Trần Văn Dĩnh (1923 in Huế – 4 October 2011 in Washington, D.C.) was a Vietnamese diplomat, author, professor of international politics and communications at Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

After serving for 10 years in the South Vietnamese diplomatic service in Southeast Asia, Tran Van Dinh joined the Embassy of Republic of Vietnam in Washington, D.C. in 1961.

This included teaching courses in Asian Humanism at the State University of New York/Old Westbury and the Dag Hammarskjöld College at Columbia, Maryland.

In later years, he frequently visited Southeast Asia and Vietnam and has written an article on his native city of Huế in the November 1989 issue of the National Geographic Magazine.

He was an overseas member of the Scientific Council of the non-governmental TrungTam Nghien Cuu Quoc Hoc (Center for National Culture Studies) with offices in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.