Trần ÃÂức Lðáng (; 5 May 1937 â 20 May 2025) was a Vietnamese politician who served as the sixth President of Vietnam from 1997 to 2006.
Trần ÃÂức Lðáng was born in ÃÂức Phá» District, Quảng Ngãi Province and relocated to Hanoi after graduating from high school in 1954. He studied geology at Hanoi University of Mining and Geology.
Lðáng joined the Communist Party of Vietnam in 1959, and became a functionary of the party in the 1970s. In 1987, he became Deputy Prime Minister of Vietnam. Member of the Politburo since June 1996, Trần ÃÂức Lðáng was elected state president of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam on September 24, 1997, and re-elected in 2002. On June 24, 2006, Lðáng announced his resignation (along with Prime Minister Phan VÃÂn Khải). Nguyá» n Minh Triết was named to succeed Lðáng as president.
His son Trần Tuấn Anh was the head of the CPV's Central Economic Committee before resigning in 2024.
Lðáng died at his home on 20 May 2025, at the age of 88. State media, citing information from the CPV's Board of Health Protection and Care for Central Officials (), stated that he died "due to old age and severe illness". A state funeral was carried out on 24 and 25 May, at the National Funeral House. Lðáng was buried in his hometown in ÃÂức Phá» District, Quảng Ngãi Province on 25 May.