This article lists the heads of government of modern Vietnam since 1945, from the establishment of the Empire of Vietnam to the present day.
| Portrait | Name | Term of office | Political party | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Took office | Left office | Time in office | |||||
| 1 | Hồ Chí Minh | 2 September 1945 | 20 September 1955 | Communist Party of Indochina Worker's Party of Vietnam | |||
| — | Huỳnh Thúc Kháng | 31 May 1946 | 21 September 1946 | Independent | |||
| 2 | Phạm Văn Đồng | 20 September 1955 | 2 July 1976 | Worker's Party of Vietnam | |||
| Portrait | Name | Term of office | Political party | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Took office | Left office | Time in office | |||||
| 1 | Nguyễn Văn Thinh | 1 June 1946 | 10 November 1946 | Cochinchinese Democratic Party | |||
| 2 | Lê Văn Hoạch | 29 November 1946 | 29 September 1947 | Independent | |||
| 3 | Nguyễn Văn Xuân | 8 October 1947 | 27 May 1948 | Military | |||
| Portrait | Name | Term of office | Political party | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Took office | Left office | Time in office | |||||
| 1 | Bảo Đại | 14 June 1949 | 21 January 1950 | Independent | |||
| 2 | Nguyễn Phan Long | 21 January 1950 | 27 April 1950 | Constitutional Party | |||
| 3 | Trần Văn Hữu | 6 May 1950 | 6 June 1952 | Independent | |||
| 4 | Nguyễn Văn Tâm | 6 June 1952 | 17 December 1953 | Nationalist Party | |||
| 5 | Nguyễn Phúc Bửu Lộc | 11 January 1954 | 16 June 1954 | Independent | |||
| 6 | Ngô Đình Diệm | 16 June 1954 | 26 October 1955 | Personalist Labor Revolutionary Party | |||
| Portrait | Name | Term of office | Political party | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Took office | Left office | Time in office | |||||
| 1 | Nguyễn Ngọc Thơ | 4 November 1963 | 28 January 1964 | Independent | |||
| 2 | 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 | ||||
| 3 | Trần Văn Hương | 4 November 1964 | 27 January 1965 | Military | |||
| — | Nguyễn Xuân Oánh | 27 January 1965 | 15 February 1965 | Independent | |||
| 4 | Phan Huy Quát | 16 February 1965 | 5 June 1965 | Greater Nationalist Party | |||
| 5 | Nguyễn Cao Kỳ | 14 June 1965 | 1 September 1967 | Military | |||
| 6 | Nguyễn Văn Lộc | 1 November 1967 | 17 May 1968 | Military | |||
| Trần Văn Hương | 28 May 1968 | 22 August 1969 | Independent | ||||
| National Social Democratic Front | |||||||
| 7 | Trần Thiện Khiêm | 22 August 1969 | 5 April 1975 | National Social Democratic Front | |||
| 8 | Nguyễn Bá Cẩn | 5 April 1975 | 25 April 1975 | Democratic Party | |||
| 9 | Vũ Văn Mẫu | 28 April 1975 | 30 April 1975 | Forces for National Reconciliation | |||
| Portrait | Name | Term of office | Political party | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Took office | Left office | Time in office | |||||
| Phạm Văn Đồng | 2 July 1976 | 4 July 1981 | Communist Party of Vietnam | ||||
| Phạm Văn Đồng | 4 July 1981 | 18 June 1987 | Communist Party of Vietnam | ||||
| 3 | Phạm Hùng | 18 June 1987 | 10 March 1988 | Communist Party of Vietnam | |||
| — | Võ Văn Kiệt | 10 March 1988 | 22 June 1988 | Communist Party of Vietnam | |||
| 4 | Đỗ Mười | 22 June 1988 | 8 August 1991 | Communist Party of Vietnam | |||
| 5 | Võ Văn Kiệt | 8 August 1991 | 24 September 1992 | Communist Party of Vietnam | |||
| Võ Văn Kiệt | 24 September 1992 | 24 September 1997 | years | Communist Party of Vietnam | |||
| 6 | Phan Văn Khải | 24 September 1997 | 27 June 2006 | Communist Party of Vietnam | |||
| 7 | Nguyễn Tấn Dũng | 27 June 2006 | 7 April 2016 | Communist Party of Vietnam | |||
| 8 | Nguyễn Xuân Phúc | 7 April 2016 | 5 April 2021 | Communist Party of Vietnam | |||
| 9 | Phạm Minh Chính | 5 April 2021 | Incumbent | Communist Party of Vietnam | |||