Hendrik Pieter "Henri" Marchant (12 February 1869 – 12 May 1956) was a Dutch politician who co-founded the Free-thinking Democratic League (VDB) and served as a member of the House of Representatives from 1900 until 1933, after which he was Minister of Education, Arts, and Science until 1935.

[1][2] Marchant was active in local politics in Deventer before elected to the House of Representatives in 1900 for the Liberal Union.

[1] In 1901 he was one of the founding members of the VDB, a merger of the Radical League and the left wing of the Liberal Union.

[5] His main political opponent was Hendrik Colijn, whose first cabinet he helped come to a premature end in 1925.

[1] In 1933 he accepted the position of Minister of Education, Arts, and Science in the Second Colijn cabinet.