Nguyễn Văn Xuân (Vietnamese pronunciation: [ŋwiən˦ˀ˥ van˧˧ swən˧˧]; 3 April 1892 – 14 January 1989) was a Vietnamese general and politician who served as prime minister of Cochinchina from 1947 to 1948, then prime minister of the Provisional Central Government of Vietnam from 5 June 1948 to 20 June 1949, during the First Indochina War.

[1] On 1 April 1947, he was promoted to brigadier general (two-star general, entry-level for a general officer in the French army ranking system) of colonial troops, a local army with French commanding officers.

After the First Indochina War, he went into exile in France.

On 14 January 1989, he died in Nice at the age of 96.

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