Cheuang Sombounkhanh

{{Short description|Laotian politician}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| honorific-prefix =

| name = Cheuang Sombounkhanh

| image = Cheuang Sombounkhanh.jpg

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| imagesize = 160px

| office = Head of the LPRP Central Committee Propaganda and Training Board

| 1blankname = General Secretary

| 1namedata = Choummaly Sayasone

| term_start = 2011

| term_end = 2014

| predecessor = Phandouangchit Vongsa

| successor = Kikeo Khaykhamphithoune

| office1 = Minister-Head of the Government Secretariat

| term_start1 = 8 July 2006

| term_end1 = 17 May 2014

| predecessor1 =

| successor1 =

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1955|3|5|df=y}}

| birth_place = Kingdom of Laos

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2014|5|17|1955|3|5|df=y}}

| death_place = Baan Nadi, Lao People's Democratic Republic

| party = Lao People's Revolutionary Party

}}

Cheuang Sombounkhanh ({{Langx|lo|ເຈືອງ ສົມບູນຂັນ}}; born 5 March 1955 – died 17 May 2014) was a Laotian politician. He was the governor of Bank of the Lao P.D.R. from 1997 to 1999.{{Cite web | url=https://www.bol.gov.la/en/fileupload/16-01-2017_1484562094.pdf | title=Background and Evolution of the Bank of Lao PDR Since its establishment to date | website=www.bol.gov.la | access-date=2024-12-25}}

From 2010 until his death, he had worked as a Minister to the Office of the Prime Minister.{{cite web|url=http://www.kpl.net.la/english/member%20of%20lao%20gov.htm|title=Members of the Lao Government|publisher=Lao News Agency|accessdate=September 4, 2010|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110603220642/http://www.kpl.net.la/english/member%20of%20lao%20gov.htm|archivedate=June 3, 2011}} At the time of his death in a plane crash on 17 May 2014, he was a member of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party.{{cite web|url=http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/asia/410256/lao-deputy-pm-dies-in-plane-crash|title=Lao deputy PM dies in plane crash|publisher=Bangkok Post|accessdate=May 17, 2014}}