Alain Gheerbrant (27 December 1920 – 21 February 2013) was a French writer, editor, poet and explorer, noted for his expedition in the basins of Amazonian rivers.

One's Nordic and surgical precision was made to give shape to the nocturnal and romantic imaginations of the other.

He is considered the first Westerner to make peaceful contact with the Yanomami Indians and also the first to cross the Parima Mountains as he did between 1948 and 1950.

In 1952, he directed a documentary film called Des hommes qu'on appelle sauvages.

He authored an illustrated pocket book for the "Découvertes Gallimard" collection, titled L'Amazone, un géant blessé (The Amazon, A Wounded Giant) (1988), which has been translated into eleven languages including English.