Adolphe Joanne (born Adolphe-Laurent Joanne; 15 September 1813 in Dijon, France – 1 March 1881 in Paris) was a French geographical writer and author of travel books.

[1] In 1836 Joanne was a lawyer in Paris but he soon turned to journalism.

A trip to Switzerland and the Black Forest prompted him in 1841 to write up a travel guide, which was the starting point for a whole series of similar and partly more extensive works, which covered not only the most interesting places and landscapes of France, but also of Germany, England, Switzerland, and the Orient.

[2][3] A terser extract of his major travel books was published since 1866 under the title Guides Diamant.

Joanne also published in Paris the geographical dictionary Dictionnaire géographique de la France.