Jan Franciszek Miodek (born 7 June 1946 in Tarnowskie Góry, Silesian Voivodeship[1]), is a Polish linguist, a prescriptive grammarian and a Professor of Wrocław University.

[5] Since 1967, he has been working as a columnist in Gazeta Wrocławska newspaper, running the weekly "Rzecz o języku" linguistic column.

Since 1989 he has held the post of the head (director) of the Institute of Polish Philology at the Wrocław University.

[1] Between 1987-2007, he hosted a popular weekly TV program Ojczyzna polszczyzna devoted to the Polish language.

[6][7] Since 2015, he has co-hosted the Polska z Miodkiem ("Poland with Miodek") program in which he discusses the etymology of various words in the Polish language.