Jean Métellus (30 April 1937 - 4 January 2014) was a Haitian neurologist, poet, novelist and playwright.

In 1959 he moved to Paris to escape the Duvalier dictatorship, where he studied linguistics and medicine, specializing in neurology.

In 1973 the magazine Les Lettres Nouvelles published his poem "Au pipirite chantant," beginning his career as a poet and writer.

Métellus' plays include Anacaona, which was produced in Paris at the Thèâtre National de Chaillot by Antoine Vitez.

[3] In 2019, Haun Saussy translated a collection of Métellus's poetry titled When the Pipirite Sings: Selected Poems, which was published by Northwestern University Press.