Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Le Romain (dates of birth and death unknown) was a French engineer and contributor to the Encyclopédie during the eighteenth century and the Age of Enlightenment.
Living in Martinique, in 1734 Le Romain drew up a topographic map of the island for the French government.
Le Romain provided nearly seventy articles on the Caribbean between volumes III and XVI of the Encyclopédie of Diderot and D'Alembert.
Le Romain also wrote the entry for 'negroes' which reflects the colonial prejudices against blacks, referring to them as "barbarians".
[1] A competent naturalist, Le Romain's contributions gave Diderot and d'Alembert first-hand information on the Caribbean and thus an expanded view of the world for their Encyclopédie.