Henri Maurice Peyre (21 February 1901 – 9 December 1988) was a French-born American linguist, literary scholar and Sterling Professor of French Emeritus at Yale University.
Peyre graduated from the École Normale Superieure and the Sorbonne and received his PhD from the Universite de Paris.
In 1925 he started teaching at Bryn Mawr College, ten miles west of Philadelphia.
He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1957 and, in 1963, he was a member of the National Commission on the Humanities.
Peyre wrote about 30 books about classicism, modern literature, and higher education.