Abdessalam Jalloud (Arabic: عبد السلام جلود, romanized: ‘Abd al-Salmān Julūd) (born 15 December 1944) is a Libyan former politician and military officer who served as the Prime Minister of Libya from 16 July 1972 to 2 March 1977, under the government of Muammar Gaddafi.

During the negotiations for the evacuation of the American Air Force base at Wheelus, on the outskirts of Tripoli, the then 25-year-old Jalloud, dressed in military regalia, was advised by the American diplomatic envoy leading the U.S. delegation that he could not negotiate, "under the gun," nor, in the clamorous atmosphere of the hundreds of Libyan protesters who had gathered outside the venue, loudly refusing to depart the scene prior to an evacuation date being set.

In March 1970, six months after the Libyan revolution, Jalloud went to Beijing to build bilateral ties and evaluate areas of potential scientific cooperation between Libya and the People's Republic of China.

As part of the Libyan state's efforts to evaluate solutions to what was then a foreseeable water crisis in the North African country, Jalloud solicited Chinese assistance for a peaceful nuclear energy program, aimed mainly at expanding Libya's desalination industry.

[3] On August 21, 1972, Jalloud and fellow Revolutionary Command Council member Mohammed Abu Bakr Al-Magariaf were involved in a car accident in Al-Khums.

In October 2010. media affiliated with Gaddafi's reformist son Saif al-Islam mentioned Jalloud as a potential candidate for prime minister to fight corruption.

[12] On 19 August 2011, during the Libyan Civil War, it was reported that Jalloud had defected to the rebel forces opposing Gaddafi and was on his way from Zintan to the Tunisian island of Djerba from where departed to Italy.