Leaders of the First Indochina War

The leaders of the First Indochina War listed below include the important political and military figures of the First Indochina War. The conflict, fought largely from 19 December 1946 to 21 July 1954, was fought between numerous factions, the two largest being the Viet Minh and the French Union. While the Viet Minh were centralized under the administration of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and the Indochinese Communist Party, led by Ho Chi Minh, along with their various satellite (Pathet Lao, Khmer Issarak), the French Union was a political entity created by the French Fourth Republic to replace the old French colonial empire system, colloquially known as the "French Empire" (Empire français) with their associated states: French Indochina: Kingdom of Cambodia,^[1] Kingdom of Laos, State of Vietnam.

Democratic Republic of Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh
Huỳnh Thúc Kháng #
Tôn Đức Thắng
Nguyễn Văn Tố †
Bùi Bằng Đoàn
Phạm Văn Đồng
Nguyễn Lương Bằng

Indochinese Communist Party (1945-1951)
Worker’s Party of Vietnam (from 1951)
Central Committee:
Trường Chinh
Hoàng Quốc Việt
Northern Vietnam Committee:
Trần Quốc Hoàn
Southern Vietnam Committee:
Lê Duẩn
Trần Văn Giàu

People's Army of Vietnam
Commander-in-chief:
Võ Nguyên Giáp
Northern Front:
Chu Văn Tấn
Lê Trọng Tấn
Văn Tiến Dũng
Hoàng Văn Thái
Chu Huy Mân
Vương Thừa Vũ
Lê Quảng Ba
Hoàng Minh Thảo
Trần Đăng Ninh
Lê Thiết Hùng
Trần Tử Bình
Central Front:
Nguyễn Chí Thanh
Nguyễn Chánh
Trần Quý Hai
Southern Front:
Nguyễn Bình †
Nguyễn Sơn
Trần Văn Trà
Lê Hiến Mai
Dương Văn Dương
Cambodian Front:
Nguyễn Thanh Sơn^[2]

Neo Lao Issara
Souphanouvong
Phoumi Vongvichit

Laotian Resistance Government (1950-1954)
Kaysone Phomvihane
Nouhak Phoumsavanh

Lao People's Liberation Army
Khamtai Siphandone

United Khmer Issarak Front
Son Ngoc Minh
Tou Samouth
Chan Samay
Nuon Chea

Khmer National Liberation Committee
Poc Khun
Norodom Chantaraingsey

French Fourth Republic
Vincent Auriol
René Coty
Léon Blum
Paul Ramadier
Robert Schuman
André Marie
Henri Queuille
Georges Bidault
René Pleven
Edgar Faure
Antoine Pinay
René Mayer
Joseph Laniel

French Indochina
High Commissioners:
Georges Thierry d'Argenlieu
Émile Bollaert
Léon Pignon
Jean Letourneau
Tonkin administration:
Jean Sainteny
Miguel Joaquim de Pereyra
Yves Jean Digo
Raymond Gilbert Félix Koch
François de Linares
Marcel Alessandri
Annam administration:
Jean Henri Arsène Cédile
Henri Pierre Joseph Marie Lebris
Georges Émile LeBlanc
Georges Armand Léon Gautier
Cochinchina administration:
Pierre Boyer De LaTour du Moulin
Charles Chanson †
Paul Louis Bondis

French Far East Expeditionary Corps
General in chief:
Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque  †
Jean Étienne Valluy
Roger Blaizot
Marcel Carpentier
Jean de Lattre de Tassigny #
Raoul Salan
Henri Navarre
Field commanders:
René Cogny
Marcel Bigeard
Jacques Massu
Roger Trinquier
Jean Sassi
Christian de Castries 
André Trancart 
Jules Gaucher †
Pierre Langlais 
André Lalande 
Charles Piroth †
Jean Bréchignac
Rémy Raffalli
Georges Leblanc
Jean Gilles
Jacques Sockeel
Pierre Chasse
Louis-Constant Morlière
Maurice Amiot
Paul Arnaud de Foïard
Michel Arnaud
Saye Zerbo

Cochinchinese Autonomous Republic
Nguyễn Văn Thinh †
Lê Văn Hoạch

Provisional Central Government of Vietnam
Nguyễn Văn Xuân
Đinh Xuân Quảng
Nguyễn Khắc Vệ

State of Vietnam
Bảo Đại
Nguyễn Phan Long
Trần Văn Hữu
Nguyễn Văn Tâm
Bửu Lộc
Trần Quang Vinh
Anti-communist catholics:
Thaddeus Lê Hữu Từ

Vietnamese National Army
General Staff:
Nguyễn Văn Hinh
Field commanders:
Lê Văn Tỵ
Nguyễn Văn Vỹ
Dương Văn Minh
Nguyễn Khánh
Đỗ Cao Trí
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu
Nguyễn Chánh Thi
Lê Văn Kim
Phạm Xuân Chiểu
Nguyễn Cao Kỳ
Đỗ Mậu
Trần Thiện Khiêm
Nguyễn Hữu Có

Hòa Hảo
Huỳnh Phú Sổ 
Military:
Lê Quang Vinh
Lam Thanh Nguyen
Trần Văn Soái
Nguyen Giac Ngo

Caodaist
Phạm Công Tắc
Military:
Nguyễn Thành Phương
Trình Minh Thế
Nguyễn Văn Thành
Lê Văn Tất

Kingdom of Laos
Sisavang Vong
Sisavang Vatthana
Souvanna Phouma
Kindavong
Souvannarath
Phoui Sananikone
Boun Oum

Royal Lao Armed Forces
Phoumi Nosavan
Sounthone Pathammavong
Oudone Sananikone
Sang Kittirath
Vang Pao
Sing Rattanasamai

Kingdom of Cambodia
Norodom Sihanouk
Sisowath Youtevong
Sisowath Watchayavong
Penn Nouth
Sisowath Monipong
Chhean Vam