Frédéric Vitoux (French pronunciation: [fʁedeʁik vitu]; born 19 August 1944) is a French writer and journalist.

He is known as a novelist, biographer and literary columnist.

His father was a journalist.

[1] He was elected at the Académie Française in 2001.

In 2010, he won the Édouard Drumont literary prize[2] for his novel Grand Hotel Nelson.