Jacques Sevin SJ (7 December 1882 - 19 July 1951), was a French Jesuit known for his role in the introduction of Scouting to France.

[1] He remained in Belgium through the First World War and in 1916 he was appointed professor at the college of Tuquet in Mouscron, near the French border.

In 1913, impressed by the Scouting movement's educational method, he met with Robert Baden-Powell in London.

According to Mother Madeleine Bourcereau, "The meeting between the Scout method and intuitions of P. Sevin, has developed a pedagogy based on Gospel values, where each young person is encouraged to flourish and develop his or her personality by drawing out the latent talent within himself or herself.

Father Sevin dedicated himself to making known the riches of scouting and all its educational and evangelical value — no easy task."