Jae R. Ballif (born 1931) was a provost of Brigham Young University (BYU).
Ballif graduated from Brigham Young High School in Provo, Utah, in the Class of 1949.
Ballif was the founding dean of the BYU College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, formed in Fall of 1972.
Ballif contributed the article on the "Restoration of the Melchizedek Priesthood" to the Encyclopedia of Mormonism.
Ballif was provost of BYU from 1979 to 1989, after which he returned to being a member of the school's physics faculty.