Jan Peter Peumans (born 6 January 1951 in Maastricht) is a Belgian politician from the Flemish province of Limburg.

After the elections of 7 June 2009 (which was successful for his party; and with more than 27.000 Limburgish preference votes for him), he became President of the Flemish Parliament, succeeding Marleen Vanderpoorten.

Peumans was elected most hard-working member of the Parliament in the period 2004–2009, by the newspaper De Standaard.

[2] On 27 January 2010, Peumans caused controversy after he was absent during a reception at the royal palace.

As convinced republican he refuses to go to receptions at the king's palace,[3] although he talked to him once on the occasion of the day of the Flemish Community.