Nguyễn Lưu Viên (; 21November 191918September 2017) was a South Vietnamese doctor and politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister of South Vietnam under various prime ministers. He also served as Minister of Internal Affairs of South Vietnam under Prime Ministers Nguyễn Khánh and Trần Văn Hương.
Biography He was born on 21 November 1919 to a wealthy family in Trà Vinh province. In 1945, while he was studying medicine at the Hanoi Medical University to obtain his M.D., he joined the Viet Minh in their resistance to the French. However, after realizing more of the group's communist nature he left the group and continued focusing on his studies. and worked as a doctor before entering politics.
First Republic Under the regime of President Ngô Đình Diệm, in 1954, he held the position of Head of the General Commission for Refugees, which he helped with the influx of refugees from the North after Vietnam was partitioned into two separate countries. In April 1960, he was one of the signatories of the Caravelle Manifesto, a document critiquing the government of President Ngô Đình Diệm and demanding reforms be made within the government.
Fall of Saigon and life in exile As South Vietnam was on the verge of collapsing to the advancing forces of North Vietnam Viên left for Guam on 29 April, a day before the government of General Dương Văn Minh announced South Vietnam's surrender on 30 April 1975 to the Communist regime. After arriving in Guam, Viên was then relocated to Camp Pendleton along with other Vietnamese refugees. Afterward, Viên decided to further his studies in Oklahoma before deciding to relocate to Union City, Tennessee where he worked as a doctor at Baptist Memorial Hospital for 11 years. In 1988, he retired and then relocated to Virginia where he would live out the remainder of his life.
He died at his home at the age of 97 in Springfield, Virginia on 18 September 2017.
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