| Nguyễn Khản 阮侃 | |
| Order: | Prime Minister |
| Term Start: | 1760 |
| Term End: | 1787 |
| Birth Date: | 1734 |
| Birth Place: | Tiên Điền village, Nghi Xuân district, Nghệ An region, Annam |
| Death Date: | 1787 |
| Death Place: | Đông Kinh, Vietnam |
| Occupation: | Politician, poet |
| Parents: | Nguyễn Nghiễm (father) Đặng Thị Dương (mother) |
Nguyễn Khản (1734 - 1787), courtesy name Đức Như (德如), pseudonym Thuật Hiên (述軒) or Escape Oldman at Hồng Mountain (鴻山遯翁), posthumous name Hoành-Mẫn tiên-sinh thượng-đẳng tối-linh phúc-thần (橫敏先生上等最靈福神), was an Annamese official and poet.[1] [2]
Nguyễn Khản was born in 1734 in Tiên Điền village, Nghi Xuân district, Đức Quang prefect, Nghệ An region of the Revival Lê dynasty. He was the first child (of 21 children) of the Chancellor Nguyễn Nghiễm. Nguyễn Khản was a child of his father's first wife (of 8 women) who has a name Đặng Thị Dương, she was the second daughter of official Đặng Sĩ Vinh.[3]
He passed the official government examination as a Jinshi in 1760 and then became a teacher of the Crown Prince Trịnh Tông.[4] So he changed his name as Nguyễn Hân (阮欣). In 1767, lord Trịnh Sâm changed his name as Nguyễn Lệ (阮儷). In 1778, he re-changed his name as Nguyễn Khản.[5]