List of recipients of the Gold Star Order

This list is an incomplete list of the recipients of the Gold Star Order of Vietnam

Vietnamese

Full name	birth year and death year	highest position	awarded year
Tôn Đức Thắng	1888-1980	President	1958
Nguyễn Thị Thập	1908-1996	Member of Central Party Committee, Vice Chairman of National Assembly	1985
Phạm Văn Đồng	1906-2000	Prime Minister, Member of Politburo	1990
Võ Nguyên Giáp	1911- 2013	General, Commander in chief of People's Army of Vietnam,Member of Politburo	1992
Võ Chí Công	1913-2011	Member of Politburo, President	1992
Nguyễn Hữu Thọ	1910-1996	Chairman of National Assembly, Acting President, Chairman of Vietnamese Fatherland Front	1993
Tố Hữu	1920-2002	Member of Politburo, Vice Prime Minister
Văn Tiến Dũng	1917-2002	General, Minister of Defense,Member of Politburo	1995
Nguyễn Lương Bằng	1904-1979	Vice President
Hoàng Quốc Việt	1905-1992	Head of Supreme People's Procuracy of Vietnam, Chairman of Vietnamese Fatherland Front
Nguyễn Duy Trinh	1910-1985	Member of Politburo, Minister of Foreign Affairs
Lê Đức Thọ	1911-1990	Member of Politburo, Head of the Central Organizing Committee
Lê Thanh Nghị	1911-1989	Member of Politburo, Vice President
Phạm Hùng	1912-1988	Member of Politburo, Prime Minister
Lê Văn Lương	1912-1995	Member of Politburo, Head of the Central Organizing Committee
Chu Huy Mân	1913-2006	General, Chairman of the General Political Department, Member of Politburo
Nguyễn Chí Thanh	1914-1967	General, Chairman of the General Political Department, Member of Politburo
Nguyễn Văn Linh	1915-1998	General Secretary
Trần Quốc Hoàn	1916-1986	Member of Politburo, Minister of Public Security
Đỗ Mười	1917-2018	General Secretary, Prime Minister, Member of Politburo
Lê Đức Anh	1920-2019	General, President, Minister of Defense, Member of Politburo
Võ Văn Kiệt	1922-2008	Prime Minister, Member of Politburo	1997
Lê Quang Đạo	1921-1999	Chairman of National Assembly, Chairman of Fatherland Front	2002
Song Hào	1917-2004	Colonel General, Chairman of the General Political Department, Secretary of Central Party	2003
Phạm Văn Xô	1910-2005	Secretary of Central Party, Vice Head of the Central Inspection Committee	2004
Xuân Thủy	1912-1985	Secretary of Central Party, Minister of Foreign Affairs	2005
Huỳnh Tấn Phát	1913-1989	President of Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam, Chairman of Father Front	2005
Cù Huy Cận	1919-2005	Minister of Agricultural, Duty Minister of Cultural
Trần Quốc Hương	1924-	Secretary of Central Party	2006
Trần Nam Trung	1912-2009	Colonel General, Inspector-General of the Government, Minister of Defense of Republic of South Vietnam (1969-1975).	2007
Hoàng Anh	1912-	Secretary of Central Party, Vice Prime Minister	2007
Lê Trọng Tấn	1914-1986	General, Duty Minister of Defense cum Chief of General staff	2007
Nguyễn Chánh	1914-1957	Vice Chief of General staff	2007
Đặng Việt Châu	1914-1987	Vice Prime Minister	2007
Võ Thúc Đồng	1914-2007	Minister of Agricultural	2007
Hoàng Văn Thái	1915-1986	General, Duty Minister of Defense, First Chief of General staff	2007
Phan Trọng Tuệ	1917-1991	Vice Prime Minister	2007
Nguyễn Đức Tâm	1920-2010	Member of Politburo, Head of the Central Commission of Organizing	2007
Mai Chí Thọ	1922-2007	Police General, Minister of Internal Affairs	2007
Nguyễn Cơ Thạch	1921-1998	Member of Politburo, Minister of Foreign Affairs	2007
Nguyễn Thanh Bình	1920-2010	Member of Politburo, Chief party of Hanoi	2007
Trần Kiên	1920-2003	Secretary of Central Party, Head of Central Commission of Inspection	2007
Nguyễn Văn Trân	1917-	Secretary of Central Party, Chief party of Hanoi	2007
Đồng Sỹ Nguyên	1923-2019	Member of Politburo, Vice Prime Minister	2007
Trần Hữu Dực	1920-2003	Vice Prime Minister	2007
Trần Quỳnh	1920-2005	Vice Prime Minister	2007
Nguyễn Côn	1917-	Vice Prime Minister	2007
Nguyễn Lam	1921-1990	Vice Prime Minister	2007
Trần Đức Lương	1937-	Member of Politburo, President	2007
Nguyễn Quyết	1922-	Vice Chairman of Council of State, General	2007
Đàm Quang Trung	1921-1995	Vice Chairman of Council of State, Colonel General	2007
Đoàn Khuê	1923-1998	Minister of Defense, General, Member of Politburo	2007
Hoàng Tùng	1920-2010	Secretary of Central Party, Head of Central Propaganda Committee	2007
Trần Quyết	1922-2010	Secretary of Central Party, Head of Supreme People's Procuracy	2007
Vũ Oanh	1924-	Member of Politburo, Head of Central Mobilize Committee	2007
Lê Khả Phiêu	1931-2020	General Secretary	2007
Phan Văn Đáng	1918-1997	Vice Chairman of National Assembly	2008
Lê Văn Hiến	1904-1997	Minister of Labour, Minister of Finance	2008
Nguyễn Khánh Toàn	1905-1993	Duty Minister of Education	2008
Phan Văn Khải	1933-2018	Prime Minister	2008
Trần Tử Bình	1907-1967	Secretary of Party's Committee of North Vietnam, Ambassador of Vietnam in China
Hồ Tùng Mậu	1896-1961	Inspector-General of the Government	2008
Dương Quang Đông	1902-2003	Standing Member of Party's Committee of South Vietnam	2008
Nguyễn Văn Lộc	1914-?	Minister of Agricultural	2008
Lê Chưởng	1914-1973	Secretary of Party's Committee of Central Vietnam, Major General, Duty Minister of Education	2008
Trần Danh Tuyên	1911-1997	Member of Party's Committee of North Vietnam, Chief party of Hanoi	2008
Trần Quý Hai	1913-1985	Lieutenant General, Duty Minister of Defense	2008
Đinh Đức Thiện	1913-1987	Colonel General,Minister of Mechanics and Metallurgy, Minister of Oil and Gas	2008
Nguyễn Văn Tạo	1908-1970	Chairman of the Office of the Government	2009
Trần Văn Quang	1917-2013	Colonel General, Vice Chief of General staff, Duty Minister of Defense	2009
Đặng Quân Thụy	1928-	Lieutenant General, Vice Chairman of National Assembly	2009
Trần Đăng Ninh	1910-1955	Chairman of General Logistical Department, People's Army of Vietnam	2009
Nguyễn Thanh Sơn	1910-1996	Secretary of Party's Committee of South Vietnam, Duty Minister of Finance, Senior Colonel	2009
Hoàng Trường Minh	1922-1989	Vice Chairman of National Assembly, Head of the Committee on Ethnics	2010
Nguyễn Văn Tố	1889-1947	First Head of Standing Committee of National Assembly	2011
Tôn Quang Phiệt	1900-1973	Vice Head of Standing Committee of National Assembly	2011
Nguyễn Xiển	1917-1997	Vice Chairman of National Assembly, General Secretary of Socialist Party of Vietnam	2011
Nguyễn Xuân Linh	1909-1988	Secretary of Standing Committee of National Assembly	2011
Nghiêm Xuân Yêm	1913-2001	Vice Chairman of National Assembly, General Secretary of Democratic Party of Vietnam, Minister of Agricultural	2011
Nguyễn Phú Trọng	1944-2024	General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam	2024

