Jean-Paul Bignon (Paris, 19 September 1662 - Île Belle, 14 March 1743) was a French ecclesiastic, statesman, writer and preacher and librarian to Louis XIV of France. His protégé Joseph Pitton de Tournefort named the genus Bignonia (Virginia jasmine) after him in 1694.
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The grandson of Jérôme Bignon and nephew of the comte de Pontchartrain, he studied at the collège d'Harcourt and at the Saint-Magloire seminary, attached to the Oratory, where he was ordained priest in 1691. In 1693 he was made abbot of Saint-Quentin-en-l'Isle, preacher to Louis XIV and a member of the Académie française.
Bignon also contributed to the Médailles du règne de Louis le Grand, Sacre de Louis XV, and Journal des Savants.
| Preceded by Roger de Bussy-Rabutin |
Seat 20 of the Académie française 1693-1743 |
Succeeded by Armand-Jérôme Bignon |