Francine Saillant (born 1953)[citation needed] is a Canadian anthropologist and intellectual.

[1] She is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at Laval University since 1996; and serves as the Director of the Centre interuniversitaire sur les lettres, les arts et les traditions (Interuniversity Centre for letters, arts and traditions; CÉLAT).

[2] Saillant has directed the efforts of the journal Anthropologie et sociétés for more ten years.

She was appointed in 2008 to be a member of the Royal Society of Canada.

In 2013, she was co-chair of the 81st Congress of the Association francophone pour le savoir.