Nguyễn Văn Huyền (chữ Hán: 阮文玄 9 December 1913[1] – 1995) was a Vietnamese lawyer and politician, who served as the last Vice President of South Vietnam in April 1975.

[3][4] He was born on 9 December 1913 in Sóc Trăng, Tân Trụ district, Long An province, from a long-standing intellectual Catholic family with highly strong moral background.

[6] In the Peace Movement case in 1950, he withdrew from the Bar Association to protest, but still together with lawyers Lê Văn Hổ and Trương Đình Dzu received an unpaid defense for the "defendant" Nguyễn Hữu Thọ.

And was a member of the Vietnamese delegation to attend the Third International Conference of the Apostolate of the Laity (however he could not go at the last moment for health reasons) After the overthrow and collapse of the government of the First Republic in early November 1963, he was invited to participate in the National Synod, participated in the drafting of the 20 October 1964 Covenant that handed over national sovereignty to the elected representative, replacing it.

At 7:00pm on the same day, he read a summons on Radio Saigon, reporting on negotiations with the Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam and calling on civilians to respect the law, remain clam, and avoid panic.

[13] The result of the meeting was unsuccessful because the Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam was completely sure of a victory.

Therefore, he decided to submit to President Dương Văn Minh a draft statement "Accepting the Ceasefire Conditions of the National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam."

[14] On 30 April, at 6:00am, he, together with President Dương Văn Minh, Prime Minister Vũ Văn Mẫu and some members of the cabinet, had a meeting and decided not to further engage in combat, rather handing over the government to the Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam to avoid further unnecessary bloodshed out in the streets.

After 30 April 1975, Huyền, like other members of General Dương Văn Minh's government, was not sent to re-education camps, but remained under house arrest and monitored by the communist regime.

[16] Until the last years of his life, he accepted an invitation from his old friend Nguyễn Hữu Thọ to join the Vietnamese Fatherland Front, and with the introduction from Nguyễn Hữu Thọ, he was elected a member of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front, a position he served in until his death.