Jean Jamin (26 April 1945 – 21 January 2022) was a French ethnologist and anthropologist. He was the director of studies at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences. He taught ethnology there from 1993 to 2016. He directed the journal "L'Homme" from 1996 to 2015 and co-founded the journal "Gradhiva" in 1986. 