Huỳnh Công Út, known professionally as Nick Ut (born March 29, 1951), is a Vietnamese-American photographer who worked for the Associated Press (AP) in Los Angeles. He won both the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography and the 1973 World Press Photo of the Year for "The Terror of War", depicting children in flight from a napalm bombing during the Vietnam War.

His best-known photo features a naked 9-year-old girl, Phan Thị Kim Phúc, running toward the camera from a South Vietnamese napalm strike that mistakenly hit Trảng Bàng village instead of nearby North Vietnamese troops.

On the 40th anniversary of that Pulitzer Prize-winning photo in September 2012, Ut became the third person inducted by the Leica Hall of Fame for his contributions to photojournalism. On March 29, 2017, he retired from AP. On January 13, 2021, Ut became the first journalist to receive the National Medal of Arts, the highest award given to artists and arts patrons by the federal government.

This photograph is one of the most perfect testimonies of American war crimes in Vietnam. Initially, the agency did not want to publish it because a naked child is visible. The author managed to convince bureaucrats that this is not erotica, that hypocritical puritanism has no place. The photo shows the military using napalm against civilians, even children. The child does not undress himself. The garment burned on the living flesh, causing cruel pain and mutilation. Miraculously, the injured child survived.