Francis Paul Veber (born 28 July 1937) is a French film director, screenwriter and producer, and playwright.

Nine French-language films with which he has been involved, as either writer or director or both, have been remade as English-language Hollywood films: Le grand blond avec une chaussure noire (as The Man with One Red Shoe), L'emmerdeur (as Buddy Buddy), La Cage aux Folles (as The Birdcage), Le Jouet (as The Toy), Les Compères (as Fathers' Day), La chèvre (as Pure Luck), Les Fugitifs (as Three Fugitives), Le dîner de cons (as Dinner for Schmucks) and La Doublure (as The Valet).

He also wrote the screenplay for My Father the Hero, the 1994 American remake of the French-language film Mon père, ce héros.

This theatrical experience contributes to his films' tight structure, resulting in what has been called "marvels of economy".

[6] His parents were both authors: his father writer and journalist Pierre-Gilles Véber and his mother novelist Catherine Agadjanian, who wrote under the name Georgette Paul (1901-1990).