Nguyễn Hữu Việt (1 October 1988 – 25 March 2022)[1] was a Vietnamese swimmer who specialized in breaststroke events.

[2] He won a total of five medals (three golds, one silver, and one bronze), and set numerous records for both the 100 and 200 m breaststroke at the Southeast Asian Games (2003–2009).

Swimming in heat three, he rounded out a field of seven swimmers to place last and fifty-second overall by two thirds of a second (0.66) behind Estonia's Aleksander Baldin, with a time of 1:06.70.

He received a FINA wild card entry by achieving his personal best of 1:03.73 from his gold medal triumph at the 2007 Southeast Asian Games in Bangkok, Thailand.

[7][8] Nguyễn challenged five other swimmers in heat two, including fellow two-time Olympian Sergiu Postică of Moldova.