Ho Chi Minh/Personal names


 * Nguyen Sinh Cung: "milk name" given at birth
 * Nguyen Tat Thanh: name given by parents on entering adolescence, meaning "he who will succeed"
 * Ba: alias given to French ship captain on going to sea in 1911
 * Paul Tat Thanh: signature on 1913 letter from the United States
 * Nguyen Ai Quoc: main revolutionary name, 1919-1942
 * Ho Chi Minh: adopted in 1942, from the identity card of a Chinese journalist