Jean (de) Mairet (10 May 1604 – 31 January 1686) was a classical french dramatist who wrote both tragedies and comedies.

In 1634 he produced his masterpiece, Sophonisbe, which marks, in its observance of the rules, the first to be staged of the classical French tragedies.

[1] He also introduced to French drama the three classical unities of time, action and place, after a misreading of Aristotle's Poetics.

[1] He produced several pamphlets against Corneille, who responded more than once, most famously with his Advertissement au Besançonnois Mairet (1637).

[1] He was appointed in 1648 official representative of his home country, the county of Burgundy, which allowed him to stay in Paris, but in 1653 he was banished by Cardinal Mazarin.