Hồ Chí Minh (Vietnamese pronunciation: , Chữ Nôm: 胡志明), born Nguyễn Sinh Cung an an' a' kent as Nguyễn Ái Quốc (19 Mey 1890 – 3 September 1969) wis a Vietnamese Communist revolutionary leader who wis prime meenister (1946–1955) an preses (1945–1969) o the Democratic Republic o Vietnam (North Vietnam). He formed the Democratic Republic o Vietnam an led the Viet Cong durin the Vietnam War till his daith.
Hồ led the Viet Minh independence movement frae 1941 onward, establishin the communist-governed Democratic Republic o Vietnam in 1945 an defeatin the French Union in 1954 at Dien Bien Phu. He lost political pouer inside North Vietnam in the late 1950s, but remained as the heichlie visible figureheid preses till his daith. The umwhile caipital o Sooth Vietnam, Saigon, efter the Fall o Saigon, wis renamed Hồ Chí Minh Ceety in his honor.
