François Mignard (born the 23th of July 1949) is a French astronomer and the director of the CERGA Observatory (French: Centre de recherches en géodynamique et astrométrie) of the Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur in southern France.
After is study's at the Normal Superior School (French: l'École Normale Supérieur) and at the University of Paris, François Mignard joined the CERGA in 1974, then integrated the CNRS has a associate professor in 1975.
The same year, he defended his post-graduate thesis on the movement of a satellite with high eccentricity.
Asteroid 12898 Mignard, discovered by astronomers with the LONEOS program in 1998, was named in his honor.
[1] The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 24 July 2002 (M.P.C.