Leaders of South Vietnam

This is a **list of leaders of South Vietnam**, since the establishment of the Autonomous Republic of Cochinchina in 1946, and the division of Vietnam in 1954 until the fall of the Republic of Vietnam in 1975, and the reunification of Vietnam in 1976.

### Chiefs of the State of Vietnam (1949–1955)

|rowspan=2||rowspan=2|Portrait|rowspan=2|Name <small>(Born-Died)</small>|colspan=3|Term of office|rowspan=2|Party|
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|style="background: ;"|**1**||**Bảo Đại**|13 June 1949|30 April 1955||Independent|||
|style="background: ;"|****||**Ngô Đình Diệm**|30 April 1955|26 October 1955||Can Lao|||

### Presidents of the First Republic of Vietnam (1955–1963)

|scope="col" style="width:5em;"|Number|scope="col" style="width:12em;"|Portrait|scope="col" style="width:12em;"|Name|colspan="2" scope="col" style="width:12em;"|Term of office|scope="col" style="width:12em;"|Affiliation|||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|align="center" style="background: ;"|1|align="center"||align="center" scope="row" style="font-weight:normal;"|Ngô Đình Diệm|align="center"|26 October 1955|align="center"|2 November 1963|align="center"|Personalist Labor Revolutionary Party|

## Prime Minister of South Vietnam

|rowspan=2||rowspan=2|Portrait|rowspan=2|Name <small>(Born-Died)</small>|colspan=3|Term of office|rowspan=2|Party|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
||**Nguyễn Văn Thinh**|1 June 1946|10 November 1946||Cochinchinese Democratic Party|||||
||**Lê Văn Hoạch**|29 November 1946|29 September 1947||Independent|||||
||**Nguyễn Văn Xuân**|8 October 1947|27 May 1948||Military|||||
||**Nguyễn Văn Xuân**|27 May 1948|14 June 1949||Military|||||
||**Bảo Đại**|14 June 1949|21 January 1950||Independent|||||
||**Nguyễn Phan Long**|21 January 1950|27 April 1950||Constitutional Party|||||
||**Trần Văn Hữu**|6 May 1950|6 June 1952||Independent|||||
||**Nguyễn Văn Tâm**|6 June 1952|17 December 1953||Nationalist Party|||||
||**Nguyễn Phúc Bửu Lộc**|11 January 1954|16 June 1954||Independent|||||
||**Ngô Đình Diệm**|16 June 1954|26 October 1955||Personalist Labor Revolutionary Party|||||
|colspan=8|Abolished|||||||||
||**Nguyễn Ngọc Thơ**|4 November 1963|28 February 1964||Independent|||||
||**Nguyễn Khánh**|28 February 1964|27 August 1964||Military|||||
||**Nguyễn Xuân Oánh**|29 August 1964|3 September 1964||Independent|||||
||**Nguyễn Khánh**|3 September 1964|4 November 1964||Military|||||
||**Trần Văn Hương**|4 November 1964|27 January 1965||Independent|||||
||**Nguyễn Xuân Oánh**|27 January 1965|15 February 1965||Independent|||||
||**Phan Huy Quát**|16 February 1965|5 June 1965||Nationalist Party|||||
||**Nguyễn Cao Kỳ**|14 June 1965|1 September 1967||Military|||||
||**Nguyễn Văn Lộc**|1 November 1967|17 May 1968||Military|||||
||**Trần Văn Hương**|28 May 1968|22 August 1969||Independent National Social Democratic Front|||||
||**Trần Thiện Khiêm**|22 August 1969|5 April 1975||National Social Democratic Front|||||
||**Nguyễn Bá Cẩn**|5 April 1975|25 April 1975||Democratic Party|||||
||**Vũ Văn Mẫu**|28 April 1975|30 April 1975||Forces for National Reconciliation|||||

## Other websites

- Rulers – Vietnam
- World Statesmen – South Vietnam