Commander of the Navy (Vietnam)

The Commander of the Vietnamese People's Navy (Vietnamese: Tư lệnh Quân chủng Hải quân Nhân dân Việt Nam) is responsible for organization, construction, management and the highest commander of the Vietnam People's Navy.

Commander of the Navy
Tư lệnh Quân chủng Hải quân Nhân dân Việt Nam
Incumbent Trần Thanh Nghiêm [vi] since 11 September 2020
Vietnam People's Navy
Reports to	Chief of the General Staff
Term length	Not fixed
Formation	1964
First holder	Tạ Xuân Thu [vi]

List of commanders

  Acting

No.	Portrait	Name (Birth–Death)	Term of office			Ref.
			Took office	Left office	Time in office
1		RADM Tạ Xuân Thu (1916–1971)	1964	1964	0 years
2		RADM Nguyễn Bá Phát (1921–1993)	1964	1974	9–10 years
3		RADM Đoàn Bá Khánh	1974	1975	0–1 years
(2)		RADM Nguyễn Bá Phát (1921–1990)	1976	1977	0–1 years
4		VADM Giáp Văn Cương (1921–1990)	1977	1980	2–3 years
(3)		RADM Đoàn Bá Khánh	1981	1984	2–3 years
(4)		ADM Giáp Văn Cương (1921–1990)	1984	1990	5–6 years
5		VADM Hoàng Hữu Thái	1990	1994	3–4 years
6		VADM Mai Xuân Vĩnh (born 1931)	1994	1999	4–5 years
7		RADM Võ Nhân Huân	1999	1999	0 years
8		VADM Đỗ Xuân Công (1943–2022)	February 2000	June 2005	5 years, 4 months	[1]
9		ADM Nguyễn Văn Hiến (born 1954)	June 2005	14 June 2015	10 years
10		ADM Phạm Hoài Nam (born 1967)	14 June 2015	28 July 2020	5 years, 44 days
–		VADM Trần Thanh Nghiêm [vi] (born 1970)	28 July 2020	11 September 2020	45 days
11			11 September 2020	Incumbent	4 years, 220 days