Jean-François Jarrige (5 August 1940, Lourdes – 18 November 2014, Paris) was a French archaeologist specializing in South Asian archaeology and Sindhology.

Jean-François Marie Charles Jarrige was born on 5 August 1940 in Lourdes, Hautes-Pyrénées, France.

The couple were responsible for the discovery in 1974 of the Neolithic settlement of Mehrgarh in Baluchistan, which they and their team excavated continuously from then until 1986.

He directed a major overhaul of the museum's collection in 2000–2001, reorganizing according to place and time period.

[3] As part of his role with the museum, he was also the curator general of special expositions, such as the “Afghanistan: A Thousand Year-Old History” (Barcelona-Paris-Houston, 2001–2002) and "Afghanistan: Treasures Found in the Kabul Museum ”(December 2006 - April 2007) which featured finds from the Tillya Tepe site.