François Hauter (born 1951) is a French senior reporter, a former chief editor for Le Figaro and correspondent in Africa, China and the United-States.
He won the Albert Londres Prize in 1986 and the Louis Hachette prize in 2008.
He was born in France, in Alsace where he spent his childhood.
He was a war reporter in Lebanon, Chad, Cambodia and Afghanistan.
He has been a member of the Albert London Prize jury since 1988 and is now a writer.