Amin Maalouf (French: Amin Maalouf) is a Lebanese writer and journalist born in Beirut in 1949, and currently resides in France. He has many works in the fields of novels, history, poetic theater, and politics, but he is most famous for his novels, some of which have been translated into about 40 languages.

Maalouf was elected to the Académie Française, and in December 2023 he was elected as the permanent secretary of the Académie Française. He has won many literary awards and medals, including: the French Goncourt Prize, the Grand Cordon of the Lebanese Order of the Cedar, and the French National Order of Merit.