Văn Tiến Dũng, Vietnamese general and politician, 6th Minister of Defence for Vietnam (born 1917)

Văn Tiến Dũng was a Vietnamese general in the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN), PAVN chief of staff (1954–1974); PAVN commander in chief (1975–1980); member of the Central Military–Party Committee (CMPC) (1984–1986) and Socialist Republic of Vietnam defense minister (1980–1987).

The minister of mational defence is the Government of Vietnam member in charge of the Ministry of National Defence. The minister is responsible for the formal executive management functions of state for defense. By Vietnamese politics' design, the assigned defence minister also automatically assumes the positions of deputy secretary of the Central Military Commission (CMC), member of the Politburo and member of the Council for National Defense and Security, by that the defence minister is practically the highest-ranking military officer - who always keeps the rank of army general - and politically the second-highest leader of the Vietnam People’s Army as well as the Militia and Self-Defence Force, just under the general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam - who serves ex officio as the secretary of the Central Military Commission. The current defence minister is Army General Phan Văn Giang, since 8 April 2021.