Phát]] was chairman of the Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam from 1969 to 1976.

=== Khmer Rouge ===
*[[Pol Pot]] was the [[General Secretary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea]] and the leader of the Cambodian communist movement known as the Khmer Rouge.
*[[Khieu Samphan]] was the head of the CPNLAF, the Khmer Rouge armed forces.
*Prince [[Norodom Sihanouk]] was the prime minister and head of state of Cambodia from 1960 to 1970 and was then figurehead leader of the [[National United Front of Kampuchea]], which included the Khmer Rouge from 1970 to 1975.

=== Pathet Lao ===
*[[Souphanouvong]] was the figurehead leader of the [[Lao People's Revolutionary Party]], and upon its successful seizure of power in 1975, he became the first President of the Lao People's Democratic Republic.
*[[Phoumi Vongvichit]] was a leading figure of the Pathet Lao and an elder statesman of the Lao People's Democratic Republic.
*[[Kaysone Phomvihane]] was the [[General Secretary of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party]] from 1955 to his death in 1992 and Prime Minister and then President after the takeover.
*[[Khamtai Siphandon]] was the military commander of the Pathet Lao and Defense Minister after the takeover before succeeding Kaysone Phomvihane.

===Albania===
'''Political'''
*[[Enver Hoxha]] was the First Secretary of the [[Party of Labour of Albania]] and commander-in-chief of the armed forces and ruled the country from 1944 until his death in 1985.
'''Military'''
*Colonel Novruz Zejnati  was a senior Albanian [[Colonel]] who took part in the [[Vietnam War]] with other Albanian soldiers that fought against American soldiers.

=== People's Republic of China ===
*[[Mao Zedong]] was the [[Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party]] from 1945 and the [[paramount leader]] of the [[People's Republic of China]] from 1949 until his death in 1976.

=== Soviet Union ===
*[[Nikita Khrushchev]] was the [[General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|First Secretary of the Communist Party]] and the leader of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964.
*[[Leonid Brezhnev]] was the [[General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|General Secretary of the Communist Party]] and the leader of the Soviet Union from 1964 until his death in 1982.
*[[Rodion Malinovsky]] was the [[Marshal of the Soviet Union]] and [[Minister of Defense of the Soviet Union]] in 1957–1967.
*[[Andrei Grechko]] was the Marshal of the Soviet Union Minister of Defense of the Soviet Union in 1967–1976.
*[[Anatoliy Hiuppinen]] was the commander of the Soviet forces stationed in Vietnam.

===North Korea===
*[[Kim Il Sung]] was the [[General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea]] and the supreme leader of North Korea from 1948 until his death in 1994.

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