André Charles Ulrich Parrot (15 February 1901 – 24 August 1980) was a French archaeologist specializing in the ancient Near East.

Parrot was born in 1901 in Désandans in the French department of Doubs.

He was appointed chief curator of the National Museums in 1946, and became director of the Louvre[2] from 1958 to 1962.

[3] He was a Commander of the Legion of Honour and a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.

[4] When he was mobilised in 1940, he was replaced as a teacher at the École du Louvre by Marguerite Rutten.