Phan Văn Trường (1876–1933) was an early 20th century Vietnamese nationalist, the first Juris Doctor of Vietnam and a key actor of cultural modernization in Vietnam in the decade 1920–1930.

[1] Phan Văn Trường was born on 25 September 1876 in Đông Ngạc commune, Từ Liêm district, Hà Nội, in a family of academics.

In 1919, persuaded by Nguyển Tất Thành, Phan wrote the petition "Revendications du Peuple Annamite" (English: "Claims of the Annamite People"; Vietnamese: "Yêu sách của nhân dân An Nam"), which was then sent to the Versailles Conference under the name Nguyễn Ái Quốc, later used by Nguyễn as one of his many aliases.

[2] In 1931, he went to Saigon and met Nguyễn An Ninh again with the intention of continuing the struggle against the French colonizers on the front of the public press.

During his stay there, he suddenly fell ill and died at home on 23 April 1933.