Charles Dédéyan (4 April 1910 – 21 June 2003) was a French-Armenian Romance philologist, literature comparatist and specialist of French literature.
Dédéyan defended his thesis at the Sorbonne (Montaigne dans le Romantisme anglo-saxon et ses prolongements victoriens, esquisse d'une histoire de sa fortune de 1760 à 1900).
From 1949 he held the chair of Comparative Literatures at the Sorbonne.
[citation needed] Dédéyan won several prizes awarded by the Académie Française, including the Prix Broquette-Gonin (1962), the Prix du de la langue et de la littérature françaises (1967) and the Prix Gustave Le Métais-Larivière (1984).
[citation needed] He is the father of historian Gérard Dédéyan.