Foreigners

Full name	birth year and death year	highest position	awarded year	Ref.
Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev	1906-1982	General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet	1980
Alexei Nikolayevich Kosygin	1904-1980	Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union	1980
Mikhail Andreyevich Suslov	1902-1982	Second Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union	1980
Gustáv Husák	1913-1991	General Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia and President	1983	[1]
Losonczi Pál	1919-2005	Head of state of the Hungarian People's Republic	1984
Indira Gandhi	1917–1984	Prime Minister of the Republic of India	1985 (posthumously)	[2]
Jambyn Batmönkh	1926-1997	General Secretary of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party, President of the Mongolian People's Republic	1986
Heng Samrin	1934-	General Secretary of the People's Republic of Kampuchea, President of the Cambodian People's Party	1986
Kim Il Sung	1912-1994	President of the Korean People's Democratic Republic	1988
Kaysone Phomvihane	1920-1992	President of the Lao People's Democratic Republic
Khamtai Siphandon	1924-2025	President of the Lao People's Democratic Republic	1993
Choummaly Sayasone	1936-	President of the Lao People's Democratic Republic	2006
Fidel Castro	1926-2016	President of the Republic of Cuba
Samane Vignaket	1927-2016	Chairman of the National Assembly of Laos	2007
Sisavath Keobounphanh	1928-2020	Prime Minister of Laos	2007
Bounnhang Vorachith	1937-	Vice President of the Lao People's Democratic Republic	2007

Sources

• Danh sách cá nhân, tập thể được trao tặng Huân chương Sao Vàng ^{[ circular reference ]}

References

1. "Řády a vyznamenání prezidentů republiky". www.vyznamenani.net. Retrieved 8 July 2025.
2. "Rajiv Gandhi, the first Indian prime minister to visit..." 27 November 1985. Retrieved 12 July 2025.