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Jean Anouilh (June 23, 1910 – October 3, 1987) was a French dramatist.

He was born in Bordeaux and had Basque ancestry. He started his career as a jobbing writer in the film industry. In 1931, his first play, L'Hermine, flopped, but he followed it up with a string of others. Anouilh was an extremely private man, and very little is known about his private life except for what can be deduced from reading his plays. It is known that he married Monelle Valentin, an actress. He has a very long career, and is not associated with one specific school of dramatic thought. His plays are vastly different from each other. Some are classic farces with dark twists, some adaptations of Greek myths, and some explorations of life and love.

Jean Anouilh died in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Works include

• L'Hermine (1931)
• Mandarine (1933)
• Y avait un prisonnier (1935)
• Le voyageur sans bagage (1937)
• La sauvage (1938)
• Le Bal des Voleurs (Thieves' Carnival) (1938)
• Léocadia (1940)
• Eurydice (1941)
• Le rendez-vous de Senlis (1941)
• Antigone (1942)
• Roméo et Jeannette (1946)
• L'Invitation au Chateau (Ring Round the Moon) (1947)
• Ardèle ou la Marguerite (1948)
• La répétition ou l'amour puni (1950)
• Colombe (1951)
• La valse des toréadors (1952)
• L'Alouette (The Lark) (1952)
• Ornifle ou le courant d'air (1955)
• Pauvre Bitos ou le dîner de têtes (1956)
• Becket ou l'honneur de Dieu (1959)
• L'hurluberlu ou le réactionnaire amoureux (1959)
• La petite Molière (1959)
• Becket (1960)
• La Grotte (1961)
• Le boulanger, la boulangère et le petit mitron (1968)
• Cher Antoine (1969)
• Chers zoizeaux (1976)
• Le nombril (1981)

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