| Honorific Prefix: | Colonel General |
| Birth Name: | Đỗ Văn Cầm |
| Birth Date: | 1920 4, df=y |
| Birth Place: | Ứng Hòa, Hà Tây, Tonkin (French protectorate) |
| Party: | Communist Party of Vietnam |
| Allegiance: | Democratic Republic of Vietnam and later Vietnam |
| Branch: | People's Army of Vietnam |
| Rank: | Colonel General |
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Hoàng Cầm (born Đỗ Văn Cầm) (1920 - 2013) was a colonel general in the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN).[1] [2] He led the PAVN 4th Corps in the Battle of Phước Long and Battle of Xuân Lộc.[3] [4] [5]
There is another by the name of Hoàng Cầm (1916–1996), who was a soldier inventor of the Viet Minh Hoàng Cầm stove.[6]
Hoàng Cầm was born Đỗ Văn Cầm in Cao Sơn, Ứng Hòa district, Hà Tây province of the Tonkin Protectorate. Cầm beared a poor childhood, was orphaned at age of 12. He joined Tirailleurs indochinois stationed at Lai Châu for a living at age of 21. Two years later he was transferred to Hà Nội, but deserted thus escaping from Japanese coup d'état in French Indochina in March 1945. Cầm joined the Youth Union of Hà Nội in July 1945, then joined of Hà Nội after August Uprising and changed his name to Hoàng Cầm.
In the First Indochina War, Hoàng Cầm led the 130th battalion of the 209th regiment in the Battle of Đông Khê, then the 209th regiment of the 312th Brigade in the Battle of Điện Biên Phủ.