Jean Anouilh(June 23, 1910- October 3, 1987) was a major French dramatist of the 20th century.

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.

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)