Alfred Grévin (French pronunciation: [alfʁɛd ɡʁevɛ̃]; 28 January 1827 – 5 May 1892) was a 19th-century caricaturist, best known during his lifetime for his caricature silhouettes of contemporary Parisian women.

He put his cartooning talents at the service of the newspaper Le Gaulois, then headed by Arthur Meyer.

To supplement his meager salary as a cartoonist and illustrator, he worked as a theater costume designer, and wrote plays.

[4] In 1869 he founded l'Almanach des Parisiennes with Louis Adrien Huart, and in 1875 Grévin designed the 673 costumes for Jacques Offenbach's opéra-féerie Le voyage dans la lune, and later for Charles Lecocq's opera comique The Daughter of Madame Angot[5] In 1881, Meyer had the idea, along with Alfred Grévin, to represent the personalities that made the front page of the news section as wax mannequins, which allowed visitors – in an era before photography was used in the press – to put a face to the names in the news.

Grevin spent the final two years of his life paralyzed, and died of a sudden stroke of apoplexy in 1892 at Saint-Mandé.