Louis-Joseph-Amédée Papineau, or Amédée Papineau (1819–1903) was a writer and Québecois patriot and present at the meeting at which the Société des Fils de la Liberté was founded.

His father was forced to flee, and Amédée followed him to Saratoga Springs, New York.

[1] In 1846 Amédée married Mary Eleanor Westcott in Saratoga Springs.

After her death in 1890, he converted from Catholicism to Presbyterianism, and in 1896 married Martha Jane Iona Curren.

[2] He is the grandfather of Major Talbot Mercer Papineau and the uncle of the journalist Henri Bourassa, the founder of the newspaper Le Devoir.