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Đặng Thị Ngọc Thịnh

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Đặng Thị Ngọc Thịnh (Vietnamese pronunciation: [ʔɗaŋ˧˨ʔ tʰi˧˨ʔ ŋawk͡p̚˧˨ʔ tʰïŋ˧˨ʔ]; born 25 December 1959) is a Vietnamese politician who served as the acting president of Vietnam in 2018 and as the 16th vice president of Vietnam from 2016 to 2021. She is the first woman in Vietnamese history to hold the Vietnamese presidency and the first female head of state in a communist country since Soong Ching-ling of China. Thịnh was elected vice president of Vietnam on 8 April 2016 after winning 91.09% of the vote (450 votes) in the National Assembly, continuing the recent norm of having a woman holding this position. Thịnh assumed the acting presidency upon the death of President Trần Đại Quang on 21 September 2018 until the election and swearing-in of Nguyễn Phú Trọng on 23 October 2018. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Đặng Thị Ngọc Thịnh is the 13,769th most popular politician (down from 13,408th in 2019), the 86th most popular biography from Vietnam (up from 87th in 2019) and the 59th most popular Vietnamese Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Đặng Thị Ngọc Thịnh ranks 13,769 out of 19,576Before her are Teodoro Picado Michalski, Julius Malema, Mariano Ignacio Prado, José Joaquín Trejos Fernández, Levko Lukianenko, and Joaquín Crespo. After her are Wahibre Ibiau, Jutta Rüdiger, Vladimir Krutov, Dean Barrow, Yitzhak Mordechai, and Makino Nobuaki.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1959, Đặng Thị Ngọc Thịnh ranks 227Before her are Adrian Paul, Barbara Krause, David Shore, James MacMillan, Tsukasa Hojo, and Yuriko Shima. After her are Ildefonso Falcones, Jorginho Putinatti, Anatoliy Demyanenko, Aryeh Deri, Baselios Cleemis, and Bradley Whitford.

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In Vietnam

Among people born in Vietnam, Đặng Thị Ngọc Thịnh ranks 86 out of 136Before her are Chantal Goya (1942), Trần Nhân Tông (1258), Hồ Xuân Hương (1772), Phan Văn Khải (1934), Nguyễn Ngọc Thơ (1908), and Võ Văn Kiệt (1922). After her are Jane Luu (1963), Pierre Nguyễn Văn Nhơn (1938), Hoàng Văn Thái (1915), Henri Laborit (1914), Dương Thu Hương (1947), and Trần Văn Trà (1919).

Among POLITICIANS In Vietnam

Among politicians born in Vietnam, Đặng Thị Ngọc Thịnh ranks 59Before her are Nông Đức Mạnh (1939), Kiến Phúc (1869), Trần Nhân Tông (1258), Phan Văn Khải (1934), Nguyễn Ngọc Thơ (1908), and Võ Văn Kiệt (1922). After her are Hoàng Văn Thái (1915), Phạm Hùng (1912), Võ Thị Ánh Xuân (1970), Chau Sen Cocsal Chhum (1905), Võ Văn Thưởng (1970), and Philipp Rösler (1973).