František Janouch (22 September 1931 – 12 January 2024) was a Czech nuclear physicist, author and dissident.

While still a high-school student in 1948, he joined the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.

He was later expelled and stripped of his citizenship at the time of normalization.

[1] In 1978 in Stockholm, he co-founded and chaired the Charter 77 Foundation to support Czechoslovak Charter 77 signatories from abroad.

[1] František Janouch died in Stockholm, Sweden on 12 January 2024, at the age of 92.