Trần Trọng Kim (chữ Hán: 陳仲金; 1883 – December 2, 1953), courtesy name Lệ Thần (chữ Hán: 隸臣), was a Vietnamese scholar and politician who served as the Prime Minister of the short-lived Empire of Vietnam, a state established with the support of Imperial Japan in 1945 after Japan had seized direct control of Vietnam from Vichy France toward the end of World War II. He was an uncle of Bùi Diễm. Source: Wikipedia (en)