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
• Ly Thuy: pseudonym on his arrival in China, 1924
• Lee Suei: name used as Vietnamese interpreter for the Soviet mission to China
• Nilovskii: pen name used while writing for the Soviet news agency, ROSTA, in the 1920s.
• Vuong (Wang in Chinese): pseudonym used while teaching at the Special Political Institute for the Vietnamese Revolution, in China during the 1920s
• Lin: pseudonym in Moscow, 1930s
• Hu Guang: name used while in China in the late 1930s
• P.C. Line: French-language pen name in 1938
• Ho Chi Minh: adopted in 1942, from the identity card of a Chinese journalist