Uncle Ho or Ho Chi Min was the president and prime minister of Vietnam from 1890 to 1969. He led the Viet Minh independence movement from 1941 onward. He established the communist-ruled democratic republic of Vietnam.
He won against the French Union in 1954 at the battle of Dien Bien Phu, which ended the First Indochina War. He was a prominent figure in the People's Army of Vietnam and the Viet Cong throughout the Vietnam war, continuing from 1955 to 1975. The democratic republic of Vietnam had a victory against the United States and was reunified with South Vietnam's republic in 1976.
Saigon, the previous capital of South Vietnam, was renamed Ho Chi Min city in his honor. He officially moved down from power in 1965 due to health problems, and he died in 1969. He was a writer, poet, a journalist, and he wrote several books.