Jean-Louis Vieillard-Baron (born 19 April 1944) is a French Roman Catholic philosopher.

[1] He entered the École normale supérieure de Saint-Cloud in 1965.

[2] Vieillard-Baron was a professor of philosophy at the University of Poitiers, where he was the director of a research centre about Karl Marx and Hegel, later about Hegel and German idealism.

[1][3] Additionally, he was the recipient of fellowships from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to conduct research at the Hegel-Archiv.

[1] Vieillard-Baron is Professor of the Philosophy of Religion at the Institut Catholique de Paris.